JLui83

Been a while since I updated this. The tank has been stable and the baby blue bolts have been getting bigger. I haven't seen and berried shrimp for months though. TDS is around 120 GH 6 Other parameters have been the same. Not sure why i'm not getting any more berried shrimp. any ideas? Maybe b/c ive been neglecting water changes? over the past 2 weeks i started to do weekly water changes again. Around 10%. Hopefully that will spark things up again.

I was able to take out about 6-7 what appeared to be RED BOLTS from this BLUE BOLT tank. I took them and placed them into my CRS tank. CRS tank was getting a bit lonely and not producing. Hopefully the addition of some new shrimp in there it will help spice things up! I checked the parameters of both tanks and surprisingly enough there were almost identical! Different substrate but, TDS, GH, PH all the same....I'll update once i see something worth updating. Until then, happy shrimping!

The shrimp have gone crazy and multiplied a lot! I do maybe a 10%-15% water change every 2-3 weeks or so. Feed them hem a little bit of bacter ae everyday and then feed again other stuff later in the day. All the white spots are babies lol. Hard to pick them up without macro lens. Found a couple red red bolts in the mix. I’m tempted to move them over to my CRS tank so I have all red in one tank and all blue in the other

As of right now I have 3 berried females! So exciting. No baby shrimp yet. I expect the first batch to come by the end of the month. The tank looks like same other than the subwassertang has grown a little bit. Here's one of the berried females and the photobomb from a snail

Oh wow sorry yes. I believe since the tank had so much algae and biofilm this helped the growth of all the shrimp. I added all the blue bolts into the tank and in about 1 month later I found a berried female. All except one shrimp look to be or close to adult size already! The one must be the runt of the group. Ive added some red root floaters in the tank as well as some snails to help clean up. Ill add add some pics tomorrow.

Day 33 -Tank is fully cycled. -Did almost a 100% water change with RODI and remineralized with salty shrimp -Added a dose of Mosura BT-9 Gh= 6 kh = 0 ph = around 6.2-6.4 Ammonia= 0 Nitrite = 0 Nitrate =0-5.0ppm TDS = 100

Day 30 Nitrites = 0 !!!! Nitrates = between 20ppm.... Interesting. I thought this was going to be through the roof. Im guessing the Mosura bt-9 is taking care of the Nitrates. Dosed 2.5ml of ammonia Hopefully by tomorrow i will see no ammonia and no nitrites. My blue bolts are ready for their new home!

Found my first shrimplets today!!! So small!

Just got my blue bolts. Drip acclimated them. My favorite shrimp for sure!! They are temporarily inside a breeder box in my CRS tank.

Day 25- Added a little bit more Mosura BT-9 today

Im in the dc area

Day 24 -Nitrites are still through the roof! I won a breeder box from a facebook group page. I went ahead and ordered some Blue Bolts. They will be temporarily housed inside this breeder box. The box is actually pretty neat. 7.5"x4x4. Plenty big enough for the small juvie shrimp temporarily. In the breeder box, I added some SL Aqua Soil, Alder cones, Marimo Balls and some frogbit. Breeder box is in my other established tank btw.

Just to confirm that the lava rock does not alter the water chemistry correct? If so, ill take a package.

Day 21 Dosed Mosura BT-9 *EDIT* Checked parameters tonight. Looks like the cycle is moving!! Ammonia = .25ppm - .50ppm Nitrite = Really high. Very purple. maybe 5.0ppm Nitrate = Around 20ppm My previous tank during cycling, I did not show any Nitrite at all during the whole cycle (probably because whatever beneficial bacteria i had converted it right away. I'll check in a few days to see if the Nitrite goes back down to 0ppm. If it does then I"ll add a little bit of ammonia to make sure the cycle is strong!

Added Mosura BT-9, just a little dose