Best shrimp substrate

[Tjd2006]

So, I'm looking at starting a 10 gallon RCS colony. I want a good substrate that is PH neutral. My PH seems to hang around 6.9 to 7.2.

I see quite a few posts with a brown round substrate. No idea what it is?


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[Nils]

That brown round substrate is a special, nutrient rich substrate for plants. In my 5.5 RCS tank, all I did was use run of the mill PetCo white sand and it works fine for me. You can use any other sand too, I've heard people have great success with black diamond blasting sand. Special shrimp substrate is for more expensive shrimp that need lots of special levels of things in their water to survive. That's shrimp like sulawesi cardinal shrimp. For RCS, if it were me I'd just throw in any kind of sand and go for it. Hope this helped

 

[Tjd2006]

Thanks Nils. I might have some just normal aquarium gravel somewhere. Most of the substrates I have raise PH like Eco Complete and are not very shrimp friendly for establishing a colony.


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