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Thank you, that makes a lot of sense. I should probably put the adapter closer to the top so there’s only a short distance of smaller hose right? Or would it be ok if it was lower/longer distance of the small hose? If I get the new filter I’ll take it outside and test all the ideas and see what...

I have 1/2" lily pipes for my canister filter, and the hoses fit right on them. I wanted to upgrade to a different canister but the inside diameter of those hoses is bigger. The hose would be 5/8" id, so it wouldnt fit on my 1/2" lily pipes. I don't want to purchase another set of lily pipes...

Yes, I've read elsewhere on the forum that hardness is more important than ph. I forgot to specify sorry, the gh is ~75 ppm. Ive have also learned that a fluctuating ph is worse than a high ph, so I don't add anything to the water. It stays consistently at 8.4. Thank you Byron!

I have a digital ph meter, and test strips from amazon

I would buy locally, they say their water is lower ph like 7.00, but I've never tested it myself so I'm not for sure.

Ive read around on other forums and people have had success keeping harlequins in 8.4 ph. Which is what I have, I would like to keep them. I was going to acclimate them very slow like 5-8 hours. Do you think the harlequins will be ok in 8.4? I know hardness is more important my gh is ~75 and kh...

Wow, thanks for the great response a lot of great info! Ever since I put the shrimp in my tank they have been doing great! They have had babies once and one of the females are berried again. I do weekly 50% water changes anyways. So I'm gonna go with plain thrive. Thanks, everyone!

Ok, I read up on it on the nilocg website. Thrive c has less nitrogen for a higher stocked tank and normal thrive has more. With all the thrive ferts they recommend big water changes each week. Except for the thrive s (which has lower amounts as well), so in a shrimp tank it reduces the need for...

How is thrive complete different?

I mean do you have shrimp in the tank you use thrive, if that wasn’t clear

I dirted my tank and used supplements so I know the soil is good. Are you using the normal thrive? And do you have shrimp?

Great information thanks a lot! So would the normal thrive be better for my plants because it has more nutrients? And does big water changes effect shrimp?

Would it make that much of a difference to use normal thrive? Or should I just play it safe with thrive s?

And I already do 50% wc each week so thrive might be ok?...

I just want something that will make my plants do very well and still be shrimp safe