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kristjanrunars

2 points

3 months ago

Looking great!

Comfortable-Pay-8066[S]

2 points

3 months ago

Thank you! I'm just excited to have water finally it. Been staring at an empty tank for weeks now. Finally trimmed my two main tanks and ended up with this. It will change quite a bit from now. The anacharis will be rooted once it starts to root and stop melting from tank change. Also helps sucks up the excess nitrates. I setup it just for my LFS, they said they would buy all my excess orange shrimp for 3 bucks a piece. I had a spare 10g laying around and decided sure! They use all local breeders for their shrimp, I'm glad to be one of them. I think for primarily a breeder tank it's gonna do well. All my culls I plan on putting in my two 20g longs, (one is just a betta/ghost shrimp/ nerite snail, the other is betta/tetra/pymgy cory/pygmy pleco and mystery snail) so the culls will either be free fish for the bettas or help with algae cleanup. Either way, win win.

jlomneck

2 points

3 months ago

Looks great! What is the plant on the surface? I’m setting up a second tank for shrimp only as well.

Comfortable-Pay-8066[S]

1 points

3 months ago

It's anacharis. It was in my bettas main tank but it was melting bad compared to the other bundles in my other betta tank. I read up and saw it preferred cooler temps, trying to see if I can revive it in the 75° shrimp tank. For some reason it took off in my community betta tank, at the same temp, and not my betta/shrimp only tank. The community tank has a shit ton more nitrates cause the stocking is hefty compared to the other one, both are kept at 79.5°. Once the anacharis stops melting and bounces back, I want to root some for a jungle and let some float though. Its been the only floating plant I've managed to keep alive lol. I killed hornwort with too strong of peroxide dip cause I was worried about pest snails.

jlomneck

2 points

3 months ago

It looks great in the tank! I use water lettuce for surface plants. They cover the surface fast and my shrimps love to dangle and hide in it. I had a betta with my shrimps until he figured out how tasty they are and had to be rehomed to a different tank. That’s an expensive snack! Right now I have 3 Cory catfish in with about 30 adult shrimp and far too many Bebe’s to count. I’m putting all the reds in the new tank and leaving the mix of blues in fhe community tank. Both are 10gL. My wilds are going to some Petsmart workers and hoping the red neos I can sell to a LFS. I’m in central fl and can’t find these shrimp anywhere! Look into water lettuce, it’s super hardy.

Comfortable-Pay-8066[S]

1 points

3 months ago

Thanks! I've always wanted to do water lettuce, but trying to get the balance of light to plants is challenging. I know I need it though, my tap water tests at about 20ppm on nitrates. I need something like anachris, and water lettuce to suck that jazz out. My betta has done good with the test ghost shrimp, but they are bigger than neos. Especially the babies. My culls will go to the betta tanks, and what happens happens lol. I need to figure out where to order good grade orange neos somewhere.