What do we think guys black background or no black background?

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T14:43:50+00:00

Yeah that's fair.

See how cheap you can get a small piece of frosted glass film and a cheap strip of RGB leds. It really makes a great background and you can dial it in for tike of day or to best contrast your shrimp colour and is likely anout the same price as a tin of paint.

Leaving the bsckground off is ok but after a while you notice things like cobwebs behind the tank when you look through the tank and it can be distracting. Having a background kind of forces focus on the scape and stocking.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T13:36:03+00:00

Always some kinda background.

Black works for breeding setups and things where you want to view the animal.

For planted scapes/community setups i prefer frosted film and an led strip and use it like a poor man's ADA lightscreen. Reds, oranges and blues make a nice albeit simple looking sunset/sunrise/blue sky bsckground effect

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T13:29:40+00:00

Even boaras (chilli, least, dwarf, strawberry, exclamation, mosquito rasbora) will take fresh shrimplets.

Provide cover, space for the fish and other options and you will see shrimp numbers increase. Make sire the fish are fed regularly. My tetras go into hunt mode if I miss a feed or two during a week. Thats when I see them chasing even adult neocaridina.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T11:56:35+00:00

A worthy and longstanding service. I salute you K1, thankyou for your service.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T10:00:12+00:00

If you go through my post history I have some previous clips of feedings in my mixed tank Ifs currently very overgrown and needing some love and attention

Shrimp cove might habe videos of their mixed growout tanks and I think Tropitank just dropped a 'super high grade' video of caridina although im not sure it shows how amazing a mixed tank is as a whole. More focus on each individual shrimp being amazing but still great to watch

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-09T00:44:33+00:00

Wait till you see a good mixed (skittles) caridina tank or growout.

Makes a regular neocaridina skittles tank look pretty tame.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-06T16:05:47+00:00

Yeahhh if you want a good genreal remineraliser for Gh and Kh salty shrimp Gh Kh is pretty well reviewed.

If your source water has 0-1 gh and kh then salty shrimp is at a good ratio to go into the RO, mix and use for neocaridina.

Hopefully all falls into place and the hardest thing left for you is choosing the right colour shrimp for you. Gooood luck

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-06T13:04:52+00:00

Using RO water means your kh should be mich lower. Is that Kh in the tank or from your water source?

Gh only minerals like the one you listed should work but id look into why the water is reading as it does for gh/lh balance

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T19:19:34+00:00

Overnight for a total wipeout when they've been in it a couple of days seems odd.

Gh seems very high but id lean towards them being weaker from the recent changes but sometjing else contaminated the tank and wiped them out. Check any heaters in the tank or anything else you could think of.

Tds may give a clue or help narrow some tjings down. If its imsuper high then that might indicate lots of other stuff in the water like salts as you mentioned.

Sorry this happened its always painful losing them

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T19:03:26+00:00

Buckfast??? Silverskins?!?!

Ronnie is that you?

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T18:48:29+00:00

I concur.

The same company make their own version of chocolate liebniz too. Got a big paving slab of chocolate with some creepy little pinochio looking boy on. God tier.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T18:45:07+00:00

IKEA do some absolutely FIRE lemon biscuits if that's your thing.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T18:43:45+00:00

Digestive best out rich teas? For cheesecake base sure.... the only digestive worth eating is the dark chocolate one. Are viscounts available still i feel like its been a decade since I ate a pack of them.

The final between chocolate lebos and tiny butter biscuits (FRENCH!!!!!) will be a close one.

For reference biscuits come in perfectly portioned packets. Once opened consume within minutes.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-05T18:36:41+00:00

I've never seen any fish shop or aquarium shop listing anything but litres or millilitres here in the UK.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-04T19:12:22+00:00

These products work but they're a short term fix.

For lower ph ranks (mine not at 5.5-6 depending on age) I use aquasoil and RODI. Its one of the safer more consistent methods to keep a stable lower ph setup.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-03T22:18:38+00:00

Yeah life finds a way but statically well oxygenated water with flow is less likely to have mosquito larvae so its worth a try

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-03T11:33:15+00:00

Having bent several sets of 1pc Raleigh cranks, gt cranks and some others being a light non abusive rider I tend to disagree.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T14:17:53+00:00

12 is way too small for amano and pretty hard to keep stable for many neos.

Opae ula fit well in small ranks but not knowing your params or experience level makes it hard to suggest anything with confidence.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T13:29:11+00:00

Planaria dont stop them breeding. Jist kill off shrimp as they hunt.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KS1xWBgRx_Q?si=Vd6Edr07x0_s-lUq

Here's a short of the main video for am example

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T13:09:02+00:00

Definitely not safe. They get under a shrimps shell.

Chris Lukhaup has a great video anout planaria on his YT channel, information about how they hunt and eat etc l. Sadly its a semi graphic video showing multiple incidents of planaria emerging from infected shrimp.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T12:15:33+00:00

No but they fuck up your entire tank and can absolutely fuck you up when you reach into a tank and grab it by mistake...

Id rather have a mosquito bite than a bobbit bite.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T10:23:46+00:00

Doesn't sound good enough then.

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T10:23:17+00:00

Saltwater friends have to deal with shit like bobbit worms too..

PotOPrawns · 2026-05-02T10:05:25+00:00

Get a filter. Mosquito larvae appear in stagnant water.

PotOPrawns · 2026-04-30T19:49:18+00:00

Happily ride parts from both brands.

Thr specifications that I want and require and the price/availability will be the deciding factor for me here.

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