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lol @ d milkshake hahahah

yea i had the same result, one of my offspring was very dark and had shades of dark brown like chocolate shrimp

yea man, haha about a year plus ago they were labelled as blue velvet with deeper blues. and now d even deeper n darker blue are labelled as blue fantasy over here but the offsprings i have range from blue velvet looking to even black ones ? quite interesting that one of the offspring grew and matured pretty fast into a nice black one cool right haha probably could get the bp (pic 1.) and play around abit from there

hi soothing is there also a trade name that goes blue jelly or something ? r those neo palmata too ?

why not you try out and let them live in the 8.3ph conditions and see how the malaya shrimps fare? mine is around 7.6ph and they have started breeding. 2-3 were berried and i use those normal reef sand inert. no active substrate nor chiller too. malaya are quite hardy and breed easily as long your tank is matured and healthy. i also heard of others telling me that when your tank is matured etc, the ph usually will drop just a wee bit probably by 0.5-1.0 (im not sure how true that is though). but since u mentioned your tank been running for a year, logically speaking should be pretty matured already.

i can read some chinese, there is lactobacilius inside, including other bacter and yeast/enzymes

sometimes its not just how knowledgeable or good you are, but also important that you enjoy your very own shrimp keeping process. everyone has different preferences and interest, haha sometimes it matters not too much about whether they cross and revert back to wild forms or whatever. i think everyone has different values to the same thing hope you enjoy your shrimp keeping Vinman, no worries about how it may come out etc yea

hi stone, what is the water reset method about? any links to the exact post by soothing ?

learnt something new today! i had never thought of that, thanks soothing for the new insight

things are not good haha i lost over 110 pieces i would say its a 98% wipeout by now. Luckily i still have another breeding tank of lower grade fire, they do breed, grow and die and population seems to be slowly increasing which is a good sign since they are pretty much self-sustainable by now. Guess i will harvest the "TOD" shrimplets and work from there see if i can raise them successfully and re-establish a colony.

well my tank is 75 litres. now im feeding only on alternate days and stop trying to do additional water changes etc upon finding deaths. i think it will trigger them to forcefully moult and become more prone to dying instead. i have two other stable tanks which i troubleshoot by shifting them but they still die off. i suspect it may not be just the water parameters but some sort of infection or i-dont-really-know-what-else factor haha. They are pretty much wiped out at this moment, only the shrimplets are doing well in that same tank (which is quite a curious thing to me, adults all dying off but shrimplets are not affected at all which draws me to the idea whether they have some sort of infection).

same as you having fire deaths daily...

yea i guess im having that "T.O.D" now haha

Hi soothing, may i know what is malawa shrimp ?

i did read before that activated carbon does absorb the tannins as well ?