[stonedaquarium]

hi I managed to finally get my water parameter to stabilize and i got my shrimp to survive and start eating now... thank god!!! im glad they are more active now and no longer hiding... I have stopped EI dosing for a good 2 or 3 weeks in my tank... and now my nitrates have bottomed out... Its a 10 gal tank and here are the parameters

10 gal.
lighting 3 watts/gall
Ph- 6.5-6.8
Ammonia = 0
nitrate = 0 now due to no EI DOsing
GH = 4.46 Dh

the shrimps are now doing well and eating well i must say... food is shirakura shrimp food which my shrimps love and occassionally hikari mini algae wafers.

My question right now is how would i be able to slowly starting dosing EI again without harming my shrimp? I knew i dosed before and they were fine but i also restocked my colony with new shrimp that were not used to EI. any suggestions how to go about it?

I read in several forums that its 50/50 to dose or not to dose... 50% would say its fine , other 50% would say never dose EI.
I got some of my crypts melting and my java fern is slowly wilting away due to nitrates bottoming out. what should i do? I dont want to kill my shrimps due to EI dosing nor would i want to sacrifice my plants as well.

help would be much appreciated

Thanks again

 

[Bliasuk]

Try using 'Benibachi Growth Enzyme'

 

[plantbrain]

Well, I have plenty of evidence, actually all I need to disprove the 50% naysayers who know not what they spew


See all those red little guys?
All bred in EI dosed tanks.

So I have no idea why folks toast their shrimp, but............I do know why they do NOT die..........it's definitely not the ferts.

1001 ways to kill shrimp after all

 

[houseofcards]

How much are you dosing? Problem with small tanks is that it's much easier for things to go bad in terms of water quality, co2, excel?, etc.

 

[johnny313]

How much are you dosing? Problem with small tanks is that it's much easier for things to go bad in terms of water quality, co2, excel?, etc.

that's why i started up a 90 gallon with a 55 gallon sump for my OEBT's

 

[stonedaquarium]

I am trying to dose 1/16 a teaspoon of Kno3, 1/32 of potassium phosphate, and potassium sulfate... I dont dose plantex as there is copper? my co2 is measured by a drop checker... with a bps of 1 its a 10 gal tank. and i am trying to dose macros 2x a week. would that been enough...

I know some had great success in keeping shrimps with EI dosing... i have just recovered from saving some shrimps from dying off so im just kinda on the cautious side of dosing... but i might slowly start dosing to see how they tolerate...

 

[stonedaquarium]

Try using 'Benibachi Growth Enzyme'

i havent heard of this, what does this enzyme do?

 

[joekidwell]

I EI dose nine pumps of rootmedic marco three days a week and keep my nitrates around 5 ppm with a weekly 50% water change and my shrimp are fine.

 

[Bliasuk]

http://www.benibachi.co.uk/cart/growth.html

I bought it for my shrimp but my plants have also flourished! After using this stuff my mosses are vibrant and growing like weeds. Not sure whats in it but it done the trick.

 

[stonedaquarium]

thanks great info... will slowly try dosing again

 

[jakz0rz]

Hi Stone

I'm going to give this a shot too =)

What I do know is Copper is toxic to invert's so maybe go easy on the trace ?

 

[Storm]

Flourish comprehensive has 0.01% copper in it. I would imagine other comprehensive ferts are the same. If you dose by the directions on the bottle, you would be dosing approximately 1/100th of a milliliter of copper in your 10 gallon tank.

I highly doubt this amount of copper would harm shrimp in the least. Did you know shrimp use copper for blood circulation in the same way that humans use iron/hemoglobin? They need a small amount of copper, but large amounts are toxic.

So much misinformation out there about copper and shrimp...