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steve86

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Gday fellas,

I am setting up a rack of 18" tanks for some shrimp and moss. Wanted to know what a good shrimp substrate is? I won't have any plants planted in the substrate. Just wanting to know what is best and why you think so.

cheers fellas

steve

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KiwiBigD Shrimp Breeder

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Really only two types I see commonly being used. Either ADA or Benibachi. If you're having any plants then ADA is the bee's knees, if only shrimp

and a few mosses Benibachi is the popular one. I would suggest you check your water first, personally I'm an ADA fan but it works for me and my

water.

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JonX Shrimp Breeder

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You can grow stem plants in benibachi. Ive grown stauogyn successfully.

Ada takes a while to cycle.

I use benibachi.

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ADA does take longer than Benibachi but it also depends on your shrimps and the volume. The last time I moved house I broken all rules and

had SSS CRS and CBSs into new tanks in less that 24 hours, CRSs got 12 hours for their water to warm up, that was it. Threw in some plants

and mosses and just hoped. Only lost a single SSS CRS, but it was a berried female :-( Unfortunately we didn't have a choice as we were on a

tight timeframe and didn't have much of a change over period between houses. Still, it could have been much worse. So it can be done but I

wouldn't recommend it from a stress level perspective, and yeah we did have ammonia reading at 2ppm for a couple of weeks with shrimps in

tanks.

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Doesn't it also depend on which shrimp you get? If it is Cherries then any inert substrate is ok?

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JonX Shrimp Breeder

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ADA does take longer than Benibachi but it also depends on your shrimps and the volume. The last time I moved house I broken all rules and

had SSS CRS and CBSs into new tanks in less that 24 hours' date=' CRSs got 12 hours for their water to warm up, that was it. Threw in some plants

and mosses and just hoped. Only lost a single SSS CRS, but it was a berried female :-( Unfortunately we didn't have a choice as we were on a

tight timeframe and didn't have much of a change over period between houses. Still, it could have been much worse. So it can be done but I

wouldn't recommend it from a stress level perspective, and yeah we did have ammonia reading at 2ppm for a couple of weeks with shrimps in

tanks.[/quote']

Id wait 1 month and untill the amonia read zero before adding shrimp.

Shrimp can be added in straight away but expect dead and stressed shrimp.

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If you're using a matured filter, then the benibachi is definitely the way to go.....I had exotic shrimps within in the new setup within 48hours of putting the substrate in, but that's with a matured filter and doing ALL the n chesty test etc...

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Trav80 Shrimp Breeder

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Benibachi is the easiest substrate if you're going for CRS/CBS, also if you're looking to progress into Taiwan Bees. If you're only keeping cherry variants an inert substrate like Tahitian Moonsand is fine.

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They both work but benibachi is more popular in general when keeping shrimps especially Taiwan bees.

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Squiggle Shrimp Guru

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Yeah I'd have to lean towards Benibachi, just my personal preference :encouragement:

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michael Shrimp Breeder

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Hey all just wondering where u get ada soil from ive got fluval shrimp substrate in 6 of my tanks that is working well but im setting up a new rack myself and want to try ada. Do any of the sponsers have it cause i cant see it on there sites . Also can you run it with benibachi beemax to start up the tanks.

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Hey all just wondering where u get ada soil from ive got fluval shrimp substrate in 6 of my tanks that is working well but im setting up a new rack myself and want to try ada. Do any of the sponsers have it cause i cant see it on there sites . Also can you run it with benibachi beemax to start up the tanks.

Yep Dean has it also I am sure other sponsors have it as well....not a ll of them but some. And yes you can use beemax just a healthy amount under the substrate.

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Kitz Shrimp Lover

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Ok ill try dean as soon as he get back. Hurry up dean I have tanks to set up lol

Cycle your tank now, that way you have your tank ready when he comes back haha

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