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Hi not am I only knew to the Forum Am also new to keeping shrimp. that means I have a lot to learn and a far way to go. At this time I'm the proud owner of two Berried Pumpkins shrimps and Blue Jellies. They are still settling but no pics yet. I will probably not post much for now as I will mostly be doing a lot of reading. I've been doing Fish tanks on and off most off my life but I've been back in the hobby for about two years now. at this time I have 7 tanks and 2 15l tanks will be dedicated to my new babies. I know the tanks are a bit on the small size but I will move them to bigger setups once I have the money to buy two larger tanks.

Hi Shrimp can and do climb up things including airlines and heater cables so i would say if you had a nice bit of foam at the top, that was all wet for them, then they will use it to climb into the next section. A very close fitting lid would help but then you would have to move the sponge filter to going over the back not the side. From memory, and mine is a bit dodgy, the reason for not putting glass heaters in the horizontal position is because there is a greater chance that the internal elements can touch the glass sides and when it is on that can crack the glass. Another consideration is the seal between the glass and plastic cap will have a greater water pressure on it at the bottom of the tank. Not a lot but if you have cheap heaters that might make the difference. There is the choice of stainless steel heaters now that are not that much more expensive than glass. They are fine to go horizontal.

Ok it looks like if I am quick at locating the pictures that I want to post the site will merge the pictures from two posts into one, which is better than having to post one pic at a time. Can the top broken photo bucket links be edited out?