My latest set up for Caridina dennerli

[Broddan]

Hi!

Ive kept and breed cardinals for almost 2 years now. This is my second aquarium because i need more space for my cardinals. :)

So far I have been using tap water but when propagation has slowed down i now modify the water a bit in one of my tanks with cardinals. So far i cant see any diffrence and both tanks slowly gets bigger populations.

Aquarium: 92 cm 25 cm 30 cm
Filter: Air driven sponge and RUGF throu a canisterfilter.

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[plisboa]

Loved your tank!
Why is it so low?
Are the rocks covered with algae?
What do you feed them?

My first idea was that you had a low tank so that the light could create lots of algae for the shrimps :)

Can you share your watter parameters with us?

[vandominic]

very nice tank. i wish to have a low long tank like this one for my shrimps ;)

[soonhong]

Very nice setup..like it and thanks for sharing

[Broddan]

Thanks!

Shrimp usually live on the bottom and the Cardinals are extremely attached to the bottom and swim is extremely rare (it do happens sometimes) The aquarium is custom to fit perfectly in my shrimpcabinet and i cant se any use of having it taller.

Water volume is still relatively large to be a shrimp aquarium and as a bonus the light get near the stones (I'll admit that this was not calculated by me, but was a bonus) Yes there is a lot of green algae on the rocks.

Most of all, I think it looks good.

Different kinds shrimpfood, spirulina, freeze-dried brine shrimp and others- all in powder form. Sometimes i give a few larger bits near the front to give me a good opportunity to observ them and se how many is berried and so on.

Ive started out with tapwater and it has work good. Now am testing to modify the water a bit in another aquaria.
But in this aquaria water parameters is:
pH: 8-8.2
KH: 8
GH: 8
Conductivity ~ 380 microSiemens (This value is the one i reduces in another aquaria to compare)

[BANK]

I want to know how. PH is the high and constant.

Because I have had many problems with the PH.

Internet access is very beautiful. Placement of stone and wood, as well. It has dimension.

[Broddan]

Thanks!

Im not sure what the question are?

pH is high because the airdriven spongefilter drives co2 out of the water and the crushed coral substrat helps to.

[BANK]

Thanks!

Im not sure what the question are?

pH is high because the airdriven spongefilter drives co2 out of the water and the crushed coral substrat helps to.


Thank you.

Just put the broken coral The PH add up. Yes or no.

[Broddan]

Yes. The combination of my tapwater (around KH 8 GH 8) and coralcrush gives my a stabil pH at 8-8.2.

[imke_j]

Shrimp usually live on the bottom and the Cardinals are extremely attached to the bottom and swim is extremely rare (it do happens sometimes) The aquarium is custom to fit perfectly in my shrimp cabinet and i cant see any use of having it taller.

Thanks, Broddan, for sharing your set up with us! I really like the tank dimensions, as I agree that bottom surface is the most important think for the shrimp. My tanks also are more wider than higher.

Keeping the cardinal in tap water shows that you have very good water where you live. In my region, I had no luck with it (as I had unwanted parts as NO3). For how long did you cycle this tank before you put livestock in it? Do you think that dennerli always should be kept together with snails? And how often do you feed?

Good to have an expert to ask here :)

[Broddan]

Hi Imke!

I have my own well and the water is pretty clean. In general, we are blessed with very good water up here in the North.

Ive cycled this tank around 2 months. The shrimps from Matano lake works good in my tapwater but not the Touwuti lake shrimp, they seem to be more sensitive. I have only tried C. spinata and got them berried but no shrimplets.

About the subject of snails with Caridina dennerli i've always had it so I can not comment if it works as good without. My guess is that is not critical to have them together but ive belive snails in tanks is in general a good thing.

Maybe in sensible Touwuti shrimp tank they can raise conductivity to fast but i will try to have them anyway. But my focus is the shrimp and the population of snail have to adjust to amount of food the shrimp gets (pretty small amount)

In this tank i feed 3-4 days a week with a relatively small amount, there are many shrimp in this tank.

Now ive started to use reverse osmos water to lower the conductivity in combination with a stable high pH. Hopefully I will succeed even with some more delicate shrimp now. But only time will tell.

[Jovel]

Hi Imke!

I have my own well and the water is pretty clean. In general, we are blessed with very good water up here in the North.

Ive cycled this tank around 2 months. The shrimps from Matano lake works good in my tapwater but not the Touwuti lake shrimp, they seem to be more sensitive. I have only tried C. spinata and got them berried but no shrimplets.

About the subject of snails with Caridina dennerli i've always had it so I can not comment if it works as good without. My guess is that is not critical to have them together but ive belive snails in tanks is in general a good thing.

Maybe in sensible Touwuti shrimp tank they can raise conductivity to fast but i will try to have them anyway. But my focus is the shrimp and the population of snail have to adjust to amount of food the shrimp gets (pretty small amount)

In this tank i feed 3-4 days a week with a relatively small amount, there are many shrimp in this tank.

Now ive started to use reverse osmos water to lower the conductivity in combination with a stable high pH. Hopefully I will succeed even with some more delicate shrimp now. But only time will tell.


your parameters are really good for sulawesi! If you're using crushed coral, doesn't it affect your GH levels as well? Hoping to learn as I'm running a sulawesi tank as well, I added a bit of coral sand and my GH went sky high. is there other means to raise ph?

[grottbert]

Hi broddan

Are those dragonstone you are using? Looks very nice with those holes in them.

[Broddan]

Hi to you to Grottbert :)

If i remember right it was labelled as "dragon stone" when i bought them. The holes are great for the shrimp but not always for me when i try to catch shrimp.

/Daniel

[grottbert]

Hi to you to Grottbert :)

If i remember right it was labelled as "dragon stone" when i bought them. The holes are great for the shrimp but not always for me when i try to catch shrimp.

/Daniel

I'm also thinking of introducing some of those stones into my denerlii aquarium but hesitated since i read that they had irontraces in them, but since you are breeding happy denerlii's there it shouldn't be a problem for me either.
Thank's for putting my mind at ease ;)

/Mikael

[AlisaR]

The iron traces might be good since the lakes are rich in iron.


I'm also thinking of introducing some of those stones into my denerlii aquarium but hesitated since i read that they had irontraces in them, but since you are breeding happy denerlii's there it shouldn't be a problem for me either.
Thank's for putting my mind at ease ;)

/Mikael