Zenko
HI all,
Over the last week my small population of cherry red shimp has started to die one by one. They have been in a 20 litre tank set to 24degrees for about 6 weeks and until now produced shrimp babies and are successfully molting. When the first one died I did a water change and added apI ammo lock (ammonia was approx 0.25). The tank has ada amazonia substrate and growing java moss etc. Current water parameters are PH 6.4 Ammonia 0.25 (isnt dropping) Nitrate 0. GH appears to be 7 however KH test is turning yellow as soon as I add drops so I'm assuming its very low. My water is PH7.5 from the tap so I'm assuming is the substrate that is causing the PH drop. For now the baby shrimp seem to be ok. Running out of ideas on what to do next and any help would be much appreciated !
Cheers
Nick
Over the last week my small population of cherry red shimp has started to die one by one. They have been in a 20 litre tank set to 24degrees for about 6 weeks and until now produced shrimp babies and are successfully molting. When the first one died I did a water change and added apI ammo lock (ammonia was approx 0.25). The tank has ada amazonia substrate and growing java moss etc. Current water parameters are PH 6.4 Ammonia 0.25 (isnt dropping) Nitrate 0. GH appears to be 7 however KH test is turning yellow as soon as I add drops so I'm assuming its very low. My water is PH7.5 from the tap so I'm assuming is the substrate that is causing the PH drop. For now the baby shrimp seem to be ok. Running out of ideas on what to do next and any help would be much appreciated !
Cheers
Nick