My tank is up and running but it hasn't been plain sailing. I bought some red cherry shrimpies but hadn't put anything over the filter intake so they were all in the filter the next morning, so I bought a sponge and put it over the filter intake very promptly.
This was the start and though I managed to salvage a few from the filter they just disappeared over the following days. So I got some more, yellow, larger ones, and all was well until my other half, bless him, bought a Betta and out of 12 shrimp I now have 5 left, so upset.
I also have 4 tiny nerite snails which are cute and 2 rabbit snails which are chomping some of my plants to bits.
I have put some larger shrimp tubes in the tank which the Betta loves to swim through and the rabbit snails doss down in there during the day. Poor little shrimpies don't get a look in. I am using ferts for the plants and they seem to be growing reasonably well but I will need to reposition some of them soon.
I am testing the water twice a week and changing around 23-30%weekly and water parameters are staying relatively stable.
Anything else I should be doing?
