Recommend A Small Tank For Shrimp

[chrisbrainsick]

I am looking into setting up a tank with a few cherry shrimps in but I don't have a lot of space. Can anyone recommend a small-ish tank that would be suitable?

 

[chrisbrainsick]

Would this be ok (big enough)?

http/www.amazinganimal.co.uk/12x8x8-incl...74f196941a08bdb

 

[smegforbrains]

Superfish Aqua 40 is a 12" cube, 5.5 UK gal. Same as the Aqua One 340 only a lot cheaper. Superfish products are actually Aqua One made under licence.


Or you could go for a Clearseal 14"x10"x10" but you would need to buy a hood seperately.

 

[shroob]

Whats the biggest tank you can get (available space)? Many people keep shrimp in nano tanks, but the problem then is water quality as its harder to maintain stable in smaller volumes of water.

While the tank you posted a link to could house a few cherry shrimp (not a lot really), a tank in the region of 20"x10"x12" will be much better.

A 10 US gallon tank is what most people would recommend as the smallest beginner tank (if you are a beginner, if you feel confident then you can go smaller, but like I said the water quality will be harder to maintain). Bigger is better as it will be more foregiving.

 

[chrisbrainsick]

I have about 45cm (17.5 inches) by just about 25cm (nearly 10 inches). I can't find anything about a clearseal 14x8x8 online but could probably get away with 16x8x8 which I have found. I don't know what that is in gallons/litres. How many shrimp would you say would be ok in a tank that size?

I was actually looking at fish originally but was recommended shrimp as an alternative because they require less space!

 

[shroob]

Yeah shrimp are more suited to smaller tanks than most fish.

A 16"x8"x8" tank is 17 litres, for cherry shrimp I'd get say 6 and let them breed to increase their numbers. The population should naturally stabalise when it reaches the population limit the tank can support. Though I'm not sure on how many this will be, I would guess around 30 maybe.