cynic
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Afternoon good people enjoying the snow.......
Anyway, yesterday i had to enter the walls of a pet store for bird food. While the daughter got her RSPB approved stuff?? I wandered around the condemned souls in the fish section and there in one of the glass prisons were 6 to 8 wood shrimp.
I have been thinking of maybe some amano shrimp, there is certainly algae on my slower plants for them to eat but these wood shrimp have really stuck in my mind.
Could they share 350 odd uk litres of moderately planted with a rtbs a bn and 10 or so harlequin tetra. Tank has been running for 6 -7 years and pretty consistent after a few missteps when i started. My bad, did not fully appreciate the added commitment of a large tank when we upgraded.
From what i can find it looks like it. I have a (slightly irritatingly) steadily increasing assassin snail population so i figure the copper worry is irrelevant.
If practical how many would work in my tank, i have a powerhead near some bogwood so water movement is good. I understand some rocks would be advisable.
How many would people recommend, would i still be ok with a complement of amano shrimp too, if so how many would you reccomend. I think cherries might be a bit small. Although any young would supplement the harlequin, greedy beggars.
I have aimed to be at least in the right continent with my tank, aimed for a section of thai stream (RTBS habitat was the theory) and these guys fit that general line.
Hardness straight from the local water authority:
232.5 mg/l (or parts per million) :Calcium Carbonate
93 mg/l (or parts per million) :Calcium
2.325 mmol/l :Millimoles
Otherwise its 0/0/ with a little nitrate 10-20 as far as my eyesight can gauge . Same figure is in the tap water.
Thanks for reading.
Anyway, yesterday i had to enter the walls of a pet store for bird food. While the daughter got her RSPB approved stuff?? I wandered around the condemned souls in the fish section and there in one of the glass prisons were 6 to 8 wood shrimp.
I have been thinking of maybe some amano shrimp, there is certainly algae on my slower plants for them to eat but these wood shrimp have really stuck in my mind.
Could they share 350 odd uk litres of moderately planted with a rtbs a bn and 10 or so harlequin tetra. Tank has been running for 6 -7 years and pretty consistent after a few missteps when i started. My bad, did not fully appreciate the added commitment of a large tank when we upgraded.
From what i can find it looks like it. I have a (slightly irritatingly) steadily increasing assassin snail population so i figure the copper worry is irrelevant.
If practical how many would work in my tank, i have a powerhead near some bogwood so water movement is good. I understand some rocks would be advisable.
How many would people recommend, would i still be ok with a complement of amano shrimp too, if so how many would you reccomend. I think cherries might be a bit small. Although any young would supplement the harlequin, greedy beggars.
I have aimed to be at least in the right continent with my tank, aimed for a section of thai stream (RTBS habitat was the theory) and these guys fit that general line.
Hardness straight from the local water authority:
232.5 mg/l (or parts per million) :Calcium Carbonate
93 mg/l (or parts per million) :Calcium
2.325 mmol/l :Millimoles
Otherwise its 0/0/ with a little nitrate 10-20 as far as my eyesight can gauge . Same figure is in the tap water.
Thanks for reading.