Re: shrimp tank setup advice
Why use HOF when you already spending so much got soil. A good Filtration is very important. I recommend you to get eheim. 2213 or 2215. 2215 better cause you might want to upgrade to a chiller next time.
Lava rocks would be the best. You do not really need mineral rocks if your water gh is 3-4 but could be placed as long as you can maintain a good gh level for shrimps. Minerals rocks cannot put too many.
For japanese hairgrass I not very sure if it can be done without co2 and chiller but you can try. Hornworts,frogbit,mini nanas are quite low required and hardy. maybe you can try putting some moss? Moss easy to keep.
I not sure if corys can be kept with shrimps but I alway keep shrimps with otos thats all.
For seachem excel. You try to not over dose it cause shrimps do not really like it.
Light I can't comment much.
If your keeping hardy shrimps then chiller might not be needed but recommended as shrimps will be more happy.
Test kit needed.
The requirements for hardy shrimps and CRS are way different level. I would say you can try keeping those hardy shrimps and maintain water parameters for CRS. Then if you can maintain, meaning your tank would be ready for crs.
You could keep sakuras as they can be in the same tank as CRS.
Get a chiller and canister filter. So when you feel like upgrading you do not need to buy so many stuff and could directly add CRS into the tank.
Trust me it will feel better than getting all budget then when you feel like buy CRS you need to sell your stuff and reset your tank and buy new stuff for them.
Simple maths.
chiller 300 + filter 130.
if you buy HOF $40+ Fan $20 + Chiller 300 + filter 130.
Just my 2cent. A power setup feel so much better then a budget setup.
still learning the hard way!!
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