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Hi Guys and Shrimperts! Having owned 3, 5 & 10G tanks (All Neocaridina shrimps), I've taken the plunge and decided to build a shrimp rack and with new tanks. Size of the tank is 2.5ft(W) x 1.5ft(L) x 1.5ft(H) and will be divided to 3 columns. The upper most tank will house my Cardina and the middle tank will be the Neo's and the lowest is either a sump or just going to leave the rack space with the chiller only (I am from Malaysia). Basically in total, my plan is to have 6 divided tanks (3 each divided from the 2.5ft tank) and that is the max. amount of tanks, I may start a new rack next time should I decided to expand. 2 different local shrimp stores has given me separate suggestions for the shrimp tank water system and need your expertise and advice to see what's best. I am not restricted by their suggestion since I did told them that I want to have a simple water flow without having to drill holes to the tanks, but I don't mind getting my hands on plumbing and DIY Overflow stuff. The drafts are below for your suggestions, I'm all ears. Thank you in advance!

I've been stalking my shrimpy dudes with me phone :) My tank is beginning to look like a large tank of jelly beans! I think this blue one may be berried but not entirely sure ..... heaven only knows what colours they will be as have sotted some of the tiny ones starting to surface more regularly and there are some right strange colour combinations going on ... quite puzzled as to what they will turn out to be in the end

Hi Gavin, unfortunately @Dean has not been visiting SKFA for a long while now. So it is unlikely he will get this message. But you never know, we hope he is well and will return one day and can extract the pictures from photobucket. We have many broken links to pictures hosted on photobucket, after they changed their business model to a paid system. Lesson learnt - host your pictures on SKFA.

Hi RW92 The WP for the fish tank are fine. Also the TDS for fish is not so critical as long as it is stable, providing it is not up super high like over 600 or so. I just monitor mine, as i use tap water and not RO, to have an idea where it is but never try to change it as i'm just to lazy. The KH and GH are also good for almost all fish and would only need to be lowered for the shrimp to get it where you want. The remineralizer you have is for bringing up the GH and KH of RO water from 0 to your desired level. The lazy way, and much cheaper, is to mix tap water with RO and get the desired level. This does not work if there are other impurities in your tap water that you dont want and can be a bit tricky if your tap water changes throughout the year as some do. The test kits for GH and KH are a general guide and give a pretty broad range, for drops in 5ml of water, of ppm. This can be converted to dKH by dividing by 28 (i think, can somebody correct me there). To get a more accurate measurement the water volume can be increased to 10ml. Generally if you quote the drops per 5ml water then most people know what you are talking about. Adding bacteria to your water, in my opinion, is a waste of time and money. You would benefit from taking a sponge out of the established tank and putting it in the new tanks filter. Best spot would be at the start of the flow in the filter so any bacteria that gets washed out of it will be washed through the new filters media. That will cut the cycle time by weeks. Keep the updates coming along with the photo's.