JuanSan Posted October 27, 2016 Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 Hello community. I have caught the bug this past year for planted aquaria and am now suffering from MTS (oh what a problem to have!) I have two high tech planted aquariums that are doin beautifully and have amanos in both of those, but I recently built a 10 gallon moss tank and a 10 gallon bucephalandra tank that I want to stock with other shrimp. After doing my research, I was thinking of stocking one with neocaridinas such as green jades, goldenback yellows, or bloody marys, and the other with Pure Red Line Shrimp. What do you guys think? Here are my setups at this time. Tank 1 neo tank: Light: Planted Plus 24/7 Co2: Minimal supplementation Substrate: Eco-Complete Ferts: Low dose weekly supplementation Temperature: 77 Feeding: A mixed variety of foods including: GlasGarten Bacter AE dosed on days 3 and 7 post WCCSF OmniaProebi210!Shirakura Ebi DamaSnowflake foodI have samples of the following:Bee PollenHAN Hokkaido Pumpkin StripsLowkeys Natural Harvest The EarthLowKeys Secret FoodBoss Aquaria Shrimp Crack WCs with normal tap water, normalized to the TDS of the tank to prevent TDS shock Tank 2 PRL tank: Light: Planted Plus 24/7 Co2: Minimal supplementation Substrate: ADA ammazonia Ferts: Low dose weekly supplementation Temperature: 74 Feeding: A mixed variety of foods including: GlasGarten Bacter AE dosed on days 3 and 7 post WCCSF OmniaProebi210!Shirakura Ebi DamaSnowflake foodI have samples of the following:Bee PollenHAN Hokkaido Pumpkin StripsLowkeys Natural Harvest The EarthLowKeys Secret FoodBoss Aquaria Shrimp Crack WCs are done 2x20% weekly with RODI water that is remineralized with a GH booster that I have not purchased yet. Suggestions? Am I missing anything? I have done a fair bit of research on this site and others, but i want to ensure that I am not missing anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSan Posted November 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2016 Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohmiko Posted November 6, 2016 Report Share Posted November 6, 2016 are u only doing one kind of neo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSan Posted November 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 Yes! I decided on PRLs in one tank and then blue dreams in the other! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revaria Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 Everything looks great the way it is. To nitpick, you might be able to get away with 10% water changes once a week depending on how much your stocking. It would save you some time and mineralizers. For mineralizers I use salty shrimp as it is a dry powder and there is a lot so it lasts you quite a while, but some people are switching to liquid mineralizers for convenience. And a lot of shrimpers say almond leaves are great for shrimp, if you want to add that to your list of things to feed them. But honestly I'm just giving some extra ideas and from your set up it sounds great the way it is, good luck. JuanSan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSan Posted November 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2016 On 11/7/2016 at 10:14 PM, Revaria said: Everything looks great the way it is. To nitpick, you might be able to get away with 10% water changes once a week depending on how much your stocking. It would save you some time and mineralizers. For mineralizers I use salty shrimp as it is a dry powder and there is a lot so it lasts you quite a while, but some people are switching to liquid mineralizers for convenience. And a lot of shrimpers say almond leaves are great for shrimp, if you want to add that to your list of things to feed them. But honestly I'm just giving some extra ideas and from your set up it sounds great the way it is, good luck. Thank you! Ill definitely take the salty shrimp remineralizer into account and do my homework on it. Also I see what you mean on the 10% water changes. It would be super helpful! i also have cholla wood in the tanks at the moment so ill experiment with what the shrimp respond the most positively to and go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revaria Posted November 16, 2016 Report Share Posted November 16, 2016 No probs, and also if you don't have a TDS meter I recommend it, just get like a cheap 10-20 dollar one. It makes dosing the mineralizers much easier and quicker. Mines saved me from extra shrimp deaths this weekend actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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