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Hi @Crabby v2 try signing in to your old account, I was able to change the theme for you, I believe it should work now.

This is one for @Cesar to investigate.

Hey everyone! Been awhile since I've had the time to post actively on this forum but i was just wondering if anyone knows if an airstone or a venturi attachement (like the Eheim power diffusor) is better for a shrimp tank? I kinda already have a canister filter that I can easily hook up the attachment to but im just wondering if theres any difference between the two? TIA! P.S I already have a sponge filter running but ive heard that increasing oxygen content in the water could improve shrimplet survival rates

as long as you have good surface movement you will have plenty of oxygen. air stones and venturi setups don't put extra oxygen in the tank as the bubbles are too big, all gas exchange happens at the surface. The only exception is if you run c02, you need no surface movement and the plants provide oxygen.

Success! Thanks so much guys. Appreciate the help.

The purpose of both is to make small bubbles and swirl the water around. I have both an airstone and also an attachment that adds bubbles to my filter outlet. I actually find the airstone more useful for two reasons: 1) When doing powdered food like Bacter AE, I turn off the filter so as not to draw the particles into the sponge. I found that the airstone actually creates a lot of water swirling even on the far side of the tank. 2) For the same reason, if doing a H2O2 treatment where you don't want to drag water thru the filter media, the airstone is good The advantage of the venturi-type system is that if you adjust it right, to have only a few bubbles worth of air intake per second, it can actually be nearly silent

I am just getting started with shrimp. My s/o is fully on board with giving me the basement for the tanks. That being said I have an empty 55 gal. And am looking to make a substantial tank purchase. I was looking for a recommendation on whether to go with 10 gallon or 20 longs for the tank setups. Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks. I think I have an good setup for starting my new tanks.

Heya guys... so I did a thing... So this is me, Crabby, and I've had to make another account due to something dumb I did on the other. I found the 'theme' toggle last night. So of course, I clicked it once to see if there were any other options to spice it up a little. Aaaaaand I found the 'IPS Default', and the regular 'Default' below it... and of course, I had to see what the difference was... For anyone who hasn't tried this before: don't. The difference is you literally get shut out of the account on any device you are signed into the forum on, and your screen for SKF will only ever show a blank page with a row of type at the top, claiming the theme or template is out of date, and I have to run a support tool in the AdminCP to restore the original theme. - [[Template core/front/global/globalTemplate is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]] @Cesar, @jayc, @sdlTBfanUK, how do I fix this?? Cheers. And sorry. ...whoops

Shrimps don't need tall tanks. So long, shallow tanks are great for viewing shrimps in. And being not too tall, they fit perfectly into racks. Shrimps also don't need very large tanks. A 2ft tank is more than enough.

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