so, I'd like to add some colored shrimp to a few of my community tanks... I have a set of 10 gallons I'm hoping to start breeding them in ( I have Cherries going right now ) and put about 6 into my Hillstream tank, that seems to be working, so far... these community tanks are all soft water... I have bought shrimp rocks before... and in the adds, the rocks are covered in shrimp, like they go to them, and eat them... I've never seen a shrimp on one, and think probably they slowly dissolve minerals in the water... my breeding tanks are currently RO / hard water blend, being mostly hard well water... wondering if the rocks are added to my soft water community tanks, after planting shrimp, if the shrimp are likely to find these rocks, and get the minerals they need, or if a powdered / liquid supplement would be better... I'm not wanting to severely change my tank water hardness because of the fish... the Cherry shrimp have survived for the last couple weeks in the soft Hillstream tank, with no supplements... if they survive, that's great, but even better if they would reproduce, even if the babies became a food supplement for the fish...
... I have a starter group of orange, and another of yellow coming next week, with intention of putting 2 groups of 4 in the 10 gallon breeding tanks, and a group of 4 of each into 2 different community tanks... all the tanks have lots of cover, and food sources for them...
... thoughts on the rocks in softer water tanks???
... I have a starter group of orange, and another of yellow coming next week, with intention of putting 2 groups of 4 in the 10 gallon breeding tanks, and a group of 4 of each into 2 different community tanks... all the tanks have lots of cover, and food sources for them...
... thoughts on the rocks in softer water tanks???
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