A few questions on setting up a cherry shrimp tank....
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Yeah, Neonshrimp, I'll try to overfiltrate my cherry tank. By brother also is bitten by the shrimp bug and he wants to keep CRS. Right now hes busy posting on the Korean shrimp forum(he doesn't do much English) The CRS are very delicate and require lots of filtration, right? How much is good enough for CRS?
By the way, for the decor in my cherry tank, do you think it would work out if I aquascaped like a marine tank? With dead corals, barnacles and coral sand. And since the shrimp are brightly colored, it WOULD look like a marine tank!
By the way, for the decor in my cherry tank, do you think it would work out if I aquascaped like a marine tank? With dead corals, barnacles and coral sand. And since the shrimp are brightly colored, it WOULD look like a marine tank!
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Cherries do best in the pH range of mid 7's. Add too much rock and you go way over that up to the mid 8's. The shrimp do fine but the babies don't and the females don't berry up much. If you want a tank for looks, you need to have a production tank too. Cherries like an ugly tank to do best in. You can them move your "show shrimp" to your "show tank", but the "show tank" will always have problems. My best production tanks are ones that I don't see shrimp until I change something in the tank, then I find hundreds of shrimp.
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For my CRS, I try to do water change (actually syphoning waste) at least twice a week. I use a turkey baster to which I attach a plastic pipet to get deeper reach when clean/syphoning my tank. This has worked well so far. I also top off the tank with clean water every day since I use a fan for temperature control
Please let me know what the Korean shrimp forum is like, I am just currious about what the content is
If you try this please us plastic/artificial items as the real thing will disrupt your pH and hardness of your waterBy the way, for the decor in my cherry tank, do you think it would work out if I aquascaped like a marine tank?
Please let me know what the Korean shrimp forum is like, I am just currious about what the content is
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I wouldn't bother with those "reef bugs". First, they are salt water micro-organisms that will be unlikely to survive and grow in freshwater. Second, they are really expensive for a small amount.
I make my own powdered filter shrimp food by grinding a mixture of high quality flake, freeze dried brine shrimp, and crab/crayfish pellets into a fine powder.
Just a tiny little pinch on the water surface every few days is all I give them. It doesn't cost me a thing since I already have the other foods in my cabinet.
I make my own powdered filter shrimp food by grinding a mixture of high quality flake, freeze dried brine shrimp, and crab/crayfish pellets into a fine powder.
Just a tiny little pinch on the water surface every few days is all I give them. It doesn't cost me a thing since I already have the other foods in my cabinet.
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Gee, Neonshrimp, I didn't think much about it so I guess thats my only two cents
And Mustafa, it's really nice to talk to you...I guess this site is different from Cichlid-Forum I'll never do that again. Thanks for politely pointing that out...Some people are really mean about other people's mistakes. And after I return from skiing, I'll buy some shrimp, and let the fun begin!
And Mustafa, it's really nice to talk to you...I guess this site is different from Cichlid-Forum I'll never do that again. Thanks for politely pointing that out...Some people are really mean about other people's mistakes. And after I return from skiing, I'll buy some shrimp, and let the fun begin!
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The leaves should be soaked in water (not the tank) for about a week to leach out the tannins. I use a glass bowl, and change the water when it becomes dark brown. Soggy leaves are fine, they'll sink right away.There's piles of snow here and all the leaves, well, everything is too soggy to consider
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I use this same method to soak my leaves in dechlorinated water and it works very great. You cn actually see the water turn brown/yellow from the tannins. I use my leaves when the water stays clearer in the glass.
Hey Asian_Vampire, you are making me feel bad I really did not mean to be mean when I was explaining what I was thinking .Gee, Neonshrimp, I didn't think much about it so I guess thats my only two cents
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