Our plan is to remove any juvies which don't match our goals, and as quality juvies come along adults will get put into display tanks around the house.

All up we will have 10 shrimp only tanks, 4 display tanks inside, 10 wild betta tanks, 2 apisto tanks, 2/3 spawning tanks for fancys, and a betta barracks.

Also have a lot of breeder boxes for if we need to seperate anyone/anything out.

It's great to see your plans are coming together nicely. It's fun when you get to the final setup stage. Looking forward to heaps of pics once it's up and running!!

So I've tried to get a few shots of our mess.

And for good measure, the tail of a hiding betta hendra

Wow very nice setup!

Looking good......

What sort of sump are you having?

Love the betta barrack in the background.

Edited April 25, 201511 yr by inverted

Standard sump. An old marine one we picked up.

Will be getting a 3000l per hour powerhead, k1 media, ceramic noodles, and filter wool.

Will also run an eheim 2215 i think it is we have, and put an inline uv sterilizer on that cycled just the sump.

Can never over filter/over worry.

Had Jamie come visit us yesterday and he thought our idea for shrimp guards was pretty good.

 

For the return flow, we have used reducing bushes which fit the 12/16 long shrimp guards made for canister filters. Used the long ones to avoid clogging from leaf litter.

 

 

 

 

 

We've also put a few shrimp into the cycled tanks.

 

As shrimp are currently where the sump will be, we have to put them in the tanks before we can start cycling sump (leaving 2/3 tanks empty to cycle it all)

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 201511 yr by NoGi
fixed pics

Just curious... can you not use a normal stainless steel strainer for the return instead of shrimp guard? Will shrimplets get through the strainers?

 

I am contemplating building a drilled and plumbed rack hence this question.

Yes.... Shrimplets will get through your standard strainer. However very few shrimplets with the exception of neocaridina will venture that high.

Everyone with normal strainers reports shrimp end up in sump, main reason we experimented with this in hope it won't happen to us

So we have 6/10 tanks with soil and water. 4 of those 6 have shrimp in them.

 

Tomorrow's job will be get the final 4 drilled and fittings installed.

 

Will mean by next weekend we can have shrimp in 8/10 tanks, put sump into place and start seeding the sump using the 2 empty tanks.

 

Here's some happy snaps of some current shrimp

 

Edited June 2, 201511 yr by fishmosy

Very nice man!

Looking great James!!

Here's some more shots of setting up the final 5 tanks on the rack

Few more shots of it all coming together.

Looking great dude keep the pics coming

No photo, but a good update I feel. All 10 tanks drilled and plumbed. Old sump has been tested for leaks for a week and is holding strong. Pump and 4500lph uv sterilized have been ordered and paid for. Tomorrow's job is put sump in position, fill with media, and attach a canister filter to it to start circulating the water. Get that ammonia spike started. This weekend we will plumb the tanks up to the sump and turn the shrimpless tanks online. This time in a few weeks we should have 10 nice tanks of shrimp

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looking good mate i like the shrimp guard useage!

out of curiosity how much has/will this setup cost you overall?

So far for the 10 tanks fittings was $400 The tanks we already had. The sump we already had. Filter media probably $150 roughly? Powerhead and uv sterilizor was $106. Pipe work we still need to buy.

so if you didn't have the tanks and sump you are probably dropping a couple of K. Best of luck and keep posting more pics.

So far for the 10 tanks fittings was $400 The tanks we already had. The sump we already had. Filter media probably $150 roughly? Powerhead and uv sterilizor was $106. Pipe work we still need to buy.

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Would total probably around 1k to 1.5k We are lucky to get stuff at very good prices so as to not break the bank. We have another 10 tanks we will turn into a second sump system. But will be bettas/fish so that's a whole new ball game again. Our theory once we spend the money we shouldn't need to spend any more for a while