candacecook1025
Aquarium Advice Freak
I am redoing a 10 gal shrimp tank for the new Blue Velvets I have coming in soon! This will be a shrimp only tank (except for their rabbit snail friend) so everything that goes into it needs to be shrimp-friendly.
This is also my very first planted tank and it feels a little daunting to me. My other large community tank has artificial plants and my shrimp are doing great and multiplying like crazy even with fish in there! But I love the natural look of the wood and live plants so I am going for it! But I could use as much advice as I can get.
This is will low tech and low light. We will see if I can handle that before I take on a bigger challenge in a larger tank.
Filtration: I already have a mature AquaClear 50 on this tank, and will continue to use it, along with a sponge prefilter.
Substrate: I am thinking Eco-Complete. Any thoughts? I know several folks that have success with it in their shrimp tanks as well.
Wood: Looking for the right piece, plus I have tons of cholla wood.
Plants: I ordered a butt load of mixed mosses (java, peacock I think) and am creating a moss wall to cover the back (good for baby shrimplets). I ordered some java fern and also the wavy java fern (will try to attach some to DW). Someone gave me some water wisteria, and I have several Marimo moss balls. And after that I am stuck. I need some suggestions! EASY plants to care for that are not picky. I don't need this to be very heavily planted but want some different plants that look nice together.
Also, any advice on using ferts, as I have never used these. I got some info about using Seachem Flourish and Flourish Excel as a good starting point. Thoughts or other suggestions?
Thanks for all your help! My shrimp will also appreciate having a natural environment to grow and hopefully breed like crazy! (Hopefully soon enough I will post some For Sale ads for Blue Velvets!)
Candace
This is also my very first planted tank and it feels a little daunting to me. My other large community tank has artificial plants and my shrimp are doing great and multiplying like crazy even with fish in there! But I love the natural look of the wood and live plants so I am going for it! But I could use as much advice as I can get.
This is will low tech and low light. We will see if I can handle that before I take on a bigger challenge in a larger tank.
Filtration: I already have a mature AquaClear 50 on this tank, and will continue to use it, along with a sponge prefilter.
Substrate: I am thinking Eco-Complete. Any thoughts? I know several folks that have success with it in their shrimp tanks as well.
Wood: Looking for the right piece, plus I have tons of cholla wood.
Plants: I ordered a butt load of mixed mosses (java, peacock I think) and am creating a moss wall to cover the back (good for baby shrimplets). I ordered some java fern and also the wavy java fern (will try to attach some to DW). Someone gave me some water wisteria, and I have several Marimo moss balls. And after that I am stuck. I need some suggestions! EASY plants to care for that are not picky. I don't need this to be very heavily planted but want some different plants that look nice together.
Also, any advice on using ferts, as I have never used these. I got some info about using Seachem Flourish and Flourish Excel as a good starting point. Thoughts or other suggestions?
Thanks for all your help! My shrimp will also appreciate having a natural environment to grow and hopefully breed like crazy! (Hopefully soon enough I will post some For Sale ads for Blue Velvets!)
Candace