Day 3.

Left the tank alone for over 24 hours since I was at work. Came to a lot of dead guppies and a fishy smelling room, as expected. I think Rainer is the only shrimp left. I really hope the guppies in his tank don't stress it out.

I did a search to find out what type of shrimp Rainer is. The LFS usually call them Rainbow shrimps, but I know that's not the proper name. As far as I know, Rainer is a Malayan shrimp. It often changes between black with a yellow stripe, to orange with a yellow stripe (the above colour). I was considering shifting it to the 1-ft tank since it's been pretty hardy, but I found out that Malayan shrimps prefer higher pHs. Unfortunately my 1-ft tank parameters are like this:

It looks as though the pH has gone even lower. Ammonia seems to be higher than last time as well. Nitrites are still 0 and nitrates are still 10. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I measured it after doing a 15% water change and adding Excel. Anyway, I'll just let the tank cycle. The hornwort and anubias seem to be doing quite well, but a bit of the glosso on the right side is turning brown.

 

Here's the tank at Day 3. Still watching the buds on the leftmost hornwort. The anubias on the right seems to be budding too.