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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 22:07:54 GMT -5
Hey hey! I found this on Kijiji, pretty glad I found something for my local area. I'm from Windsor and recently had to tear down a couple of Betta tanks as the Water Wysteria I had bought from Petsmart had snails that began eating all the living plant matter as I only originally intended to have Malaysian Trumpet Snails. So I'm left with 2 5.5 gallons and I've been really wanting to make a natural planted shrimp tank. Any suggestions about the tank I'm more then open to them, other than that happy to find something local.
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Post by guppyguy on Feb 6, 2013 22:25:17 GMT -5
Welcome to the board. As far as your shrimp tank you will need.
Plants
Substrate
Cover
Stress Zyme
Shrimp
You already have your 5 gallon tank. Use a dirt substrate, for your plants use: Anubias nana (small), Hemianthus callitrichoides, Eleocharis acicularis, Glossostigma elatinoides and frogbit if you like. Make sure you have good lighting at least 2.5 watts a gallon.
I hope this gives an good start and good luck.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2013 22:48:01 GMT -5
I appreciate the welcome! It's something that I'm looking to do, and I realize that with a natural planted tank you want to have as many plants as possible to use up all the nutrients in the water to prevent algae from taking over?
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2013 18:32:47 GMT -5
I appreciate the welcome! It's something that I'm looking to do, and I realize that with a natural planted tank you want to have as many plants as possible to use up all the nutrients in the water to prevent algae from taking over? yes this is completely true, if you have enough plants with a stable system, you can pretty much avoid many types of algae, but everything has to be in balance (nutrients, lights, co2-if you run it) |
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