New tank advice

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Hi, so my tank has been running for more then 2 weeks. I used Stability for my tank and added gold fish to cycle faster. My nitrate is less then 20. But my Tds is constant on 120 and I need it at least 150 for my shrimps.
Any idea what to do?
How to fix it ?
Is TDs important ?
Is it too early to check TDs or would it change later on because it was 120 on day one.

 

As far as I know and from experiments I have done the only way to get a much lower TDS is to start with RO water that you can buy from most LFS that do marine. But honestly I dont think it makes a huge difference between 120 and 150 for most shrimp species. In fact if thats the TDS from your tap water origionaly then you have great water quality.

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True 120 and 150 is not a big difference but the old tanks the shrimp are at 190-200 tds. So don't want to put them in 120 as 120 to 190 is a jump. So just want to know how to increase it or is TDS really that important ?

 

TDS + Temp kills .. but like CO2 nobody gets it .. ;-)

Since you do not know what constitutes the TDS trying to fix it in the new tank is well hard. What I would suggest is do some water changes on the source tank for a day or two and get that TDS closer to the new tank. Let them chill in the source tank for a day or two before moving them to the new one.

Later Ferdie

 

That sounds like a good idea, Thanks.