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It's great to hear that you are happy using sand. I really like that it is a substrate that will actually get better with time (for plant), rather than burning out like ADA type soils. I'm a total beginner at keeping shrimp, so getting answers from someone who has been doing this a long time is wort...

Hi everyone, I'm laying out a low-tech, 210 gallon planted shrimp tank and don't want to have to swap out substrate every 18 months for fear of killing all the residents in the process. Florite seems like a good bet, but I'm curious what media types you can suggest. I'm considering natural sand, too...

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-Michael

Hi Jill, Although I'm far from an experienced shrimp keeper (just started, in fact), I've kept fish for years and would never intentionally put paint of any kind into my tank or pond. That said, people have used Krylon Fusion in aquariums with fish...but we know shrimp are hyper-sensitive by compari...

I, too, have been wondering about this. I take it that even grossly different color types, such as fire reds and blue dreams will intermix? In such a tank would culling be a feasible method for retaining distinct color variations?