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hi.
my aquarium has under the last 4 days been at lowest 23.8 and atmost 24.7 celsius warmt.

is that an ok range for amano red cherry and atya gabonesis ?

i also have a minor problem with ph going down and have carefully raised it from 6.4 to 7.2 and will raise it alittle more tomorrow.
aiming for ...

my red cherries swims around alot and breeds even more.
got one around 10mm long and already she's carring eggs.

I haven't figured out why, but I continually run into folks who insist that shrimp flying around the tank (unless it's the mating dance) are doing great. :smt017 Mine just about never ...

or if they are crashing around the tank as if they want to get out, then there's probably a potential problem.

my red cherries swims around alot and breeds even more.
got one around 10mm long and already she's carring eggs.

i got a rather small aquarium at the moment only 37liter so i once a day ...

hi.
recently got me one of these.
http://www.petshrimp.com/africanfiltershrimp.html

he had alot of discolouration which i noticed 2 hours ago and half an hour ago i saw him get undressed ;)
first time i se ashrimp do it in action.

but my question is.

how can i see if the shrimp dislikes being in ...

has there been mail problems here ?
several answers i have been unaware of.

DatDamWuf wrote:I've had a couple of amanos in a 5 gallon tank with consistent nitrate levels of 40 ppm for over a year and they are healthy,

thanks for the numbers now i know more specificly what to NOT aim on.

thanks for the answer Ibn

i have search didnt find anything.
and the 2 links wasnt even remotly close to what my question is about so i still wonder how much nitrate they can take without problems.

hi.
how sensitive are red cherrys to nitrate ?
how sensitive are amanos to nitrate ?

Regards
Raven

There is more to water than just water. Large water changes change the nutirents and micro organisms in the water. Pure water is lethal. A 50-80% water change is just about like starting from scratch
dont agree on that.
last time i had no2 in the water i did 6 waterchanges in one day 50-80% each ...

hi.
a couple of days ago i had one red cherry swimming around.
could it be due to a female wanting a mate ?

Hi Raven, it's usually the males that swim around looking for potential females to mate with (I couldn't quite understand if you were saying the one swimming around was a female).
as i ...

hi.
a couple of days ago i had one red cherry swimming around.
could it be due to a female wanting a mate ?

does the female need a mate before any eggs can be seen ?

im also in the process of changing how my aquarium runs.
the latest thing over here is to change 50% of the water atleast once a ...

not into breeding shrimps they are there to look good and eat algaes.

but only 1 shrimp is hiding at the moment and i had to move the plants or it would have looked terrible.

hi.
have had 3 red cherries for soem time now and all have been great with them.
been active cleaning of hugh amounts of algaes i have had but now 2 of them are hiding since thursday.

i moved a group of plants from the backside to the left side of the aquarium and put in a Microsorum pteropus ...

lowering the waterlever is not much of an option as its small tank.
more evaporation would only be good as i have trouble with dry air.

will se if i can find some net i can put over so no one can jump out.

have had one fish that managed to find the 3mm space between the cover glass and the front ...

hi.
got me 3 red cherry shrimps a week ago and now got a couple of question i hope any of you in here can answer.

1.
can i remove the cover glass without any risk of the shrimps leaving ?

2.
is there any algae the red cherry doesnt eat ?

i got a 32L aquarium and i have noticed they like the roots ...