true, but not as bad as craigslist.
some guy told me to deliver it to coquitlam for a lowballed price. fucking goof.
and then tells me how he got a 90 gal for cheaper and shit

I'm general, shrimp are easy. Cherry Shrimp or any of its variants are easy to keep. Crystal Shrimp or any of its variants are extremely sensitive. I've tried unsuccessfully to keep them and ended up with $100's of dollars of dead shrimp. I wasn't as dedicated to constantly monitor the water parameters as I should have been. Crystal shrimp are pretty picky but once you figure out the parameters and have a proper regime they're easy to keep.

I just wasn't dedicated enough to do it. If you want low maintenance shrimp try cherry shrimp, painted fire red, yellow shrimp or blueberry shrimp. The names get changed very frequently but those are the hardy ones.

OR if you just want shrimp but don't care about colors, get amano shrimp. They're super hardy and will eat black beard algae. They won't reproduce in your tank though as they need brackish water when they are larvae.

Which LFS did you go to? Most of them don't know WTF they're talking about when it comes to shrimp.

oh and to answer your question, the water needs to have a TDS of 150-200. So soft acidic water. ZERO ammonia, ZERO nitrites. Not too strong flow, not too much food and most people use ADA soil as substrate. ADA itself takes forever to cycle (> 1 month) as it has ammonia in it.

Lot's of things you need to worry about but once you figure it out you should be fine. Try with some low grade CRS if you plan on doing it right away... Read some of the threads on BCA and you can see the troubles people have with CRS.

Fixed!

new update on my SW reef !

65 gallon of ocean

i have a 10 gal, with large rocks from a river, some long pieces of red cedar and some plants from the pet store.

-3 mountain minos
-1 bull pleco
-2 snails and counting, lol.

i'm cool with the two snails, i never baught them, they just were there one day, lol.

but i don't want a lot of them, and i've seen eggs on the glass... i've heard you can buy fish to eat the snails, but i'd like to keep the two, now at a little over 1cm in size.

you most likely got it from the Rocks that you didnt clean thorough or the plant from the petstores.

are they like this? http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...Rk-efH6dWUE0kw
if it is, those guys reproduce fairy fast.
and only way to get rid of them is buying some assassin snails

fu&& assassin snails just sound bad ass! might get some. but no they look like ramshorn snails, the shells spiral flat not in a point.

oh, those ones are acceptable in the planted world. but if you still want to get rid of them then just get those assassin snails

clown loaches work good

its so cool to have ramshorn .. they all come up from being burrowed to eat

those other brown snails on the other hand.......

not in a 10g tank... clown loaches can get up to 12"+, thats bigger than the 10g tank haha

just give them to me if they're too big ;)

where to buy driftwood locally?

go to king eds or island pets

but you could make your own.
google it up

Couple of vids a friend has up

crunches pretty good here

Cheapest place I found for drift wood was Petcetera.

Make sure you soak it for a couple days, otherwise it might discolour the water.

New pics of old tank lol
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/sketch143/02.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...ch143/07-2.jpg

^ fucking SICK, whered you get that gundam decoration?!

Was looking online about GVR water and found out we have really soft water.

Water supply issue in the lower mainland

Do you guys do any of this? I havent and things seem to be ok. Sure I lose a fish here and there but who doesnt.

well.. it really depends on what type of fish your keeping.

like my Mobas, I have to buffer the water everytime I do Waterchanges.

but if your going discus or SA cichlids. then your on the good side.

Actually bought the model kit, built it, destroyed it and anchored it in the gravel. lol

I use house hold baking soda to increase ph. Try to keep it around 6.5-7 for the discuss'.

But remember baking soda dont increase the Hardness of the water though.
It will by a bit, but no way it will get you to the needs of Tang cichlids.

i use crush coral to keep my ph over 7.
i used to do smaller water changes more frequently but now im lazy and do big ones

I have a Tropical community tank with Guppies, Platys, Tetras and Cory Catfish.

I started using Seachem Equalibrum for GH and Alkaline Buffer for KH.