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Defo ramhorn snails, the plant is maybe a amazon sword but im not 100% The snails are pretty cool but will breed extremely fast, i had about 20 and in 2 months i had 100s, if you keep the tank clean and dont over feed that will slow there breeding down abit

Heres mine, Iv almost cut them in half and then tied them on to a piece of lava rock, this way it makes them look like little green hills and you get the added bonus of not having to turn them regularly

Have you got any cories, i had cories and they laid eggs like that, they seem to scatter them every where

Also yes iv slid the heater down so it sits just above the power head

Lol well spotted, it is indeed a fluval spec. My mrs has just brought and had it only set up for about a week, heres a pic of it but most of the plants and stones have just been put in randomly, also heres a better pic if mine

I was meant to say 30 litre

My 3i litre fluval ebi tank. 2 light units with a small pressurised co2 unit, weekly dosing with pro flora liquid fert.

Heres a closer look for you

Red cherry shrimp are very easy to look after so they make a good first shrimp to try. For plant wise iv got marino moss balls, flame moss and java fern. Heres a pic of my tank

Cool thanks

Lol i thought copper would kill shrimp, learn something new every day. And thanks, ill get some flourish then i dont mind using liquids as its easy to use, Its only a small tank so if i get a big bottle it will last a long time. Would HC do better with liquid ferts aswell

Ok thanks ill pop a couple in tomorrow. I can get liquid ferts easily enough like seachams, i dont no anything about dry ferts so i keep clear of those. Is there any good liquid ferts you can recommend, as i dont want to kill my shrimps by getting the wrong one with copper in or anything else...

Lol shrimp stampede, yeah no what you mean. i thought i only had about 50, it wasnt until i moved the bogwood out and all the shrimps and shrimplets came out i realised they had been getting busy alot more then i thought.

Lol thanks again, recently i had about 130 shrimps in the tank and trust me that was hectic. I started off with about 20 about 8 months ago and just kept the water clean and left them to it. I thought it was time to thin them out as i thought had about 50 in there but as said when i deceided to...

Heres a few more pics with the new hairgrass. The flame moss has grown about 5-10mm in the last 4 or 5 days so it looks the lights and the co2 is working for it. Also the light really shows the colours off on the shrimps aswell which is an added bonus

Thanks rivercats, no not using any ferts, i have got some root tabs but im not sure if it will be any good for HC

The lamp is stock but it is for plant growth and if i remember its got 6700k rating so im hoping running the 2 lamps might be enough to get HC to grow but will shall see lol

Lol yeah the shrimps are always out on the moss. Iv just got some dwarf hairgrass to fill in the gaps which should look nice, sure can keep you updated on the grow rate with the co2. I do intend to get some HC to replace the flame moss soon but iv never had any luck with it in the past but i...

Hi dan, thanks very much, yeah thats java fern tied to the bogwood. The carpet plant in the front middle is flame moss and the other bits that looks like hills are morino moss balls cut in half and tied to lava rocks.

Hi every one i thought ill see what you guys and girls make of my shrimp tank. Theres about 20 red cherry shrimps, 6 neons and 6 dwarf corys. Iv only just added the 2nd light unit and co2 so im waiting to see if that makes a vast improvement. Thanks

Iv had some now for 3 years and some of them are now about 1.5 inches, i hardly see them, i normally see the smaller ones or furrows left in the substrate by the bigger ones

Yep i can, it looks like its growling lol

A general planted tank question: how did you make the spray bar to lesson the current in your tank as i have the same problem with it being to powerfull

I had 8 gold barbs in my old comunity tank, they were great, had no problems at all, they were really peaceful

Yep defo a ramhorn snail, and yes the breed like crazy, iv got red ramhorm snails in 3 of my tanks and they did take over a year or so ago, but i think that was due to over feeding, i used assain snails to keep them in check now and now there fine, the more the assain snails breed the less ram...