giobelkoicenter
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I recommend hair grass it has enough hiding place for shrimps
Oh thank you, that would be great since it's such a small tank.I recommend hair grass it has enough hiding place for shrimps
I doubt hairgrass will grow without a substrate like sand for it to root in and spread. ??
The only substrate I have is the BiOrb ceramic media. The filter is on the bottom so I didn't think adding anything else would be practical.
Yeah, I had a similar tank a Bio Orb Flow, afew years back when I first started the hobby. With the intention of just having shrimps.
I tried to add black gravel to the tank but of course the way and where the filter intake is set up, on the bottom and in middle of the tank with a plastic cover with slats for water flow means that adding ANY kind of loose substrate will simply block the filter and making it ineffective. So the use of live rock type of substrate, around a inch or two in diameter, therefore there is sufficient space for water flow to go around the rocks to get into the filter intake to keep the filter functioning.
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(Image on left was my own little set up, image on the right taken from the Bio Orb website)
It actually works quite well and is not a bad little filter but due to the design of the intake makes adding any other type of desired sand or gravel substrate pretty much pointless unless they are pebble or rock type of substrate.
welcome, I have the same setup before for shrimps they love itOh thank you, that would be great since it's such a small tank.