New to Shrimp - Substrate Choice?
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:50 am
Hello EVERYONE !
My name is Jamie, I only recently took up the hobby of keeping tropical fish mid last year, starting with a Community Juwel Rio 240l, Planted with Co2 injection and dosing ferts, still trying to nail getting the balance right for the plants, VERY Hard water have been a member on Tropic Fish Forum UK since my hobby started, which has been great!
Link to my tank log http://www.tropicalfishforums.co.uk/ind ... ic=30535.0
So after a little while I managed to pick up a 23l Nano tank, I would like to make this a planted breeding haven for some Red Cherry Shrimp, I haven’t kept shrimp before so I am looking forward to it, but in no way am I rushing into it.
I have some questions regarding Substrate choice for planting and breeding, I have VERY hard water where I live, South of England in Portsmouth, water is often referred to as liquid rock. I had planned to use JBL Manando and Aquabasis which I have already purchased, but after some further researching I have read that the JBL stuff will increase water GH+KH which will not be suitable conditions for breeding Red Cherry Shrimp, what with my water being Very hard already, I have a bag of brown Flora-Base also, so could use that? Just want to make sure I start out well, even if it means I have to buy something else so that’s why I wanted to get the opinion from the experts, you lot !
I also plan to dose easycarbo and ferts, in the future I may grab a small Co2 injection kit, but not just yet.
So, that’s me
Looks forward to chatting to you all and sharing my progress
Jamie
My name is Jamie, I only recently took up the hobby of keeping tropical fish mid last year, starting with a Community Juwel Rio 240l, Planted with Co2 injection and dosing ferts, still trying to nail getting the balance right for the plants, VERY Hard water have been a member on Tropic Fish Forum UK since my hobby started, which has been great!
Link to my tank log http://www.tropicalfishforums.co.uk/ind ... ic=30535.0
So after a little while I managed to pick up a 23l Nano tank, I would like to make this a planted breeding haven for some Red Cherry Shrimp, I haven’t kept shrimp before so I am looking forward to it, but in no way am I rushing into it.
I have some questions regarding Substrate choice for planting and breeding, I have VERY hard water where I live, South of England in Portsmouth, water is often referred to as liquid rock. I had planned to use JBL Manando and Aquabasis which I have already purchased, but after some further researching I have read that the JBL stuff will increase water GH+KH which will not be suitable conditions for breeding Red Cherry Shrimp, what with my water being Very hard already, I have a bag of brown Flora-Base also, so could use that? Just want to make sure I start out well, even if it means I have to buy something else so that’s why I wanted to get the opinion from the experts, you lot !
I also plan to dose easycarbo and ferts, in the future I may grab a small Co2 injection kit, but not just yet.
So, that’s me
Looks forward to chatting to you all and sharing my progress
Jamie