Indoor Shrimp Garden

Intial set up cycling process.

Equipment:

17" X 11" X 11" five plan acrylic tank
Eden 501
Tornado fan (2) sometime swithed on one or two depending on weather.
Temperature: 26.5 to 27.7C (most of the time during cycling)

T5 light - 2 x 16W (dual swtich)
GEX soil - red packet type for shimps/plants (filled 3 inches from base)
2 granite stones
various aqua plants from old tank - Petite and basteri nana, Marima moss, java moss , pelia, fissiden.
New acquisition : Riccia, golden nana and java fern

No water measurement kits.

Send couple of shrimps and Yamoto to act as "commandos" and "Helicopter" respectively to test their "resilience" in the virgin forest.

Commando CRS on tactical movement alone.


Helicopter attacked!.


Combat Tanks on standby


Any suggestions, recommedations welcomed for further improvements.

[mingzheng]

Wow! nice tank setup u have there! like the way u titled each pictures thanks for sharing!

[onlyyouknow]

More shrimps would be nice.

I like the way the plumbing is hidden, especially the intake.

How's the lighting and CO2 to support the vegetation?

Cheers

Hi Bro

Granite stone? suggest u get it out of the tank, understand it will increase the GH and kill your shrimp.

Originally Posted by mingzheng

Wow! nice tank setup u have there! like the way u titled each pictures thanks for sharing!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by slowcat

How's the lighting and CO2 to support the vegetation?

For a start, I put couple drops of Organic carbon (excel florish), Agrolush and allow plants to acclimatize. Light switch on for about 12 hours daily. When I transfer them from old tank, I also gave it a good trimming, yellowish and dead leaves were cut off allowing the offsprings to shoot from under the rhizomes. .

Originally Posted by onlyyouknow

More shrimps would be nice.

Originally Posted by goody992828

Granite stone? suggest u get it out of the tank, understand it will increase the GH and kill your shrimp.

Need time to cycle, will add more flora and fauna down the road to improve the GH.
I thought many shrimp lovers add granite (from seaview) to decorate their tank of Japanese zen style? Me only put two pieces lah.

I think it looks natural and more so when the rocks are starting to turn GREEN (with algae).

[bai]

Hi BlueBubble

Nice & Neat Setup u have there.

May I know where u get the bee horn snail? Hope u could advise, cos thinking to get some also.

Thank you

careful when u trim the anubias , the sap can harm yr shrimps

[thomas-seah]

bro BlueBubble, the stones are 100% not granite. they look more like marble to me.
anyway marble also increase hardness.
nice setup. more shrimps pls...

Originally Posted by bai

Hi BlueBubble
May I know where u get the bee horn snail? Hope u could advise, cos thinking to get some also.

I bought from C328. I went there once but it ran out, than uncle told me to come next day when he will stock it up, and indeed next day I saw so many of them kept in the same breeding box.

Originally Posted by reaverx

careful when u trim the anubias , the sap can harm yr shrimps

Oh, usually I trim my plants in a pail, soak it for a while before putting back into the tank after dripping plant dry. Besides, it is only a couple of small unwanted leave stalks and not the main stem that I nipped off. The most juice (or sap) is the java moss. When I bundled them up in mess wire and placed it in the tank, I can see the green color slowly flowing out of the leaves.

Originally Posted by thomas-seah

bro BlueBubble, the stones are 100% not granite. they look more like marble to me.
anyway marble also increase hardness.

Don’t think is marble, it is a little rough on the surface and I got from Y618 where they also put a large piece in their shrimp tank at the cashier counter. …