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Ouch must have been quite a shock for them - yup my ph seems to swinging quite a lot, so will gradually add more coral and see what happens.....Thanks!

I know!  Living in a tiny flat doesn't allow for much space for those sorts of bits and pieces but will maybe be more fastiduous from now on to wash the bucket out even more and put something over the bucket.   Will see if adding some more shells helps.   Thanks!

Hey DreamertK - Thanks for the link.   Its possible that the shrimp shells were being sucked up with everything else, but also possible that the bucket got contaminated as it is in the lots of random bits and pieces including household chemicals cupboard....   Anyway I now count 5 shrimp and...

Ok, so went to the LFS (thanks fishekeeper edinburgh) and there is no noticable copper in either the tank or tap water....   So went for just the kH tester, and the tank water is about 2 to 3 kH only....so from they told me at the LFS the gH is roughly the same as the gH which would make sense...

I do not have a TDS meter but from looking at other pages, it may be that when I do the change they try to moult and do not get enough minerals for new shell?  Could this be from excessive hoovering of the deep gravel?

Thanks - so the coral should raise it a bit - I'll keep that in.  They are just pieces of coral, not crushed.   On pH.... The water that I left out for a couple of days, this time with just 2 or 3 drops of prime, was about 7.2/7.4 pH, while the tap water coming straight out is nearer 8.  Just...

Hi - Yup that's what I thought - haven't been using salt since I got shrimps and tetra for that reason - will get me a gH test to see as pretty sure the water in Edinburgh is pretty much zero gH and see if the coral is raising it to something the shrimp and guppies would like....   Thanks!

Hi DreamertK - thanks for that - consensus seems to be the pH then!  Will make sure I leave water out longer or find a sustainable and stable way to raise the hardness.   Hmmm - what is a good way to raise hardness?  I have a couple of pieces of coral in there that the shrimp seem to snack...

Thanks - forgot to say I do have some bogwood too that has also been there for years.  Is it worth getting equilibrium then?   The tank is a 40litre so 1ml of Prime would be for a full water change; as I only do 25% changes this is basically a quadruple dose every time.....could this be melting...

Thanks for the replies -   On the copper question, would the same concentration of copper not also kill the snails in the tank - there are still plenty of them with no sign of any dead ones?  Might ask seachem  how much copper Prime can get rid of.  Someone off this forum also suggested I am...

Hello, I have a cycled, 40 litre heavily planted (java moss, java fern, moss ball & anunbias) nano tank with an eheim powerball sponge filter, heater and thermometer. In the tank are 3 guppies, 1 zebra otto and 6 cardinal tetras, nuisance snails and until about 2 weeks ago, a thriving cherry...

Hi Jennybugs and shelaghfishface-I was hoping you could help me a bit on this seeing as your set ups are similar to mine. I have a 30l biorb with lots of plants, ceramic media and white marble pebbles on top of the media. I had a male betta for 1 month before it died of what I still don't...