I re-scaped my tank and more importantly, I changed my previously overkill LED light to one of those RGB type LED's. Really worth the money. It's way dimmer (controllable with the remote control) and at the same time, I can see the shrimps clearly since can tune the color to highlight red. Being dimmer, my shrimps don't hide as much anymore
Unfortunately the photos don't show the effect
Nice and clean tank. Can you share some of your experience? I did it once before, basically just to remove the flora out of the tank while the shrimps still in it. Somehow it's turns out just a mess.
Gonna start my shrimp tank re-scaping soon. What i'll use back is the water from the previous tank. Not so sure about the soil though.
This post has been edited by tzuen: Feb 26 2014, 06:03 PM
Yeah, experience the same mess during previous setup. Because my tank is in the office, so cannot afford to make too much of a mess so the plants I used are not rooted to the soil. Either tied to driftwood or ceramic pieces. The substrate itself is shrimp soil which is not fertilized so the only mess I got was from detritus.
So just turn off filter, siphon off all the obvious/larger pieces of crap and pour the water slowly back into the tank over a net stuffed filter floss.... repeat a few times until satisfied.
Then ran 2 filters to polish the water overnight.
That's basically it.
Maybe is the shrimp soils that make a diffs comparing with other soils. So i assume all your shrimps are all removed from the tank and keeping it with the existing water from the tank right?
which model of hailea air pump? i have around 5 of them, didn't notice any smell unless it burn up, but air pump always vibrant and when you put it stick/lean on the rack/wood etc, it actually consistent scratch/rub against these surface, this may heat up the plastic body then come the smell. Also check the air hose and aquarium fan, two of my up aqua fan burn up and it engulf my house with plastic burning smell. If possible hang the air pump in mid-air.
Mentioned about Up-Aqua fan, the build quality is not up to basic standard. The one i have im using it less than 6 months, the motor getting weak and yes it's vibrating against my shrimp tank
Now looking for a small and powerful fan. LFS recommend me Intense fan
After failing a few times, I m going to setup a shrimp tank all over again.Wish me luck!
Better identify what's the issues before you start on a new shrimp tank, great equipment won't keep the shrimps alive if you dont know what's the cause of the failure
For some unknown reasons, my previously thriving floating plants are all but dead. The shrimps themselves are doing ok and my battle with leeches still wages on. Still see them once every couple of days or when the shrimps make sudden jumps.
YOUR.TANK.IS.SO.CLEAN
Good to hear from you. I used to have floating plants on shrimp tanks as well. But due to the water flow way too strong, the floating plants can't stand with it and breaking off piece by piece, as for my case, only YAMATO that jump and fly away from tanks, for fire red, i never have such case before
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