Monthly Archives: April 2020

I use only aquarium sea salt for my volcano shrimp (opae ula) tank.

I mix them with my home made distilled water.

Do not use common cooking salt such as Himalayan Salt, French Sea Salt or Portuguese Sea Salt.

It will kill the volcano shrimp (opae ula) instantly !

Trust me, it happened to me.

Yes, you can. I have been doing it for years.

You need a steam water distiller. It can produce up to 4 litres of distilled water.

The machine boils the water until it turn into steam and goes into the pipes.

The contaminants in the water are left in the bottom of the tank.

Look how dirty it is !

A fan above cools the pipe and turns the steam into droplets of distilled water,. It is collected in the glass container.

The water distiller cuts off the power automatically in about 7 hours. The hot distilled water will cool down to the room temperature.

The best water for the volcano shrimp is aquarium sea salt mixed with pure distilled water. The reason is because there are chemicals and impurities in our tap water.

Chemicals are added into our drinking water to kill bacteria and pathogen.

The water is pumped come from our water company all the way to our house through various water pipes. These pipes introduce dissolved metal and impurities into the tap water.

Alternatively, you can always collect clean rain water. But before you do that, let it rain for about 15 mins or longer to wash away any surface contamination.

The rain water collected will be much cleaner.

You can keep your volcano shrimp (opae ula) in any plastic or glass container. 

Just do not use any metal container as it will rust and kill the shrimps.

You can DIY and cut an acrylic sheet to be used a a tank lid.  

I prefer heavy, sturdy glass tank as it will not stain and you can scrub the tank easily without scratching it.

Remember to put a lid over the tank to prevent evaporation loss.

Water evaporate will cause a change in water salinity, thus kill the volcano shrimp (opae ula) slowly.

These are glass jar with lid from ikea company.

These jar comes with wooden lid.

These jar comes with aluminum lid.

These jar comes without lid.

These jars are of various sizes but come without lid.

These designer jars come without lid.

You can put a round marble as a lid.