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Paul Minett Shrimp Keeper

Paul Minett

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I finally got my rack finished it took a lot longer than expected and ended up slightly larger than expected. it will be home to all my shrimp  cherry, tb, tigers, natives etc

here are some of the details about the rack. the overall size of the construction is 2.3m high 1.8m wide and .6m deep. It has 3 standard 5 ft tanks 1530mm long 360mm wide and 500mm high. each tank is divided into 7 divisions roughly 210mm long 360mm wide and 500mm high they are divided with Perspex sheets and superfine fly mesh there is 20 divisions for shrimp and 1 division for a sump.
Each tank has a custom trickle filter made from a 1.5m length of pvc tropical gutter with a weir glued into one end just before the bulkhead outlet each gutter contains a mix of matrix, bio noodles and gravel & sand as a filler overall there is approximately 6L matrix 3.6 kg of noodles. water flows from sump bottom left as you look at the tank up to the top trickle filter through it down into the tank at the right side of the tank through out the left side into the next filter and so on to the bottom.
water is pumped with a rs7200 3000 l/hr sump pump.
in the water line is a resun CL650 chiller and Odyssea 18w uv sterilizer.
heating is via an Eheim 300w heater
air to the 20 double sponge filters via Hailea V60 60L/min air pump.
the substrate is a mix of aquarium gravels and sands
that should cover the relevant info.

Hopefully the link has all the pics.

http://s1301.photobucket.com/user/Paul_Minett/library/Facebook/Shrimp%20rack%20construction?sort=3&page=1

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kizshrimp Shrimp Breeder

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That's great Paul, can't wait to see what you can produce out of this. 

What do you think of the V series air pump? 

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the air pump is super quiet and very strong running 20 sponges with absolute ease they are turned right down as running at full was way to much turbulence in the divisions the bubbles make more noise than the pump

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So many breeding projects in the one spot. Amazing setup.

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