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Hi all,
I'm relatively recent to fish and shrimp keeping. 
I'm a freshwater ecologist in my day job, but only got around to keeping the fish and shrimp In the last 12 months.
And now I've got 4 tanks and I'm wondering if my wife will notice if I add another!
I've got a 215L Aquaone 980 heavily planted (DIY CO2) community tank in our living area (pearl gourami, kribensis, ottos, hengeli raspboras, Cardinal tetras and Cory sterbai).
I kitted out the walls of our garage a few years back with about 10m of floor to ceiling storage racks to keep things tidy. Only now it's being converted to a fish den.

In the garage I've got 2x 2ft tanks and a 40L quarantine tank.
One of the 2ft tanks is heavily planted with DIY CO2 and 22W LEDS. It's got RCS in it at the moment and some Neon Tetras. 
The other 2ft tank is being prepared for CRS.
And finally the 40L quarantine tank currently has 5 native long arm shrimp in it (Macrobrachium australiense). But they are absolute assassins (the victims so far include 4 neon tetras, 2 barbs, and one black widow tetra) and are about to be sold off to a good home. 

Cheers
Paul

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