magicdragon2
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Hi, i have been setting up a shrimp tank for a bit now and have it cycled+plants, however my tap water has a gh of 0. What's the best way of raising it, and can I use some pool chemicals I have spare?
Rift Lake water conditioner at a lower dose rate. It comes in a white powder and has a bunch of different minerals in that will raise the pH, GH & KH..
Before you add anything, what fish are in the tank?
What is the pH?
What is the KH?
No pool stuff in your aquarium.
What kind of?
I started a planted tank a couple months ago and introduced a bunch of cherry shrimps in there.
And I used SaltyShrimp Mineral GH/KH+ But if your KH and PH is already ok you could try SaltyShrimp Bee Shrimp GH+
tysm! The saltyshrimp stuff seems perfect, if i decide to purchase it when I'm doing a water change should i pre-condition some water with it then do a water change with the conditioned water instead of tap, or just put tap water in along with the saltyshrimp mineral? Also, which size container of it would u recommend?You could add Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Sulphate in equal quantities. To obtain a GH near 110ppm also Potassium bi-carbonate/carbonate to raise you KH to 40ppm and let sit and re-test before water changes. You can also use a piece of limestone directly in the tank and monitor your KH level.
But I'm lazy and I got SaltyShrimp Mineral instead of playing the mad chemist.
Also a couple of pieces of Cholla wood and Catappa leaves (I found that oak leaves do a great job too) in the tank to help maintain your PH around 7.2 and promote the creation of bio-film.
If you're totally serious about breeding them I would also suggest a TDS meter and probably a RO unit. To be able to create completely your own mineralized water.
I'm only starting with shrimps... So you can consider me as an amateur. But I'm a serious one.
Two weeks later they are still all there. I managed to count them today.
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And a couple of larger pieces in the tank.Consider SeaChem Equilibrium for GH
For KH, consider a bag of crushed coral in your filter.
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Malok you do this for cherry shrimp? Wow, I started a shrimp tank about 2 weeks ago. The guy I talked to told me they are super-hardy and need no special treatment. This tank is well conditioned (about 2 years old) and I just removed a bunch of fish from it. I did water changes every 2 - 3 days before and I've been doing them for the shrimp too. I may need to slow that down it seems.I run my water over activated carbon for a few days with a box filter to make sure that there's absolutely no harmful chemicals possibly in the water then I precondition 1 day before water changes (minerals and tap water conditioner).
But the product can be dissolved in a small container with tank water just before adding. For the moment with my inexperience, I prefer to be able to test the water parameters before adding it...
I do no more than 20% a week, Shrimps do not produce a lot of waste, so 10%-20% change should be good enough for shrimp-only aquariums.
And they are very sensible to water parameters changes. So absolutely no swings of any kind are allowed. You should bring your desired water parameters slowly over the course of multiple water changes.
If the tank is heavily planted, some shrimp hobbyists don't even change their water for weeks or months if ever. That is where I get nervous a little, I think I should learn how to correctly balance this product before trying to temper directly with the tank water.
If you do a too big water change too quickly, you may induce the shrimp into premature molting, and that is not good at all.
oh wow! I need to check my GH. I have some GH raising additive I've put in, but I haven't bothered to do the test. Thanks for the heads-up MaloK!I never had a successful molt before I raise my GH over 100 ppm, they where slowly dying one after the other