Cherry and Crystal Red Shrimp

[LondonDragon]

Haven't posted anything here in a long time, I had some problems with the mosses in this tank, they started falling apart for some odd reason. Then I had some issues with the water becoming a little cloudy too, I have now fixed those issues and tank is looking good again and the mosses remaining are looking healthy. On the right side of the tank I am also cultivating Fissedins Fontanus, trying to make a wall of that, me and my walls! lol
This morning also spotted a couple of tiny CRS shrimplets, but at the same time a dead adult so will have to wait and see.

Some photos of what the tank looks like at present:

I was bored so here a couple of where the tank sits in the room:

And on the other side Pixie (Portuguese Podengo) was having a rest

Thanks for looking

 

[pupumole]

nice plants im settin up a shrimp tank too ^^ gonna have a singapore moss wall and..... clover bottom .... and i got a rock from the ADA shop too xD so hope tis turns out as ncie as urs : ) one question though... i thought u arent suppose to keep different shrimp types together to prevent crossbreedin??? ._.

 

[LondonDragon]

nice plants im settin up a shrimp tank too ^^ gonna have a singapore moss wall and..... clover bottom .... and i got a rock from the ADA shop too xD so hope tis turns out as ncie as urs : ) one question though... i thought u arent suppose to keep different shrimp types together to prevent crossbreedin??? ._.

It all depends on the shrimp species, some do not cross breed and you can mix them up assuming they can live and breed in the same water parameters.
Good luck with your shrimp tank

 

[Lupin]

Pixie is cute!

 

[LondonDragon]

Pixie is cute!

Thanks she is out pride and joy

 

[Kevaldo]

good to see they are doing well, i still aint got round to setting a tank up for them yet, got the tank but havnt had the time with renovating the house to do it but i'll get round to it soon enough. my friends shop has got loads of CRS in at the moment so i can get the pick of the bunch

 

[LondonDragon]

Well just a quick update on this tank, the ADA Amazonia II soil I put in this tank when I first setup it up started breaking up after 6 months of usage so this is what my tank looked like when I uprooted some plants or messed about with the substrate:

So after 5 months of milky water I decided to get rid of the ADA soil and purchased some of the new Oliver Knott Nature soil instead which is shrimp friendly, so it claims.

A few photos of the substrate change, goodbye ADA Amazonia II FOREVER!!!! Worst thing I ever purchased in my life!!!

Tank clean and ready to go:

The inspector watching to make sure I was doing everything properly:

Just after planting and turning on the filters:

4 hours after setup, crystal clear water for the first time in about 4-5 months!!

Closer look:

Really like this substrate, colour and size are perfet for this size tank:

I couldn't find the rocks I needed so used what I have and this tank now needs a few extra plants too.

Later on in the day I added some of the shrimp and created the fissidens fontanus carpert.

After spending 5 hours catching shrimp so that I could change the substrate this is what I had left LOL

Thanks for looking

 

[Louie]

Some more photos taken today

Cherry:

Crystal Red:

Amano Shrimp:

This is the new home I created for the shrimp (guppies are temp):

Thanks for looking

Great shrimp but your tank is amazing . Looks like a piece of nature. Bog,swamp like

 

[LondonDragon]

Here is how the tank looks today, couldn't get any macros of the shrimp, batteries on the external flash were drained!!

Thanks for looking

 

[Liam]

Man! that's awesome