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Hey folks, well I want to set up my new Dennerle 30L Nano as a shrimp breeding tank.
I would like to hear your suggestions for which shrimp will breed easily in my water (parameters listed below), that are quite hardy too, and also likely to be in demand. I know that shrimp are often very expensive in LFS's and I would like to have the tank potter along producing a nice string of shrimp that I can flick over to my main tank and also sell the odd few off on here at a fair price
The Dennerle kit comes with Duponit mix (bit like an aquatic compost I think) and also some Garnelenkies (German for shrimp substrate ? ?) Sulawesi black. Its like a fine grade gravel... about 1.2mm
My intention is to have a few small Seiryu rocks (or one larger one) and a fair bit of wood.
I want to limit myself to maximum 5 plant species and would like to see a fair bit of moss in there too. There will be a "sandy beach" area and to delineate this I intend to create a "barrier" between the Sulawesi and the "sandy beach" (for which I will use Unipac maui or samoa sand) by using ADA congo sand grade S (which is like a chunky gravel). It will be a bit like the separation that James Starr Marshall created in his beautiful 60P setup (Thanks for the inspiration James).
PARAMETERS:
Water out the tap is 7 pH, 4 to 6 dKH and 8 dGH. Once in the tank with this sort of substrate I find the dKH drops to about 3 o 4 and pH lowers as a result also. Nitrates are about 5ppm out the tap for me (not really relevant).
I will have the tank heated and the plants will be fed using TPN+, easycarbo and CO2 injected via a TMC mini CO2 kit.
Your thoughts, particularly on the shrimp, would be most welcome.
I would like to hear your suggestions for which shrimp will breed easily in my water (parameters listed below), that are quite hardy too, and also likely to be in demand. I know that shrimp are often very expensive in LFS's and I would like to have the tank potter along producing a nice string of shrimp that I can flick over to my main tank and also sell the odd few off on here at a fair price
The Dennerle kit comes with Duponit mix (bit like an aquatic compost I think) and also some Garnelenkies (German for shrimp substrate ? ?) Sulawesi black. Its like a fine grade gravel... about 1.2mm
My intention is to have a few small Seiryu rocks (or one larger one) and a fair bit of wood.
I want to limit myself to maximum 5 plant species and would like to see a fair bit of moss in there too. There will be a "sandy beach" area and to delineate this I intend to create a "barrier" between the Sulawesi and the "sandy beach" (for which I will use Unipac maui or samoa sand) by using ADA congo sand grade S (which is like a chunky gravel). It will be a bit like the separation that James Starr Marshall created in his beautiful 60P setup (Thanks for the inspiration James).
PARAMETERS:
Water out the tap is 7 pH, 4 to 6 dKH and 8 dGH. Once in the tank with this sort of substrate I find the dKH drops to about 3 o 4 and pH lowers as a result also. Nitrates are about 5ppm out the tap for me (not really relevant).
I will have the tank heated and the plants will be fed using TPN+, easycarbo and CO2 injected via a TMC mini CO2 kit.
Your thoughts, particularly on the shrimp, would be most welcome.