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Hi everyone, after crossing many elegant and attractive pictures of tiger shrimps, i too have been struck with these tiger shrimps. Thus, i am planning to begin a tiger shrimp only tank. It will be a 2ft tank.

For the water i am planning to go with RO water with Salty Shrimp GH+ mineral. ( Is RO water necessary for tiger shrimps? or can i go with tap water?)

Inert black quartz soil and some driftwood with mosses. For filtration i intend it to consist of maybe a HOB filter and two sponge filters. ( Should i go with canister or HOB?)

Any suggestions welcome!:)

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BlueBolts Shrimp Guru

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IMHO, RO water is important, as it eliminates the inconsistency/inpurity that can occur with tap water.

+1 for the cannister too.

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+1agree withe everyone, definitely RO & SS minerals, canister is much more effective than a HOB but, personally, I'd use sponge filters as well & a specialty substrate is definitely the go with these little fellas. If you get the basics of the tank right before you set it up the easier it will be to keep stable perameters later on :victorious:

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Which type of subtrates would you guys suggest?

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All my tanks have benibachi soil.....TB's are in 80mm thick substrate, and Tigers in 50mm thick substrate, which buffers my PH to approx. 6.8. As I'm creating Tibee's/Variations, I want me Tigers to be bred in WP closer to my TB's.

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but if i used inert black gravel, wouldnt it be fine as my Ph would only be 7.0 and i dont think i would needbuffeing soil since the SS minerals would buffer the gh and kh wouldnt it?

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Would it be possible to sprinkle some fulvic grains to stop the ph from creeping up?

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Would it be possible to sprinkle some fulvic grains to stop the ph from creeping up?

Prevention is better then a cure, so why not use a buffering soil to start thing off ? I do use fulvic grains, but on soil that's gettng exhausted, and/or if I'm experimenting and trying to reduce my PH levels.

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No disrespect to your way of keeping them, but the reason why i want to use inert gravel is so that i can achieve a ph of 7 or higher plus i wouldn't need to rescape the tank if the soil starts to ' break' down.

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There's 100's of ways to breed tigers, and in numerous WP etc.... so no right/wrong, if they're breeding and you have a successful colony, that's the right way :encouragement:

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