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This is my plan for a tank that will have only shrimp in it, saltwater shrimp. Please comment if you see any issues. I'm a newbie. 20 gallon tank by Carolina sand substrate, so shrimp can burrow and hide in the day no plants in substrate; I'll have come floating plants; I have...

Thanks. Looking those up online where there are photos, that's definitely right. I snagged them out of the canal and put them into a 20 gallon aquarium, which I filled with brackish water from the canal. They are happy there and feed on the very small API sinking shrimp pellets. Oddly, so...

Can anyone help me identify these very small fish. Are they fry of a larger species or just a small species. They are less than an inch long. They can be found in 10 Mile Canal in Southwest Florida. They'll eat tiny shrimp pellets. They live in shallow brackish water. I have a bunch of...

I want to get a microscope to identify the microscopic living things in my aquarium, which is a brackish aquarium that simulates the environment of the canal that I live next to in Southwest Florida. So I want something one could use to identify things like copepods, microscopic algae, etc...

can anyone recommend a siphon for partially draining the tank? can anyone recommend a youtube video on how to set up a drip to acclimate an organism to different water gradually - I mean the mechanics like what tubing to use and do you clip it to containers and do you really on gravity or need...

does anyone know whether tannin such as is released by mangroves would be harmful to shrimp?

I have a dirt substrate that includes some peat moss and manure, which I want to keep for plants and other reasons. But stuff floats up and clogs my filter. I think I'd like to put a layer of small stones on top of it to stop this. Larger than the typical 2 mm aquarium gravel, though not...

I'm new to aquariums. I have a dirt substrate planted brackish tank. The water is tinted brown, which is fine, because I used, as my source water, water taken from an area full of mangroves. Tea colored water is ok with me. At first it was more like muck though. Then it seemed to settle...

I'm new to Aquariums and installed an Eheim 150 filter in a 20 gallon tank yesterday. I saw a Youtube video where the guy had angled the holes on the spray bar 45 degrees upward, so there was a fit of a fountain effect, with water going up and over a couple of inches before falling back into...

API Saltwater Master Test Kit. I have no reason to doubt the results, which seemed to be moving in the right direction (ammonia and nitrate going down; nitrate going up) at this early stage in the cycle. Though I have not confirmed with any other test. I do have another nitrate test kit...

Ammonia .25 ppm Nitrite 2 ppm Nitrate 40 pH 8.2 I know I started with dirty water; it's an experiment. The tank is cycling so the ammonia was expected. I just didn't know whether that level of nitrate by itself would be a problem if it stayed there after ammonia and nitrite disappear. Sounds...

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I understand that part. At this point all I care about the tank supporting is some plants I will be putting in.

Cycling a brackish (15 ppt salt) tank. I have not put any fish in yet. Nitrate is at 40. Can this harm the nitrifying bacteria? Should I change water? Or ignore?

Thanks. I'll check the rules. But these are not exotic or non-native. They are bought from a local bait shop who purchases them from a supplier who catches them near a local beach. They already live in water that is contiguous with my canal. And every fisherman who sticks one on a hook and...

I'm completely new to aquariums and need some advice. I understand that people often start with sterile sand and RO water and that there are risks to what I'm proposing but hear me out. I live bordering a brackish water canal 1 mile from Mullock Creek. I'm want to see if I can get some shrimp...