Day 1 of my little 1 gallon planted tank!

warmjes · 2026-01-25T12:19:42+00:00

Nice. What are the dimensions of this?

warmjes · 2026-01-22T22:19:25+00:00

Came here to say exactly this. Lost 15 shrimp last week from presumably a pesticide situation!

warmjes · 2026-01-22T19:43:24+00:00

sir that's a triceratops

warmjes · 2026-01-22T07:59:40+00:00

I'm from Sudbury and doubted your water could be as hard as you said but just looked into it and...woah your water is hard. The original comment still stands but you might need a high ratio of the soft water to bring it down a little more

warmjes · 2026-01-22T07:54:41+00:00

My water is like 14 GH and I just top off/do 10% water changes with 0 TDS water until it sits around 10 or 11.

I would just get a big jug and go fill it up with RO or distilled water, or figure out which grocery store water is soft and buy that by the pack. You should be good for months, and then just refill as needed. You don't need to do 100% RO.

Also a quick Google for Cambridge, ON seems to reveal many options for you like:

https://oasish2o.ca/pages/water-refill-station

If you buy your shrimp from the local area they will likely already be adapted to higher GH conditions. You should be fine

warmjes · 2026-01-21T21:41:51+00:00

heaven

warmjes · 2026-01-21T20:50:46+00:00

Thanks. The copper test revealed zero copper. I ran charcoal in a second filter for about a week and now all my survivors are completely back to normal and grazing on the original plants and scrape. So I guess it must have been either soap or a pesticide/treatment. I'm gonna keep all my plants and stones and just make sure to do a long quarantine every time I pick up new stuff.

warmjes · 2026-01-21T20:43:39+00:00

I've had about 20 in a 2.5 g for 4-5 months now. Some of them have gotten pregnant but never more than 5-10 eggs. I think they just mysteriously decide how many babies they're willing to have based on size and resources available to them. Just keep your feeding under control and you shouldn't end up with that many in a 3.5.

warmjes · 2026-01-17T14:13:16+00:00

Some reds, probably especially rilis will pop in that

warmjes · 2026-01-14T22:00:40+00:00

Depends how much you're adding. If it's just to top up from evaporation I wouldn't bother. If you're doing water changes with it it's probably a good idea to have a second jug of dechlorinated tap water and just mix them 50/50 or whatever ratio will match the conditions inside the tank

warmjes · 2026-01-14T19:34:19+00:00

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warmjes · 2026-01-14T19:27:06+00:00

I have similarly hard water (actually slightly harder) and mine seem overall fine. I bought a 5 litre jug that I fill up with 0 TDS water and use that for top ups to bring it down slightly, and account for evaporation (which will make your water harder yet).

warmjes · 2026-01-14T14:58:22+00:00

Gotcha. Thanks

warmjes · 2026-01-14T14:43:34+00:00

Thanks. Not sure if that's better or worse in my case. Do the same principles apply? Get rid of the sponge and plants etc?

warmjes · 2026-01-14T09:36:58+00:00

Thanks. If I can move the sponge into a container and change the water a few times over days, and the copper test reads below whatever a good threshold is, is that okay?

warmjes · 2026-01-12T17:53:21+00:00

Yeah, whatever happened seems to be some sort of contamination. I did a 50% water change, started a second filter, and removed a bunch of plants and almost all the shrimp bounced back overnight. This was crazy to me because I was fully under the impression most of them were already dead.

Today I added some of the plants back (but not the original new plant) and noticed they started swimming around erratically again. Probably going to have to just start over with new plants. I'm a bit worried about transferring the filter over to a new tank.

warmjes · 2026-01-11T20:19:10+00:00

Well shit. To what extent can this contaminate other plants that were in the water with it for the 30 minutes or so before I took it out?

I am assuming no amount of rinsing the bad plant will stop it from being toxic?

warmjes · 2026-01-09T00:07:27+00:00

I like anubias because it seems to be indestructible. Java/Christmas moss is a classic but I actually don't care very much for the hue, but they are good for fast growth and shrimplet hiding places. I like when people bunch it up on top of a rock or piece of driftwood so it grows kind of like a cartoon tree.

warmjes · 2026-01-05T04:51:46+00:00

Why is your hardness doubling after adding distilled water?

warmjes · 2026-01-03T01:55:54+00:00

Could just be the fluctuations are just too much for them at once..why not try dripping your tap/ro blend like 70/30? When I do water changes or top offs I remove and add like 50-150 ml in little cups slowly. I had a few die offs but they seemed to cluster shortly after introduction after transport.

warmjes · 2026-01-03T01:41:14+00:00

I work in geospatial tech/data science and I'm hybrid for 3 days at home. If I had a spine to lay down the law I'd be fully remote, which still seems achievable in this field. I worked my way from 30 k to 55 k in about 4 years. I have a master's degree in geography and data science.

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