Someone forgot to tell my Cherries. I measured the KH in my tanks last night and it was 9dKH in my shrimp tank. I'm not sure how it got so high, and I'd prefer to keep it around 4dKH, but my Cherry Shrimp are breeding like crazy. I don't know their survival rate, as there are far too many hiding places as well as a small school of Glo-Lite Tetras in the tank; but their numbers are increasing far faster than I ever would have guessed when I first bought them.
The bottom line is that 3dKH is lower than I've ever had in my community tank or my shrimp tank. Ghost shrimp breed like rabbits during the summer in my community tank, and I've got pregnant Amanos in there now (obviously they can't actually reproduce). You should be just fine with 3dKH for most shrimp.
well if it matters im down to 8 cherries at the moment i can only blame my hard as a rock water i had about 70 rcs previosly can anyone recomend a good substate like fluvals ebi line maybe ?
are you using tap water? because I think you are...
In that case, mix your tap water with RO or vending machine water (basically what ever water you use to drink) 50:50 ratio.
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