My 2ft Planted Tank to Shrimp Tank

[magpie]

Hi,

I have decided to post the picture of my 2 month old shrimp tank converted from my planted tank.

Tank Dimension: 2ft X 1.5ft X 1.5ft
External Filter: Ehiem 2026
Lighting: Hopar T5, 2X 24W
Temperature: Teco Chiller (set at 24-25)
CO2: No CO2
Flora: US fissiden, Christmas Moss, Coral Pelia, Mini Pelia, Moss Ball
PH: 6.5
GH: Never measure


My previously before tore down planted tank.
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To this, my shrimp tank now.
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Feel free to comment.

[magpie]

Side View
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Zoom in on the Mini-Pelia and US fissiden
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[Pingvin]

Very beautiful aquarium :) Only a cap from a moss in the centre. Place it in a point of gold section ;)
In the tank live only crystal shrimps?

[louuu]

thanks for sharing... your planted tank looks great... a pity to have to tear it down to the bare essentials for the shrimps... i tink you could have kept the downoi with the shrimp though...
is that coral pelia in the center and taiwan moss by the side?
are those white stones mineral rocks?

not sure if it's any help though... but i do keep some rooted plants (HC n Blyxa n Japanese Dwarf Hair Grass... tink it's eleocharis parvula [japan]) in the shrimp tank to deal with the waste in the substrate since i dont use a UGF...

[magpie]

Very beautiful aquarium :) Only a cap from a moss in the centre. Place it in a point of gold section ;)
In the tank live only crystal shrimps?

Initially, I kept some cherry, green and blue shrimps as a startup of my planted tank into shrimp keeping. Then I installed 2 fans to lower the temperature and kept C-grade CRS.

As for now, there are cherry, green, malayan shrimps and those higher grade CRS in the tank.

[magpie]

thanks for sharing... your planted tank looks great... a pity to have to tear it down to the bare essentials for the shrimps... i tink you could have kept the downoi with the shrimp though...
is that coral pelia in the center and taiwan moss by the side?
are those white stones mineral rocks?

not sure if it's any help though... but i do keep some rooted plants (HC n Blyxa n Japanese Dwarf Hair Grass... tink it's eleocharis parvula [japan]) in the shrimp tank to deal with the waste in the substrate since i dont use a UGF...

The downoi is one of my favourite plant but I do have to remove as I do not have CO2 injection and downoi needs Iron to flourish. Yes, the center of the DW on the middle portion is coral pelia, top is fissiden, by the side should be christmas moss. The christmas moss growth is nice as it grew upwards and not creeping on the substrate. Those white stones were bought as the LFS told me is old mud sea rock. But I search the internet, the colour shouldn't be in white colour should be grey. Anyway, I just left it in my tank to surround the moss ball.