Nice tank, looking forward to the Cardinals. Are you doing WCs with RO or tap? Some folks do RO + coral to get high pH and low TDS.
Mordalphus' 30g Sulawesi Journal
Ok, so I've been keeping dwarf shrimp for a while now, and decided it was time to try something a bit different than the acid-loving, soft water species I've been keeping. I had a spare 30 gallon tank that was cycled and outfitted with a filter, so I got the bright idea that I'd set up a tank to mimic one of the many lakes from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia!
So here ya go:
Tank: 30 gallon
Light: 2x23w CFLs in dome fixtures
Filter: Marineland Magnum 220 with charcoal intake goes into a double sponge filter, also there is a smaller powerhead filter to help circulate and oxygenate the water
Miscellaneous equipment: Hanna continuous pH and TDS meter
Substrate: 3 layer, bottom is crushed coral, then turface, then black 3M colorquartz, there is plastic mesh between the coral and turface
Flora: small bunch of subwassertang (not expected to survive the rabbit snails) and a small bunch of fissidens fontanus
Fauna: 10 blue leg poso shrimp, about 30 rabbit snails of all sizes and types and 3 Sulawesi zebra nerite snails
Here are some tank shots:
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TDS and pH meter:
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Blue leg poso:
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Some nice algae covered lace rock:
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Some rabbits hangin out:
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More rabbits:
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Cute baby rabbit snail:
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Well, that's it for now, I have some cardinal babies coming next week! Right now I'm doing WCs trying to get my TDS back down under 200 (lava rock and coral causing it to be a bit high atm)
Also, my pH probe for my continuous monitor is old, so I'm waiting for my new one to arrive via hong kong express mail, haha, hopefully I get it within a few weeks :/
Thanks for looking!
So here ya go:
Tank: 30 gallon
Light: 2x23w CFLs in dome fixtures
Filter: Marineland Magnum 220 with charcoal intake goes into a double sponge filter, also there is a smaller powerhead filter to help circulate and oxygenate the water
Miscellaneous equipment: Hanna continuous pH and TDS meter
Substrate: 3 layer, bottom is crushed coral, then turface, then black 3M colorquartz, there is plastic mesh between the coral and turface
Flora: small bunch of subwassertang (not expected to survive the rabbit snails) and a small bunch of fissidens fontanus
Fauna: 10 blue leg poso shrimp, about 30 rabbit snails of all sizes and types and 3 Sulawesi zebra nerite snails
Here are some tank shots:
TDS and pH meter:
Blue leg poso:
Some nice algae covered lace rock:
Some rabbits hangin out:
More rabbits:
Cute baby rabbit snail:
Well, that's it for now, I have some cardinal babies coming next week! Right now I'm doing WCs trying to get my TDS back down under 200 (lava rock and coral causing it to be a bit high atm)
Also, my pH probe for my continuous monitor is old, so I'm waiting for my new one to arrive via hong kong express mail, haha, hopefully I get it within a few weeks :/
Thanks for looking!
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Wow, very nice 
That's an awesome meter, where & how much if you don't mind me asking?
The snails eat every plant I put in my Sulawesi tank:icon_roll They especially love duckweed though lol. They climb up, grab a bunch, & freefall with little green duckweed parachutes. I put de-tannined IAL in also, they eat them pretty quick. Only problem is LOTS of snail poo, so I've added a school of not-so-Sulawesi detritus cleaning type fish (that obviously don't eat shrimp).
Nice start of algae growth on your rocks. Do you have sunlight hit the tank at all?
I see spinach i think, what else will/do you feed the shrimp? My Cards won't touch much that isn't meaty...
I'm wondering why did you put the layer of Turface?
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That's an awesome meter, where & how much if you don't mind me asking?
The snails eat every plant I put in my Sulawesi tank:icon_roll They especially love duckweed though lol. They climb up, grab a bunch, & freefall with little green duckweed parachutes. I put de-tannined IAL in also, they eat them pretty quick. Only problem is LOTS of snail poo, so I've added a school of not-so-Sulawesi detritus cleaning type fish (that obviously don't eat shrimp).
Nice start of algae growth on your rocks. Do you have sunlight hit the tank at all?
I see spinach i think, what else will/do you feed the shrimp? My Cards won't touch much that isn't meaty...
I'm wondering why did you put the layer of Turface?
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Nice setup. Just to let you know.. I am going to steal your powerhead spray-bar idea
Beautiful snails.
Beautiful snails.
Glad they arrived to you relatively safe and sound
NOW GIVE ME AN ITRADER! lol
NOW GIVE ME AN ITRADER! lol
Ok, so All of my cardinals are hiding where I can't take good pictures of them. I tried, but they're so small and my camera just would not focus on them. So I took some pictures of the blue leg posos, which are doing really well!
This first picture is when I came home from work early to find them romping through a pile of pure columbian coke. Boy were they in trouble! I scolded them sternly before confiscating it.
Actually it's just their weekly dose of oyster shell, but that just sounds boring.
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And this picture you can see the blue dots on the uropod (the tail), and the blue rostum and the red antennule. They're really quite beautiful shrimp. Depending seemingly on what time of day it is, their body color changes from medium blue to dark orange. It probably has something to do with the way they're feeling, but so far it seems as though they all are the same color at the same time.
Anyways, here's that picture:
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This first picture is when I came home from work early to find them romping through a pile of pure columbian coke. Boy were they in trouble! I scolded them sternly before confiscating it.
Actually it's just their weekly dose of oyster shell, but that just sounds boring.
And this picture you can see the blue dots on the uropod (the tail), and the blue rostum and the red antennule. They're really quite beautiful shrimp. Depending seemingly on what time of day it is, their body color changes from medium blue to dark orange. It probably has something to do with the way they're feeling, but so far it seems as though they all are the same color at the same time.
Anyways, here's that picture:
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Thanks! And as I was heading to bed, a few cardinals popped out to say good night, so I stole their souls, and will now bear them for you here:
Here's a baby one in the crack between two rocks:
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Here's a juvenile, also in the rocks:
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Here's an adult, doing some sweet ninja moves against the algae:
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Here's a baby one in the crack between two rocks:
Here's a juvenile, also in the rocks:
Here's an adult, doing some sweet ninja moves against the algae:
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