[starfire12]

So I have a ten gallon tank that has been up and running I would say around six months. Equipment are as follows
Marina S15 slim filter, single sponge filter, 50w heater which keeps the tank about 23C, regular black gravel substrate, home made lighting on for eight hours consisting of three led bulbs purchased off ebay and one cfl bulb do not remember the wattage, small amount of seyriu stone. Planted with baby tears, flame moss, moss ball, anubias, and hornwort. I do not do wc's just top off the tank every couple of weeks, have not done any water tests. Decided today to check the TDS for the giggles of it and it read 679. Mind you after doing much reading on the shrimp threads I realize that is supposed to be extremely high for any kind of shrimp. What the moral of this post is that even though I have extremely high TDS my shrimp are thriving, many many baby shrimp running around the tank and no deaths.
This is the most recent picture of the tank, of course things have been moved around some since then.
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[Soothing Shrimp]

Yepper. I recently received neos from 600+ water, and have kept them as high as 800.

I once was talking to someone who kept his in 1000+ They are hardy. No doubt about that.

BTW you know your BP and FR will interbreed, right?

 

[wicca27]

ive had crs in high ph and tds like ph of about 8 and tds of 325. they were to young to breed and died in the moved back to oklahoma. they cooked in the moving truck because hubby forgot they were in the cab with him. now i didnt put the crs in those conditions on purpose they hid in a plant i moved over and saw them after about 2 weeks the plant being in the neo tank.

 

[starfire12]

Yes I know they will interbreed. They have been together for a couble of months now.