New Tank

[myjohnson]

I have free RCS, use them as testers.

Trace copper only kills punk shrimps.

[Chris.d514]

Would pulling out the substrate and changing it help?

[eklikewhoa]

Should have grabbed some more from Roy & Sasha! They have a infestation of Assassins.

[aquabee]

Anyone on the south side got more assassins?

Put up a separate "wanted: assassins" post, Chris. People have tons of 'em. I have only like 6 of 'em (and only 2 adults) and they're barely controlling my MTS population in the nano, otherwise I'd give you some.

[Chris.d514]

Anyone on the south side got more assassins?

[aquabee]

For the time being just stick to the Assassins being in the tank and hope they keep everything at bay.

Your tanks are far from stable so it would be best not to keep adding stuff to the tank if not needed.

True. I keep forgetting these aren't mature tanks.

But I'd also go ahead and get more than 1 assassin. And pick out those MTS tonight by hand as much as possible.

[aquabee]

totally different form of copper I believe.

Ah. Didn't know that. Thanks!

[eklikewhoa]

For the time being just stick to the Assassins being in the tank and hope they keep everything at bay.

Your tanks are far from stable so it would be best not to keep adding stuff to the tank if not needed.

[eklikewhoa]

Awesome. I would not move shrimp back into that tank for at least a few months after you're done dosing and all the copper has been removed by water changes. Even trace copper can affect invertebrates, like eklikewhoa said before.

That said, I've dosed Seachem Flourish (which has some copper in it) in my nano and my yellow shrimp do fine and continue to breed.

totally different form of copper I believe.

[Chris.d514]

Would that knock out the snails?

[eklikewhoa]

So your name's not Quoc? Oops, my bad. Haha! Wannabe-mod.

calling me a crazy mod...

[aquabee]

Had to dig under the sand to find the assassin. Going to petsmart after dinner and moving our ghost shrimp before we dose.

Awesome. I would not move shrimp back into that tank for at least a few months after you're done dosing and all the copper has been removed by water changes. Even trace copper can affect invertebrates, like eklikewhoa said before.

That said, I've dosed Seachem Flourish (which has some copper in it) in my nano and my yellow shrimp do fine and continue to breed.

[Chris.d514]

So no moving the shrimp back in a few day?

[Chris.d514]

Had to dig under the sand to find the assassin. Going to petsmart after dinner and moving our ghost shrimp before we dose.

[aquabee]

Please refrain from name calling and personal attacks in the form of name calling.

So your name's not Quoc? Oops, my bad. Haha! Wannabe-mod.