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Hi all and welcome to the journey of my shrimp tank. Decided i would start up another shrimp tank so i purchased a 70L rimless. ? Setup Details: Tank: 70 Litre. 61x30.5x38. (2 foot) Filtration: 1 Sponge Filter and 1 HOB (Marina S20) Lighting: eBay Light Substrate: CAL AQUA LABS - Fine Hardscape: Gold Vine Driftwood, Cholla Wood Plants: Needle Leaf Java Fern, Java Moss, Blyxa Japonica Also added: Mineral Balls, IAL, Alder cones. Hope thats all for setups? Initially was not going to scape the tank in any particular way but i have quite some bit of driftwood laying around so why not! Will be housing CRS. and keeping it low tech if possible with blyxa. So i got a new shelf. those two empty cubes will have a bonsai and a terrarium for display. Does anyone sell ADA stickers so i can stick it onto my tank? ? Added some mineral powders and bacteria. Set up hardscape. (no rocks as i am keeping it simple) I left a large open space on the left only because itll be easier to see shrimp and not take up too much with the scaping. So i kept it to a minimum. And then comes the plants. Needle Leaf Java Fern Blyxa Japonixa Java Moss. Also added gravel because i have them in my other tanks and i love the look. Once everything is set, i will make the gravel look less organised.. AANNNNDDD now the wait for the cycle to finish... ? Added bio balls from old tank into HOB. Using sponge filter i have prepped for three weeks. Added some old filter floss also into the HOB along with fresh floss. Slowly removing air bubbles from subsrate also. Will upload tank photo once everything is setlled. Maybe later today.

This is the second generation of bubs from tank bred parents. these guys have the most personality of any shrimp I keep really cool and smart.

@neo-2FX the issue with moss id is the conditions in which its grown can change its appearance, so you really need to look at it under a micro scope and be able to understand wtf your looking at to determine our moss. but i guess we could get out own version of a moss chard like we do for out grading and id's of shrimp. with a few different pics of the same moss to give a good idea of what they all look like under ideal conditions.

There's definitely one thing that pisses me off! Moss ID! Not as important as the above mentioned ones but thought I'd put it out there.

Welcome @MoisesNguy

Nope, no shrimpie suicides by pump - the mesh is sealed in on all sides. I'd originally intended to cover up the normal slits those small internal filters have (which are very much not shrimp proof) with the SS mesh... but I figured I'd enlarge the media compartment and surface area the pump is drawing water from by a lot - creates slower (by still quite noticeable) water flow across a lot more media. I was mostly trying to incorporate the benefits of HM into what stuff I already had on hand since I lacked the stuff to make a real HM at the moment. Good call - maybe I should add that to my current things... possibly with a lip all the way around the tank itself since my tanks are all open top.

I would silicon a wider piece of glass on top of the divider like this to prevent that happening.

I wouldn't recommend using them as dividers though. Shrimps are pretty good climbers.

Welcome to the forums @Cleeon, Once you've got shrimp in your blood you'll never get out :)

HMF is more of a super sized sponge filter that is internal pump driven.

I'll try again! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Take 2! I'm aiming for it to smooth over so that you can't see any cracks in the stones with xmas moss!m Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Not using anything else apart from 10 hours of lighting. I feed mine sulas shrimp snow and barley straw pellets every 2 to 3 days. So that they have another food source.

Yes by me but the glass in Ireland is rather expensive in Ireland that nowadays i try to find broken tanks, take them apart, get the glazier to cut to the size i need and polish the edges, usually for free, and put it back together. It is pretty simple, at the end of the day a tank is only glass and silicone !

It is 400 x 400 x 300 high optiwhite. Should have made it 400 x 500 x 300 high. When my new rack is finished all the the tanks will be 600 x 300 x300 high, the 300 x 300 side being the front.

Thank you guys. It is not a blue bolt, it is a taitibee. When you are crossbreeding it is important to remember the genetics behing each shrimp. As an example the shrimp in the next 3 pictures are not twb.

Havent posted for a while but but have been breeding a lot and did some work in the shrip room to had a second rack. Here are some pictures of the results of my crossbreeding projects. Some pictures of my crs and Prl