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Day 1 after Crisis(recycled the tank I already wrote it in brackish maintenance sector you can check it out.)


Red the opae ula show itself. The water still not so clear(likely due to it is a low cost tank). My Opae ula life now depends on bacteria from lava rock. They feed on algae from there as well as some bacteria.

Anyway do not do something crazy like me. If you do not care about moral please care about budgets, those opae ula are expensive.


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They are still alive. Laundries and stress in water parameters(or might be their low number) make them come only at night. I only see one of them tho, but sure that another one is still alive.


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It can take a while for the dust to settle, especially with no filter. Best thing to do with these shrimp is to not mess around or interfere too much and they do great!

Just notice something, today there is a construction in a room beneath mine (I live in condo), shrimp came out but they are very pale .


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Both of my shrimp molt today. They color turned pale, might be adjust to new environment. Or the construction yesterday.


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molt is good, their are growing.

Update
-Changed the tank again but with the cycled rock after biofilm forming removed rock and add a new better black lava rock
-Add new carefully washed substrate
-Change the location so they can expose to more indirect sunlight
-Adding 4 more shrimps
- No casualties so far all of them are happy
-Some start to coloring up

Surprisingly, Opae ula can with stand cycling process. However, I aware that even they can it is better to cycle the tank first.
Keeping more shrimp reduce they stress, having substrate and place to hide also cause them to coloring up.


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Cycle a new tank for them, for the bowl, I fed shrimp too much which result in 1 casualty. I moved them to smaller containers, which are now they temporary home. Thai new tank will be cycle for 2-3 weeks or until I see some algae. Will add a lava rock from the left container for kick start.


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Kuhli new to opae wrote: ↑24 Jul 2022 06:51 Update
-Changed the tank again but with the cycled rock after biofilm forming removed rock and add a new better black lava rock
-Add new carefully washed substrate
-Change the location so they can expose to more indirect sunlight
-Adding 4 more shrimps
- No casualties so far all of them are happy
-Some start to coloring up

Surprisingly, Opae ula can with stand cycling process. However, I aware that even they can it is better to cycle the tank first.
Keeping more shrimp reduce they stress, having substrate and place to hide also cause them to coloring up.


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they are fine with tank cycling, as i never cycle the tank when start a new one and they are doing just fine.

Kuhli new to opae wrote: ↑08 Aug 2022 07:56
Cycle a new tank for them, for the bowl, I fed shrimp too much which result in 1 casualty. I moved them to smaller containers, which are now they temporary home. Thai new tank will be cycle for 2-3 weeks or until I see some algae. Will add a lava rock from the left container for kick start.


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the lamp/light behind slightly above the tank, are these metal or copper grill around it? I afraid later on it will rust due to the salt in brackish water, copper if leech out in large quantity is toxic to invertebrates like shrimp.