aec34
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I have a new shiny 20 litre Dennerle nano coming soon - advice on plants please!
I’m very new to all this, but have been learning some of the basics through keeping a few plants and shrimp in a baby 15 litre baby biorb. I had the biorb 10+ years ago with two small fish in it, and it didn’t end well as anyone who actually knows about keeping fish might have predicted…
BUT I resurrected it back in July this year as a shrimp tank. After fighting with v high ph, I’ve now got a happy little Anubias nana and some Java moss, a less happy (but reproducing) java fern, and for the last month some elusive cherry shrimp. [The shrimp are BRILLIANT btw.] The biorb is however now getting annoying for a whole range of reasons, so it’s already time for a new tank 😊
I’m not planning on running CO2, and water changes will be rainwater remineralised with SaltyShrimp Shrimp mineral (which is what I’m doing at the moment). Current tank is at 7.4 ph.
I’ve a dinky interpet 7.5w heater which I’ll move over from the biorb (to keep shrimp happy), + 6W led light comes with the tank.
Substrate is Dennerle Deponitmix 6 in 1 + shrimp gravel (coming with tank).
I’m after something pretty low maintenance, which will be a nice home for the shrimp (not planning on any fish). I’ll happily alter plant choice as needed for this set up. Hardscape will be bogwood, maybe dragon stone if I can find any.
Plant-wise I am thinking:
Stem plants: limnophila sessiliflora or bacopa caroliniana. I also really like the look of Cardamine lyrate, but thinking it will be too hard to keep under control in a little tank.
Floating: limnobium laevigatum
Flame moss (or another moss)
Some kind of small bucephalandria?
A crypt? Good because v low CO2 requirements?
A carpeting plant?
Does this sound like a decent selection? Is it too many? It feels like a lot of plants, but I’ve read that planting heavily at the outset is a good idea? Is there anything here which is likely to get very large very quickly? Having said that, any spare plants may eventually go in the biorb, especially after I’ve butchered it into something else when the shrimp have moved out (prob just no filter bowl with light, or something more wabi kusa-like).
Thank you!
I’m very new to all this, but have been learning some of the basics through keeping a few plants and shrimp in a baby 15 litre baby biorb. I had the biorb 10+ years ago with two small fish in it, and it didn’t end well as anyone who actually knows about keeping fish might have predicted…
BUT I resurrected it back in July this year as a shrimp tank. After fighting with v high ph, I’ve now got a happy little Anubias nana and some Java moss, a less happy (but reproducing) java fern, and for the last month some elusive cherry shrimp. [The shrimp are BRILLIANT btw.] The biorb is however now getting annoying for a whole range of reasons, so it’s already time for a new tank 😊
I’m not planning on running CO2, and water changes will be rainwater remineralised with SaltyShrimp Shrimp mineral (which is what I’m doing at the moment). Current tank is at 7.4 ph.
I’ve a dinky interpet 7.5w heater which I’ll move over from the biorb (to keep shrimp happy), + 6W led light comes with the tank.
Substrate is Dennerle Deponitmix 6 in 1 + shrimp gravel (coming with tank).
I’m after something pretty low maintenance, which will be a nice home for the shrimp (not planning on any fish). I’ll happily alter plant choice as needed for this set up. Hardscape will be bogwood, maybe dragon stone if I can find any.
Plant-wise I am thinking:
Stem plants: limnophila sessiliflora or bacopa caroliniana. I also really like the look of Cardamine lyrate, but thinking it will be too hard to keep under control in a little tank.
Floating: limnobium laevigatum
Flame moss (or another moss)
Some kind of small bucephalandria?
A crypt? Good because v low CO2 requirements?
A carpeting plant?
Does this sound like a decent selection? Is it too many? It feels like a lot of plants, but I’ve read that planting heavily at the outset is a good idea? Is there anything here which is likely to get very large very quickly? Having said that, any spare plants may eventually go in the biorb, especially after I’ve butchered it into something else when the shrimp have moved out (prob just no filter bowl with light, or something more wabi kusa-like).
Thank you!