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Most of the breeders in Europe are using sponge filters to filter the tanks in the racks. I personnally never change the sponges in mines and clean them 1 or 2 times a year. The turbo filters are becoming more and more popular because of they efficiency and their quietness. I use a double sponge filters in 16 tanks, single in 2 and Ugf in 1. Still have a few tanks to set up and will be using Ugf in a split level way for the tanks 40 litres and over and doubler sponge filters for smaller ones. Here is a picture of a 30 litres tank with a double sponge filter where i added 10 berried females crs/Prl, the survival rate was 20+ shrimplets/female, had to remove the adults and set up 2 bigger tank to grow the juveniles before selling them to shops.

Beautiful mate. I especially love that blue one. Thanks for sharing.

I don't have a full tank shot handy but here is the controller in action on my previous tank setup: From memory I got it from RapidLED in the states but that was a while ago.

Some pictures of my tigers

They are filters with a compression chamber in the airlift. Here is a link of the ones i have http://www.skaii-and-shrimps.com/index.php/en/category/product/1148-turbo-exhausteur-mousse-l-10-x-10-x-18cm Cant comment on the survival rate of the juveniles as the 2 i have are in grow out tanks. You can easily make it yourself and people use this type of airlift with some hmf refined version http://www.garnelen-tom.de/zwerggarnelen-shop/HMF-Luftheber

Welcome. We love to see your journey when you setup the new tanks. Any questions please ask away.

Hi Leanne, welcome to SKF and nice to meet you. Is there anything specific you'd like to know?

I have a third turned off as it was making too much algae. These are 3W Cree LEDs, the reds are 3W Osram. All selected as they were the correct spectrum. I use a day/night controller which simulates sunrise to sunset. Each driver controls a third of the LEDs with one spare. Yeah it's running at 50% of its potential capacity.

I did a custom LED myself for my 4ft, I'll post some photos when I get home.

Cool, many have tried breeding the Spider-Man style cherry, hope you find a few more for some selective breeding.

Congrats on the nice red-blue rili!!! Re the smaller shrimp being orangy and not as great coloured, often they don't show their full colour until adulthood. I often notice a big jump in the richness of colour in my cherry juvies as they go through their first few adult moults. So some of the orangey ones may turn out redder in the end. If you get shrimp that stay orangy as adults, they might be cool to keep as a separate line! Orange can look gorgeous too!

Looks like this lady is saddled, w/c time ;) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My tanks have a lot of moss with a few Java ferns or bolbitis. I clean the sponges every couple of water changes in the old tank water. I fully replace the sponge buying a new one . Previously I used the sponges for 2 years before replacing but recently I read its best to change them 6 monthly. As I have 2 per tank I change 1 halfway through the year and the other one at the end of the year, so each sponge is used for 12 months . Average plant level in each tank

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Grats on the Natives man. I have to admit I was looking forward to seeing your Zebra colony but what an unfortunate set of circumstances. Good luck with these guys.