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Distilled water Odin. I am waiting to see the effects of the snail and 2 leftover shrimps to decide whether i should change the water.

It looks to be growing biofilm currently. Not sure whether I should disturb it.
I guess I might try adding a few drops of Quick Start to lower the ammonia slightly.




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Yeah that would be a good idea if you can’t change any water. Let us know how you get along.


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So far after few days of monitoring, shrimps n snail still surviving.

Bought spirulina powder n sprinkled some on the water. My water is still cloudy after 2 weeks. Hope it evebtuslly clears up.

Also added in hygrophila, cant find much info on this plant though but the shop staff says it can survive in brackish water.



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Capturing my water results in this forum

Not very ideal yet. Getting there hopefully.



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I was away for a whole week attending course..didnt switch on lights and algae seemed to have grew

What are these growing on my plant? Should I take the plant out?



Algae on substrate



Dirty water. Haha...

Anyway if I were to test the water, I would end up scooping up those top layer stuff which are probably good nutrients for my snail. How do the others do it?


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Well your tank seems to be maturing that’s for sure! I would remove that dying plant ASAP as it will start breaking down, also you should try and get a syringe to extract water from your tank so as not to put the glass vials into your water.. you never know if you have any left over test chemicals in them and you don’t want that leeching into your water.


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Thanks Odin for the advice. I have removed the plant today and it broke into pieces. i guess it died terribly. poor advice from the staff selling me that plant. i guess i will just stick to marimo balls for now.

I have also bought a syringe to collect the water for testing instead of dipping the whole tube...silly me

Finally ready for more shrimps. Total of 14 inside the tank now with 2 snails.

Shrimps resting now ..earlier they were swimming around rapidly





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You have a beautiful tank!

Artemis wrote:You have a beautiful tank!

Thank you.


Are my snails mating???


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