I will try to answer you questions. I have 8 planted aquaria with shrimp in 4 dedicated tanks and in 2 community tanks. Red Cherry shrimp.
To get rid of copper, rinse the gravel and change the water a couple of times. RCS are slightly tolerant of copper in the water. Get some good moss for the babies to grow in. You can have otos, skunk cats (small) baby fish in with your RCS. I have Lemon Tetras, Albino cories in a 38 gallon with RCS. I also have 7 Lemon Tetras, 2 otos, 4peppered cories, 1 peppermint pleco with about 100 RCS in a 29 gallon non co2 tank that is heavily planted.
74 Degrees is great. Cycled tanks is a plus (RCS don't like nitrates and ammonia but tolerate nitrates as fertilizer for plants.).
I've run both a sponge filter connected to a power head in my shrimp tanks and an Aquaclear with a sponge prefilter over the intake tube. When I clean the Aquaclear, I sometimes find RCS in the filter and return them to the tank.
Your lighting looks good.
I fertilize once a week by adding CSM +Boron as a dry chemical, KNO3, K2SO4 and MG less than once a week. I do no water changes on the non co2 tank.
20 shrimp to start is fine. Be prepared to add more planted tanks. I have 4 dedicated shrimp tanks from 10 to 30 gallons. Total of over 600 RCS. I started with a single order of 20+ 9 months ago. I bought my shrimp from T_OM and DiabloCanine. I have the original orders seperated and a tank setup with some of both (its good to cross breed these tiny rabbits.).
Keeping a power filter in your tank will not hurt anything as long as you keep a prefilter of the intake tube.
I am using Onyx Sand and Eco Complete as gravel. One tank is flourite.
Hope this helps.
To get rid of copper, rinse the gravel and change the water a couple of times. RCS are slightly tolerant of copper in the water. Get some good moss for the babies to grow in. You can have otos, skunk cats (small) baby fish in with your RCS. I have Lemon Tetras, Albino cories in a 38 gallon with RCS. I also have 7 Lemon Tetras, 2 otos, 4peppered cories, 1 peppermint pleco with about 100 RCS in a 29 gallon non co2 tank that is heavily planted.
74 Degrees is great. Cycled tanks is a plus (RCS don't like nitrates and ammonia but tolerate nitrates as fertilizer for plants.).
I've run both a sponge filter connected to a power head in my shrimp tanks and an Aquaclear with a sponge prefilter over the intake tube. When I clean the Aquaclear, I sometimes find RCS in the filter and return them to the tank.
Your lighting looks good.
I fertilize once a week by adding CSM +Boron as a dry chemical, KNO3, K2SO4 and MG less than once a week. I do no water changes on the non co2 tank.
20 shrimp to start is fine. Be prepared to add more planted tanks. I have 4 dedicated shrimp tanks from 10 to 30 gallons. Total of over 600 RCS. I started with a single order of 20+ 9 months ago. I bought my shrimp from T_OM and DiabloCanine. I have the original orders seperated and a tank setup with some of both (its good to cross breed these tiny rabbits.).
Keeping a power filter in your tank will not hurt anything as long as you keep a prefilter of the intake tube.
I am using Onyx Sand and Eco Complete as gravel. One tank is flourite.
Hope this helps.
