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You might want to size up a bit in that case. It's more space for the shrimp to hang and easier to maintain a healthy environment for them with more volume. They're not fussy about the kind of container you use, could be anything glass from the thrift store so hopefully not too hard to go a bit bigg...

Okay, thanks everyone, appreciate it and now that i have the shrimp in there yes, they seem to like the big pile of rocks, and I don't mind them hiding. But, kind of realizing they like grazing on the sand which is mostly buried under rocks, so planning to uncover more of that soon.

Hi - I'm just curious if anyone has guidance for the ratio of rocks to open water within the tank, especially a really small one? (Mine will be just 1 gallon) I haven't set my tank up yet but was kind of thinking I would do a huge pile of them up against the side of the tank. But would the shrimp ra...