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Potential Chameleon Shrimp Set Up

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Hi all, just looking into to doing an all Chameleon Shrimp only tank set up, I have a 27l tank which I had planned to do but decided against it, so now looking to perhaps do the same tank but with no plant life, except mosses, driftwood, just after some information for a I guess you could call a Chameleon Biotope tank.

Substrate? Flora? Water Parameters? 

The tank will be some time off from being started as I want to look into everything first.

Mosses I have in mind are Native Weeping Moss, mini Pellia, any others I could perhaps consider?

Driftwood will be a piece of Gold Vine.

Thoughts?

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Dave at Aquagreen is probably the best guy to talk to with regards to the natural habitat of these guys. 

Alternatively you could set up a tank similar to that for Caridina serratirostris which is a very similar species. 

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