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Hey everyone, got a bit of an issue I'd like some advice about. A what would you do. I have a 5 gallon established shrimp only tank that's been up for about a year now. I now have a good mix of species that I can't have interbreeding and I don't have room for more/multiple tanks in my house right now, I basically have two options here besides leaving it as is:
1) get another 5-ish gallon tank to sit next to the current one that I will link with a siphon/u-tube and have the intake of my canister filter in one tank and the outtake in the other to force water through the tube.
2) completely teardown the current 5 gallon and replace it with a 10gallon or 20 long or something that I can transfer everything/everyone into.
My other thought besides the breeder box's I have is to maybe get the intank dividers and split the 5 gallon... But the tank is already so small and I don't want to have to worry about flow in separate compartments = low oxygen or dead spots or something.
I don't want to mess up my cycle in any way whatsoever as I have a lot of high dollar/high quality shrimp in here and more on the way next week. I just want to make sure everything is getting filtered properly and everything and I'm not sure the breeder box's are the way to do that correctly. What would you do?
1) get another 5-ish gallon tank to sit next to the current one that I will link with a siphon/u-tube and have the intake of my canister filter in one tank and the outtake in the other to force water through the tube.
2) completely teardown the current 5 gallon and replace it with a 10gallon or 20 long or something that I can transfer everything/everyone into.
My other thought besides the breeder box's I have is to maybe get the intank dividers and split the 5 gallon... But the tank is already so small and I don't want to have to worry about flow in separate compartments = low oxygen or dead spots or something.
I don't want to mess up my cycle in any way whatsoever as I have a lot of high dollar/high quality shrimp in here and more on the way next week. I just want to make sure everything is getting filtered properly and everything and I'm not sure the breeder box's are the way to do that correctly. What would you do?