I started a thread not long ago where I was going to do a Mr. Aqua 12" cube Buddha tank. That's been placed on hold. After speedie408 unleashed his awesome Blue Diamond shrimp on us, I jumped at the chance to be one of the first to obtain these beautiful shrimp. In doing so, I decided that the 12" cube tank just wasn't enough real estate and I wanted to go with a more natural scape. So, I decided to stay frameless and being very happy with the first Mr. Aqua tank, I grabbed another. This time an 11.4g, 18.9" X 11.8" X 11.8" tank.
Plans for this tank include a large rock mound, maybe two filled with Eco-Complete and covered in moss/fissidens. There will be some other low light plants such as a handful of crypts I have on hand and some Hydrocotyle Japan hopefully to form a foreground carpet of sorts. I'll also be heavily planting my HOB filter and possibly going full riparium with the tank.
So here's the break down:
Equipment
Tank - Mr. Aqua 11.4g, 18.9" X 11.8" X 11.8"
Filter - AquaClear 50 HOB
Light - Finnex FugeRay-R Ultra Slim LED Fixture +RED boost, will probably upgrade to afugeRAY soon for more medium light
Scape
Locally collect rock and/or lava rock mounds
Eco-Complete
Critters
Blue Diamond neos
Possibly Super Tigers if the water parameters cooperate
Plants
Fissidens fontanus
Aluminum plant
Wandering Jew
Pilea cadierei
Fittonia argyroneura
Ludwigia Hybrid Red
Hydrocotyle Japan
UG - included in plant package I just grabbed from FS section, doubt I'll have the lights to make it work though. Might try to incorporate it into the planted HOB.
Ahhh my BD are waiting for me once i get out of work. Only one more hour! So exciting, and love the new scape! Cant wait to see it evolve, happy shrimping!
No pics yet. Just got home from work, shrimp are all over the tank. Parameters are good, maybe just shipping stress, not sure. Hope the rest adapt and are ok.
DISCLAIMER....this is a really bad picture...I just want to show how insanely blue these shrimp are. This was taken yesterday literally 10 minutes after the shrimp where in the tank. They were just as blue in the bag even after being shipped across the country overnight! I will get better pictures this evening now that they have settled down. Yesterday they were zipping around so much it was impossible to get a clean shot...
It's great for the price. I can't say how it will be in the long run or how plants will do under it since I've only had it on a tank one day. But I think it'll work fine. It's pretty low light for sure, which is what I want for this tank, at least at the moment. I may switch to a FugeRay 2 though so I can hang it higher over the tank. That way once the HOB is planted and I get some rip. action going, the light will be higher above the tank so those plants will benefit as well. I may even just hang a couple pendants instead and use a couple 13w CFL's...I just gotta figure out how high to keep things low light or get some floaters.
Also, re-checked parameters...glad to see that things are good...I got 0, 0, 10 and pH 7.6...so looks like the seeded media is doing fine. I need to check GH/KH tomorrow to see how it's doing, but I know my tap water is just fine for neos...I just want to check to make sure the rocks haven't messed with it any.
Not much to report bump. Still not seeing shrimp often. Lost another one too. Noticed there was a PFR baby in the tank, must have hitch hiked in with some moss I added from my PFR tank. Caught it pretty easily and back to its own tank.
Good thing it was a baby or you might have little mutts running around haha.
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