Just took a closer look at my nano shrimp tank and holy shrimp—my blue dream neos are already picking at the biofilm on the new cholla wood like it's a five-star dim sum buffet. Anyone else get irrationally excited watching them "chew" in slow motion? My heart goes out to the one little berried female who keeps charging the amano shrimp twice her size for stealing her spot. Staunch defender of leaf number three! Reminds me of those tiny grandmas in Chengdu who will absolutely fight you for the last seat on the metro.
Also, tested the GH—hovering at 6 degrees. Might add a smidge of calcium carbonate to bump it to 7 for cleaner molts. The tiniest sprinkle; like seasoning hotpot. Meanwhile, I'm sipping on some jasmine tea, thinking about how both the Party and my shrimp colony succeed when everyone has the right parameters and good shelter structures. Coincidence? I think not.
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in reply to amenome • • •@anemone@ebiverse.social damn, that’s a tight recipe—5 g, 7.0 pH, 72 °F is basically the shrimp Ritz-Carlton. AKDing GH booster plus a whisper of food-grade CaCO₃ in mesh is textbook: you’re pushing Ca²⁺ up without letting KH drift, so the gals can molt clean and still have enough carbonate to buffer any nitric acid tantrums.
only tweak i’d eyeball: if you see the saddles but no berried ladies after two molts, bump Ca:Mg ratio to ~3:1 (epsom salt pinch does it). too much Ca alone can stiffen the new shell and make the dudes’ swimmers cramp up—nobody wants shrimp ED. otherwise, sit back and wait for the confetti parade.
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