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Hi All , Some of this has been posted on another forum , so some of you may have seen it before Was lucky enough to win this cube , air pump and thermometer at a fish meet , so it was dedcided it needed to be setup Some of the equipment has been recycled from my old tank , some won and the rest bought new Tank - 30cm cube Substrate - Up Aqua shrimp sand 2kgs Equipment - Aquaone HOB filter ( aqua clear 100 ) sponge inlet cover - Aquaone heater 50watt - Resun air pump - External breeder box ( 2.6L ) - Desk lamp with 20W 6500K bulb - Feeding tube and feeding dish - Breeding cave Moss - Java moss , Peacock moss , Subwassertang Driftwood - Malyasian Mangrove So this tank was to sit on my TV cabinet ( TV cabinet does not sit level ) noticeable when tank is filled with water I decided to build a tank base with adjustable feet so everything would sit nice and level some equipment won and bought MDF cut and painted ( base , tank base and background ) Light and light stand attached to base ( everthing level ) Tank and foam added ( edge of foam painted silver to match base ) Driftwood , Sand , Breeder box and 2 Thermometers added Everthing setup ready for water All Running The tank has been runnig for about a month now , Home to 5 RCS ( babies in the last couple of days ) 10 CRS and the breeder boxes houses 4 YCS ( I will add some photos of the shrimp when I can get some good shots ) PH - 6.4 Temp - 25 and 24 in breeder box Cheers Twellsy

Hey All , I have had this 3ft take running for several months now ( housing some neon tetras , black neon tetras , bristle nose catfish ) slowly but surly I have started to neglect the tank and have been wanting to turn it into a shrimp tank So it was decided that the tank will be turned into a divided shrimp tank ( gave all the fish to a friend of mine ) The stand I made several months ago but will be reused ( construction photos are old ) The frame Starting to look like a Tank stand Construction completed ( the door handles where my wifes idea of a joke ) After sending the tank to be modified I got stuck into redoing the stand What it looked like before starting the new light poles Couple of hours spent making and installing the new light poles ( the tank will be divided into three equal sections ) How it looks from the back with power board for the three lights Cut a background out and painted it with the left over silver from my cube setup

]Hi All, I was going to wait until more progress was made on this, before posting but here are some setup shots of my new shrimp house in the making. Old tank ready to be reused Can't be bothered painting so using a basic background After reading about this in another thread here, decided to use a divider that also filters. Also, wanted a non permanent solution, should needs change.

Hi All It has taken a while to get started, but I started yesterday by painting the area, now I have to lay out door tiles, put in tanks and stands, a system and on the Left hand side will be a plant growing area in a sort of Hydroponics system. The start, it is 6mts long by 2 wide and will be covered in green house plastic and shade cloth, it will hold 15 x 60cm tanks and 12 x low 80cm tanks

MTS starting to kick in... with moonlight...

Soon to be revealed my custom breeding setup. Keep your eyes on the lookout for a full update! Part 1 is bottom of the First Page! Part 2 will be up before the weekend!! Keep an eye out!

Hi guys as most of you will no a while ago i mentioned i had ordered my 5 foot tank, well it has now arrived i have now sikaflexed the piping to the tank waiting for it to dry so in the next couple days i will be able to finish the rest of the plumbing and get it all happening :) (photos are yet to come)

Hi all. Haven't been around much lately, busy at work and busier on holidays so I thought it was time to put some pics of the new rack up. Firstly, i would like to thank Wayne and bluebolts for all the shrimp I have. They were both generous after I had a mishap and lost most of my stock Unfortunately I don't have any pics of the build but im only half done so I will take more pics as I go. At the moment I have two 4x15x18 tanks on a timber stand with a twin 10 000k t8 light mounted on the top tank. I am getting a slimline light for the bottom tank. Filtration is two large bio corner filters in each tank, driven by an aqua one 9500 air pump ( I would like a quieter pump if anyone has a suggestion). I decided against a sump so I can keep both tanks at different parameters and the top tank will get a chiller. The bottom tank has no scape yet as its being used to raise a few hundred convict fry at the moment which is a quality improvement program I have going at the moment. Now to the important stuff, the top tank has a mix of cherries that I am sorting out as I go. It has reds, rillis, blue velvet,black, choc and some wild type. Also three female mischlings that were fry that survived my mini hiroshima(need a boy of some type soon) Substrate is a layer of fluval shrimp capped with 1-3mm natural black gravel. Planted with milfoil, minature milfoil, duckweed, watersprite, crypt wendtii green and a red plant I dont know the name of. The rack is going to be covered like a shop display so I will add pics as I go.

As some of you may know, I have limited space, budget and time so I decided to get a nano Fluval Edge tank last year. Initially I had no idea what to get, maybe tetras or guppies. But as I started cycling my tank, a friend gave me some anubias, java moss and a cherry shrimp. It was fun watching it in the tank and decide to try out shrimps. Cutting the story short I've since become a shrimp addict. I've had gone through lot's of problems and shrimp keeping has a steep learning curve (as most of you know). But recently I've finally began to grasp keeping sensitive shrimps like CRS/CBS and maintaining a nano tank with the thanks to many of you in various shrimps forums. Today there are around 40 shrimps in the tank. Mostly CRS, a few CBS, some cherries and small mix of native Darwin Red Nose and Darwin Algae shrimps. There's around 5 moss types in there too. Here are some of the photos of my tank. Currently I have 4 berried shrimps (3 CRS, 1 CBS). Shrimplet survival is still no great, around 20-30% but I'm happy they're breeding! I'm planning to get a chiller before summer hits and will always appreciate any advice for a shrimp noob like me.

Due to numerous deaths in my cube, rather then going bust, I decided to go all out and upgrade to a high tech setup. Adam at Aquascapedesign had a ex demo for sale, so I picked that up to match my 3ft in my living room. The plan is to move prefilter/G3/chiller/heater over to the new tank, and let the sponge filter and UGF to maintain the filtration in the cube and go from there. Hopefully this tank can be up and running before summer arrives! Filled the bottom with penac w, tourmaline bc and mosura old sea mud while waiting the Benibachi soil from Jeff. I ordered 10kg normal and 5kg powder, so hopefully that will be enough to create a 5-6cm deep substrate.

hi all, decided to make a journal post to keep everything in the one place and update as needed, finally went out today and got a nice stand for our new breeding tanks, ducked into the local Clark rubber and got some foam for the underside of the tanks and came home to start setting things up. Still undecided as to what stock these will have but most likely either CRS/CBS for starters then hopefully some mishlings and high end TB's after we've learnt enough! Our new RO machine is getting put to the limit today and tested so it'll be awhile before we show full tank pics; We're using Mr Aquarium shrimp substrate, read a fair bit about it and seems to be a good product, will be keeping these tanks quite simple with sponge filters and just generic heaters (Not that we'll need them at this time of year) More pics to come as we finish filling and get everything else soughted out Cheers P.S: Think it's safe to say my brother inlaw and i have got a serious case of MTS, will be getting another pair of 2 foot tanks to replace my single 4 footer (scratched and old) thats currently in the dining room with my breeding cherries in it. Will hopefully use the old 4 footer as a bit of a mixed cherry breeding set up later on. All in time though

So after a bit of thinking, I thought I might make a bit of a journal, instead of just updating pics and stuff. The initial plan was to try my hand at a few cherry var. but then thought, Y U NO GO BEE? So, here goes: Picked up these for $150 Goodies List: 2x cm Cubes 2x HOB filters 2x Fluval 50W 2x Salty Shrimp Cave 2x Air Driven Sponge Filter 2x Purigen Pouches 1x ADA Bio Rio 1x ADA Malaya Powder 9L 1x ADA Power Sand 1x Benibachi Balls 1x 2ft Twin T5HO Food: Fluval Shrimp Food Bee Polleen Kale Tabs SERA - Shrimp Natural Dried Spinach leaves, turned to dust. The Malaya really helped the cycling process, 6 days, and it was done. I thought Amazonia was fast :onthego: The Malaya also provided the best buffering, and cost versus other substrates I was looking at... not to mention THE COLOUR! So far I have tied some moss and ferns to some things an just put in there. I love getting a pile of plants, and you find about 4 different types of moss, I didnt have before... GROW OUT TIME! The algae in it doesn't help, but I can work with it :P Moving forward, Im unsure how I am going to separate everyone. I have 6x CBS Misch, 6x Red Rilli (Blue gene, 1 looks "Superman") and 1 X SW (unsure of origins, found it, was too cheap to refuse) Current parameter: (12 hours after full water change to RO, previous parameters were the same except for TDS which was about 170 and nitrates @ about 15ppm) Temp: 23.5 pH: 5.5 TDS: 220 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 5ppm So, now I just want to let things settle for a bit longer, make sure there isn't any spikes and its all stable. I will be updating this a lil more than my Willows Tank, as well, these are probably going to be shrimp breeding tanks, where Willows might just end up as culls... still deciding... probably change my mind, as we all do...

So I shall show the transformation of my 2 ft tank. After having a nano tank on my bedside table with RCS in a decided to convert my 2 ft downstairs to a shrimp tank. This was how my tropical tank looked. Before I added shrimp I decided I'd re-scape the tank. Which was quite time consuming and tedious adding Shrimp sand and reorganising it! This is how it turned out. i started with 10 RCS and have recently added 6 A-grade CRS from a lady on a Facebook group.

So around 8 months ago on my bedside table I had a 25L nano tank with a betta in it. The betta died after a long loving life :( so I decided I was going to make it into a shrimp tank, my first ever shrimp! After some tinkering I bought some goldvine and some awesome galaxy rasboras from fishchick aquatics and added some javamoss and later on some flame moss. And added my RCS. After now having the shrimp in for 6/7 months or so they are thriving, always new babies around!

hey guy's, well I joined SKF only a few days ago and I went went to go pick up a 3ft tank and stand for $30 bucks it was in a far worst condition when I picked it up :0 put painted the stand black and changed a few thing, but then when I was about to move it into the house I came across a 4ft tank with heaps of drift wood, plants, cherry shrimp, and 4x massive cat fish, the tank was all up and running when I went to look at it and I sussed out a few things and it was sold to me :) so today I went to go strip it down and bring home so here is a few pic's, how it was a night and how I saw it, [ATTACH]4495[/ATTACH] when I started to drain it and get some the shrimp out! FAIL!!! haha when we packed them in my dad's falcon, ill show pic's of when I put most of the shrimp in to my 2fter and how the 4ft is sitting now and waiting for the 2fter to clear up so I can put some more plants in! but I am using a internal filter so hopefully not to many shrimp get sucked up :) :) and thanks to a few members for helping me out!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!:encouragement:

Just making a thread for my new divided tank, i started 2-3 days back and my starphire 45cm yi ding tank. PICTURES WILL BE COMING SOON! Details: DIVIDED TANK Aquaone AR 620 tank Divider in between, with mesh hole. Filter system: The tank has been set up so it has technically 5 filters in total! Sponge filter in tank -> Prefilter -> Eheim 2217 filled with bioglass + 2 thin sponge on top -> top filter ->> AND also underground filter run by air pump Substrate: Benibachi shrimp soil Plants: Golden vine (moss tree including us fissidens, peacock moss, flame moss, mini pellia, anubias nana petite) erio shiga Flame moss slate few us fissiden slates Aridarum sp. Mini on lava rock Livestock: none yet 45 cm x 27 cm x 30 cm Starphire Tank YI DING TANK Filter system: 2 sponge filter driven by air pump Substrate: up aqua shrimp sand Plants: Driftwood covered with peacock moss. few slates of us fissidens Livestock: around 15 A/S - SS Grade red Crystal shrimps

here is the update of my tank are know if you can notice but my soil have some red and white rock in it could that by the reason why my tank has to much ammonia and it did not cycle ?

Picked this up from KiwiBigD and didnt waste any time. Gave it a good clean. Scraped off all the old paint and wanted to get it tinted but f**ks could no be found anywhere so i went down to officeworks and picked up a roll of contact. It cost ~$2.50 for a 100x45cm piece and me and my girly did it. Popped some sponge filters in and this is where im at thus far. Just have to go home and pick up my cabinet, drill the tanks, plumb and away we go.

Hi Guys, I was going to wait to start this when i had more exciting pics, but just cant wait. . . . First time doing a journal. This one is a replacement of my nearly 2ft cube I shut down due to itjust being way too tall to maintain (Im barely 150cms tall). I have alsodeveloped an interest in reef tanks and marine shrimp, so I have had a customnano reef built to match my new shrimp tank ;) My shrimp are currently being babysat by the lovely Brado, but I’mreally looking forward to getting them back, plus making a few much neededpurchases of higher quality stock. If you have any advice or comments, please don’t hesitate to let meknow, as I’m experienced, but nowhere near a pro. Tank: 40cm custom braceless cube with bevelled edges, blacksilicone and rear panel painted black Cabinet: Custom ADA style black Lighting: Clip on LED with inbuilt fans Filtration: Aqua One Nautilus 600 with inline heater and Hailea130-A Chiller, as well as maybe an air driven sponge Substrate: Benibachi normal with a top layer of Benibachi fine Scape: Gold vine driftwood covered in Common Java, NL Java,Windelov (Lace) Java, Bolbitus and anubias nana petite. Also a bit of US Fissidencos it’s my favourite J Water: RO with Salty Bee Shrimp Minerals Currently waiting on my cabinet to be finished which seems to be takingages, and my tank to be finished and ready to be picked up as there was a holdup with the arrival of the black silicone. But I have all my gear ready andwaiting, and my plant holding tank, which was kindly donated by someone who putit out for roadside collection (SCORE) is nearly full, still need more plants tho. Please stay tuned for the arrival of the last two components J then we will be off and racing :onthego: My Gear: My plants:

Hi All, Just wanted to share my dad's new planted tank journey with you guys (early father's day gift :)). The tank will either house shrimps or discus. To begin, I've compiled a list of what's going to be used: Tank: Aqua One AR980 215L Substrate: Black Earth Premium Soil 4 x 9L Normal. Thanks to Bossaquaria Dean. - ADA Power Sand -S will be added, only because it was so cheap. Thanks to Ace. Lighting: Up-Aqua Pro Z30 LED Light. Thanks to Bossaquaria Dean. Filter: Eheim 2215 & UV Sterilizer 9w. Co2 Equipment: - Keg King 2.6kg bottle - Azoo Co2 Pressure Regulator With Magnetic Valve - Glass diffuser & bubble counter (will look into getting an ista reactor) - Co2 drop checker Gold vine driftwood and a variety of plants. We got the ball rolling by emptying the tank, removed the gravel and gave it a good clean. Once that was done and dusted, it was time to start pouring in the soil. ADA power sand went in first, then the Black Earth Premium Soil. I have to admit, the BEPS has a really nice texture to it, color looks great and the grain size (Normal) is similar to ADA aqua soil AZ. Whether it will stand up to the predominant ADA soil, we will just have to wait and see :) By the way, I'm not the best planner/aquascaper out there. If anything, it will be a noobie planted tank setup. :o Here's a couple of Pics i manage to take. .

set the tank up about 3 am so am really tired haven't sleep yet. 3 hours later tank seems so clear up very well temperature since this morning mmm about 20 now any ways i keep you guys posted in couple days and see what happens with crystals and cherrys http://shrimpkeepersforum.com/forum/ipb3/http://shrimpkeepersforum.com/forum/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.gif' alt=':D'> OK GUYS THIS IS DAY 2 AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE WATER.

After finding that my Yellow, Chocolate and Red Rilli Cherries were sneaking past the tank dividers in my 3' tank I decided I needed to carry out some repairs. Here is what I did: I re-did the silicone on the dividers removed the top fixed glass panel and made lids so I can get to the centre section better siliconed some fine SS mesh over the holes in the dividers (it did have cut up sponge filter in the holes before). removed the undergravel filters Added 4 x Bags of new Benbachi soil Installed a new pre-filter with foam, filter wool and a purigen bag Re-did the LED light so it now hangs instead of being fixed in place (makes it easy to move it now) So after having the tank off line for a couple of weeks it's now back in action. I had the canister filter running in my rack system while the tank was offline, so I'm expecting to add shrimp tomorrow or Sunday.

Thank you SKF for welcoming and accepting me on this forum. I started to keep shrimp properly in November last year when I came back from holidays in Europe. I bought this aqua one nano tank which I thought would be enough for me. I slowly planted it and added shrimp in. First was snow whites, then crystal reds and crystal blacks. After I added the shrimp I knew I would have a problem when they grew up to breeding age so I ordered my custom divided tank. I wasn't allowed much space and 2 foot was the maximum I could go. The 30 cube was snuck in and kept in the spare bathroom where I am staying at my sister's house. She was okay with it when she saw it but when she heard I was getting another tank she said I couldn't keep it. I have a beautiful, gorgeous sexy girlfriend who I conned into keeping the tanks in her apartment. There was enough space in her apartment for a larger tank but it was too late- the divided tank was already being made. I decided to keep the 30 cube instead of shutting it down because I spent too much money on it already. The tanks are side by side on the same cabinet. I am still deciding if I want to get an over flow box and connect the two tanks. I have transferred the shrimp over to the divided tank. The 30 cube has natives in it. I will wait until it is cooler to see if I want to put tee bees in there. 30 cube tank specs: Tank: Aqua One all in one 30 cube. Light: Up Aqua z series LED Soil: Up Aqua soil Filtration: eheim 2215 filled with Seachem Matrix Initial set up November 2012 planted collecting/hoarding plants for the divided tank

Hi guys well here i am starting to get my tank ready for shrimps just build it today and is fully sealed 1 or 2 more days and i will test it with water and see what happens, just got couple questions for you guys and see what do you recomend. here is the diy tank [ATTACH]4089[/ATTACH]

Hi everyone its time for me to show you guys my new set up. ATM i have 6 seperate tanks but this is too much to maintain for me so i have decide to build a shrimp rack to make it easier fo me.I will post pics for now and see what you all think. So this is the plumming this is my DIY sump For my lighing , i'm using 2x4ft pro up aqua z series LED light for the whole system I'm using DE BARY aqua UV sterilizer For my water change , i'm using the drip system. My holding tank is localted on top of the rack. I'm using benibachi soil from Boss aquaria , I have 8 cm of soil in each section with is a total of 12 bags and as you can see the water is ph 5.4 My tank is cycling atm with dwarf boibitus and mini fissiden