Keeping RCS short term

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Pmasa

Discussion Starter · Oct 12, 2016

Hi all,

I am moving my tank in a few weeks and doing a rescape, adding ada amazonia. To avoid any harm to livestock from ammonia i plan to keep my neons and RCS in a 52L plastic container (will include a heater, filter, and airstone) for a couple of weeks whilst the ammonia levels dissipate. I am thinking of keeping the RCS, ~30, in a couple of large breeding net containers with sone java moss. Do people think this will be a good way of keeping them for a few weeks? (I dont want to put them directly with the tetra owing to the lack of plant cover)

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Zoidburg

· #2 · Oct 12, 2016

Sounds fine, except that the shrimp will probably crawl out of the nets... critter keepers or some of the plastic breeder boxes might be better options....

I hear SL-Aqua soil leaches are less ammonia than ADA (close to none) and most people who've tried both prefer SL-Aqua.

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Yukiharu

· #3 · Oct 18, 2016

If there's a lot of plants/good filtration the RCS will do fine. I've kept shrimp in 1 gallon tupperware bins for extended periods of time with only fistfuls of guppy grass and they did exceptionally well. Neon tetra on the other hand I am not so sure.

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geisterwald

· #4 · Oct 18, 2016

Yukiharu said:
If there's a lot of plants/good filtration the RCS will do fine. I've kept shrimp in 1 gallon tupperware bins for extended periods of time with only fistfuls of guppy grass and they did exceptionally well. Neon tetra on the other hand I am not so sure.

If it's filtered and heated, especially if the filter media is established already, I don't see why the neons wouldn't be fine as well.

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Pmasa

Discussion Starter · #5 · Oct 18, 2016

geisterwald said:
If it's filtered and heated, especially if the filter media is established already, I don't see why the neons wouldn't be fine as well.

Thanks for the input guys, the container will be heated and filterd so hopefully everything will be fine. I will add a few plants and a few chunks of moss into the container so hopefully they will be fine, the neons have shown no interest in them in the past

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