Hey everyone,
I've had my mixed caridina tank up for almost two months now, everything is going well. I keep one of these SL-Aqua Mironekuton stones in the tank and I am starting to think it's raising my TDS. I've had a slow creep for a while, and I've been doing RO changes to lower the TDS back to about 160ish. Within a day I'm back up to 185-195 TDS. I'm using Brightwell soil and don't have any other stone in the tank, just driftwood. The only thing I can think is it's the stone. Now, is this bad TDS or good? My shrimp molt fine, I have berried females, I'm just worried about the higher TDS. After 2 weeks, coming from 160 TDS it will sit around 200-205. This is high for caridina, but they are doing good.
I see mixed responses on if these are snake oil or not, but I'm afraid to remove and have the shrimp get molting issues. I remineralize with Blue Wizard to 160 TDS/5-6GH.
Thanks in advance!