To use 2ft tank or stick to 1ft for CRS?

**prodrive** · 11th May 2012, 01:20

I've been surfing the forum. Search function and all. Originally intend to do a crs tank on a 1 ft cube but apparently from the posts I read, it's frown upon due to unstable water parameters! I was actually intending to run a 2215 with hs28 hailea but info I gathered from the forum ain't in favor of such a setup due to difficulty in maintaining water parameters

Reason for 1ft is because it will be placed on my tv console. A 2 feet would be aesthetically unsound.

**prodrive** · 11th May 2012, 01:23

Sorry . Didn't state my question. Drunk from a bottle of chivas. So should I really go 2feet for crs? I have a 2feet decommissioned but as I said asthetically, cubes look more pleasing in my environment.

**xconnect.** · 11th May 2012, 08:32

If you really want a one feet then You will firstly need taps to control the current for your 2215 because it may stir the contents in the one feet and I advice you to keep slightly more hardy shrimps fire reds for example.and your equipment is to be frank perfect for a two feet tank so yeah

**Navanod** · 11th May 2012, 10:58

prodrive bro, I've edited your drunken title so it more correctly reflects the question.
Oh, and remember not to drink and (pro)drive!

**deone** · 11th May 2012, 11:29

If you have not purchase your 2215, maybe you can consider the 2213 that comes with media.

**gryphon** · 11th May 2012, 15:09

Can a 40cm cube fit your TV console? If yes, you can consider that since a 40cm cube holds more water than a 2x1x1 tank

**Ecalyte** · 12th May 2012, 03:41

I have an eheim 2213 with a prefilter and chiller running on my 1ft cube.. and I had to lower the output by almost half due to it being too strong. So 2215 is a complete overkill for a 1ft cube.. but if you have double taps, you can adjust it.

Bro gryphon is right.. the trick is water volume right? So if you don't have the horizontal space, you can always go for the vertical space to increase the maximum water volume. So.. measure out your maximum horizontal space that you want to have in that table of yours and just cube it. A 45cm cube will hold a potential maximum water volume of 91L. That is huge. That's only 5L less than a big 60x40x40cm tank.

**prodrive** · 14th May 2012, 01:40

Thanks bros for the advices.
No worries, no drink driving here.

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I already have a 2215. Hence, trying to do away with the hassle of selling away. I previously sold my 2213. Thats the problem, one moment you need this equipment and the next you don't. The consequences of improper planning.

I'm toying with the idea of scrapping my 1 foot crs and just concentrate on a new 3ft iwagumi with only hc and 50 cardinal tetras and of course crs..... But but......yeah I know shrimplets are in danger so I'm still at a dilemma what to do. An additional 2 feet tank is out of the question....... No approval
obtain.

and I have an empty 2 feet + cabinet at home! Argggg!

Well I should be contented since wifey approve my new 3 ft.... Kekeke..

**hyun007** · 23rd May 2012, 16:26

If you want to keep CRS seriously, 2ft is better for water quality.

I have CRS with Cardinal and Galaxy, no problem for the shrimplets.
14 of them grown into adults from a female.

**deltarun1** · 23rd May 2012, 16:32

Originally Posted by hyun007

If you want to keep CRS seriously, 2ft is better for water quality.

I have CRS with Cardinal and Galaxy, no problem for the shrimplets.
14 of them grown into adults from a female.

Does your galaxy and cardinal eat your crs shrimplets?

**hyun007** · 23rd May 2012, 17:34

Originally Posted by deltarun1

Does your galaxy and cardinal eat your crs shrimplets?

I never seen them eating any of my shrimplets.
Even when they come out of hiding after first week, Cardinal and Galaxy ignored them totally. They might take a curious look at them in the beginning and then move away.
I have seem them darting toward a
I judged by 14CRS(from 1 female) surviving to adults to indicate that no harm was done.
If they were that vicious as some people had mentioned, I do not think I will have that kind of surviving rate.

To me, I think it is poor water quality that killed shrimplets but people tends point fingers at their fish, thinking that they must had eaten them when the shrimplets went missing. Shrimplets are so small, if they died, they get consumed up very fast by other shrimps.

Fish can be a cause of shrimplets fatality due to bio-loads.
With a shrimps only tank, you get less bio-loads and less meat based foods.

If you have enough moss and driftwoods and plants for them to hide, I do not think you should worry about them. They will do well as long as they are happy with the water parameter.