10 Gallon Wild Type Shrimp Tank

[drewsuf82]

Welcome to my Wild Type Shrimp Tank

I grabbed a 10 gallon tank at the LFS and grabbed some eco-complete since it's the substrate in the tank that they're in now. I also really wanted to try out this RocketFilter and grō soil that I got from a RAOK

So here's the primary info:

• 10 Gallon
• EcoComplete
• Rocket Filter
• ~25 lbs of leftover rock that I had laying around
• T8 PowerGlo light
• Using Flourish product line with this tank (excel, plant food and iron)
• grō soil (First time using it)

Plants:

• Water Wisteria (Hygrophila difformis)
• Dwarf Sagittaria (Sagittaria subulata)
• Brazilian Pennywort (Hydrocotyle leucocephala)
• Moss Ball

This is a few days behind I took these pictures while I was setting up Just haven't gotten around to posting

So here's the first set of setup to current





The inlet is pretty thin trying to decide if I want to throw some type of sponge around this or not


Initial Layout


Close Ups with substrate in place






Plants and Water in and running:




Prolly going to move the moss ball back to my 55 gallon, it's in here right now to help speed cycling



That's that, I think that I'm going to change the substrate up a bit to give it some depth I didn't realize how flat it looked until I looked at the preview.

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Comments and suggestions always welcome

[drewsuf82]

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[sayurasem]

Unique filter! What kind of shrimp your getting?

[drewsuf82]

Originally Posted by sayurasem

Unique filter! What kind of shrimp your getting?

The filter I acquired locally it looked really different and I was pretty happy to get it (I do have a backup hob available just incase)





The dark ones They're getting big I need to get them moved....

[drewsuf82]

So I figure time for a super speedy update:

The rocket filter is no more, it actually caused the death of 2 residents (not shrimp) so I figured forget that, so I have changed to an in tank filter with seems to be doing good and hasn't sucked anyone up LOL

I added some weeping moss and that's turning out nicely and the tank is filling in very nicely. I will be trying to incorporate some cholla wood here soon so the shrimp have a place to have fun

The shrimp are doing ok although there's only about 4 of them in there so once I get a good shot of them I will be looking to pick up a few more

[GMYukonon24s]

Nice tank!

[Betta132]

Nice! The wild-type ones are really pretty... Are you going to try to breed them?

[drewsuf82]

So after a good long while...and much time thinking that I had only gotten all females, I went in to go to bed tonight and low and behold I've got a VERY HEAVILY BERRIED FEMALE!!!!!!!

[bulsie]

if you go harvest up some stinging nettle and pour boiling water over it roll it into a ball they will love it also fresh stinging nettle helps to stimulate females’ egg production.