20 Gallon Shrimp Only Tank

[ishar]

I have two amano shrimp and I dose flourish comprehensive every day. My shrimp are fine and I have never seen any ill effects. Just make sure you keep up with the water changes so the levels don't get very high. You shouldn't be dosing much more than what your plants absorb anyways, so ideally it shouldn't be a problem anyways.

[emmanuelchavez]

Just something that came into mind...

After doing a fishless cycle, I wanted to make sure my system is "stable" for at least a month or so, since I'll be spending some extra money getting the yellows.
Would it be OK, if I got some ghost shrimp to act as my canaries, and after a while, when I'm sure my system is more stable, move them to another tank. Or would I be better off just putting the yellows in there from the get-go?

[emmanuelchavez]

Somewhat of an update.... I decided:

1) To get a 40ish gallon or so tank and move the inhabitants of the 10 and currently occupied 5 gallon tanks into this.
2) Use the 10 gallon for dark green shrimp
3) Use one of the 5 gallons for yellow shrimp
4) Use the other 5 gallon for red cherry shrimp
5) Get some snails too and distribute between the tanks - haven't decided, maybe spixi, malaysians (b/c they look cool ), some type of ramshorn??? It'll be a while before I get to snails.... it'll be a while before I get anywhere. lol.

[MOsborne05]

LOL, now you are hooked

I've got some spixi snails in a 10 gallon with my cherry shrimp. I would recommend them if you want snails....ramshorns you can't even give away most of the time!

[emmanuelchavez]

Originally Posted by MOsborne05

LOL, now you are hooked

I've got some spixi snails in a 10 gallon with my cherry shrimp. I would recommend them if you want snails....ramshorns you can't even give away most of the time!

and I don't even have any of the shrimp or snails yet!


Spixi snails are at the top of my list, but I may get a mystery snail, to help clean the algae off of one of my tanks.

[emmanuelchavez]

OMG! I've been reading the "Let's See Your Shrimp Aquariums! Thread on The Planted Tank - Articles, Forums, Pictures, Links and I'm uber excited about getting some shrimp tanks!!!!!!!!!!


What sucks is that I have to pay like $1500 for summer school now, so so much for getting 2 more 40ish tanks (the idea was brewing in my head )

[emmanuelchavez]

bought a piece of driftwood today... it looked cool when i bought it, i'm not too sure it's what i want for my 5 gl though. maybe when i put it in there w/a substrate and plants ill get my grand vision of it back. lol. It's soaking in water right now. It's mopani wood I think. I'm going to add some boiling water tomorrow. I'll take a picture of it sometime soon. I've got so much schoolwork due now that we're in the last week of classes.

I also got some mesh for the moss wall. Since I'm going to have a moss wall, I'm not so sure what to add to the driftwood, suggestions?

my birthday is in like less than 2 weeks, so i may be able to have this sucker together real soon . Next thing I'm buying is the substrate, then the plants.

I've been checking out the Shop & Swamp section of the planted tank, and OMG!!! I'm so getting most of my plants from there.

That's all for about 2 weeks

[emmanuelchavez]

This is the driftwood I got. It's releasing so much tanning.... good thing I've decided to put off putting this together until I get a bigger tank to do some shuffling around... With the help of craigslist and birthday money, real soon, I'll probably be getting another tank pretty soon.

[emmanuelchavez]

OK, so I set up my first 5 gallon shrimp only tank... I've got to start cycling. I need to go get a sponge to put on the filter intake, and a check valve for the DIY co2.

It only has dwarf sag (which i got from plantedtank for free!! ). Well, i put some duckweed as a floating plant too. I'll hopefully be getting some javamoss in the mail too to tie onto the driftwood. I'll take a picture and post tomorrow. I'm extra tired, school kicked my butt this week.


btw, this one will be yellows only. after it's done cycling, i'll be adding one colony, and about a month later, another one to give me a good gene pool.

[Sticky Fish]

you are nutz! i though me buying a 5.5 g for 8 bucks was over the edge. i now realize that the most expensive things are the light and filter. i can't wait to see pics of the hex. you should try pygmy chain swords in the tank also. they are a low light plant and i thing the hex has sufficient wpg for that tank.