Can you drink that shrimp stuff? Im watching video cause i want to drink ro water. Want to reminieralize. No one seems to know but this video is pure science
Flip Aquatics hi question for you, I’m kind o new to shrimp and have to tanks, prl with panda loaches, and a red galaxy, the problem that I have almost every time I do water chance or top off, I will get a bacteria bloom , both tanks had been running for about 9 months , what are good parameters for this tanks, thank you very much for your videos
Just moved over to RO water myself after several shrimp deaths. Everything seems okay now. Thanks for the great videos, you may make me a decent shrimp keeper yet ☺️
Long time ago I had a few cherry shrimp, it was the first time I had shrimp at all. I used our faucet water + water conditioner, I did a water change and the next day they suddenly all died... I got new ones and again they were dead within a week this kept onuntill I got an RO unit... PH of the bad water was sky high 8 something, no copper out of the norm or anything unusual, except that PH. My best guess is too much lead~ Anyway, since I got the RO they are doing gr8. :D I also got a surprise 2 weeks ago. A really dark red (imagine dark red vine) shrimp popped up out of nowhere with white eyes, no pattern as I was expecting it to be a cross with a tiger or something but nope. I love it! A few days ago it was berried, eggs were dark gray-green. I was looking for an ID of this shrimp but found none~
Hi, I know it has been long. But I had some similar experience as you. My water now have high Ph and I'm thinking about getting RO water to lower the Ph too. My question is how do you replace the tank water, do you just top up it with RO water until all stabilized or you do a big changes? Hope your shrimp are doing okay! Cheers!
Thanks for the video. I appreciated it and, personally, I like your style. (And from one guy to the next -loved the beard; just grew a handle bar stach for the first time here.). This was very helpful to me. I am just a few weeks away from getting my first shrimp.
If I use the KH/GH remineralizer for cherry shrimp, could that same water be used in taking care of a betta, or do fish have different GH/KH requirements?
LupDiesel, I want to get inmerse in the hobby just like you but, I don't know how to buy a good RO Filter and what maintanace the filter needs. So could you do a video explaining that? It would ve really helpful and I would appreciate it a lot. Btw keep up the good work and keep the videos coming. You are the only reason why everytime I get home I open the youtube website. I enjoy each and everyone of your videos.
Hi Betta Lover,This goes into two different categories depending on how you want to manage costs and time. I utilized a zero water system, which is a trickle RO/DI system which also costs about $60. Filters were suggested to be replaced when the TDS was measuring above 6. This also took a lot of time to get a single gallon out of the system, but if you are operating off of a small tank, might be worth the shot.I recently purchased a water save 6 stage RO/DI system (SKU 200412) from BulkReefSupply.com (BRS) to replace my legacy method saving time and money. The water waste from the system also goes strait to a rain canister for my garden to prevent actual waste water.BRS also has videos explaining how the RO/DI systems work and what their importance is, at least to a Reef's perspective.This said, I have no awesome looking shrimp except about 10 ghosts that are utilized for breeding efforts.www.zerowater.com/ www.bulkreefsupply.com/bulk-reverse-osmosis-filters-systems/reverse-osmosis-systems.html
My water tds is 372 and done several water chages 30% 1 a week without shocking them. I thinks its back up of minerals due to water evaporation. Do I still need to mineralize the salty shrimp GH-KH power for neocardinia shrimp? I've only been adding R/O water of 7-10 tds. It's still high what should I do?
when u top of the tank due to evaporation and the tds goes down how much remineralizer do you put in without over doing it? Do you cut the measuring in half and I’m little confused on that. Let’s say when I top it off it’s measured at 200 wouldn’t a normal scoop of the remineralizer make the tds skyrocket. Especially for shrimp that need to be around 400 tds? and with all the other chemicals like plant fertilizer and ammonia neturalizer etc. that adds to the tds.
ihave a ph of 6-6.4, so would i use the gh/kh +? i dont know the gh and kh of my tap rn because i dont have the kit and im planning on having neo caridina as my first shrimp in the aquarium hobby, and with the gh/kh+ be good enough for neocaridina? like will it make the RO water the good amount of each?
When I'm just topping off my tanks with RO water due to evaporation do I need to re-mineralize that water? I re-mineralize per gallon so it seems like a waster if I'm only adding a little amount. Make sense?
What if the tank water vaporised 5% because of the cooling fan. Topping up water with remineralize or jus empty RODI water? In my tank Caridina jus died one after another. I have a Arizona Cactus wood, Australia Alder Cones, a medium size catapa leafs in d tank. Which I find it they will produce algea n food consistency for them n some hide out too. There r moss plants and frogbits. But I'm not sure why is it Caridina still dies one after another. Is it becoz d temperature was not consistent becoz of cooling fan switching off midnight? Or topping up with just RODI without remineralize would cause Caridina death? I find that Cactus wood also spikes up quite alot after I put into d tank. It was cleanse with my days cycled of clean water. Without putting in that wood. Reading I had it jus fine at 139 with d TDS reading. Right after d wood enters it... Becomes 190.
How do you know when you have too much salt/minerals in a 30L RO nano planted CRS tank? I have Shrimp King Bee Salt GH+ but don’t know how much to dose and don’t want to increase my TDS too much by doing so. I also dose a bit of Benibachi Super Bacteria Bee Max weekly
I have buffered substrate. If I make RO water and add GH back but leave KH at zero, that will make my substrate last longer, because it leaches less out to "buffer" the tank water. I am curious what happens to the KH value after that water is added to the tank. Will ADA aquasoil raise the KH value naturally, so I don't risk PH swings?
@Simply Betta. I've been running both Fluval Stratum and ADA soil now. I find that if your substrate has to buffer the water less, like if you are using RO, your substrate will stay in tact longer. I run RO in my Stratum tank while dosing ferts into the water column which mean the plants and tank have to rely less on the substrate to get the water where it needs to be. I just entered my 3rd year with it and it is till intact, like its NOT turning into mud. I think if you ran really hard TAP water the substrate would have to do a lot of work and that is when it breaks down quicker. And I don't think substrate will increase KH, they generally pull things down. Like GH starts at 12 and will lower to 6, same with KH... so it goes down versus up. Always bring you KH up if you plan to run Co2, and the PH swings will be crazy and stress fish/shrimp out. KH is like a rubber band that keep your PH from swinging. The more KH, the tougher the rubber band and the lower your PH will swing.
That GH+ has KH in it, I could not figure why my KH was staying @3 on the API kit when I remineralized the R/O water that being said that stuff is garbage
I'm hearing wonder shells work better than crushed coral if you have RO water or no minerals and electrolytes in the water. Something to do with surface area not being enough to release the proper elements in the coral if those other things are not present. Crushed aragonite is also another option. I'm having this issue right now in my tank with RO water and the crushed Coral is making no difference
Cuttlefish bone.. crush/scrath it until it become powder then sprinkle it onto water gradually day by day .. stop when u see molted shrimp skin .. then just put it in for every waterchange.. it can go wrong . But base on my experience , it works greatly
Can I get a 5g water reservoir and put remineralizer and get that to my desired TDS and just waterchange with that..Nothing should change even if its sitting right?
Since TDS almost always goes up in tanks and some evaporation occurs I dont understand how you match the TDS of freshwater to the exact number in your tank for shrimp. Wouldn't that just slowly raise the TDS ? I do 5-10 percent water changes a few times a week with RO water and add equilibrium to about half or 3rd of the tank PPM to lower TDS by about 10 ppm. I do have lots of stones that do increase gh and kh gradually.
@@sko1beer what type of shrimp do you have ? For most of them I add salty Shrimp to get a TDS of between 130-140 and that maintains a GH of 6 in my shrimp tanks. I do about 15 percent of water change per week. It has worked well for me with some babies and no major deaths.
@@Skylabz604 yes I keep my tank around 130 TDS but I went to a fancy shrimp shop the other day and it was selling Taiwan sss red bees and the water in the bag was 90 TDS guy in the shop even said keep them at under 25 degrees well it’s in my tank now at 130tds at around 27 degrees
@@Skylabz604 the part I don’t get is I only do water changes if the TDS goes up to around 170+TDS so do I do a 10% water change with pure ro to get it down to 130 TDS and then do a 10% water change with salty shrimp water at 130tds?
@@sko1beer yes you can do small water changes and slowly add RO water to lower TDS alone. You should do that throughout the week before water changes. What I do is Iower the water in my tanks about 10-15 percent and then add RO throughout the day to lower the TDS.
Does this product for remineralizing ro water work well for plants and fish? Also right now I just have cherry shrimp which product would you recommend for them I don't know all the technical terms of which group they would fall into
I am planning to use RO water in a planted tank. I plan for the tank to be heavily planted. I would like to have neon tetras as well as Orange rili shrimp. Which salty bees product (Gh+ or Gh/Kh+ ) should i use to remineralize my RO water and will it be meet the plants’ needs as well?
I converted a 45 gal rainbow fish tank into a RCS only tank. The TDS is128. What do you suggest I do to increase the TDS in the display tank without shocking the shrimp? Raise the top-off water to 200ppm until the display tank reaches that level?
Hey Rob. How would you recommend storing RO water if you dont have a system. Should you just get fresh water each time from your LFS or can it be stored?
Anyone know what causes TDS to rise after adding to tank? My tap water is constantly 150ppm but as days go by in my tank it begins to rise. As much as 20 ppm per day. Any help?
Reverse osmosis water drops down to 6.0 ph with Bee shrimp gh without using buffering substrate. Isnt that too low for crystal red shrimp? Should i use Salty shrimp gh kh? Another questions is, why is my ph under 6 with this product? Shouldnt it be 6.4?
I purchased a Python Siphon system and, unfortunately, couldn't use the universal adapter on my bath or faucets. Suggestions on good RODI unit for the normal hobbyist? I have 5 10s that I am planning on adding Neocaridina into.
I’m looking at getting guppy’s ,,, using the fish version that salty shrimp makes ... can I add as much to boost the gh up too 8/12 ,,, is there a limit to use
Eeeeek I just did that!! I was trying to match the LFS parameters. But I have not received my TDS meter yet, so I couldn’t test that. I’m going to have to mix in tank. Is there any chance that if I add it slowly over a week that my shrimp will make it? I only have 2 crystal blacks so far, but I don’t want to lose them. I keep freshwater and saltwater tanks. One of my freshwater tanks is a Neo tank. This is my first real try at CRS 😔
Hi mate great channel.i have some red cherrys in a 120litre in tap water and my gh is 4 kh is 5 I recently ordered salty shrimp gh&kh mix but now think I should of bought just the gh. Is this correct or should I buy some gh only salty shrimp. In the mean time if I just bought some discus gh powder would that be okay until my shipment arrived. Thanks in advance and looking forward to your next vid 👍🏼
Hi - I have a new 7.5G shrimp tank I'm working on cycling. I used distilled water along with SaltyShrimp GH/KH since I plan on keeping RCS. Added 2 scoops and the TDS went to about 200. My substrate is just tiny black gravel type stuff I got at Petsmart for like $4 or $5/bag. It's almost like sand but still gravelish. My question, my pH is kind of high, around 8 or so. As I understand it, the KH part of the SaltyShrimp that I used raised that. I'm awaiting a GH/KH test kit, but currently I'm not sure how to lower the pH. Going to add some cholla wood, but am I always going to spike my pH using this SaltyShrimp stuff?
Troy Etherton what I do is get a water bottle & mix the buffer there, I then add it to a 5 gallon reservoir to get a TDS level of about 150. This is for Caridina shrimp, so it’d way lower than your RCS. & whenever I do water changes I usually do a water bottle once a week & refill from the little reservoir that I have already mixed with the parameters I want. Remember, don’t make big water changes! Small weekly water changes, & watch your RCS thrive!
@@leorents505 thank you! I've read they prefer a more acidic water 6.5-7.2 vs. alkaline higher levels. I'm just not sure how to achieve that AND also keep my TDS high using the GH/KH additive. I'm working on cycling the tank. I have a couple of plants in there along with the pond snails that hitchhiked in as well. The nitrates got a bit high so I did a couple gallon water change. Took the pH after that and it was better, like about 7.2. Ofc, TDS dropped because i changed it using distilled water. So I added a scoop of GH/KH and TDS went back up to high 100s, but pH shot back up toward 8 again. I don't understand how I'm supposed to keep the pH steady but also maintain a high enough TDS. If there were shrimp in the tank I wouldn't have changed so much water at once. That fact alone should aid in keeping the pH less volatile, but it's still swinging more than I care for.
Thank you for the video I am just starting a cherry shrimp tank. Could you answer a question for me please? My RO unit comes out at 0 tds. Using salty shrimp gh kh what TDS do I need before adding it aquarium? I will be mixing it 1 gallon at a time and I use just the RO water and gh kh minerals
Hi, I'm new on having shrimp tank. I have neo caridina, ghost shrimp, amano and caridina in 10 gallon tank. I setup my tank using tap water I use aquarium salt, aqua safe plus and easy safe plus to dechlorinate the water. I wasn't aware that I'm suppose to use shrimp salt for my shrimp tank. Last week everyday I have 1 dead shrimp so that's when I research how to do water change then I come up with one of your video. Can you help how to transition from tap to to water my shrimp tank.
I have a tank of neocaridina red shrimp, i Use ro wate, to get a tds of 200 i mix this re-mineralizer. Everytime i mix this with my water, the water gets white cloudy with calcium like particles floating around. And it remains for quite a long time. For atleast 3-4 days. I normally age my ro water for 24 hrs with this mineral and anti stress
Thank you. So Helpful. Please, Could I use this for goldfish? I am moving. New house kH is 4. PH6.8. Where we live kh is 300. True. PH here is 8.2. Can I use this product to raise my kh and keep my goldfish safe. Maybe I have to re-home them? Please let me know your opinion. I don't want to kill them. One is 8yrs. old. I love these guys. Thank you-
Is there a single product like this using a TDS meter to dose for fish aquariums (planted)? Seems so much easier than testing GH and KH over and over again at water change time.
I bought orange pumpkin shrimp from you and I am new, I have a 5 gallon cycled tank and I'm using reg. Conditioned Tap water but my PH was 8.2! I'm going to buy the TDS pen and Salty shrimp, which salty shrimp product do you recommend...salty shrimp gh or salty shrimp gh kh? since my PH is so high from the tap? When I get the Salty shrimp powder, how do I convert this new made water ( going to use distilled) from the water that is already in my tank without shocking my shrimp?
Hi, not sure if anybody answered you question but for Orange Pumpkin Shrimp you want to use the GH/KH+. To remineralize the water but make sure you use either distilled or reverse osmosis water and slowly introduce with your water changes about 20% or so. To further lower your PH you may want to add some almond leaves. I find that using active substrates is better even for neocaridinas as they seem to do best at about PH6.8 to PH7.0 and it keeps the parameters more stable.
Hi! After watching your video I wanted to try out Salty Shrimp product.But the problem is after getting it I don't knw when the expiry date is😂 Do you have any idea how to see the expiry date or rather how to determine if the product is spoiled/expire.I don't wanna kill my shrimps😭 Thanks !!!
for CRS and tiger shrimp it should be fine since they are the Caridina species. Bee Shrimp GH+ is recommended for Caridina shrimp so I think you have the right product since it will help keep your water at a low ph and it has good trace elements in it.
i have a quick question. I kept my in fluval stratum with water and bee shrimp mineral. Lately i removed the fluval stratum because it got old and i exchanged it with regular substrate that doesnt buffer. I did this because i got tired of changing the vacuuming and cleaning it was a mess. With fluval my was at 6.2. Obv my is going to be much lower sinze water water and bee shrimp mineral doesnt have any . Here comes my question, To keep my stable around 6.2 without buffering substrate, can i use salty shrimp and bee shrimp together to add about .5 to keep my stable? What do you guys think? Ive dont the math and 25ppm of + and 100ppm of + would give me .5 , 6, and 125. If i dont use the , my drops to under 5 and i prone to swing since there is no buffering substrate, do you guys think buffering substrate is all that necessary for to live and thrive?
hi bro,i now change my caridina tank to ro water...because use tap water my gh too high untill my gh test kit cant read it and i do water change with my ro water unit..and now my gh is 7..after two day my tank will evaporated and can i topp off back using pure ro water..?
architorture04 thats ok but its got potashe wich is mainly for plants. seachem makes another product called replenish which is the same as equalibrium but just meant for fish
hey there im noob in the shrimp world and im not shire if i can i remineralize water that has not been reverse osmosis to ajuste kh and gh or that not good and there other methods ?
My tap water is really really soft so I have to add the salty shrimp GH/KH+ as I have no choice in that as I lost 4 shrimp from the white ring of death from calcium deficiency so I don't think I need even softer water TBH, but I guess everyone's situation on their water is different depending where they are.
Great video. Doesn't adding gh+ till I reach 140 TDS get my GH up to 7-8? I did one scoop in 5 gallons and it got my GH to 6 with 109 TDS. Any more, I feel like my GH will go higher as well. Thoughts?
You are correct! I usually bring my tds to about 60 which gives me a GH4 and then use other minerals to increase TDS to about 130 without affecting GH.
That's great. Can you recommend me what type of minerals you use to increase it to 130? I read there was Mosura TDS UP. Just curious if there was anything else out there
One thing that's always confused me is that say you've got your water at the perfect tds, gh, and kh, does adding macro and micro nutrients needed for high tech plant growth which raises the tds affect the shrimp?? (Neocaridina)
Sir, You're good at what you do, and thank you. Thank you for years of knowledge and watching these videos then and seeing where you are now congratulate u Fkinglations. -Happy Customer.
Drinking water has one purpose and that's to hydrate the body. The body only get 1percent of minerals from water so it's great for drinking cause you dont get the extra heavy metals that aren't good for you but it's in your tap water.
I don't understand when you say a KH of zero and you're trying to use it as a buffer, if there's nothing there how does it stabilize your GH? I'm sure I'm missing something, misunderstanding something. Really appreciate your videos on keeping shrimp, just started the hobby. I'm sure you have heard of this place, it's bulk reef supply, a very good place for R/O system,is reasonably priced.
Omg I have this product but I was scared to use it because I only have a 4 gallon tank. I just bought some mineral rocks because I thought it would be safer to use. I know I lost shrimp to molting issues. I bought a calcium tester also because I was so scared.
Hmm. my RO water is at 48 TDS, my normal water is at 530 TDS. But i never get my RO Water lower then 48 :-( GH is 0.5, kH is 0. To reach a GH of 6.5 and a KH of 2,5 i put saltyshrimp GH/KH+ into my RO water until i got 310-320 TDS. Think i have to check, why my RO water dont go lower then 48. When I start the RO water, its at 1400 TDS, it must run like 2 mins until its "low" on 48-50.
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Can you drink that shrimp stuff? Im watching video cause i want to drink ro water. Want to reminieralize. No one seems to know but this video is pure science
Flip Aquatics hi question for you, I’m kind o new to shrimp and have to tanks, prl with panda loaches, and a red galaxy, the problem that I have almost every time I do water chance or top off, I will get a bacteria bloom , both tanks had been running for about 9 months , what are good parameters for this tanks, thank you very much for your videos
But yet all this years and you don’t sale cardinal shrimp?? 😔
Thank you for all of your educational videos. I am new to shrimp keeping and your videos are my go to.
As a beginner, this was really helpful! Thanks for the video
Just moved over to RO water myself after several shrimp deaths. Everything seems okay now. Thanks for the great videos, you may make me a decent shrimp keeper yet ☺️
How did you do the switch from tap water did you do it as water changes or a bit each day
Long time ago I had a few cherry shrimp, it was the first time I had shrimp at all. I used our faucet water + water conditioner, I did a water change and the next day they suddenly all died... I got new ones and again they were dead within a week this kept onuntill I got an RO unit...
PH of the bad water was sky high 8 something, no copper out of the norm or anything unusual, except that PH. My best guess is too much lead~
Anyway, since I got the RO they are doing gr8. :D
I also got a surprise 2 weeks ago. A really dark red (imagine dark red vine) shrimp popped up out of nowhere with white eyes, no pattern as I was expecting it to be a cross with a tiger or something but nope. I love it! A few days ago it was berried, eggs were dark gray-green.
I was looking for an ID of this shrimp but found none~
Hi, I know it has been long. But I had some similar experience as you. My water now have high Ph and I'm thinking about getting RO water to lower the Ph too.
My question is how do you replace the tank water, do you just top up it with RO water until all stabilized or you do a big changes?
Hope your shrimp are doing okay!
Cheers!
@@MuchachoLocoPro yeah just keep replacing the tank water with RO water, probably 10-20% a week
Thanks for the video. I appreciated it and, personally, I like your style. (And from one guy to the next -loved the beard; just grew a handle bar stach for the first time here.). This was very helpful to me. I am just a few weeks away from getting my first shrimp.
If I use the KH/GH remineralizer for cherry shrimp, could that same water be used in taking care of a betta, or do fish have different GH/KH requirements?
What were your findings here over the years? :)
Thank you so much for your vids! They are a huge help for a beginner. Much appreciated!!
LupDiesel, I want to get inmerse in the hobby just like you but, I don't know how to buy a good RO Filter and what maintanace the filter needs. So could you do a video explaining that? It would ve really helpful and I would appreciate it a lot. Btw keep up the good work and keep the videos coming. You are the only reason why everytime I get home I open the youtube website. I enjoy each and everyone of your videos.
Hi Betta Lover,This goes into two different categories depending on how you want to manage costs and time. I utilized a zero water system, which is a trickle RO/DI system which also costs about $60. Filters were suggested to be replaced when the TDS was measuring above 6. This also took a lot of time to get a single gallon out of the system, but if you are operating off of a small tank, might be worth the shot.I recently purchased a water save 6 stage RO/DI system (SKU 200412) from BulkReefSupply.com (BRS) to replace my legacy method saving time and money. The water waste from the system also goes strait to a rain canister for my garden to prevent actual waste water.BRS also has videos explaining how the RO/DI systems work and what their importance is, at least to a Reef's perspective.This said, I have no awesome looking shrimp except about 10 ghosts that are utilized for breeding efforts.www.zerowater.com/ www.bulkreefsupply.com/bulk-reverse-osmosis-filters-systems/reverse-osmosis-systems.html
My water tds is 372 and done several water chages 30% 1 a week without shocking them. I thinks its back up of minerals due to water evaporation. Do I still need to mineralize the salty shrimp GH-KH power for neocardinia shrimp? I've only been adding R/O water of 7-10 tds. It's still high what should I do?
Love this video thanks for the info. Keep up the good work loving your channel.
So, evaporation you can top off with plain ro di water? Do you ever add trace elements for planted?
when u top of the tank due to evaporation and the tds goes down how much remineralizer do you put in without over doing it? Do you cut the measuring in half and I’m little confused on that. Let’s say when I top it off it’s measured at 200 wouldn’t a normal scoop of the remineralizer make the tds skyrocket. Especially for shrimp that need to be around 400 tds? and with all the other chemicals like plant fertilizer and ammonia neturalizer etc. that adds to the tds.
You can use Himalayan pink salt to remineralize. About a tsp per gallon.
Use caution with live plants and salt
I’m so glad for this video it answered so many questions!
ihave a ph of 6-6.4, so would i use the gh/kh +? i dont know the gh and kh of my tap rn because i dont have the kit and im planning on having neo caridina as my first shrimp in the aquarium hobby, and with the gh/kh+ be good enough for neocaridina? like will it make the RO water the good amount of each?
When I'm just topping off my tanks with RO water due to evaporation do I need to re-mineralize that water? I re-mineralize per gallon so it seems like a waster if I'm only adding a little amount. Make sense?
What if the tank water vaporised 5% because of the cooling fan. Topping up water with remineralize or jus empty RODI water? In my tank Caridina jus died one after another. I have a Arizona Cactus wood, Australia Alder Cones, a medium size catapa leafs in d tank. Which I find it they will produce algea n food consistency for them n some hide out too. There r moss plants and frogbits. But I'm not sure why is it Caridina still dies one after another. Is it becoz d temperature was not consistent becoz of cooling fan switching off midnight? Or topping up with just RODI without remineralize would cause Caridina death?
I find that Cactus wood also spikes up quite alot after I put into d tank. It was cleanse with my days cycled of clean water.
Without putting in that wood. Reading I had it jus fine at 139 with d TDS reading. Right after d wood enters it... Becomes 190.
How do you know when you have too much salt/minerals in a 30L RO nano planted CRS tank? I have Shrimp King Bee Salt GH+ but don’t know how much to dose and don’t want to increase my TDS too much by doing so. I also dose a bit of Benibachi Super Bacteria Bee Max weekly
Hi I used as instructed. My Rodi water TDS is 0. When I added saltyshrimp gh/kh+ my PH raise to 8.0. How do I lower the ph?
I have buffered substrate. If I make RO water and add GH back but leave KH at zero, that will make my substrate last longer, because it leaches less out to "buffer" the tank water. I am curious what happens to the KH value after that water is added to the tank. Will ADA aquasoil raise the KH value naturally, so I don't risk PH swings?
Simply Betta did you come to any conclusions.
@Simply Betta. I've been running both Fluval Stratum and ADA soil now. I find that if your substrate has to buffer the water less, like if you are using RO, your substrate will stay in tact longer. I run RO in my Stratum tank while dosing ferts into the water column which mean the plants and tank have to rely less on the substrate to get the water where it needs to be. I just entered my 3rd year with it and it is till intact, like its NOT turning into mud. I think if you ran really hard TAP water the substrate would have to do a lot of work and that is when it breaks down quicker. And I don't think substrate will increase KH, they generally pull things down. Like GH starts at 12 and will lower to 6, same with KH... so it goes down versus up. Always bring you KH up if you plan to run Co2, and the PH swings will be crazy and stress fish/shrimp out. KH is like a rubber band that keep your PH from swinging. The more KH, the tougher the rubber band and the lower your PH will swing.
That GH+ has KH in it, I could not figure why my KH was staying @3 on the API kit when I remineralized the R/O water that being said that stuff is garbage
Just wondering is there anything "DIY" you can use to remineralize your water? Like crushed coral or maybe wonder shells?
I'm hearing wonder shells work better than crushed coral if you have RO water or no minerals and electrolytes
in the water. Something to do with surface area not being enough to release the proper elements in the coral if those other things are not present. Crushed aragonite is also another option.
I'm having this issue right now in my tank with RO water and the crushed Coral is making no difference
Cuttlefish bone.. crush/scrath it until it become powder then sprinkle it onto water gradually day by day .. stop when u see molted shrimp skin .. then just put it in for every waterchange.. it can go wrong . But base on my experience , it works greatly
Can I get a 5g water reservoir and put remineralizer and get that to my desired TDS and just waterchange with that..Nothing should change even if its sitting right?
Since TDS almost always goes up in tanks and some evaporation occurs I dont understand how you match the TDS of freshwater to the exact number in your tank for shrimp. Wouldn't that just slowly raise the TDS ? I do 5-10 percent water changes a few times a week with RO water and add equilibrium to about half or 3rd of the tank PPM to lower TDS by about 10 ppm. I do have lots of stones that do increase gh and kh gradually.
Hi did you find out cause when I get my shrimp from my local the water is 90 TDS so I also can’t work out when to add minerals?
@@sko1beer what type of shrimp do you have ? For most of them I add salty Shrimp to get a TDS of between 130-140 and that maintains a GH of 6 in my shrimp tanks. I do about 15 percent of water change per week. It has worked well for me with some babies and no major deaths.
@@Skylabz604 yes I keep my tank around 130 TDS but I went to a fancy shrimp shop the other day and it was selling Taiwan sss red bees and the water in the bag was 90 TDS guy in the shop even said keep them at under 25 degrees well it’s in my tank now at 130tds at around 27 degrees
@@Skylabz604 the part I don’t get is I only do water changes if the TDS goes up to around 170+TDS so do I do a 10% water change with pure ro to get it down to 130 TDS and then do a 10% water change with salty shrimp water at 130tds?
@@sko1beer yes you can do small water changes and slowly add RO water to lower TDS alone. You should do that throughout the week before water changes. What I do is Iower the water in my tanks about 10-15 percent and then add RO throughout the day to lower the TDS.
Thank you so much, I just watched this video and it made me understand so much more, I'm about to do a 7.1 gallon nano tank for my neocaridinas
Just to be clear...in my understanding, RO water is somewhere round 3 TDS and using the DI filter at the end of the unit will bring that down to 0.
Does this product for remineralizing ro water work well for plants and fish? Also right now I just have cherry shrimp which product would you recommend for them I don't know all the technical terms of which group they would fall into
I am planning to use RO water in a planted tank. I plan for the tank to be heavily planted. I would like to have neon tetras as well as Orange rili shrimp. Which salty bees product (Gh+ or Gh/Kh+ ) should i use to remineralize my RO water and will it be meet the plants’ needs as well?
IM totally following you!! love the store too I can't wait for you to have Pea Puffer in Stock again!!!
Is salty
Aquarium mineral Gh/Kh +
Shrimp mineral Gh/Kh +
Same?
Everything is written same on the box
I converted a 45 gal rainbow fish tank into a RCS only tank. The TDS is128. What do you suggest I do to increase the TDS in the display tank without shocking the shrimp? Raise the top-off water to 200ppm until the display tank reaches that level?
Could I use salty shrimp on tap water just get that 200 tds for red and black crystal shrimp.
how about diamond water?
Hey Rob. How would you recommend storing RO water if you dont have a system. Should you just get fresh water each time from your LFS or can it be stored?
Had an answer?
Anyone know what causes TDS to rise after adding to tank?
My tap water is constantly 150ppm but as days go by in my tank it begins to rise. As much as 20 ppm per day. Any help?
Reverse osmosis water drops down to 6.0 ph with Bee shrimp gh without using buffering substrate. Isnt that too low for crystal red shrimp? Should i use Salty shrimp gh kh? Another questions is, why is my ph under 6 with this product? Shouldnt it be 6.4?
I purchased a Python Siphon system and, unfortunately, couldn't use the universal adapter on my bath or faucets. Suggestions on good RODI unit for the normal hobbyist? I have 5 10s that I am planning on adding Neocaridina into.
I’m looking at getting guppy’s ,,, using the fish version that salty shrimp makes ... can I add as much to boost the gh up too 8/12 ,,, is there a limit to use
Eeeeek I just did that!! I was trying to match the LFS parameters. But I have not received my TDS meter yet, so I couldn’t test that. I’m going to have to mix in tank. Is there any chance that if I add it slowly over a week that my shrimp will make it? I only have 2 crystal blacks so far, but I don’t want to lose them. I keep freshwater and saltwater tanks. One of my freshwater tanks is a Neo tank. This is my first real try at CRS 😔
How long after you remineralize do you add the water to the tanks? Do you age it like you would tap?
You can add it right away
Very useful info, thank you!
Hi mate great channel.i have some red cherrys in a 120litre in tap water and my gh is 4 kh is 5 I recently ordered salty shrimp gh&kh mix but now think I should of bought just the gh. Is this correct or should I buy some gh only salty shrimp. In the mean time if I just bought some discus gh powder would that be okay until my shipment arrived. Thanks in advance and looking forward to your next vid 👍🏼
@Flip Aquatics - LupDiesel
So for Crystal blacks and crystal reds, the gh+kh+ at 200tds will be good?
Thanks so much for the info in this video!
Hi - I have a new 7.5G shrimp tank I'm working on cycling. I used distilled water along with SaltyShrimp GH/KH since I plan on keeping RCS. Added 2 scoops and the TDS went to about 200. My substrate is just tiny black gravel type stuff I got at Petsmart for like $4 or $5/bag. It's almost like sand but still gravelish.
My question, my pH is kind of high, around 8 or so. As I understand it, the KH part of the SaltyShrimp that I used raised that. I'm awaiting a GH/KH test kit, but currently I'm not sure how to lower the pH. Going to add some cholla wood, but am I always going to spike my pH using this SaltyShrimp stuff?
Troy Etherton if your TDS is measuring 200 I would say that’s perfect! RCS can live in pH of 6.5-8.0
Troy Etherton what I do is get a water bottle & mix the buffer there, I then add it to a 5 gallon reservoir to get a TDS level of about 150. This is for Caridina shrimp, so it’d way lower than your RCS. & whenever I do water changes I usually do a water bottle once a week & refill from the little reservoir that I have already mixed with the parameters I want. Remember, don’t make big water changes! Small weekly water changes, & watch your RCS thrive!
@@leorents505 thank you! I've read they prefer a more acidic water 6.5-7.2 vs. alkaline higher levels. I'm just not sure how to achieve that AND also keep my TDS high using the GH/KH additive.
I'm working on cycling the tank. I have a couple of plants in there along with the pond snails that hitchhiked in as well. The nitrates got a bit high so I did a couple gallon water change. Took the pH after that and it was better, like about 7.2. Ofc, TDS dropped because i changed it using distilled water. So I added a scoop of GH/KH and TDS went back up to high 100s, but pH shot back up toward 8 again. I don't understand how I'm supposed to keep the pH steady but also maintain a high enough TDS.
If there were shrimp in the tank I wouldn't have changed so much water at once. That fact alone should aid in keeping the pH less volatile, but it's still swinging more than I care for.
Thank you for the video I am just starting a cherry shrimp tank. Could you answer a question for me please? My RO unit comes out at 0 tds. Using salty shrimp gh kh what TDS do I need before adding it aquarium? I will be mixing it 1 gallon at a time and I use just the RO water and gh kh minerals
Hi, I'm new on having shrimp tank. I have neo caridina, ghost shrimp, amano and caridina in 10 gallon tank. I setup my tank using tap water I use aquarium salt, aqua safe plus and easy safe plus to dechlorinate the water. I wasn't aware that I'm suppose to use shrimp salt for my shrimp tank. Last week everyday I have 1 dead shrimp so that's when I research how to do water change then I come up with one of your video. Can you help how to transition from tap to to water my shrimp tank.
I have a tank of neocaridina red shrimp, i Use ro wate, to get a tds of 200 i mix this re-mineralizer.
Everytime i mix this with my water, the water gets white cloudy with calcium like particles floating around. And it remains for quite a long time. For atleast 3-4 days.
I normally age my ro water for 24 hrs with this mineral and anti stress
Thank you. So Helpful. Please, Could I use this for goldfish? I am moving. New house kH is 4. PH6.8. Where we live kh is 300. True. PH here is 8.2. Can I use this product to raise my kh and keep my goldfish safe. Maybe I have to re-home them? Please let me know your opinion. I don't want to kill them. One is 8yrs. old. I love these guys. Thank you-
Is there a single product like this using a TDS meter to dose for fish aquariums (planted)? Seems so much easier than testing GH and KH over and over again at water change time.
I bought orange pumpkin shrimp from you and I am new, I have a 5 gallon cycled tank and I'm using reg. Conditioned Tap water but my PH was 8.2! I'm going to buy the TDS pen and Salty shrimp, which salty shrimp product do you recommend...salty shrimp gh or salty shrimp gh kh? since my PH is so high from the tap? When I get the Salty shrimp powder, how do I convert this new made water ( going to use distilled) from the water that is already in my tank without shocking my shrimp?
Hi, not sure if anybody answered you question but for Orange Pumpkin Shrimp you want to use the GH/KH+.
To remineralize the water but make sure you use either distilled or reverse osmosis water and slowly introduce with your water changes about 20% or so. To further lower your PH you may want to add some almond leaves.
I find that using active substrates is better even for neocaridinas as they seem to do best at about PH6.8 to PH7.0 and it keeps the parameters more stable.
@@cornertankcorner thanks
Eventually want 20 blue dream and 20 golden back ❤️ if I get those from you and have matching parameters now, that will be perfect 😁
Hi!
After watching your video I wanted to try out Salty Shrimp product.But the problem is after getting it I don't knw when the expiry date is😂
Do you have any idea how to see the expiry date or rather how to determine if the product is spoiled/expire.I don't wanna kill my shrimps😭
Thanks !!!
Hello, you can tell me how you have the parameters, the Crystal Red, Black, especially the TDS. Thanks greetings
Hi Lup, is Bee Shrimp minerals/GH+ the best product for re-mineralise ro water for shrimps?I'm keeping CRS,red tiger,tangerine tiger in the same tank.
for CRS and tiger shrimp it should be fine since they are the Caridina species. Bee Shrimp GH+ is recommended for Caridina shrimp so I think you have the right product since it will help keep your water at a low ph and it has good trace elements in it.
What substrate is in your shrimp tanks
I used mosura mineral plus and it only raise my ro water which is 2 tds to only 40-50 tds. Is it alright with crs?
hey buddy do you think i can get away with remineralise with ss gh/kh+ rather than just gh+ for caridina bee shrimps?
Which container would you recommend for orange eyed blue royals?
i have a quick question. I kept my in fluval stratum with water and bee shrimp mineral. Lately i removed the fluval stratum because it got old and i exchanged it with regular substrate that doesnt buffer. I did this because i got tired of changing the vacuuming and cleaning it was a mess. With fluval my was at 6.2. Obv my is going to be much lower sinze water water and bee shrimp mineral doesnt have any . Here comes my question, To keep my stable around 6.2 without buffering substrate, can i use salty shrimp and bee shrimp together to add about .5 to keep my stable? What do you guys think? Ive dont the math and 25ppm of + and 100ppm of + would give me .5 , 6, and 125. If i dont use the , my drops to under 5 and i prone to swing since there is no buffering substrate, do you guys think buffering substrate is all that necessary for to live and thrive?
hello there, was wondering if i could use salty shrimp on my planted aquarium. would it kill my plants?
I have plants and everything I'm seeing is that salt can kill plants, not sure about salty shrimp. You want the minerals but not so much the salt.
hi bro,i now change my caridina tank to ro water...because use tap water my gh too high untill my gh test kit cant read it and i do water change with my ro water unit..and now my gh is 7..after two day my tank will evaporated and can i topp off back using pure ro water..?
Will Salty shrimp bee GH plus work to remineralize water with cherry shrimps too when I use RO water?
+Orro Gryphon yeah it can work. Just use a little crushed coral to help hold the pH up
What do you think about Seachem Equilibrium for restoring GH and minerals?
architorture04 thats ok but its got potashe wich is mainly for plants. seachem makes another product called replenish which is the same as equalibrium but just meant for fish
Hello! I ordered red cherry shrimp from. I was just wounding when they will come.
We ship out Monday so either between Wednesday and Friday. Thanks for the order!
Nice info rob , btw what your tds for most of your caridina tank ? In my place all the breeder keep the tds below 100 ... around 60-80
hey there im noob in the shrimp world and im not shire if i can i remineralize water that has not been reverse osmosis to ajuste kh and gh
or that not good and there other methods ?
What’s the ideal range tds for neocaridina?
im new to ro/di units.. do you heat the water after it comes out before it goes into the tank?
Took me my entire life and the last 7 years of tinkering to finally get that I need RO water.
i replaced ~15% of a 40L planted tank with remineralised RO & killed 90% of my shrimp.
Besure to pre oxygenate RO also.
where do i find RO water?
how much swing in TDS can shrimps (cherry shrimp) absorb ?
My tap water is really really soft so I have to add the salty shrimp GH/KH+ as I have no choice in that as I lost 4 shrimp from the white ring of death from calcium deficiency so I don't think I need even softer water TBH, but I guess everyone's situation on their water is different depending where they are.
Great video. Doesn't adding gh+ till I reach 140 TDS get my GH up to 7-8? I did one scoop in 5 gallons and it got my GH to 6 with 109 TDS. Any more, I feel like my GH will go higher as well. Thoughts?
You are correct! I usually bring my tds to about 60 which gives me a GH4 and then use other minerals to increase TDS to about 130 without affecting GH.
That's great. Can you recommend me what type of minerals you use to increase it to 130? I read there was Mosura TDS UP. Just curious if there was anything else out there
One thing that's always confused me is that say you've got your water at the perfect tds, gh, and kh, does adding macro and micro nutrients needed for high tech plant growth which raises the tds affect the shrimp?? (Neocaridina)
I also I have one last question. I am new to shrimp keeping and is there any tips you suggest?
do you have any tips for keeping tiger shrimp
So you said that the gh and kh for red cherry shrimp in ro water I need 200 TDS? I was told 150
Have you tested the ph's of caridina tanks?
Can it work with guppies???
Is this safe for other fish?
Try making a check list. They work great for things that have multiple steps.
I know this is an old video but can i use this for a planted betta tank i use RO water in
hey, could you please add size parameters to the Malaysian Driftwood? like under the small: "ranges between 2 and 5 inches"
Hi there,i also use ro water in my shrimp tank,can i put mineral stone into my tank..so the shrimp will get the mineral from it
Sir, You're good at what you do, and thank you. Thank you for years of knowledge and watching these videos then and seeing where you are now congratulate u Fkinglations.
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I lost my measuring spoon. Should I use a 1/2 teaspoon?
BIG question: "so if i was to start off with ada amazonia + RO water + salty shrimp + some plants, how long do i cycle the water for?"
For as long as it needs?
Drinking water has one purpose and that's to hydrate the body. The body only get 1percent of minerals from water so it's great for drinking cause you dont get the extra heavy metals that aren't good for you but it's in your tap water.
good advice thanks
I don't understand when you say a KH of zero and you're trying to use it as a buffer, if there's nothing there how does it stabilize your GH? I'm sure I'm missing something, misunderstanding something. Really appreciate your videos on keeping shrimp, just started the hobby. I'm sure you have heard of this place, it's bulk reef supply, a very good place for R/O system,is reasonably priced.
Omg I have this product but I was scared to use it because I only have a 4 gallon tank. I just bought some mineral rocks because I thought it would be safer to use. I know I lost shrimp to molting issues. I bought a calcium tester also because I was so scared.
Hmm. my RO water is at 48 TDS, my normal water is at 530 TDS. But i never get my RO Water lower then 48 :-( GH is 0.5, kH is 0. To reach a GH of 6.5 and a KH of 2,5 i put saltyshrimp GH/KH+ into my RO water until i got 310-320 TDS. Think i have to check, why my RO water dont go lower then 48. When I start the RO water, its at 1400 TDS, it must run like 2 mins until its "low" on 48-50.
It happens to the best of us
Please I need help can I use this to remineralize my water for my discus i’m not sure what to use to remineralize my r o DI water
You can use the GH+ for your discus, no problem at all :)
Thanks. Is it the florin delta GH plus if it is is that the only thing I have to use
How to decrease TDS...my TDS value(tap water) show's 800
RO Water or Distill and mix until your TDS drops like he says?
hypercube33 OK...Thanks for Reply
can i use distilled water and remineralize that? thanks
engdog2 yup
why not use half ro water half tapwater?