20L/5G Journal, Reorganizing My Bar

[TallTree01]

 

[Mamashack]

Looking good!!

 

[Blondielovesfish]

Just out of curiosity, what LED light setup did you buy? 

Also, the tank looks nice. How has the stocking gone?

 

[dredgy]

I've been overseas several times since I lust checked in here, so stocking hasn't progressed unfortunately.
 
The LEDs are Aquazonic - there were 2 varieties, freshwater and marine. Wasn't sure what the difference was, but I got the freshwater one and it has day and moonlight which I enjoy.
 
http/www.theaquariumshop.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=3828&name=Aqua%20Zonic%20Super%20Bright%20Clamp%20LED%20Lamp%2016.44W%20For%20Marine

 

[dredgy]

Okay stocking has somewhat progressed. I was going to have a fish in here (pygmy corys) but they seem unnecessary.
 
At the moment I have 7 Crystal Red Shrimp and I'm looking at getting either RCS and lots of them or going for less of a different colour variety - Blue Cherry Shrimp/Blue Bolt Shrimp look quite cool and have resale volume.
 
 

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[greenmumma141]

This whole idea is great.  I also love the fact that you didn't set the bottle up perfectly, and same for the substrate. Looks great!! 
 
I have recently set up a 10g shrimp tank, and purchased 15 blue pearl (cherry) shrimp. They seem to be quite sensitive!! I'm down to maybe 5, but that be due to the heat lately. I did read that they need well established tanks and I obviously didn't listen. Just a heads up

 

[dredgy]

Thank you for the kind words
 
I quite like idea myself obviously, though I must confess I didn't set up the sand that way - the filter on full flow moved it around quite a lot.
 
I am hoping my tank is established enough for shrimp. I went the Red Cherry option and they should be arriving today. The filter media is from my established tank, but there were about 9 hours of power outage last night (and I was out) so some bacteria may have died off, but the Crystal shrimp seem fine.

 

[SamB]

If you're open to suggestions - I would say it would look kind of neat if the bottle was leaning on a piece of rock or driftwood as support

 

[greenmumma141]

I've had good success with regular cherries, you should be fine.  Hopefully your media was wet during the power outage, that would at least help.... darn power out ages.

 

[dredgy]

  Hopefully your media was wet during the power outage, that would at least help.... darn power out ages.

 
Most of it did yea, and I still have plenty of it in the filters for the big tank, which luckily keeps going with generator power.
 

you're open to suggestions - I would say it would look kind of neat if the bottle was leaning on a piece of rock or driftwood as support

 
Perhaps. I'm loathe to clutter the tank, but I will probably need to put driftwood in there anyway to lower PH.