Recent content by Scarlett123

Higher kH stabilizes pH which can drop due to excess organics. Fluctuations in pH aren’t great for shrimp. Large water changes can also mess with shrimp (temperature needs to be exact and other parameters similar so no large fluctuations) so I recommend if you are doing larger water changes...

I’m sorry long day I guess I’m a little slow LOL thank you I’ve been working hard on the tanks and keep changing them

Unfortunately my octopus is a decoration on top of a cave/treasure chest - not alive and I haven’t ever seen a freshwater octopus for sale either.

My shrimp tank (6.8 gallons), my community tank (45 gallons), and my guppy tank (3 gallons). Guppies will probably move to community tank soon.

I’ve done a few small water changes and have been dosing with ParaGuard daily since some tiny white Planaria showed up... no deaths since! But I’m not sure how long to dose the ParaGuard. Seems to be shrimp safe and as a bonus I’m also using in my hospital tank to treat a shrimp with...

I had a heavily planted tank and the ph of the tap water was 8.2 yet in the tank it was 6. Kh was 1. Tank wouldn’t cycle (it had been 4 months) until I added aragonite to the tank. Then it finally cycled within 2 weeks. It needed the kh up to stabilize the ph.

Capital district, New York, USA

And just so you know getting that picture was a little difficult because this guy was in my spot on the couch...

They appear healthy to me but a picture is worth a thousand words... I think it may have had something to do with a water change that was a little too big before with water that was a bit cooler than the tank- what do you think? Plausible?