I have a lot of shelf space, I have a tank that fits perfectly and I don't want my cats to spend all day trying to murder a brightly colored fluttery betta so...a shrimp tank seems like a good idea.
Aquarium - ADA Mini S - 3.5 gallons
Lighting - Finnex Stingray 12" (with pet proof screen blocking some light)
Filter - Finnex PX-360
Substrate - pool filter sand
Plants - Anubias, subwassertang, flame moss
Temp - 76F
TDS- shooting to keep it under 200
Shrimp - Sakura culls (coming soon!)


First of all, I want to say that Purigen is amazing stuff. Sitting at my desk, it looks like there's no water in my tank. Secondly, this PX-360 filter is very nice for the price (I paid $36 recently). With all the media in place, it holds about 1.4L of water. I figure with all the stuff in the tank, the actual water volume is probably about 11L, maybe less. That's a good amount of extra water flowing through the system. The media chambers are generously sized and it came with a ton of plumbing parts. I set up a spray bar vertically in the back corner, and plumbed an airline into the bottom-most spray hole up to some additional pieces to promote some surface agitation. Without this, the surface was absolutely still and getting grimy.
The Anubias sprigs are all I have left from a glorious clump that I had in my Amazon biotope-ish setup; they didn't survive my recent move from Tampa so well. I plan on dosing macros 1x week and micros 2x month. 500mL water changes 2x week. The water in Greenville is awesome out of the tap - 25ppm, 2-3 GH and 2-3 KH. So if I want to try my hand with some more advanced shrimp later on, I have excellent water to start with. As of right now, there's a lot of copepods chilling on the glass, so I guess the parameters are right.
The barricade of books around the tank? Yeah, cats. The slightest bit of room and they're up there drinking delicious fishy (or shrimpy) water. Idiots.
Aquarium - ADA Mini S - 3.5 gallons
Lighting - Finnex Stingray 12" (with pet proof screen blocking some light)
Filter - Finnex PX-360
Substrate - pool filter sand
Plants - Anubias, subwassertang, flame moss
Temp - 76F
TDS- shooting to keep it under 200
Shrimp - Sakura culls (coming soon!)


First of all, I want to say that Purigen is amazing stuff. Sitting at my desk, it looks like there's no water in my tank. Secondly, this PX-360 filter is very nice for the price (I paid $36 recently). With all the media in place, it holds about 1.4L of water. I figure with all the stuff in the tank, the actual water volume is probably about 11L, maybe less. That's a good amount of extra water flowing through the system. The media chambers are generously sized and it came with a ton of plumbing parts. I set up a spray bar vertically in the back corner, and plumbed an airline into the bottom-most spray hole up to some additional pieces to promote some surface agitation. Without this, the surface was absolutely still and getting grimy.
The Anubias sprigs are all I have left from a glorious clump that I had in my Amazon biotope-ish setup; they didn't survive my recent move from Tampa so well. I plan on dosing macros 1x week and micros 2x month. 500mL water changes 2x week. The water in Greenville is awesome out of the tap - 25ppm, 2-3 GH and 2-3 KH. So if I want to try my hand with some more advanced shrimp later on, I have excellent water to start with. As of right now, there's a lot of copepods chilling on the glass, so I guess the parameters are right.
The barricade of books around the tank? Yeah, cats. The slightest bit of room and they're up there drinking delicious fishy (or shrimpy) water. Idiots.