stirred up a cloud of baby yellow neo shrimp tonight

[Magnum Man]

I've been water changing with RO water for quite a while now, but, I top off my shrimp tanks between water changes with my rock hard well water, from a 1/4 inch line, so there is not a lot of turbulence... but enough tonight, to stir up a cloud of baby yellow shrimp, a cloud of 50 or 100 tiny neo shrimp, just a little bigger than brine shrimp babies so there must have been several berried females at the same time... adding a few specific shrimp foods has really improved the numbers in these 4 shrimp tanks

 

[Magnum Man]

this is what I started feeding regularly, and my shrimp tank numbers have increased a lot since I started using these...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9KX35Z3?ref_=ppx_hzod_title_mob_b_fed_asin_title_0_0

I also use Bacter AE, but honestly this food above has made the most noticeable difference in my shrimp, and they actually like them... I've tried foods like this, that the ads show shrimp all over them, but I'd never see a shrimp on one in my tanks... if one of these is in the tank, there is always at least several shrimp on them...

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have softer water and a neutral pH. I also do plants in all my communitry tanks. By plants I mean jungles. I discovered that in well planted tanks where I had both shrimps and assassin snails that the plants tended to suffer some. My soultuon was to use Seachem Equilibrium. I do not use it at full strength as I do not want to raise my GH so much as to provide needed minerals etc. which are used by shrimp, snails and the plants.

When I have a ton of plants as well as many assassins and shrimp, they cause the water to run out of a lot of what is in Equilibrium and using a lower dose remedies the problem. I actually eyeball the amount I use in each tank. It has made a big difference.
Guaranteed Analysis
Amounts per 1 g
Soluble Potash (K2O) 23.00%
Calcium (Ca) 8.06%
Magnesium (Mg) 2.41%
Iron (Fe) 0.11% Manganese (Mn) 0.06% Derived from: potassium sulfate, calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, ferric sulfate, manganese sulfate.