budget?

erm, my current tank is just slightly bigger than yours, 1ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft (rough estimate). excluding tank cost, i showered around rm480 for setup alone ie light, soil, air pump etc. lighting alone costed me RM180. and i have yet to include plants and shrimps.

perhaps my place here is a bit tad more expensive since the shrimp hobby here are still new.

just giving you a rough estimate of what are the cost gonna be.


so lets get to the basic, if you want a planted tank with shrimp, most important thing is the soil. i'm using ADA amazonia. there's others brand too out there but my place only have this. then comes the bacterial powder and water purify addictive. then you have to cycle the tank for about a month depending on your set up.

i suggest you go read up about setting up a shrimp tank from various sources. i read up for almost two months before getting started lol.

the key here is patience

and after that, i suggest you find a local shop which specialize in shrimp keeping and ask them about setting up a tank for you and you observing them how its done on the spot. you'll learn from there too.

well, thats just for setting up the tank. then comes the water parameters for the shrimp lol. not to mention the insects / worms that can come from it


here's a good read : https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2979543

depends on one's preferences. amazonia are known for their high ammonia (they are designed for planted tank after all) which is bad for shrimp. but thats only during the early stages of cycle, and hence it takes longer to cycle with amazonia as substrate for a shrimp tank. bacteria part you better consult with the shop you're gonna get your tank set up with. they know better.

filter just use those sponge type filter that works with air pump. 1ft tank i dont think require water pump.

macam crayfish lol

you might wanna get it out of your tank if you have smaller shrimp in there

truth lol

the temptation, resistance is futile

no plants can clean left over lol

best remedy is water changes and try not to overfeed

u using co2 in yout tank?

sure is nice to see those bubbling plants

using any soil or substrates?

no soil mean no food for them lo hahaha

of coz die. they need nutrients too. not just lights and water

water lettuce need calm water
any fish biting the roots?

haha then i dunno man

could be the light is too near the leaf that it kinda "burn" the leaf? i know that sometimes the leaf are vulnerable to the sun if put out on hot afternoon

and also, calm water

i think they stop schooling after they determined that they are pretty comfortable with the tank and got too relaxed and wandered off

i've seen better schooling results in a community tanks where there are other schooling fishes around. so maybe security might made them to stop schooling as much?


just my thinking.

put in some cichlids as a hawt teacher

i has it

anyway to prevent it?

UV light not cheap le

blackout? then the plants inside there how?

i also got shrimp inside

even those already stick hard to the glass will gone?

hehe, even brush also need brush hard

i just scrap it off with old credit card. even better than brush, but need press hard.

dayum, i guess i'll just continue to scrap the algae on weekly basis. i scare my shrimp die later lol

lighting still ok, i scare the constant WC will be the killer lol

they are sensitive. need stable water parameter

guys, how do you trim your stem plant?

i cut in the middle of the plant, as it will grow back. but the thing is, it will grow another branch near the cut i made, making it look weird and not systematic