you need to bring your tank up to around 20 ppm ammonia. there are online calculators such as hamzasreef.com
good thing we bought those pipettes and those drop kits right. read the directions on the test kit a 5yo can do the ammonia one. once you bring your tank to 20 ppm let it sit for about a week. after a week test water. most likely you won’t see a change but after that first week you will be testing the water everyday until the cycle is complete. at about the two week mark your ammonia level will be dropping and so will your water level. fill it up, treat it with prime, and bring the ammonia ppm back to 20. now you will start to notice that ammonia will start dropping off really quickly. go ahead and test for nitrites. follow the directions and you should see them showing up on that test. this is good. if you made it this far pat yourself on the back. now at this point your plants might be hating life and you could do this either now or at the beginning but go ahead and buy some liquid fertilizer to make those plants happy. and keep filling that water to 20ppm ammonia. in about another week or 2 your ammonia should be dropping to 0. one of two things are going to happen with this. either your nitrites are through the roof or those are zero as well. if they are zero go ahead and test for nitrates. they should show up. most likely you have the former though and that vile is dark dark blue. go ahead and do an 80% water change and fill it back up with water, treat with prime, and bring ammonia back to 20 ppm. the next day do your ammonia and nitrite test. eventually, your ammonia should read 0, your nitrites will read 0, and your nitrates will be most likely blood red. congratulations, you have cycled your tank. you have the necessary bacteria to support life in that environment. pat yourself on the back
onto stocking
Shrimp farming as passive income
sorry idk why i replied to you on that last one
desu i don’t have a tank right now because i moved recently and it was easier to donate the fish to a local fish store then it was to transport everything
whenever i get another one up and running i’ll post pictures
alright so you have cycled your tank time to throw everything in there right
wrong
if you haven’t noticed by now aquatics is a test of patience
what you could do is get some cardinal tetras, maybe 6 or so and leave it at that
you don’t want to crash your tank which new tanks are prone to do
don’t get neons they love to die, cardinals are way hardier and look almost identical
now before you go adding fish make sure you do almost a 90% water change and add prime to the tank maybe 12-24 hours before stocking. you have the cycle going but your nitrates are most likely through the roof and there is only 2 ways of getting rid of that. water change or a lot of surface plants. though there really is no substitutions for your weekly water change
you did buy a python water changer by now didnt you user
why am i saying tetras instead of shrimp?
because you are a beginner and let’s be real beginners fuck up
start by keeping them alive. maybe get some ammano shrimp (they aren’t the ones you want to breed sorry user) too to clean up any algae
you also want to get the tank established before moving onto the prize. with the fish added we aren’t adding ammonia anymore because the livestock are our auto ammonia factories now
keep them alive for a few months and remember to test your water every week if not twice a week for ammonia nitrites and nitrates. if your nitrates get too above 20 -40 time for a water change
newfag
so we are at month 4 now in this endeavor
you are having fun watching your tetras swim and your ammano shrimp do ammano shrimp things
you sit there staring because it’s true zen that you have this little eco system that you created and everything seems to be going well
gratz user i’m proud of you
your tank isn’t fully established yet but you can most likely move onto your main desire, shrimp business
before you go on aquabid and spend $100 on 10 blue dream shrimp that you have been eyeballing let’s instead go to your local fish store and buy some run of the mill cherry shrimp (neocaradina). depending on what you have around you you might have choices between blue, red, yellow, orange......or they might just have red. don’t be afraid to ask if they can order other colors. if not then you gotta piss with the cock you got and get those red ones. get 10 or more if you can. due to over breeding they sometimes aren’t the most hardiest things in the world. you might have casualties. now introduce them to your tank and add that bacter ae. good shit. gratz user in like 6-9 months you’ll have shrimplets. they won’t sell for anything but now you have experience. now you can go on aquabid and try your luck on the asian market for some really dope shrimp to breed. good luck
i started the whole meme
get fucked
so it's you who is responsible for my financial ruin...
i just wanted advice on how lucrative shrimp farming was
Zig Forums‘s autism brought it to a whole other level
Awesome thread. Thank you shrimp bro.
Good thread. Thanks.
I will quit my job and do this I think.