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Hiya Y'all! Dose any one have any info on Bio-Floc with ornamental shrimp? Quantities of Bio-Floc to use in nano tanks of less than 5 gallons? Has any one experienced deaths using Bio-Floc?

Hey Shrimpspot! My tanks have been overgrown by these plants so if anyone is looking for good nitrate reducing plants or just want something your shrimp can graze/float around on, then these will perfect for you. These are grown in non c02/fertilized tanks. Plants Price Amount Sending Amazon Frogbit, limnobium laevigatum $3 10+ Amazon Frogbit (mixed sizes but tend to be on the smaller size) Water spangles, salvinia minima $3 20+ Water Spangles Water spangles/Amazon Frogbit mix $5 10+ Water Spangles and 5+ Amazon Frogbit I also have Guava leaves that are from my tree, no pesticides used(I eat the fruit so I don't want that going in my body), all organic and I am doing 1oz bags(20+ leaves) for $6. Shipping Options For Plants and Leaves $7 for small flat rate box, unless your order is too big. $13 for medium flat rate - larger orders

hello shrimpers, cool forum and good vibes here :-) ive been reading for a week or two and thought id post now i have something about which i desperately want clarification. briefly to introduce myself - im in australia and keep some 2foot tanks with different coloured cherry shrimp since early this year after having a lot of fun and success with red cherry shrimp (by accident mostly tbh) in a very very heavily planted 4 foot tank. i wanted to ask peoples opinions on the API nitrate test kit and also how cherries respond to high nitrates - basically i tested in the past with the API kit and always got zero because i stupidly didn't read the isntructions properly regarding shaking the bottle#2 and the test kit as well ... recently i decided to test again and was careful to follow instructions and found that the nitrate raedings in my tank seem to vary from ~80ppm up to 160ppm + !! around a month or two ago i realised i had some issues with stressed out shrimps in some tanks, slow breeding in one tank and even with some deaths :-( i started doing some water changing, reducing feeding frequency and varying diet as well as improving the quality of water i was using made some differences (not sure in which order of importance) and this stopped the deaths, i still havent been able to get my YCS to breed readily though... i think the colours are not as bright as they were and so i thought i should research nitrates i think its hopefully the last parameter/water quality issues i was neglecting and this is when i realised i was testing incorrectly - so now that ive realised i have inadequate plantings (some moss and a very small smattering of duckweed) - i have discovered this high nitrates issue and i would like to resolve the problem asap but without shocking the cherries of course!! id love to ask peoples opinions on two things specifically (and any other expertise that may be offered to me!!! - i just love learning about these creatures they are so much fun to keep and i hope to progress to other critters soon!) 1 - i have googled this API testkit insanely high reslts but found mixed results (of course - this IS the internet after all...) hoping some people here can shed some light (or increase my confusion LOL) about this for me! 2 - regardless of how overly high the nitrate result may be - can anyone give me advice about reducing the nitrate levels? currently my plan is to plant some new mosses, do my best to encourage my duckweed to grow and spread in the worst affected the tanks, and increase water changes.. Im debating whether to add seachem prime every couple of days while i get on top of the problem because their site suggests that it can neutralise the toxic effects of nitrate.. and im also considering the use of seachem purigen as i run eheim canisters on each of my tanks. my budget is limited though so i need to be convinced of the benefits of either of these options! thanks in advance for any feedback/advice that you shrimpsters can offer and im looking forward to sharing my experiences here, offering what limited shrimpkeeping wisdom i do have so far to others, and certainly continuing to learn from the broad depth of knowledge there is here!! love n peace will

I did tests on my 3.5 gal and the Nitrates were at 40! This is the last of the bottles of testing solutions from a Freshwater testing kit. I have a new bottle of testing fluid so I am going to double check it. So what to do now? I had added a nerite and some more shrimp about week ago and didn't realize that the tiny water changes (1\2 gallon at a time) were not enough anymore. All of the inhabitants seem fine, I even got my first berried pumpkin this last week. So I did the usual water change. I was afraid to do more since I have heard that the female could drop her eggs if there was a sudden change. I'm going to add a bag of purigen. Can I do water changes everyday? Or every other day? Should I try to add more plants?