Sump or individual filters?

[Munroco]

I'm planning a small rack for keeping Caridina shrimp. I'm undecided whether to go with a sump or individual filters. The sump would be simplest and would be less work, but of course if something goes wrong all the tanks would be affected, although I haven't seen much on here about shrimp diseases.

Opinions?

BTW if I go down the filter route I'm going to make matten filters for all the tanks

[jayc]

how many separate tanks are you looking at?

 

[Munroco]

Five to start, 3 * 24x12x15 and 2 * 30x12x15

[jayc]

46 minutes ago, Munroco said:

Five

Then a sump would be the best idea. 

[Munroco]

Next question (set up plan has changed to 6 24*12*15) While it would be nice to use some of the specialised shrimp substrate, for 6 tanks this is going to be very expensive. Any other options? I don't want to use sand as the tank I have my shrimp in gets very messy looking, and its hard to siphon with very small shrimp.

[Zebra]

Could always do something like this,

Im still waiting for the SS mesh to build the filter guards, the stuff I had, I needed to use for another build.

theres a 40L sump underneath the main planted tank I still haven't plumbed in. 

 And I've got a chihiros led coming (which is taking forever) to go over the top to also grow individual buce and that in each compartment, ATM it's just a crappy diy led on top. 

Well the whole thing is diy but that was just temporary lol

I recently added an airstone into each one just to keep them fresh cause some prick sold me sick shrimp.

[Munroco]

Sorry I didn't reply, I missed this post. The set up looks similar to what I've done excepting that huge tank underneath. I did use Matten filters in the end as I was scared if something went wrong I could wipe out all the tanks.