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Looking good! Funny how you ended up with red, white and blue in your tank over memorial weekend.

Hello from Minnesota, US and welcome!

This was cool, great idea. [emoji106]

Looking great! Love how they are swimming around in the flow. Looks like they are having a good time.

I know people have used it with fish, but there is very little info however. Being safe for inverts and biofilm growth are definitely a must. At the least it may be able to be used and then break down over a few days much like Predator by Green Pepper Shrimps. I will keep researching! I also came across Astragalus membranaceus root, which looks promising as well. It may be time for some experiments soon! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk

Ditto!

Wondering if anyone uses or has used this in their tanks. Seems like it would be a good addition to the regiment as it has the potential to block the ability of bacteria rejecting antibiotics. I am thinking this would be great in conjunction with the use of products that contain bacillus like Bacter AE and BT-9 as the bacteria naturally produce an antibiotic. It may even be able to help with bacterial infections in shrimp. It contains Berberine. From the US library of medicine; "Berberine has demonstrated significant antimicrobial activity against a variety of organisms including bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoans, helminths and chlamydia." Any experience or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I am no expert and consider myself new to this sort of thing, but I think it would depend on who you get them from. If they are reputable and honest they will tell you the cull rate (amount/percentage of shrimp with undesirable traits needing to be removed). With bloody mary you will get chocolate colored culls I believe. If you have no choice but to start with, say 10-20, let your numbers grow to 100. Then select your best 20 from them and start all over (of course pulling out any obvious undesirable shrimp you see along the way). Setup a new tank if possible for these 20 and use the old one for culls. This way you aren't fishing out 80 shrimp lol. If I have butchered this hopefully one of the advanced breeders will come along and give us both some experience. [emoji4]

Thanks for the link to that thread, hadn't seen that one yet. Good info from Doc4PC2 on what I have been thinking about regarding not using buffering substrate at all.

Hello Jona and welcome from the US! Nice setup there! Is that reverse UGF you are running on those tanks?

Welcome Fenris!

Got a shirt and some bananas+herbs food from HAN Aquatics. Ordered 4 oz and he sent 10 oz, what a guy! Even threw in some samples. Shrimp are loving the bananas+herbs food. Smells so good I almost tasted it lol. Going to have to try some more.

Does your tap have chloramines? I ask because those purewaterclub filters do not say they remove them or at least I didn't see it listed on the product page. You could try checking for ammonia right from your RO system, sometimes it can get through if already in the tap with the coconut carbon filter as a catalytic carbon filter could be needed. Noticed some salt water guys having these issues so thought I'd throw them out there.

On the site or here? I ask because I don't see them on the site.

Just throwing out some ideas [emoji4] If you have a ways to go you could use one of those battery powered air pumps on a gang valve to keep the filters running in a bucket on the trip. You could also get a power inverter for your car that plugs into the cig lighter and run your air pump to the filters. You could even put the shrimp/fish in five gallon buckets and run the filters in each bucket on the trip. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk

[emoji23] That's so funny, I did that too and got the same thing! It's Dluxeshrimps.com [emoji3]

First yella berried momma! Looks like its snowing because I had just dropped in some GG betagherkins+immunogoblins.

Looking at an older thread I wonder if something like UP aqua sand would be a better candidate for something like this or are they all pretty much the same thing? I am not planning to have plants in the substrate. Almost thinking of using the same bottled spring water I use for my corydoras with a PH of 6.9 and 3.5 GH and 1 KH 130 TDS and skip the substrate, RO and remin. Just go lava rock, wood and leaf litter. Any thoughts on this or am I crazy? Feel free to tell me I am crazy (I might be lol!) and going to kill a lot of shrimp. For real though, I'd rather be safe than sorry.

I have been wondering about this as well to avoid breaking down a tank. Do you think it would be possible to have the soil in containers and fully cycle containers in a bucket before swapping? I would like to have 3 containers in a 20L and after the first year or less start swapping them out, one at a time, every 4 months. Really wish there was a better way to buffer to low PH in a stable way without the use of soil. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk

Suuuure, a likely story lol. It's ok, we're all pink gravel on the inside. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk

How did I miss this?! These are awesome!

So what's up with wittle Timmy? How are those awesome PRLs that Joe...er...umm...Sam [emoji23] (sorry just had to poke fun at the situation) sent you doing? Seriously though, I have to admit...I thought Joe and Sam worked for Kat when I watched the vid [emoji38] Yeah, I'm a noob around here lol.

Lol how many TSS members does it take to screw in a lightbulb? [emoji38]

http://www.shrimpspot.com/index.php?/topic/8427-SHRIMP-AND-PLANT-SALE Maybe this one will work since I got the URL in tapatalk Edit-it works...no wait, it doesn't!