Hi, I recently started a new tank (my first one) just over a month ago, it's
2 gal
0 ppm ammonia
0 ppm nitrites
<40ppm nitrates
28-30 degrees
In the tank there is
a small piece of driftwood
two patches of christmas moss
two mossballs
one unidentified fast-growing stem plant with fine leaves
shrimp safe substrate
The tank gets 12 hours of light a day and I don't dose fertilisers.
I thought it would be alright to add shrimp so I got 10 RCS and floated them in a cup in the tank and used a dropper to manually drip water from the tank into the cup for an hour before releasing them. They seemed fine, picking away at the stuff in the tank and eating the food I dropped in but one by one they stopped just stopped moving and fell on their sides the last two that died seemed to die after molting because there were shells nearby but the others just keeled over. The shrimplets that came in the bag died too although they were picking at the biofilm on the walls of the tank.
(Before I added the shrimp) the plants were growing well but I wasnt around for 2 days and now there seems to be some brown stuff on the smaller moss ball and the leaves of the unidentified plant are brownish too. What is the brown stuff? Could this be why? Or is it gh/kh?
2 gal
0 ppm ammonia
0 ppm nitrites
<40ppm nitrates
28-30 degrees
In the tank there is
a small piece of driftwood
two patches of christmas moss
two mossballs
one unidentified fast-growing stem plant with fine leaves
shrimp safe substrate
The tank gets 12 hours of light a day and I don't dose fertilisers.
I thought it would be alright to add shrimp so I got 10 RCS and floated them in a cup in the tank and used a dropper to manually drip water from the tank into the cup for an hour before releasing them. They seemed fine, picking away at the stuff in the tank and eating the food I dropped in but one by one they stopped just stopped moving and fell on their sides the last two that died seemed to die after molting because there were shells nearby but the others just keeled over. The shrimplets that came in the bag died too although they were picking at the biofilm on the walls of the tank.
(Before I added the shrimp) the plants were growing well but I wasnt around for 2 days and now there seems to be some brown stuff on the smaller moss ball and the leaves of the unidentified plant are brownish too. What is the brown stuff? Could this be why? Or is it gh/kh?