Recommendation for plants for my 3ft

[w3ish3ng]

hey!

i will be starting a 3ft shrimp tank soon. will be having quite good lighting as i plan to reuse my ati powermodul 6tubes on it from my marine tank.

may i know what type of plants can i grow in it except mosses and fissiden

this tank will consist of crs, black tigers and orange eyes blue tiger.
my friend told me i can add sucker fish in it too, is there any other fishes i can keep with the shrimps?

[d2sign]

Since it's a shrimp tank, can have carpet plants like hair grass, HC or glosso, I won't suggest any other plants else you will have problem finding your expensive black tigers and golden eye blue tiger.

For fishes, can keep some boraras. Sucker fish can grow very big, you can try oto.

[w3ish3ng]

how about gu jing? can i keep those?

[d2sign]

Never try gu jing but don't think it's a problem. To me it look rather weird and expensive Sorry for gu jing lover.

[w3ish3ng]

thanks, what is that fish on your avater? look very nice..

[d2sign]

Microrasbora Erythromicron, they are small and cute same as their relative galaxy rasbora. But both of them rather shy, I have a hard time to see them schooling in my 3ft tank.

[w3ish3ng]

do you think i can add them in for my shrimp tank?

[jacian]

Do I assume that "quite good lighting" equal high lights? If so, do you intend to have CO2? What about the substrate? These will determine what plants you can grow.

Also, what is the colour temperature of your light tubes. Usually the lights for marine tank will not be suitable for planted tank.

[d2sign]

Can read this article: Safe tankmates for shrimp
http://www.planetinverts.com/safe_ta...or_shrimp.html

Rasboras stated as "potentially harmful" so...

[planted86]

there are cheap gu jing also...

[w3ish3ng]

Do I assume that "quite good lighting" equal high lights? If so, do you intend to have CO2? What about the substrate? These will determine what plants you can grow.

Also, what is the colour temperature of your light tubes. Usually the lights for marine tank will not be suitable for planted tank.

i would guess its quite high lights, 6x 39watts of t5 lightning and the powermodul is actually one of the better fixture for marine usage. i will change the bulb to 65k. as for co2, i do not mind using it. but then my friend advice me not to use fertilizer as it will kill the shrimps.

substrate i will be using ada amazon most likely

[d2sign]

Again, Can read this article: Is it safe to dose Fertilizers with Shrimp?
http://www.planetinverts.com/Dosing%20Fertilizers%20with%20Shrimp.html
I'm dosing Brighty K twice 2 week in my shrimp tank, my sakura & bee shrimp remain healthy and active. Sakura breed a lot too, countless shrimplets inside

[w3ish3ng]

well

that what my breeder friend told me.. he told me crs are very sensitive..
hmmmm....

[d2sign]

hmmmm... I hope not only my shrimps grow healthy but my plant/moss also, so must "feed" them too. hehe...
A bit off topic: So you get your rare shrimp from your breeder friend? Sorry cannot PM you.

[w3ish3ng]

hmm, nah.. he just restarted his tank and bought 10 pieces of mosura from jap to breed.
he said i have to wait like 6months before he will let go any.

doubt i will wait that long, maybe willl get from saline or something since i only after grade S

[d2sign]

oh I see. Maybe the whole Singapore only silane and spid have these rare species? I mean black and golden eye blue tiger.

[w3ish3ng]

i thought only silane have that..

hmm must go ask them soon already, see if i can reserve any.

[d2sign]

I hope I can afford them now
Good luck getting the shrimp and and do share the pictures!

[w3ish3ng]

will be quite sometime before i can share any pictures.

need to decom my marine tank first.. do you have msn? maybe you can guide me along the way or something

[d2sign]

I'm quite new to shrimp hobby too, busy reading around haha. PM you my MSN