Invert Tank

[TylerFerretLord]

I've caught the shrimp bug.

I'm planning to make a tank for various inverts, a spineless community one could say.

It will be a 29g, one side will be heavily planted, the other open with rocks and twigs, and the substrate will be black sand over a laterite layer. The plants will all be low-light species, mainly mosses, java fern, crypts, etc. The rocks will be used to buffer the water to a higher ph for the snails.

I'll cycle the tank until it can reduce 10pm of ammonia in 12-24 hours. More than enough for inverts.

Stocking:
10x Amano shrimp
1x Bamboo shrimp
10x ghost shrimp
10x Cherry shrimp
10x Shrimp that won't hybridize with the cherry shrimp
1x Non-hermaphroditic, non-plant-eating snail (thinking of an apple or something)
Several Malaysian trumpet snails

Obviously the number will increase in some of the shrimp, and I plan to add a few more of each every few months to prevent severe in-breeding. And since there will be so many algae-eaters I'll feed pellets and wafers daily.

Any comments or suggestions?

 

[funkycat]

Sounds good =), you might want to reconsider the ghost shrimp, i've heard stories of them preying on baby cherry shrimp.
You can also up the number of shrimp, haha, if you only have 10 you're gonna have a hard time finding them, except at feeding times. Get atleast 30 cherries IMO (Not right away of course)

But shrimp have a pretty low bioload compared to fish.

Also good luck with the bamboo shrimp, as filter feeders, they are notoriously hard to feed and keep alive.