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Cooper Creek Aquarium: Mr Aqua 12g (90cm x 21cm x 24cm) Filter: Eheim 2213 Canister with API Bio Chem Zorb and Stainless Steel Mesh Guard Lighting: BeamWorks 90cm LED (8 Hours, 4 on, 2 off, 4 on) Heating: Aqua One 50w Glass Heater (26c) Substrate: Fluval Shrimp Stratum (8kg) Flora: Native Vallisneria, Corkscrew Vallisneria, Blyxa Japonica, Anubias nana, Bolbitis heudelotii, Windelov Java Fern, Trident Java Fern, Narrow Leaf Java Fern, Cryptocoryne wendtii, Subwassertang Fauna: Iriatherina werneri (Threadfin Rainbow), Caridina sp WA 4 (North Australian Chameleon Shrimp) Hardscape: Malaysian Driftwood Food: Boss Aquaria Shrimp Crack, Benibachi Kale Tablets, Sera FD Bloodworms, Serene Aquarium Algae Discs Additives: Aqua One Water Conditioner, AquaGreen Dinosaur Pee, AquaGreen Dinosaur Spit, Boss Aquaria Mineral Balls, Boss Aquaria Mineral Powder In Memory of Cooper I've been wanting to do a rescape of the Mr Aqua 12g for some time now but wasn't sure what road I wanted to go down and which direction to go with in regards to the tank, I've always wanted a certain shrimp only tank but wasn't sure which, having been a massive fan of the Chameleon Shrimp for a long time I thought for starters I'd go with them but them only in regards to shrimp in the aquarium, so this made me think, perhaps I could lean towards a native Australian tank, so thought why not see if I can find some small native Australian fish to add to the tank, so after looking through AquaGreen's site I decided to purchase a group of Iriatherina werneri, also known as Threadfin Rainbow, these fish when purchased are small, 2cm/2.5cm and reach 5cm at their largest, sounds perfect to me, so the Threadfin and Chameleon are on the shopping list. I wanted to use a very few number of plants, I didn't want this and that all thrown into the tank as what I have in the past, so decided to go with Native Vallisneria, Corkscrew Vallisneria, Blyxa Japonica, Anubias nana, Bolbitis heudelotii, Windelov Java Fern, Trident Java Fern, Narrow Leaf Java Fern and Subwassertang, I wanted most of the vegetation planted to the right of the tank so that the current from the filter outflow would push the Vallisneria towards the left side of the tank, I was happy with the right side being built up and planted, although the left side was quite bare, so as suggested from a fellow SKF member (Callan), I slightly built up the substrate on the left and planted to help hide the filter intake. I took my time in regards to rescaping this tank, for a change, I'm usually rushed and in a hurry to get it all sorted and took my time filling the tank up with tap water, having taken just over half an hour to fill as I didn't want the flow too strong and disturb the planted vegetation, once the tank was full and Aqua One Water Conditioner was added, I also added 4 pebbles to create a some what native under water look but wasn't happy with them, so out they went. I'm actually more than happy with the end result, I will how ever look to purchase some more pieces of Blyxa Japonica and Vallisneria. All feedback, comments, hints, tips are welcome. Thank You.

Hello, My name is Andrzej and I'm from Poland. If something is against the rules, please let me know. I will like to show you my tanks. A few of my aquariums :) Ok some information: Aquariums as you can see is 15 7 is 30x30x50 - the rest is different but mostly 35-45L Filtration Sponge: e-jet 104 or 103 and some u-jet 3 + several biological: such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWhr-uCYX6Y Pumps have three: 2x Sera 550R and 1x Hailea ACO 9620 And now some of my shrimp: Thank You. I will try to put some new foto and film every few days. If you have any questions, ask. https://www.youtube.com/user/szopen2004

I know she is considered only a wild type, but I think she still shows beauty in her patterning.

Had a look and they didn't have any Thredfins on site, plus I'm getting the Chameleons from AquaGreen. Yeah I agree with the Vall, will look good once it's stretched out.

Looks good mate! I think it will look great when it grows in and the val is stretching out over the tank! Liver pool creek have thread fins for a good price atm so might be cheaper then Aqua green? they will look amazing in there!

Back with a few more photos of my shrimp :) I managed to get myself 6 chameleon shrimp for a friend of mine and they are very interesting... Lots of different colour morphs. So far have seen stripped one (in photo), maroon with light coloured line down back (in photo), red spotted one (in photo), a dark blue type, and a mostly clear colour type. They seem to change fairly often too, except the biggest which I think is a female. She has stayed maroon with the line since day 1. Golden Bee / Snow White: Chameleon Shrimp: Hope you all enjoy the photos :)

Thread fins have a small mouth, so may be small blood worms. I have to say it Thread fins in the wild are good to see, you can sit and look for hours, talk about politics in the populations of little fighters, but only in the wild in tanks they are AOK, In the wild it looks like they hunt all over the plants picking off small bugs of all sorts, they are in still back waters and ponds off the main rivers, so don't like a lot of water movement if that helps keeping them. There was Gold ones kicking around up here a few years back, don't know what happened to them. Bob

They are not to fussy in regards to food, where they come from they feed on Algae, Leaves and from time to time they will find a bit of fish scraps, they do live in heavy cover, plants and leaf litter. I think if you kept a range of different foods you will cover all there needs, I am like Mossy I use what ever is being feed to the other fish and shrimp at the time Bob

I even feed mine bloodworms once a week. Other than that kale, spinach, my homemade shrimp food, Sera shrimp food, mosura Gro Plus. As Fishmosy said mine aren't fussy either.

I've been working pretty hard on a feed formulation the recently and one point that perhaps seems counter-intuitive to many shrimpers or aquarists in general is that the Phosphorus level in the food needs to equal or exceed the Calcium level. Some of our most popular fresh leaves, for example, have very limited P contents with very high Ca contents. The Ca uptake is then restricted due to a lack of available P. The same approach is slowly filtering into human health supplements via Vitamin D / Calcium supplements that also contain Vitamin K and Phosphorus. Your bones contain more P than Ca. There are several well-known (and undoubtedly more as yet unknown) mineral and nutritional ratios that should be observed in crustacean feeds and sadly very few of the feeds on the market seem to observe these recommendations. It appears as though they are formulated primarily to have an attractive ingredients list. I will continue posting on this nutrition topic as I get time.

I think the trick is to "talk up" the culls make them seem desirable to more people by making a wow song and dance about them. I think some of the problem with people " not liking" culls is that in all honesty when do people get to see them? Everyone tends to only show pictures of the "best of the best" but skip over showing the poorer(?) relations even if they all stemed from the same stock. I know my wild types as above came from choc culls and some where along the lines I did have some yellows and rilli's getting about. Now my "wilds" throw all sorts of colours, shrimp with green tinges, blue, tinges and yellow tinges. So ultimately I think if somebody had the room and time these "wilds" could produce some astounding variations. Plus I think because most people when first getting into shrimp want to keep them with potential predators ie fish the "wild" ones might stand a better chance of survival over say a neon red nice ripe looking cherry. The other bonus I think of "wilds" is that they have better genetic diversity and are overall hardier. Because lets face it some of the line bred colour morphs are pretty fussy when it comes to water paramaters. So everyone here is the challange show us your "culls" and hopefully these forgotten gems can get more peoples appreciation.

Some of the wild types are beautiful in their own right. Why is it people like Tiger shrimp but not the same pattern in cherries. I have had beautiful pale blues and greens, yellows and reds with stripes but never tried to stabilise the lines because they are technically culls and there is no interest.

Had to add my own design to this post because it's inspired me so much. Nothing like OP's design but I managed to keep my cost significantly lower. This fan has a Low - High speed mode. I Wanted to do something like this because I wanted to option to fit this fan on small (4gal) - large (20L) tanks.