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thanks pturley, my problem is to have a pump with 30 liter/hourof flowrate (this is what the hamburg filter needs for a 20 liter acquarium)

Anyway, in italy nobody sell sponge filter, do you believe???:))) [ADMIN: Sentence asking for link to commercial product page deleted...repeat offender]
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do you think that a sponge filter in a 40cmx23cmx25 cm is too large????
if i found a low-noise aerator and sponge filter are not too big,, i will use it...

Another question: if i use spongefilter and CO2, are you sure that the presence of the aeratorwouldn't affect the absortion of CO2 from plants ...

Hi to all...during my "plannig" of the shrimp-o-drome (a battery of 4-6 tanks of 22 liter), i was wondering about the ideal filter...
I don't want to use a sponge filter because of the noise that the aerator produce:

the other possibilities are:
-small external filter with a net on the aspiration ...

really??sincerely i tought the same, think also that it is taken from a site wo sell these and other shrimps, maybe it is not a real tiger blue...I also know that there are many kind of tiger blue...

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Thanks bad!

Anyway,blue tiger shrimps what kind o f water need?The same water of tiger ...

Hello, does anybody knows some infos about this kind of shrimp?I think that it is a tiger, so it needs soft acidic water, but i also think that it is more difficoult to breed as other tigers...
In the past post i didn't find anything about the water parameters, only about the fact that the born ...

bah...for me is a red cherry male....don't you think?
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Matteo

In the USA this is the least expensive tank at about $9. US
????i dont understant :))Maybe it that "in USA a tank of 10 gallon costs 9 US"?If is so, you're so lucky!:)If it isnt so, try to explain me what you wanted to say to me:)

I think that 10 gallon is too much for my project....In fact i ...

10 gallons=approx 38 liters?
bye and thank you..

but..who said that i want to put the tanks in the floor or higer?
Anyway....i think i will use something like 25 liter per species, so i can have many of them...

what do you think?
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p.s. Maybe in the future i will enlarge all the thing, this is for start...
ciao!

maybe i wrote a wrong title....when i say "fish room" i was thinkig to a small "battery" of tanks where to keep in example 4 species, to keep in a room where i stay or my bedroom..
So, i think that 30 liters is enough for that objective..no?i think that is a nice volume for the shrimps to live and ...

ahhh now i understand...but i didn't thought to put the tanks on the floor...
Anyway, what do you think about the sizes of each tank??
Maybe i will start with something smaller but confortable for shrimps...do you think 25-30 liter is enough for each species?(or it is too much low..)..

bye!

update....maybe i will use tank downsized...
can you tell me a typical size of each mini-tank?30-40 liters is ok?wich dimensions?
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zapisto...i don't understand a thing when you say "think about visibility and comfort (specially in your case) dont be cheap to fill a hole, bottom tank are not a good thing for visibility even if you loos space think of it before put them too low. "

can you explain to me please?;)

Hi to all...i have an idea (for when i have my own house:))..
I was thinking about a system where to breed 4 species of shrimp; i'm thinking to put it in a house so it would be nice to look...

My idea is:two tank made in this way:Each tank is 100 cm long, 35 cm deep and 35 cm high. I divide the ...

yes i understand about the water parameters..in the tank with white pearl i have tap water (approx pH 7.2-7.5 medium hardness)...
so i think that biene are not able to live correctly in this water...