Reply With QuoteNot exactly bad if you have a dish to prevent any food from sinking down into the substrate. And if you're vacuuming it will be troublesome because the soil is not flat. Some high some low.Originally Posted by Arron
For the media, I would use the water that I took out during wc to clean. For the filter sponges, I use declorinated water.
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Not exactly bad if you have a dish to prevent any food from sinking down into the substrate. And if you're vacuuming it will be troublesome because the soil is not flat. Some high some low.
Recent studies shows that putting recent studies in your statement have a higher percentage of trust people put into your recent studies. What?
Guy how many shrimps can I put in this 2ft tank
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Oh man I bought the 9l soil maybe should have bought a bit lesser
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I'm interested to know as well. I currently have slightly over 200 in a 60litre tank and I'm getting a little concern with over population since more are on the way. So far, all seems to be doing well.
Anyone can share approximately how many shrimps and size of tank that you are having?
bro.. how many litre of soil did you fill in the tank?
I filles the tank with 9l of soil, hmm I currently have about 51 liters of water in there so I'm not too sure how many shrimps I can buy and keep hahaha. What will happen if I mix crs and cbs?
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You can try RAC Soil, i have good results with them.
They are available from Aquarist Chamber.
when you mix crs and cbs together, you will get more likely cbs than crs offspring if I'm not wrong.. how many shrimps do you intend to keep?
Around 50?
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50 should not be a problem =)
Err.... I think you might have less than 51 liters of water. I'm assuming that you don't fill your tank up to the brim but probably around 2-3cm below. So this will bring you down another 3 liters or more. Besides the 9l soil, if you have things that takes up space (rocks as an example), then you lose some volume as well.
Take this into consideration when dosing chemicals into your tank. I believe most if not all dosage recommended on the bottles refer to actual water volume in tank and not the possible total volume within a tank.
So unable to keep 50 shrimps?
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There isn't really any fixed rule for ideal shrimp populatios in tanks (that's why there are so many differing opinions on stocking ratios)... it depends on the filtration efficiency and whether it can keep the parameters stable for the shrimp population.
Some 2ft tanks have trouble even supporting a few shrimps, while others can support many hundreds.
Unlike active fishes which need room to swim around, shrimps spend most of their time just grazing on surfaces, so the more surfaces like leaves or wood the better.
It also depends on the available food and minerals too, if there are limited food or mineral sources the weaker ones will die while the stronger ones live, so the population is somewhat kept in balance, like in nature.
When your shrimp population grows to a point where you start seeing more die offs each day and the population stagnates, then it means they already hit the max. bio-load capacity for your particular tank, so either upgrade the filtration, do more tank maintenance or reduce the population.
Last edited by Urban Aquaria; 2nd May 2014 at 14:24.
I don't think 50 is a problem for now. It's when they start breeding and population exploded. Each mama can hold 20-30 eggs. I understand that at times up to 50 eggs possible. It might be possible that you will be planning for an upgrade in 2 months time.
Come to think about it. I was keeping 20 in a 45cm slim tank. The population grew within 2 months to 18 adult (2 adult died and over 100 babies). I didn't think much at that time as was too excited over it until 2 weeks later where I counted over 150 and more still coming. I started to get concern and quickly upgrade my tank. In fact, I shouldn't rush and didn't layout the tank (bare bottom). Was thinking that I might need more time to cycle so never thought of the layout. Now I'm regretting. Should have upgrade to 4ft instead of just 2ft. lol.
Do crs really multiply that quickly??
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My bad. I should be clearer. I'm having RCS. I've read someone in here got preggie after using some super feeder food for CRS. If that's the case then should think so when you have the right condition going for your CRS.
There is a reason why we don't see $10 bulk bags of 50 x CRS available at LFS... definitely not as prolific as RCS.
hahaha..... Definitely
There is a reason why we don't see $10 bulk bags of 50 x CRS available at LFS... definitely not as prolific as RCS.
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