20 Gallon Shrimp Only Tank

emmanuelchavez · 01-22-2009, 10:11 PM

Modification to the plan.

I'm getting rid of the shrimp (well most, whatever I can catch), and I'm going to keep this planted. Switching substrates to aquasoil, and then putting my betta in here, and tearing down the 5g. I'll probably get a small school of rasboras.

I'm converting the 29g into saltwater. More details for that later.

unwritten law · 01-22-2009, 10:41 PM

sweet, I'm only trying to get a few to hang out in my 16 gallon so its not wasted...Once summer comes I'm going to hang to break it down so anything in the 16 will go in the 46... I would def try and use the larger tank for saltwater so its a bit more stable and I love the idea of putting the betta in a larger tank, they look so much cooler in more open spaces.

Monoxide · 01-22-2009, 11:03 PM

Emmanuelchavez you always got some nice tanks man.

emmanuelchavez · 01-22-2009, 11:50 PM

Thanks! I try my best to make them as nice as possible.

emmanuelchavez · 03-07-2009, 12:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by emmanuelchavez

I'm thinking of bringing this scape back sometime after the summer, using AquaSoil. First, I have to set my 29g back up in my new bedroom, now that my brother moved out

, and move the shrimp over there. I still have this piece of DW.... and I did like this scape. I think I'll be using glosso instead of HC though, and I'll probably have some stems in the background. I'm slowly starting to phase out some of my more common stems, and some of the weeds. I'm really digging some of these rarer plants.

More to come on this tank later this year.

emmanuelchavez · 05-09-2009, 01:21 PM

I'm tearing this tank down today. I've put several traps for the shrimp. I'm planning on taking the first 100 I catch to the LFS for store credit. I'm going to get some olive nerite snails to spread out between my tanks. They've done an amazing job on some of the algae that showed up in my 29g. I'll probably set it back up sometime after the summer, when I get back home. I'm trying to minimize the number of tanks my dad has to take care of for me.

emmanuelchavez · 09-17-2009, 11:50 AM

I never really got around to tearing this down... There's no filtration/water movement, and I haven't done a water change, nor topped it off in months... but I threw in a bunch of the plants I took out of my 100g tank, and they decided to explode in growth here... allowing the 10 or so remaining cherry shrimp that were still in here to start growing in numbers again... I may just keep it around like so to repopulate my cherry shrimp stocks in my other tanks. Eventually it'll be torn down though.

emmanuelchavez · 10-12-2009, 11:34 AM

I turned this into an emersed grow-out tank for now. I added the 130 watt CP light fixture on this again. I'll have pictures and details later on.

01-22-2009, 10:11 PM	#91
emmanuelchavez Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,367	Modification to the plan. I'm getting rid of the shrimp (well most, whatever I can catch), and I'm going to keep this planted. Switching substrates to aquasoil, and then putting my betta in here, and tearing down the 5g. I'll probably get a small school of rasboras. I'm converting the 29g into saltwater. More details for that later. __________________ 100, 29, 20, 10, 2.5

01-22-2009, 11:50 PM	#94
emmanuelchavez Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,367	Thanks! I try my best to make them as nice as possible. __________________ 100, 29, 20, 10, 2.5

05-09-2009, 01:21 PM	#96
emmanuelchavez Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,367	I'm tearing this tank down today. I've put several traps for the shrimp. I'm planning on taking the first 100 I catch to the LFS for store credit. I'm going to get some olive nerite snails to spread out between my tanks. They've done an amazing job on some of the algae that showed up in my 29g. I'll probably set it back up sometime after the summer, when I get back home. I'm trying to minimize the number of tanks my dad has to take care of for me. __________________ 100, 29, 20, 10, 2.5

09-17-2009, 11:50 AM	#97
emmanuelchavez Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,367	I never really got around to tearing this down... There's no filtration/water movement, and I haven't done a water change, nor topped it off in months... but I threw in a bunch of the plants I took out of my 100g tank, and they decided to explode in growth here... allowing the 10 or so remaining cherry shrimp that were still in here to start growing in numbers again... I may just keep it around like so to repopulate my cherry shrimp stocks in my other tanks. Eventually it'll be torn down though. __________________ 100, 29, 20, 10, 2.5

10-12-2009, 11:34 AM	#98
emmanuelchavez Super Fish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,367	I turned this into an emersed grow-out tank for now. I added the 130 watt CP light fixture on this again. I'll have pictures and details later on. __________________ 100, 29, 20, 10, 2.5

01-22-2009, 10:41 PM	#92
unwritten law Super Fish Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: WVU Posts: 1,351	sweet, I'm only trying to get a few to hang out in my 16 gallon so its not wasted...Once summer comes I'm going to hang to break it down so anything in the 16 will go in the 46... I would def try and use the larger tank for saltwater so its a bit more stable and I love the idea of putting the betta in a larger tank, they look so much cooler in more open spaces.

01-22-2009, 11:03 PM	#93
Monoxide Little Fish Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 198	Emmanuelchavez you always got some nice tanks man.