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Plan is to drill the top lava rock and have the pump outlet forces up, to create fountain effect, shrimp could climb it, if the water level drops the water fall gets bigger.

Feed back?

Want to stock it with handful of cherry shrimp and a few amano shrimp

I am honestly worried that this will not be an appropriate tank for the neocardinia shrimp, I feel like they would’ve probably appreciated a lot of moss especially. It’s a 40x40x40cm cube (64 litres)

I was planning to also add some amano shrimp, pygmy corydoras, nerite snails and kubotai rasboras.

I put together this little 6g cube a while back. It was intended to be sort of iwagumi-ish. Substrate is fluval stratum, plants are a mix of dwarf chain swords and glossostigma. Tried co2 but that caused other issues. The main thing:

I’ve lost 10 fish to this thing (not all at once). I started with 20 neocaridina which all died overnight. Water parameters normal. A bit later I added 3 male guppies, which turned to 1 over about three weeks. Water parameters were fine, ph maybe a bit low, but nitrates/nitrites/ammonia were all basically zero unless i added fertilizer. Nobody appeared sick. I added three more guppies. The four were good for a while. Maybe six months. Then they slowly dropped. I would find them in the morning dead. When I lost the last one (which happened to be from the first lot) I figured maybe it was genetics or something. I added the glossotigma, upgraded to a canister filter, cycled the tank for a while while feeding it ammonia. Once everything seemed ok, I introduced a couple otocinclus ( I was having a bit of an algae issue) and four black emerald tetras. I lost one of the otos pretty quickly. These guys were all good for a few months. Yesterday’s my kid decided to dump half a container of bug bites into the tank while I was asleep. I emergency suctioned everything out that I could get and did about a 75-80% water change. I came home a few minutes ago from being out and found three tetras floating. I mildly panicked and relocated the last one (who appeared to be struggling) to another tank along with my last otocinclus.

I’m done with this setup. Tearing the thing apart soon and I’ll see if I can make it a more standard planted tank for a betta or something. It’s just really disheartening.

Edit: my other two tanks are running perfectly fine somehow. It really is just this cube

Edit #2: I just discovered somehow my little CO2 cylinder had gotten turned on and was way too fast. probably what got the tetras.

Attached photos from first week and then third week.

Hi everyone, it is my first time building a shrimp tank (10L). This tank is in its third week. It looked great the first 10 days, I left for vacation for a week and found it looking absolutely disgusting.

Most of the plants look dead, even the moss, the water is dirty and I found a worm/parasite looking creature and a few minuscule bugs roaming around.

I have read that plant melting is normal, but is it supposed to be looking like this?

I need to mention that during the vacation, the light was off. Was this a mistake on my part? Sunlight reaches the tank during the day.

I will do a water change and scrape the glass asap. How much should I change? Is 50% too much?

Also, my concern is with the worm. Is it dangerous, what should I do?

I am thinking of buying fertilizer as well asap, I havent used any until now.

Should I clean off/remove the dead plants?

Any tips, recommendations, and words of comfort are very welcome😭

Thank you!

I have a planted 3 gallon aquarium with Neocaridina Shrimp and snails. I’ve been wanting something to be the focal point/ center piece. Is there a nano fish that can fit here? If not then it’s okay!

Have had this 13.3 gallon shallow for about 4 months now and am not very happy with how it’s grown in (specifically stem plants in back and Monte Carlo). I have a beginner co2 set up as well.

Feeling like I might want to restart and use sand…

Also haven’t stoked it with anything but 2 netrite snails (it’s fully cycled).

Any feedback? Need some inspiration and advice on this thing!

Hello, I got a nano aquarium 2 months ago with shrimp and nerites. Ive had a recent problem where deterius build up isnt being dealt with. I have lots of copepods but ive noticed they have slowly migrated upwards as my gravel is becoming compacted with deterius.
The best solve ive seen on this online is Malaysian Trumpet Snails, but im worried they will be way too visible in my tank as they populate. How visible are they actually and will they help aerate and release deterius from my gravel? Thanks
Also any general advice about my tank is appreciated.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share my new experiment. A month ago, after watching losts of videos and reading blogs, I have decided to get into UG (Utricularia Graminifolia) setup. I have accepted the challenge of this hard carpet plant!

I have bought the UGs and set the tank at July 18th. At first touch, I loved the feel of the UG! The first photo of the tank attached from the July 22th! You can also see I put some Alternanthera Reineckii (right) and Bacopa Salzmannii (left). They do great at dry start as well!

After almost a month, my plants are doing great! They are thrilling! I am exited to share sone details and wanted to encourage people to try it!

Some technical details: the tank is Dennerle Plant Pro 35 (40x32x28). It comes with Chihiros A II light. I have used APT substrat and buried 1 lt Matrix in the back part to increased the hight and give some bacteria beds under the soil. The filter will be dennerle corner filter so I thought I would need more biological filtration. And the beneficial bacterias would start earlier since they are wet and oxigenated during dry start period. (Just a guess tho, we will see). All of these I have premium aquasoil and seiryu stones for the hardscape.

The design style is Iwagumi as you can see.

Anyways, I am attaching the photos from August 2nd, August 13th. You can see the growth.

I will wait for another 2 weeks as dry start since I will have a holiday and when I come back I will flood it. Finger crossed 🤞

If you are interested in drystarting UG, please let me know and lets exchange experiences!

Have a good weekend all!

After months of patients

Only used a very small water filter to get the water flowing, rest everything i tried to keep as natural as possible

no aqua soil - used river sand on top and below it a little garden soil + very little compost + gravel

Pictures for reference and to grab your attention!

Hi everyone! I'm slowly settling in after I moved. I have a couple of empty 40-gallon tanks and assorted smaller ones.

Lately I'm thinking of setting up a few of them, and I'm still deciding what to put in. I'm interested in species that care for their young, and, if possible, can be kept in a breeding colony. Preferably not larger than 3 inches so I can provide enough space. I have no problems with species and biotope-like tanks. I want to hear recommendations and your opinions! You never know when you're going to discover your new favorite fish.

I plan to start a few shrimp colonies too, in my smaller tanks.

I've heard of cichlid shellies, chocolate gouramies, some catfish, splashing tetras? Please let me know if anyone has experience with those.

Hoping for your responses!!

Tank 1 is a 56 liter Fluval Flex (topless)
Housing: 1x Red Honey Gourami, 10x Emerald dwarf rasboras, 5x Adolfoi Corys

Tank 2 is a Classic 25 liter Betta habitat

Tank 3 is my latest tank: 60 líters Currently housing 2x unidentifed fry that snuck in on the back of Anubias, and 1x Mystery snail. Choosing stocking options for this one soon.

Hello hello, I thought I’d share my experience so far with my first shrimp tank. I say first because I think I’m gonna get a second tank for some blue dreams, and then also eventually a third cull tank would obviously be the natural progression…

I’m using the Aquael 10 litre (2.6 US gallon) shrimp set which has worked quite nicely. I saw some positive reviews online but also some critiques regarding the fixed heater (25 degrees) and the lack of timer functionality on the light. The lack of timer on the light actually was a bit of an issue for me and I had to buy a smart plug for when I travelled while the tank was still cycling. The filter seems to work well, I heard some people share concerns with the filter foam as it’s not the most dense and could risk baby shrimp being sucked in. Not really sure if this is an issue or not but to my surprise I already have baby shrimp which seem to be doing really well. One of the females I got from my fish shop must’ve been berried as I first spotted them around a week after getting the shrimp.

Unfortunately I did have some losses. I started with 9 cherry reds and I’m now down to 6 (but have spotted up to 12 babies). As far as I’m aware I’ve done my best to try acclimate them to a good environment. My ammonia and nitrite levels have always been 0ppm, while nitrate varies between 0-5ppm, pH is usually around 7-7.2 and GH is 7 and KH is 2. I test the water with the API test kits and add temperature matched water with water conditioner and salty shrimp to boost GH/KH as my tap water is quite soft. I drip acclimated the shrimp after matching water temps for about 1-1.5 hours (which I’ve since learned might’ve been on the lower end of acceptable, so that may explain things). I’ve also read that some shrimp just don’t do well in new environments and there’s pretty much always losses with adding new groups, I’m just hoping no more die!

Originally I got into this hobby wanting a betta fish, but the 10 litre tank was just too small after looking into things more. Unfortunately 10 litres is pretty much the only sized tank I could get as this sits on a shelf lamp thing in my office which is pretty much the only spot I could place a tank in my house. The lamp shelf has 3 shelves so I may try add some more tanks to it which would look really cool, but I’m not confident in how strong it is to support that, so unless I can some how reinforce the shelves, I might be stuck with just the 1 tank until I move to a bigger place.

At first the shrimp felt like a bit of a consolation prize, I couldn’t get the fish so I guess I’ll just get the shrimp instead, but actually I think shrimp were the far better choice. Instead of 1 animal I now have 6, maybe 18 if you count the babies, so that’s pretty cool. It also adds to the whole ecosystem feel of the tank.

For plants and hardscape and stuff I’m using fluval biostratum for the substrate, I also have a 3D printed cave buried into the substrate which has a cool window into it from the side. It’s not the shrimp’s favourite place but they do go in it from time to time and have seen a couple moults in there as well. For hardscape I’m using 3 pieces of drift wood, 2 are from Tropica which are glued together to make the diagonal piece throughout the tank. I had this exact vision for the wood in my head and mockups and stuff (many a conversation was had with ChatGPT throughout all this), and I feel like I hit the jackpot with how these fit together. Then there’s another piece which I got from a local pet shop and cut smaller to attach my java fern to.

A bit more on the plants, I added some Christmas moss on the driftwood to cover the join and glue spots. I would like to trim this as it’s getting quite bushy but I’m holding off until the baby shrimp are bigger and easier to spot. There’s also some small clumps around some pebbles near the cave. I’ve also got an anubias nana petite which might be the slowest growing thing in the tank, along with some cryptocoryne wendtii green in the back. For floaters I’ve got salvinia which the shrimp absolutely love. I 3D printed some custom quarter circle things to attach to the rim of the tank and hold these in place. The latest and probably final addition plant wise is some bacopa caroliana which is about 3 weeks old, everything else has been in there since the start.

The rocks / pebbles are all from a nearby river. I tested them with vinegar to make sure they were safe. I wanted mostly natural looking stones but came across some cool looking ones like the moon rock and the glassy looking one, so decided to make a feature rock pile out of them. This is where I feed them a pellet each day and watch them fight over it lol.

Maintenance wise I pretty much just do a minor water change once or twice a week. I usually just skim the surface to remove the film that builds up over a few days and top the water back up. I use a small shaving foam cap to break the force of the water I pour in and then pour the last remaining bits in by hand with it (which I’ve then got to be careful I don’t pull any shrimp out with it as they like to graze it lol). I also have to remove some salvinia as that grows like an absolute weed.

I think that pretty much covers everything so far. If there’s anything I’m doing wrong or something I could improve do let me know!

Cheers

I’m trying to identify this fish species. My LFS sold me this fish in a tank of scarlet Badis in hopes that it was a female. She had stayed around the same size as my male Scarlet Badis and has developed no color. Amy ideas?