18 Gallon Shrimp tank.

samosette · Post by **samosette** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:44 pm

I'm going to start an 18 gallon heavily planted shrimp only tank (might have 2 octo, but that would be it) Its an 18 gallon tall, it has the same demension of a ten gallon but only taller. It will have 30 watts of light and i'll inject co2, and I'll be using flourite as the substrate. My concern is how much shrimps can/should I have? Would their bioload be sufficent for my plants? I want to have Cherries and Blue/Green Algaes, and maybe a pair of amanos.

P.s. How are filter shrimps? they're pretty big, will they be ok with other shrimps? just curious.

Post by **Mustafa** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:41 pm

I'd start out with one species. Get about 10 shrimp. Under good conditions they will reproduce and you before you know it you will have tons of shrimp in your tank. Their bioload (and the bioload of the food you give them) should keep your plants pretty happy. I can't say if it's sufficient for all types of plants though. You can add other types of shrimp later, but one shrimp species will always emerge as the dominant species and outcompete all others.

The filter shrimp are totally harmless despite their size and don't harm any of the smaller shrimp species.

Mustafa

beckypyyeung · Post by **beckypyyeung** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:23 am

[quote="Mustafa"]I'd start out with one species. Get about 10 shrimp. Under good conditions they will reproduce and you before you know it you will have tons of shrimp in your tank. Their bioload (and the bioload of the food you give them) should keep your plants pretty happy.

Hi Mustafa,

Wow, it sounds marvellous !

Becky