It is shrimp safe is certain condition are meet,
- don't overdose
- monitor the water, if lot of dead planaria, water change, your shrimp dead is because of bad water due to decaying planaria.
- mix the powder well before pour in.

Borneowild product quite ok as they copied benibachi formula +-
-The 8kg soil will be enough to setup a 2ft tank.
-From your planning, only neocaridina type of shrimp is suitable, and your tank may have problem with green water and algae if under sunlight.
Algae is good for shrimps , just unpleasant as display tank but green water is not preferable unless you gonna breed malaya shrimp larvae.
-You can skip the Humic and Vigor since your tank is not gonna house CRS type shrimp.
-Just get the soil , minerax and bacter crystal.
- Put bacter crystal on tank bare bottom , put a thin layer of soil around 1cm , then put minerax , after that cover with the rest of the soil.
The above is base on the stuff you listed.

Any budget and what your ideal tank size?

Get a 2ft tank if possible. why ? cos bigger tank with higher water volume will ensure more stable parameter.(beside can accumulate more shrimp )
Just don't put under direct sunlight , then won't any green water issue.

If you gonna use UGF (under gravel filter) , can consider the following setup:
-Get a UGF(under gravel filter) if you gonna use borneowild or benibachi shrimp soil. UGF is not suitable for any ADA soil.
i'm using Aquadene brand of UGF, very good quality, around rm20 for 2ft size, it can break into 4 pcs half feet size plate.

-Get a bag of 1.5L benibachi bacter base(rm69) or seachem matrix or ADA bio-rio.
-Setup UGF , put the whole bag benibachi bacter base on top of the UGF.
-Put around 1 cm thick of soil above bacter base , then put around 30g of bacter crystal or some bacteria powder like ADA bacter 100 powder on top.
-Put another thin layer of soil like 0.5 cm , then put the whole bottle of the minerax(100g) evenly on top the soil , then cover with the rest of the soil.
(note : borneowild vigor or benibachi bee max should be put with minerax at this stage if you gonna use them).
-Get some mineral rock (borneowild or benibachi) - 2 to 3 pcs (around 200-300g will do).

As beginner shrimp , try some cherry shrimp first after your tank is fully cycled.

This post has been edited by arrow: Dec 30 2013, 02:22 AM

Yes. Very slowly since it releasing mineral.

Put into filter compartment . Main purpose is to absorb ORGANIC type of waste in tank and to polish water to crystal clear. Compliment well with active carbon.
One bag good for 400l of water. Can be regenerate using clorox and prime.
I regenerated > 5 pack.

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Dont take the water or plant from their shrimp tank. Infested with planaria. As not to bring planaria baby and eggs into your tank. Carefully scoop only the shrimp into your tank. A torch light will help.

Bro tzuen rcs refer to red crystal shrimp aka crs.
Red cherry shrimp rm1 to rm2 depend where you get.

Benibachi is the pioneer in shrimps breeding in japan.
Brand like rac and Borneowild are either copying their fornula or getting oem products from benibachi.
Price is on the high side but results is there if follow accordingly.

Cory not shrimp safe.

Cherry and other neocaridina type shrimp. Can just use fan
To maintain temperature below 30c is ok already.
With fan normally temperature around 25 - 28'c

Blue Dream is neocaridina type. Just a deeper blue version of blue jelly/pearl.

grandma gonna take care of her 'cucu' now.

ppl keep yamato to control algae and cherry for their light color, both are hardy but both won't survive uncycled tank.
shrimps is fragile my friends , they are 5x more easy to died then a fish.

Eat both.

Find them and scoop them out.

Try 88 petsmart .

Palmata baby are quite small, smaller then a cherry shrimplet s. They usually hide in plants/mosses. Make sure you cover your filter inlet with finer mesh or sponge. You may find some baby surviving inside an canister filter if you using one.

yes, 28c is ok.


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no co2 , just occasionally fert for hair algae (yes hair algae) , the moss inside will act as host for hair algae.
Moss is easy , moderate light , temperature below 31c , little fert , they will grow.

depend, only if they are starve and not used to pellet food, but not dependable else no one use yamato and malaya to control algae.

Hair algae are good for shrimps. I find them look nice too like carpeted marimo ball. They also quite fragile too like plants.

This post has been edited by arrow: Jan 22 2014, 01:54 PM

not nothing, they feed on bio-film and algae in the tank, those jelly/slime like stuff on the glass/stuff is bio-film. All this are natural food for them.
What pellets you feed them ? taiwan should have alot of shrimp food available, like azoo brand.

Not bad the food , i use JBL shrimp food too. if like that try everyday do 10% water change for 3 days , and don't feed them during these period.