5 gal shrimp haven, petco clearance 25$ for whole setup!! - Nano Aquariums

petsmartpro · 05-29-2012, 08:48 PM

here is a small journal of my shrimp breeding tank

so i was at petco and got lucky, they had a complete 5 gal hex setup with filter and heater for only 25$ on clearance!!! i just had to, but dont tell my wife, she thinks someone gave it to me as a random gift!!! :tongue:

package came oh yeah!!

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set up the small guy
used a piece of wood from my 90 gal and aquasoil as my substrate, i'll be running diy co2 on this one

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after i trimmed my 90 gal i took the trimmings over to this lil guy to see how they do

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so far i have about 4 cherry reds, and 3 lime green shrimps, but luckily my buddy works at the lfs, thanks tyler most shrimpies were berried

babys coming soon!!

petsmartpro · 05-29-2012, 08:52 PM

so this is current, my previous post was about 1 1/2 months ago

needless to say with little to no co2 my plants took off, i havent changed my co2 in a few weeks and they havent struggled at all, in fact are growing better in this tank then my 90 gal running pressurized co2 with high lights!!

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and my few shrimp now turned into almost 40 shrimps!!!! crazy sex machines!!

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sorry for quality of pics, just have my phone to use for now.... as you can tell i have have a little algea from lack of co2 but the babies love it too much to get rid of so i will let them take care of it for me

petsmartpro · 06-27-2012, 06:28 PM

sorry for the long awaited update, had a lot going on recently, working on two other tank builds currently

so bad and good news

good news, probably every female in the tank is berried, i counted 9 last night just from what i could see here are pics of some of them, tried to not get doubles

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now for the bad news, PLANARIA..... FREAKING JERK OFFS so even though the tank is about to explode with shrimp babies, im afraid the lives might be cut drastically due to the planaria, but not to fear, i have started dosing no planaria shrimp food, and in 48 hours it has gone down quite a lot..... i mean at first i was over feeding so bad they were literally everywhere, eating babies, and taking out full mature shimp here is proof

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and i have a question to ask, i started this tank off with 4 cherrys and 3 lime greens, i was told they cant cross breed, but i think i was told wrong, it looks like i have off spring of the two mixed, i might be wrong they might be too young to tell color but i was hoping to get insight on this, and i havent seen any lime greens left in the tank, not sure where their hiding

brown babies

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what i want all my shrimplets to look like

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Greendot · 09-14-2012, 04:03 PM

What fish will you keep there in the future? or will it be a shrimp only?