big planted shrimp tank???

[ShrimpGuy0]

has anybody ever try a big planted shrimp breeding tank like 75 gallon and up with just with heavy planting and shrimps?

[jaxon777]

I did a 100 gallon cherry planted tank for a while. The shrimp are so small its hard to see them unless you have a ton of them in there. They did fine and flourished in the tank. I got bored with it and added a school of fish (neons) and the cherry numbers went down a bit but there is still hundreds in there.

[Bumple]

Im trying this right now actually, but I just got started so I don't have any details for you yet.

My tank is 450l (118) gallons. Have 9 CRS grade A, and 12 CBS grade A-S. Trying hard to get the plants going, but they are just seeming to start growing well now after planting them over three weeks ago.

Plants:
HC Cuba
Vesicularia dubyana (christmas tree moss)
Echinodorus tenellus
Eleocharis parvulus
Monosolenium tenerum (am still waiting for this one in the mail)

Am injecting C02.

[billb]

I have a 90 gallon planted tank with lower grade CRS. The tank also has Otos and a school of Ember tetras. Everyone is doing well. The plants and moss provide effective cover for the baby shrimp.





Edit: I forgot to add that I am using pressurized CO2 also and add fertilizers every other day. 50% water changes weekly.

[ShrimpGuy0]

just amazing , and im about to set up a 75 gal planted shrimp tank but before i do that i have to reaseal the 75ga first

[Mirador]

HI
I started out with the idea that I would keep a breeding tank of CRS and then move some over to my big 180 planted tank. The CRS are enough of a challenge that I would abandone that idea unless I somehow breed very many of them.That doesn't look imminent. Everthing that i have read tells me that they cannot handle the CO2 variations ( that will happen sooner or later) or the fertilizer. To get somewhat difficult plants to grow long term you have to add nitrates,phosphates, potassium,iron and trace elements. That's why there is never any hard to keep fish in a real planted tank. I have fish in other tanks that will die slowly at 5-7% nitrate and that's about minimun to keep a high light planted tank going. The CRS ought not do well in that. Amanos are fine (maybe) at that, though, and maybe cherries. In a big tank things that can't handle it just die off and you can't tell in all the space