As my attempt to culture Moina in a little 20 litre tank has failed for the fifth and final time I have found myself with a spare tank. Also, as the new Chocolate Gourami's in my main tank appear to be hunting fairly proficiently, and, I'm assuming, reducing the baby shrimp numbers in my main tank, I've decided to convert the Moina tank into a shrimp breeding tank, to hopefully supplement the shrimp populations.
The tank sits up on top of a tall storage unit next to my main tank, where I also keep the brine shrimp culture. Its a nice position as it keeps this tank almost at my eye level. I picked up a new little light for the tank - it is a Chihiros CII. It uses the same/similar RGB based LED's that my Vivid II and WRGB II use, and uses the same blue-tooth set-up and control system. It appears to be a great little light, and looks to give me the same RGB colour rendition I've grown to love.
I want to keep this tank simple (or at least that was the plan), so I will mainly have epiphytes and moss, and minimal and easy to remove hardscape. Certainly not a contest winner 😂
For the soil, I didn't want anything loaded with ammonia, so went with Dennerle Shrimp King soil, which is apparently still rich in beneficial humic and fulvic acids etc.
I stuck the whole 4 litres in, which was probably a bit too much for the tank, but its fine. The sponge filter from the original Moina set-up has been in use for over six months and is likely sufficiently inhabited with bacteria, but I'm going to give it a couple of weeks before transferring any shrimp across to let the substrate mature a bit.
Thanks to an incredibly generous batch of Buce I bought from @SRP3006 (thanks again Sam), I had more than enough epiphytes to cover the lava rock. I also added a couple of anubias cuttings from my low tech tank too, and a small moss covered twig from the main tank.
Before anyone asks, the little plastic cup is a small DIY feeding dish I've put in place - I needed something smaller than the standard 60mm glass dishes.
The tank will be kept at a consistent KH<1 and GH5-6 allowing me to house both some of my CBS and some of my Bloody Mary shrimp. I intend to cherry pick (pun intended lol) 6x well coloured specimens of each to hopefully be the initial strong-gene parents.
The tank sits up on top of a tall storage unit next to my main tank, where I also keep the brine shrimp culture. Its a nice position as it keeps this tank almost at my eye level. I picked up a new little light for the tank - it is a Chihiros CII. It uses the same/similar RGB based LED's that my Vivid II and WRGB II use, and uses the same blue-tooth set-up and control system. It appears to be a great little light, and looks to give me the same RGB colour rendition I've grown to love.
I want to keep this tank simple (or at least that was the plan), so I will mainly have epiphytes and moss, and minimal and easy to remove hardscape. Certainly not a contest winner 😂
For the soil, I didn't want anything loaded with ammonia, so went with Dennerle Shrimp King soil, which is apparently still rich in beneficial humic and fulvic acids etc.
I stuck the whole 4 litres in, which was probably a bit too much for the tank, but its fine. The sponge filter from the original Moina set-up has been in use for over six months and is likely sufficiently inhabited with bacteria, but I'm going to give it a couple of weeks before transferring any shrimp across to let the substrate mature a bit.
Thanks to an incredibly generous batch of Buce I bought from @SRP3006 (thanks again Sam), I had more than enough epiphytes to cover the lava rock. I also added a couple of anubias cuttings from my low tech tank too, and a small moss covered twig from the main tank.
Before anyone asks, the little plastic cup is a small DIY feeding dish I've put in place - I needed something smaller than the standard 60mm glass dishes.
The tank will be kept at a consistent KH<1 and GH5-6 allowing me to house both some of my CBS and some of my Bloody Mary shrimp. I intend to cherry pick (pun intended lol) 6x well coloured specimens of each to hopefully be the initial strong-gene parents.
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