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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #1130

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #1130
From: "Roger S. Miller" <rgrmill at rt66_com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:06:02 +0000 ( )
cc: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
In-Reply-To: <199712112048.PAA20396 at acme_actwin.com>


> 
> I have also gotten these same shrimp at 8 for $1 and while they do eat my
> algae very well, they always die after a few weeks in my tanks, no matter
> which tank they are in.  No one picks on them and they really clean up on
> the algae.  I was wondering if very low KH and GH might be causing
> problems with their exoskeleton formation?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

I've kept ghost shrimp, bumble bee shrimp and grass shrimp, and had pretty
similar experiences with all of them.  Sometimes they'd live long enough
to molt once or twice.  I started dosing their tank with iodide, using the
SeaChem product for marine tanks.  Since then I've only kept grass shrimp,
but they've lived almost a year now. 

Roger Miller

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