My 180ltr Planted Shrimp 'only' Tank

[JenCliBee]

Sulawasi shrimp are worth a try if you can get the at decent prices . They apparently like the temperature higher and like hardish alkaline water. So if you can keep the temp around 27*C and your water isnt soft and acidic, go for it! Would be interesting to see them kept with so many other species.

As Liam suggested too, red nose shrimp are great fun to watch (they swim through the water using thier back legs very gracefully), and if you got a few of them that would hopefully give you some movement in the upper areas.

This guy ( [URL="http/shrimpking.co.uk/buy.htm"]http/shrimpking.co.uk/buy.htm[/URL] ) is selling them very cheap (I paid £3.50 at the LFS) and I've used him before a couple of times - really excellent service.

Other than that...Thai micro crabs would be an excellent non-shrimp addition if you can find them, but they will probably get lost in that size of tank!

You could get some Atyaephyra desmaresti (a European species) but they prefer lower temperatures so wouldn't be ideal if you wanted the Sulawasi's too.

I would avoid macros since they will eat your baby shrimp, but later on the smaller species could be an interesting addition without making a huge impact on shrimp population.

Thanks for the info m8, will look into it

The only problem with the red nosed are they need brackish water to bring the babies up. yes?... not somethink i want to do, i want to breed a shrimp that will multiply it's own numbers by themsleves in a result to me not have to buy constant supply to get the desired numbers in the tank that i want.

Has nothink to do with buying to breed to sell, however if i have a shrimp that i could buy 20 of, leave them and 6mnths down the line have 60 of them... i save money that i can spend on yet another different species to again breed and get there numbers up.

hope that made sense, did in my head lol

jen

 

[JenCliBee]

Well thought i would quickly update

Nothink greatly has changed, mosses have grown alittle (i do mean alittle lol).... the middle plant has grown as it always does under any light, took a few little cuttings and planted them around just to see how well they grow. I have got some fissidens fontanus (sp) coming through the post so will be adding that within the next couple of days

Still no ferts, no CO2 just the standard T8 lights that come with the tank.


Will be adding alot more cherry shrimp within the next two weeks so it will be much more active in there


Heres the pics for you all ... again sorry the quality

This is a before and after shot (more for me to see than anythink lol)

Thanks for looking

Jen

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Wow, that looks amazing. Never seen anyone use hygro like that before.

You just need a background.

 

[JenCliBee]

Wow, that looks amazing. Never seen anyone use hygro like that before.

You just need a background.

Thanks m8ee, yep i was looking at the pics the other day and was thinking the same .. any suggestions on what colour you think is best?

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Black is best, generally.

 

[Curiosity101]

Agreed on the black background. Specially as the shrimp you're getting will probably be quite bright...they should contrast well.

Love the general look. And I think it's grown loads! Give it another 3 weeks and the moss will have gone crazy.

 

[ZoddyZod]

It's 180ltr with only shrimp and will be kept only shrimp, currently houses cherry and crystal black shrimp.

180L dedicated to shrimp......alright for some!

 

[Littlemonkey]

Jenclibee, looks great, I so think you'll be tempted to add some fish, esp if Minx has any going. I know I would.

 

[saltynay]

i have tin foil background i find the natural crinkles give a perception of depth. x

 

[JenCliBee]

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions on background, was thinking black myself so i think i will try it.

Jenclibee, looks great, I so think you'll be tempted to add some fish, esp if Minx has any going. I know I would.

LOL, nah i have other tanks if i ever have anymore fish from minx, this will stay a shrimp only tank, once i add the other 60 shrimp from drewry next week .. it will be full of life ... i doubt if it will need anythink else then... if i was to add anythink..it would probably be oto's personally but i really do doubt that will happen

It's 180ltr with only shrimp and will be kept only shrimp, currently houses cherry and crystal black shrimp.

180L dedicated to shrimp......alright for some!

LOL, did take a while to think could i justify it but hey it's well worth it and very happy i did decide to go ahead



Thanks again all

jen

 

[Inchworm]

Moved from Invertebrates, Amphibians & Aquatic Reptiles Forum at OP's request.