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Ryan, This is a shrimp forum. There are plenty of places to learn about planted tanks, but only one credible place to learn about shrimp. Believe what you want to. Trust who you want to trust. If it works for you super. Lets drop this now. We've all put out what we know to be "truth", but...

Dosing ferts properly will not harm your shrimp at all. Think about it, there is plenty of nutrients in their natural habitats. -Ryan That's a fallacious assumption. Most *undisturbed* aquatic habitats out there have negligible amounts of nitrate or phosphate. You would not be able to measure anyth...

My tanks have lots of plants, but not planted. I have Riccia, Java Moss, Java Fern and various duckweeds. I use no ferts at all they they grow lush & green. When I use ferts (flourish) last year the shrimp died, so I stopped. It didn't seem to help the plants and hurt the shrimp. Flourish conta...

Why would you be using peat in a cherry shrimp tank, or did I mis-read? My experience with phosphates and nitrates is that it is essential to keep both below 5 ppm. When I first started shrimping I used neutral regulator. My shrimp would never berry up and pregnant females purchased elsewhere would...

Yea as far as buffering and ph I am going to use Seachem Neutral Regulator. DON"T DO IT!!!!! Nearly ALL buffers and regulators are phosphate based. You will get NO BABIES if you do. Phosphate are shrimp birth control, and a slow death for them. If you have already used it, dump your tank, rins...

thanks guys.

Yea as far as buffering and ph I am going to use Seachem Neutral Regulator. I will keep everyone posted on how it goes.

-Ryan

I only had one shrimp tank before, a 10 gallon planted tank. I got this new 10 gallon shrimp tank up and running. An additional 10 gallon is about to be set up as well, making 3 shrimp breeding tanks. The two new ones are basically shrimp breeder tanks only, no plants besides moss and ferns. The set...

Make the nitrate 0. Are you dosing nitrates? What kind of filtration are you running? Are there any other tank inhabitants?

Hi Ryan, What is this great media you refer to? thanks. Seachem Matrix along with the regular foam pad that comes with the AquaClear filter. I am using the Aquaclear 50 on my 10 gallon tank. The Matrix provides the same surface area as a 10 gallon tank filled with bioballs, a ton of biological filt...

Thanks for the compliments everyone. The Tiger Shrimp are doing very well so far. My temp is 78F and the PH is around 6.2. They are very active and definitely show up for feeding time. They are more aggressive at feeding time and definitely seem smarter than the RCS. For instance, when it is feeding...

I posted some new pics of them I took tonight in the original post..

-Ryan

I live in Miami, Florida. What I meant by "CRS are everywhere" is that RCS and CRS seem to be the mainstream in shrimp keeping. The high grades are not hard for me to get a hold of, its just that they will always be around. Tigers on the other hand aren't as abundant in the hobby, that is ...

I have had RCS for a while so I decided to get another cool species to add to my 10 gallon RCS tank. I wanted to get CRS but they are everywhere and I wanted something more "rare" if you know what I mean. I just received 11 of them in the mail today and acclimated them for an hour. I am al...

I am also going to be building an invert rack soon. Will hold about 6-8 10g tanks. Auto flush and fill so I don't kill myself changing the water in all of the tanks. I plan on having many many species Do not worry, once I start making the rack I will be posting a very thorough journal. -Ryan Great ...