Starting a shrimp nano

[troy tucker]

I have the red cheerry shrimp in a 20g tall. The tank has an under graval filter and 2 up tubes with bubblers. the Substrate is just white graval. No heater. A few plants nothing else.
All of this is what they say wont work but it does. My shrimp breed and grow.
So I would say red cherry shrimp are easy easy to do....
Good luck with the Shrimp tank. I lookforward to seeing it finished.

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

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These are the two filters running right now. The bigger is the double sponge and the smaller is an ac20 with fluval sponge prefilter. I'm leaning more towards keeping the ac20 just because it takes up less real estate in the tank. Thoughts?
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[Parzival]

I'd think the ac20 would be plenty adequate for that. Just don't let that pre filter sponge fall off :)

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

It doesn't. I have used it in other tanks and have an extra sponge so I can keep one on at all times.

[armthehomeless]

Looks like a good start.

[Ballinxalex]

That's a fancy sponge filter

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

Just bought a 15w floramax bulb. I have some HC is it ok to add that while cycling?

[TexSun]

Re: Starting a shrimp nano

Run both the AC & sponge filter.

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

Isn't that overkill for a 5 gallon?

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

Aquasoil and similar types of substrate can be quite dirty when first added, but they will settle over time. As for their difficulty, they are far easier if they are minimally fed and any shrimp need good water quality and stable conditions.

Are you using tap water? Are you thinking about soft (I'm assuming) or hard water shrimp? Neo's should do well and possibly some tigers or bee variant.

I used tap water to start and want to see how the ph does after a week or so. If the ph stays over 7.2 or so I will change to distilled. I'm going with the Sakura reds that Tim has for sale and some OEBTs.

[TexSun]

Re: Starting a shrimp nano

Isn't that overkill for a 5 gallon?

Nope, the more the better....

[TexSun]

Re: Starting a shrimp nano

Sponge filter is always a good idea with shrimps because it gives them something else to feast upon.

[Chris.d514]

So I have had my digital thermometer on the tank all day and it has had a constant temp of 80+ with no heater on.

[Parzival]

My nano runs 80-82 with no heater. The room is around 78. The light and hob warm it up.

[Chris.d514]

Starting a shrimp nano

I'm at 78 in the mornings to 83 at night depending on how long the light and my computer have been on.