I finally convinced my wife to let me get a new gently used 20g long tank for our shrimp and tetras. They were both not doing well in our main 29g tank with rainbow fish. I do have some questions though as we finally got a very good handle on the first tank in terms of plants, water clarity...etc. Now we have to start again on the small tank.
Old tank:
29g
Aquaclear 70
Aqueon 55
Finnex Ray 2
Black diamond substrate
New tank:
20g long
Giant sponge filter (was used in the old tank for ~2months)
20g shrimp filter en route
T5HO
Black diamond substrate
Ok so both tanks are cycled (0/0/<50) but my question is that purigen and filter floss helped so much in the old tank to really clean the water. Since I don't have an HOB in the shrimp tank, is there a way to use purigen? Can I leave it in a small sac and hang it from the edge? You can see in the photos that it is kind of murky.
First 3 photos are of the new shrimp tank. Last one is the bigger 29g tank.
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Old tank:
29g
Aquaclear 70
Aqueon 55
Finnex Ray 2
Black diamond substrate
New tank:
20g long
Giant sponge filter (was used in the old tank for ~2months)
20g shrimp filter en route
T5HO
Black diamond substrate
Ok so both tanks are cycled (0/0/<50) but my question is that purigen and filter floss helped so much in the old tank to really clean the water. Since I don't have an HOB in the shrimp tank, is there a way to use purigen? Can I leave it in a small sac and hang it from the edge? You can see in the photos that it is kind of murky.
First 3 photos are of the new shrimp tank. Last one is the bigger 29g tank.
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