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very nice and pro setup. How did you hold the clear pipe together? look like it may give way if you do not glue them.
Newly set up CRS tank (picture intensive)
Hello all, I've recently set up a new CRS tank after quite abit of research. Have been running for about 4 weeks now and I thought of sharing it with you guys.
Some specs below:
Tank dimensions: 10mm 4ft x 1ft x 1.5ft divided by 6mm glass into 4 partitions
Filter: Eheim Pro 2228 with CR, Eheim substrat pro and Biohomme plus, in order from bottom to top
UV steriliser: Hopar 11W
Chiller: Teco TR10
Light: 2 x 54W Hopar 4ft T5 light switched on for 3 hours each in morning, afternoon and night (Same timing as UV steriliser)
Substrate: ADA Amazonia II with Hayabashi mineral powder as base
Flora: Various mosses on meshes/driftwood, riccia, mini pelia, us fissiden and amazonia frogbits
Fauna: Horned nerite snails, Red Ramshorn snails, Otos, and some parasites like PLANARIA(still looking at how to solve the problem)
No CO2 but airpump instead to try to raise pH to 6.4
Water parameters:
No2, No3: 0
GH: 4-5
KH: 1
pH: 6.3-6.4
NH3: 0
TDS: 155-160
Temperature: 25-26 degrees celsius
Additives and food:
Full mosura range
Aquamedi dechlorinator
Seachem fluorish excel
Sorry for the crappy photos. Its the best camera I have at home. The wires are quite messy as well. HAHA.
Have tried to scape the tank to the best of my ability. Frogbits are getting abit overgrown soon and near to clear some of them. There is also some BBA which somehow do not get eaten by any of the non shrimp species including yamatos and SAEs which I have already removed. Excel also doesn't seem to work as well as manually removing them.
FTS
Have divided the tank into 4 partitions for selective breeding. Right now, from left to right
1) Sakuras (will be transferring them to another tank if the CRS breeding is successful to free up one more space)
2) Hinos
3) Empty except for 1 guppy
4) Mosuras
Filtration system - Self priming from all 4 partitions into a cooler box aka sump (for WC and adding of additives. Sometimes add a bottle of frozen ice to help the chiller) --> Atman pump 1000l/h --> Eheim 2228 (not powerful enough alone to drive water up) --> UV steriliser --> chiller --> distributed back to 4 partitions
This set-up plus purchase of shrimps has left me quite broke. But for the love of my new found hobby I think it's worth it!
Some questions that I have:
1) What do you guys do with the moulted shells? Remove them or leave them there?
2) My teco chiller's readings are always about 3 degrees celcius lower than the digital and mercury thermometers. Will it result in higher electricity bills since the cooling temperature is set lower? Any way to calibrate the chiller?
3) HOW TO SOLVE THE PLANARIA PROBLEM?!?! It is only present in my Sakura and Hino partitions. The guppy eats them up in the empty partition but somehow the mosura partition is infested with baby ramshorn snails instead.
4) Should I do up moss walls for all 4 partitions? It will give the shrimps more space to move around!
Comments are welcome as I'm still trying to improve on the set up + water parameters of my tank!
Last edited by schizome; 30th Oct 2009 at 23:40.
very nice and pro setup. How did you hold the clear pipe together? look like it may give way if you do not glue them.
silane
Thanks alot! It's my first time doing CRS and setting up a tank on such a large scale so I didn't want to screw things up.Originally Posted by silane
The clear pipes fit nicely into the joints. Have tested for leaks and black taped those parts. Otherwise I don't think they will give way as claimed by several LFS. They are also quite cheap to replace should they get worn out. By the way I bought the pipes and joints from Y618. Nice uncle that shared much of his experience with me.
wow nice setup there. all the matured fissidens. Teco can calibrate the temp error. can google the chiller manual online
Thanks! Finally managed to calibrate it to the correct temperature. Got the fissidens from a bro here.wow nice setup there. all the matured fissidens
Very nice setup there.
One simple suggestion- Enhance your present filtration by adding a sump tank at the lower tier powered by a stronger pump which will last you through the UV and the chiller.
Your tank looks very "NEW", I guess addition of more bacteria and more livestock (especially those that can shit a lot) is needed.
Happy shrimping.
poison detected. Very good job done.
nice setup
Apistos and Bettas(Team Siamesefish)
very nice and pro setup. Bro you adjusted the rate of water flowing down from tank to suit the 1000L/HR very accurately? i tried using these kind of water flow last time, have to adjust/topup once in a while in case it overflows or not enough water flowing into the sump
theres no overflow?
be careful when your atman pump stop working
theres no overflow?
be careful when your atman pump stop workingnice setupVery nice setup there.
One simple suggestion- Enhance your present filtration by adding a sump tank at the lower tier powered by a stronger pump which will last you through the UV and the chiller.
Your tank looks very "NEW", I guess addition of more bacteria and more livestock (especially those that can shit a lot) is needed.
Happy shrimping.
Thanks guys! Yeah I use a tap to adjust the flowrate of the water priming down into the cooler box. Took me many tries to get it right and I never want to touch it again. Tried installing the toilet bowl valve but the one that i bought require water of very high pressure to work (Suspect that all toilet bowl valves are the same) so I scraped that idea.
By the way there is no overflow system. Water only stops priming downwards when the water level reaches below the filters so I'm running a risk with an atman pump that I hope will never fail me.
Currently letting the water evaporate so that the water level is just right above the filters to ensure that there will not be a flood when the pump really spoils one day. However, with that, the taps will be too high above the water level and it creates splash which dirty the glass surface and gets quite unsightly.Looks like I have to make some kind of improvement soon!
Seeing your pics remind me of my 3 tiers, 4ft tank sectionized into 4 tanks in 1 row, they are also filter by canister filter, 3 of them. I have decommed the tankset due to the recently move but I will put it into service soon, after seeing your tanks.
Not too sure if UV is necessary for shrimp tanks and is it actually better with UV.
silane
Suggestion for prevention of overflow during pump failure:
Drill a hole at the side of the cooler box and stick a hose there. Other end goes to your nearest drain e.g. kitchen or bathroom. If one of your pumps fail, the water from your tank will rise until this new hole in the cooler box and safely drain away... Quite unsightly if your drain is too far, though.
Yecch!
Woah your collection must have been countless. One tier of 4ft already took up so much of my effort. Can't imagine 3 times of that
Not a bad idea but the nearest drain would be my kitchen toilet. Which means the pipe has to cut across the dining room and kitchen. My mum will kill me heh.
Any other ideas?
First time the pump fails, and it will invariably fail at some point.... A big enough sump would prevent water on the floor, or 2 sump.
wow nice set up bro....
Mm should I do away with the sump and connect the outlet of the priming filters straight to the canister instead?
Growing old with this forum.. :)
Sump is good!
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Might want to repostion your chiller, the back emits alot of warm air based on my tr15, counterproductive when its blowing at the *sump and canister.
When pump fails, flood is not good! Hahaha!
It was the best place that I could possibly have placed it. If I turn it around the back will be facing my other tanks. The other possible places are all corners.
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