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Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum. Planning my next tank at the moment, which will be a 4 x 2 x 2 planted tank. Will have community, non aggressive fish in the tank, and I'm just trying to work out what sort of shrimp to add to it. I was hoping they would breed and pay for themselves, so I don't mind paying a bit more for them at the start. One of my concerns that I have is that my tap water PH is a little high (between 7.5 and 8.1 ) on the North Side of Brisbane, my grow out tank is currently sitting at 7.4 and I expect my display tank will be around that. Is it too high?

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Marno

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Baccus Shrimp Master

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G'Day and welcome to the forum.

As a starting out shrimp cherrys are by far the easiest and most forgiving of shrimp species. The really good thing is that you are not limited to just red in these guys any more, with yellows, oranges, chocolate and black all available as well as the rili pattern which is typically a red head section clear middle and red tail. Some of these other colours and patterns you really can spend a pretty penny on but they are really worth it. And most of them are as hardy as the tradtional cherry to boot.

Otherwise some of our native shrimp are really great, but not all of them are so easy to keep let alone breed. But even if you dont manage to raise the young typhus and riffle shrimp are beautiful fascinating shrimp.

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Lots of people use around 7.5 pH for their cherry variants and are having lots of success so that isn't an issue.

The fish on the other hand will eat a fair portion of the population. Lots of shrimp should survive if its quite densely planted though.

I'm pretty sure even my cories eat some of the baby shrimp.

My suggestion would be to add the shrimp and let them breed up a bit before you add any fish. This will let the shrimp get a few generations going and should have enough reach maturity and breed again so the fish don't wipe them out.

Looking forward to seeing pics of this all set up :)

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WSelcome to SKF marno...As already mentioned by blindefisherman & Baccus4702 Cherries r the hardiest and easiest to breed....Anyway just do some more research on this forum or just keep on asking questions & you can make up your mind...Best of luck...CJ

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G'day marno,welcome to SKF. Definitely cherries, and as on as their breeding rate/survival is more then any consumed by other tank inhabitants....then y'all have a thriving community for fish & shrimp. Great f you can start up a tank journal, interested to see how it all comes together...

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marno Be nice I'm new here

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Thanks for the info guys, it looks like I will be getting..... Cherrys. I'll have to decide on the colour, because I imagine if I want to eventually sell some down the track I will want to avoid crossing colours.

I am still sorting out a tank at the moment, I'm looking to get a 4 x 2 x 2 starfire braceless tank. It will be very heavily planted with a DIY substrate, with a good selection rock, (I'm leaning towards Texas holey rock which would provide lots of hidey holes) and some driftwood. I just picked up an Eheim 2260 today, which came with some Eheim substrate and I had picked up 4 litres of matrix, along with various types of foam, nylon, jap mat and dacron as media. I built a couple of 50W LED's with some heatsink which are pretty big and supposedly wouldn't need fans, but it turned out there was no hope of going fanless. I am looking now at making some sort of a housing to suspend them over the tank and I have some vague ideas for some moonlighting to be added.

I will keep on with the research and any extra advice would be greatly appreciated. I am looking forward to getting full access to this site. :)

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Hey Marno, welcome to the forum. I'd highly recommend some riffle shrimp, highly adaptable and charismatic little guys.

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I second the Riffles! They are great and quite alot bigger than cherrys .... but hard to raise fry ...... cant beet them for looks. Have them and cherrys!Welcome to the forum.

Hey Marno, welcome to the forum. I'd highly recommend some riffle shrimp, highly adaptable and charismatic little guys.
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