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Hi. After lurking on these forums for a long time, I've decided to start a Taiwan Bee tank and document it all. I usually focus on high-tech planted tanks, but deep down I got started in the hobby due to my love of shrimp. I've only kept RCS and crystals in the past, but never set up a tank dedicated for them. Usually they were housed in my various high-tech tanks, and while they lived, breeding wasn't the best due to CO2 injection / ferts. So for this tank, I want to keep it minimalistic, for me anyways, with just some moss and buce. I know Taiwan Bees are one of the toughest shrimp to keep, but I've always longed for a colorful shrimp tank, and due to cherry shrimp producing wild-types, I've always kept a single neo color in my tanks. I just want a tank of happy, healthy, and colorful shrimp! Started cycling the tank on 4 April with seeding media, and as of a few days ago, it's cycled. I'm just adding 2ppm ammonia daily to keep the bacteria happy while I decide where to get shrimp from. I'll do a 100% water change before adding shrimp. There's a nice layer of biofilm all over the substrate and glass thanks to the MK-Breed Golden Powder. Haven't decided on food yet, but I have various types of SL-Aqua that I've fed my crystals in the past. I'm looking to trying out LOWKEYS series of foods. Here's the stats: Hardware ADA 45p (34L , ~9 gals) Eheim 2213 Current USA Satellite Freshwater LED Plus (18 inch) NAG Bubbler Substrate Brightwell Rio Cafe-XF (Keeping it at a 6.6ph) Glas Garten Betaglucan MK-Breed Silver Powder MK-Breed Golden Powder Bucephalandra (All from Han Aquatics) Mini Velvet Dark Mini Velvet Brownie Ghost Blue Kedagang Sekadau Velvet Green Wave Moss (All from Han Aquatics) Christmas Moss Mini Pellia Food (All from Han Aquatics) Monday - Lowkeys Ebi Supple or Lowkeys Ebi210! Wednesday - Lowkeys Spiral or Lowkeys B18 Power Protein Friday - Lowkeys Vitamin Kale or Lowkeys Ultra Supple and CSF Pure Mineral Weekends - Amaranth or Mulberry leaves 2x a week - Wet toothpick tip portion of Bacter AE for additional biofilm Others RODI Water with Salty Shrimp GH+, MK-Breed Blue Diamond, Lowkeys GH Mineral Balance x4 (5dH, 0kh) Lowkeys Amino Acid Vital Plus Cholla Wood Indian Almond Leaves Guava Leaves