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Shea
Sergeant 1st Class
Posts: 209
| | Subject: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 12:50 pm | |
| I've robbed driftwood, plants, and substrate from other tanks to set this one up. The stem plants I have in there should fill in quickly. You think this would suffice? I do have some plastic groundcover plants I could add in there if need be. Angelfish is only in there to keep the cycle until I can order the shrimp. You think this is good enough?   |
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whisper
Betta Specialist
Posts: 1891
Location: Euless, Texas
Favorite Fish:: Betta's,Fancy Guppies, Plecos, kio.
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 1:09 pm | |
| Beautiful! Love that piece of driftwood. |
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BFinley
Moderator
Posts: 3996
Location: Fort Worth,Tx
Favorite Fish:: Frontosa and Red Tail Catfish and All Africans
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proyect01
Captain
Posts: 1163
Location: Fort Myers Fl
Favorite Fish:: Aulonocara species
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 2:07 pm | |
| Looks nice  |
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Shea
Sergeant 1st Class
Posts: 209
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 2:29 pm | |
| Thanks, it's a 25 gallon. This tank got started because my husband saw sunkenmetal's cherry shrimp thread. Glad I kept this tank, almost sold it last week. |
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sunkenmetal
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 195
Location: Houston Texas
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 2:56 pm | |
| It looks good. You dont need any plastic plants and that drift wood is perfect for dwarf shrimp lots of cracks and holes to hid in. Now you just need shrimp  |
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MarkM
Lieutenant Colonel
Posts: 1324
Location: Prairieville, LA
Favorite Fish:: If it swims and has fins and gills, I like it.
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 2:57 pm | |
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ornate12
Lieutenant Colonel
Posts: 1343
Location: New Iberia,Louisiana
Favorite Fish:: Ornate Bichirs, Synodontis Angelicus, Filamentosus barb,
Aristochromis Christyi, Ptychochromis Grandidieri and all other Madagascar cichlids.
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/10/2011, 7:03 pm | |
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sunkenmetal
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 195
Location: Houston Texas
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/12/2011, 5:42 am | |
| Any luck finding some cherry shrimp? |
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lifeisgood
Captain
Posts: 1153
Location: Beaverton , MI
Favorite Fish:: My Favorites are the Pleco's and Cory Cats . BUT , I have 44 running Tanks at this time . I keep 3 kinds of Shellies , several types of Pleco's ( mostly Ancistrus ), Cichlids , Crays , Angels , LB's , and some local species .
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/12/2011, 5:59 am | |
| Tank looks awesome ! Everything a Shrimp needs to make it a home !! Congratz !  |
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plantedtankdude
Captain
Posts: 1181
Location: Plano, texas
Favorite Fish:: all of them along with mermaids and me I'm a Pisces.
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/12/2011, 8:12 am | |
| looks like you got rotella rounfolia in there it will grow fast with good ferts and good medium- high lighting. the plant on the driftwood, anuias nana is a slow grower. might also want to cover your intake with a sponge so the shrimp don't get sucked up in to the filter. |
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Shea
Sergeant 1st Class
Posts: 209
| | Subject: Re: Working on cherry shrimp tank 8/12/2011, 9:35 am | |
| | sunkenmetal wrote: | | Any luck finding some cherry shrimp? |
Hopefully in a couple of weeks I can get some from Kory, not sure yet. If not, I don't mind waiting because the angelfish is so happy in this tank.
| lifeisgood wrote: | Tank looks awesome ! Everything a Shrimp needs to make it a home !!
Congratz ! |
Thanks!
| plantedtankdude wrote: | | looks like you got rotella rounfolia in there it will grow fast with good ferts and good medium- high lighting. the plant on the driftwood, anuias nana is a slow grower. might also want to cover your intake with a sponge so the shrimp don't get sucked up in to the filter. |
Those stem plants are the only thing I can keep alive long-term. In the past I've killed java moss, guppy grass AND even java fern. Not kidding... I'm gonna probably just cover the intake with pantyhose. |
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