Re: Help with Shrimp tank setup.
quite a tall tank. you using a overhead filter or hang on filter? shrimps are delicate creatures so heavy amount of water falling in can throw your shrimps around, but for that height it should be fine.
7. what are a list of recommended/must-haves in a tank? with reference to fish/prawns?
-to maintain a good, healthy tank.
-i have in mind, Oto, some SAE, assasin snail? and suckerfish. (from all my readings on forum thus far).
-are these correct?
oto are definitely 100% shrimp-safe as they are herbivores. but i won't recommend having both oto and SAE in the tank because both of them simply does the same job. and for oto, they like to be in groups of 3 or more, so try to keep to one kind only, else your tank's attraction will become algae cleaners and also cause a food fight. assassin snails are meant for clearing pest snails. so unless you have a snail infestation, i will again recommend you not to add them in. else if there's no food source, they end up dying too. think about it first before buying so you don't starve those poor guys. as for 'suckerfish' or pleco, don't. they are carnivores and shrimps are on their menu. just my 2cents worth.
my 100 gallon tank:
- 23 blood parrots
- 2 high-fin plecostomus
my 10 gallon shrimp tank:
- sakura, cherry, malaya, orange, snowball, tiger, bamboo
- 3 otocinclus, 3 assassin snails
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