No but the pH is you have to let the tank settle before adding shrimp. Nowadays I just let the tanks sit for 4 weeks and then add some shrimp and I never measure anything apart form ph.

Good and very bad, I had two spells in the fall where I couldnt walk for a few weeks how have you been?

Ive had tanks as low as 5ph when adding shrimp. djust drip acclimat and the shrimp are fine, the biggest thing killing shrimp is people adding food when the inside of the tank is covered in food.

If they are breeding like crazy I wouldnt change anything.

yes its normal if you do any type of water change after setup, I dont do any water changes at all now so my ph is always low.

Thank you, they breed far to much in this bucket so I moved them to a bigger tub.

Oh yes for sure, all your adding is a food source and then any bacteria /fungus present in the soil and water feed of it this gets the cycle going really well.

you have a 30 meter long tank?

There is no amonia in that soil so your not waiting on any cycle, I was waiting on the ph to udjust I think if I didnt mention it in the video.

Yes I have tried them, they are no good in my opinion, they eventually do clog up and if you have a lot of babies they are a real pain in the ass to remove and replay and not worth it in my opinion plus you really dont want all that waste sitting in the tank.

Right now I am testing tropica plant soil and it seems good enough.

Hello mate, I dont use heaters at all now my house is warm enough that I dont need them, tanks are sitting at 21c right now.

You can see them at 14:59 in the video , i stopped selecting them about a year ago a desided I like them the way they were, saying that at the timestamp I gave you if you freeze the video and look at the shrimp middle left its probably the closest I got to a self made boa, it had half a cape but just some face spots if the face spots had been much bigger it would have been a boa.

Hello Joe, If thats the case the tank has its own buffering capacity whats the ph like in the tank?

@ thanks for getting back to me Mark! My galaxy tank sits at ph = 6.9, gh = 4, and my panda tank sits at ph= 7.2, gh= 4. I simply cant get the ph down. There is a UGF box in both tanks with fluval stratum in and nothing else. There is only thin layer of substrate on the bottom of the tank, some leaves and some moss thats it! How would you advise me to keep the ph low so it does not keep buffering it back up?

yeah that is on the high side, are you using RO water and a buffer? in a 10 gallon tank you really need about 3-4 liters of soil.

@@MarksShrimpTanks yes using RO water, and no buffer at present. I have just started using that oak bark acid that your video recommended. And ahhh i see, i may need more soil

Most of my soft water tank are 5-6ph, over 6 its time to reset.

Welcome

Amazonia while you can get it

@MarksShrimpTanks did you use Amazonia ver. Powder? Here in my country i only found Amazonia powder and amazonia ver. 2, what can be fine to bread high grade caridina shrimp?

both are good

Any plain gravel is fine 😀

@MarksShrimpTanks okay thank you very much! I'm excited to begin my shrimp journey!

Thank you

I feed my fish every day, in neo tanks feeding is different to caridina tanks, just go by the 2 hout rule when you have fish in the tank.

@@MarksShrimpTanks Thank you! Everything is gone quickly. I have too many ramshorn snails 😬

Thank you 😋

Thank you Greg

Hello Grant, its interesting you ask because I did test this last week nearly all of my caridina tanks are between 270 and 300 uS conductivity, my target was 300uS ive not seen a single death in all that time and my shrimp are breeding like crazy.

@MarksShrimpTanks that's great. Good to know that tds isn't increasing to much. Do you think adding leaves is compulsory for caridina?