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Hi all,
I haven't been the most diligent about keeping up with my cheap tank, but I don't think I'm doing an awful job either. I have a cycled 10 month old 5g tank with 8 Chili rasboras in it. I've got a mix of plants - a lot of surface plants to keep the fish comfortable. I do need to cut some of it down, though... it's pretty nuts in there.
I've just started on my second attempt at keeping cherry shrimp. I've got about 20 in there, dropped them in about 4 days ago (and by "dropped" I mean I drip acclimated them for 2 hours). I tried previously and had them all die off suddenly after a couple weeks. I've since put in a heater to keep temps static as I didn't have that before.
My question is this: Today I found a dead shrimp, making me fear an impending shrimp collapse again. What could I be doing wrong? Or is that just par for the course and I should just keep doing what I'm doing? My Chili's started to glass surf around the same time, but they seem to randomly do that sometimes.
PH: 7.5
Temp: 78F
Nitrite:0
Amonia:0
GH: 4dGH
Weekly water changes of about 10-15%. I use distilled water treated with seachem "neutral regulator" which says it apparently negates the need for other water conditioners.
Tank image: https://ibb.co/hKgkhT4
I haven't been the most diligent about keeping up with my cheap tank, but I don't think I'm doing an awful job either. I have a cycled 10 month old 5g tank with 8 Chili rasboras in it. I've got a mix of plants - a lot of surface plants to keep the fish comfortable. I do need to cut some of it down, though... it's pretty nuts in there.
I've just started on my second attempt at keeping cherry shrimp. I've got about 20 in there, dropped them in about 4 days ago (and by "dropped" I mean I drip acclimated them for 2 hours). I tried previously and had them all die off suddenly after a couple weeks. I've since put in a heater to keep temps static as I didn't have that before.
My question is this: Today I found a dead shrimp, making me fear an impending shrimp collapse again. What could I be doing wrong? Or is that just par for the course and I should just keep doing what I'm doing? My Chili's started to glass surf around the same time, but they seem to randomly do that sometimes.
PH: 7.5
Temp: 78F
Nitrite:0
Amonia:0
GH: 4dGH
Weekly water changes of about 10-15%. I use distilled water treated with seachem "neutral regulator" which says it apparently negates the need for other water conditioners.
Tank image: https://ibb.co/hKgkhT4