One of my many jars
My juvie betta girl graduated from this jar and is now in a 2 gallon. So I was wondering what else I could put in it. It seemed like cheap shrimp would be a good idea~
So off I went and got 4 ghost shrimps for this jar. Honestly I've kept caridinas and neos before but never had much luck with these guys...they always died after a month or two.
Shrimps and puppy fish! They are all so adorable! And your betta, Kuro, is gorgeous, too! I just love blue and white!!
Do you have planting tongs for your tanks? I noticed the little "tree" of moss in a corner of Kuro's tank and thought to myself I could never get that in with my fingers lol!
XD Kuro's always hungry. When I took the wid he was staring at the substrate with his "I swear I saw some food in there" expression.
And I do have planting tweezers!
I got them for $3 on ebay! hahaha
dunno what I'd do without them~ I try to keep my hands out of the tank as much as possible... the small volume of water is too easily contaminated D:
oto's been going crazy today, might be breeding season >.>
Oh wow! It's really pretty! You do have a lot of emmersed setups. It's a neat look. Did you by chance get those scissors at the same place that you got the tweezers?
I'll poke around on ebay and see if I can find some scissors. Those would be almost more helpful than the tweezers. So much easier to snip leaves rather than ripping with fingernails.
you need you cover it with saran wrap to keep the humidity in if you disnt already. I couldnt tell if you did. my saran wrap at home is crappy quality and is extremely non invisible.
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The shrimp Jar is 1 month and 7 days old and NO WaTER CHANGES!
I'm now too scared to do one! what if i completely displace the water params?! D:
You could just use like an eye dropper and only take out a few milliliters of water a day. I certainly wouldn't do any large ones. Have you not had to top off any water?
just leave it, if your water params are stable, it should be fine. In my soil setups, I change the water maybe once every 4 months, to remove the tannins from the wood in the soil, and only 25% of the tank at a time and my fish are all thriving and growing/breeding so it should be OK as long as your inhabitants are all healthy.
I found the kh and gh were important or at least sensitive to the substrate. Both rose to high values with a sand substrate but kh stayed a 4 degrees and gh at 9 degrees when peat moss was in the substrate. Also neon tetras did much better.
Either way pH was 8.4-8.8 (api high range test kit)
I know out of the tap water my water is 2dgh/kh
ph is around 7... I don't remember whether it drops or raises after it sits for a while
I usually supplement my inverts with that mont... somethingorrather calcium clay for proper moults and proper shell development.
*Izzy, Sorry I totally missed ur Q.
I cover mine with a saran wrap XD
AH, i keep testing just incase something goes horribly wrong so I can catch it. I get 0's on my tests as well, but you never know. better safe than sorry.
i feel like I'm going to be rich soon if you keep posting here
As ecocomplete and whatever else seems to increase hardness, my water is pribably harder. At certain times I can really tell when the water's too soft, All my snails refuse to come out of their shells. lol.
Trimmed the emmersed yet again. My poor smothered rosette plants are all like "help us! what is going on?!" I may have to elimiate the stems completely soon. lol
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