Red Sea mature

[frasey]

Hi everyone, my 75 litre nano tank is about a month and a half old, I bought dry rock and I’ve run the Red Sea mature kit to the end. I’ve put brine shrimp in to help kick start the cycling process but they keep disappearing, I must have bought 30 so far and I’ve only 4 left! I do a 10% water change every week and Saturday my nitrite was .1 and my ammonia 0.05 so I’m close to finishing, and I’m adding 1.5ml no pox everyday to bring down the nitrates. Anyone any ideas why I’m killing so many shrimp? My wife’s too embarrassed to go in the fish shop to buy more.

thanks

 

[Spare time]

What were you feeding the brine shrimp? Also, with the red sea kit, you shouldn't need brine shrimp. I'd imagine the ammonia killed them.