Aweeby's 20g Shrimp tank

[aweeby]

Over the summer, I've been planning out a shrimp tank, so that I can hopefully isolate my breeding rills and breed some Caridinas. It's about 3 weeks old and the bacteria seems solid at the moment. I don't really feel comfortable putting caridinas in there yet, but the tank they were in had way too high TDS. (550+) And even after multiple water changes... After a death, I realized they had to be moved.

But here's what I have so far. The idea was to put as much plant material in it as possible from the get go to hasten cycling. I pulled a large piece of driftwood from my neglected 55g, to my surprise, the NLJF I planted a few months back had increased in size 10 fold! The HOB powering the UGF is mature.

Here's some pics of the shrimps:






Stats:

Water:
TDS: 230 ppm
pH: 6.3

Shrimp:
• Red Rili x11
• S+ CBS x9
• S+ CRS x8 (4 tiger tooth)

Filtration:
• Mordalphus style UGF powered by a 30g rated HOB.
• Marineland 55g rated HOB

Substrate:
• 1.5" Aquasoil
• plastic needle point mesh (to prevent AS from clogging the UGF)
• 1" Crushed cinder gravel and peat (biological media)

Plants:
• Needle Leaf Java
• Normal java fern
• Bolbitus
• Notocyphus Lutescens
• Fissidens
• x-mass moss
• Mini-pellia
• Hydrocotyle sp. Japan
• Crypt. retrospiralis
• Marimo
• Echidnodorus Angustifolia sp. Vesuvius
• Anubias Barteri (petite and regular)
• Abnormally large Echidnodorus tenellus
• Water Sprite
• Italian Val

Hardscape:
Malaysian Driftwood
Manzanita twigs (for biofilm farms)
Basalt stones
Cinder gravel (for the moss)