Solstice_Lacer

I'd love to have cherry barbs sometime but I worry about them with my cherry shrimp

I was also going to say purple rasboras

I set up my first planted tank about 5 and a half weeks ago, and stocked it with 20 cherry shrimp (10 each from two different places). I have been working on filling it out with plants and rearranging a few things over the weeks. Most of my hornwort was wedged in down low and started exploding, but then it went through a big shed after a few weeks. I decided to pull most of it out and let it float, and it seems to be recovering well. The shrimp seem to be doing well and have started breeding. There are little ones all around the tank now. My first bunch of plants were from my lfs (and some locally harvested moss) but I finally got around to ordering 10 plants in from aquarium co op. I'm pleased with how they arrived. Some were a little smaller than I expected but some were bigger, and overall they seem quite healthy, so I am happy. Also got easy green and root tabs. Hopefully the new plants all do well and everything grows in the coming weeks. I'm pretty happy with how it is looking overall.

Shrimp generations

Baby cherry shrimp in the weeds

You could do a small group of panda corydoras. They can live 10 to 15 years

Welcome, nice looking tank. 👍 Part of my family is from Ireland several generations back

Did you have any issues keeping the frogs and shrimp together?

Detroit area 😁

Just living the shrimp life

Has anyone tried giving chicken feed to shrimp? Laying hen food seems to have pretty similar ingredients to shrimp food, since hens need calcium for eggs as well as some protein. I happen to have access to a lot of it and am tempted to drop in a pellet to see if the shrimp like it

Hello and welcome 👋

Baby cherry shrimp grazing on wood (left) with some of the colony nearby

Tiny baby cherry shrimp on a big catappa leaf

I saw some little eggs at the base of a plant in my tank with square shaped casings. From what I could research based on my tank occupants it seems they could be assassin snail eggs. I can't get a great pic, but does anyone have any thoughts?

3 week update, plants are starting to take off, especially the hornwort. Moss seems to be doing well. Water parameters remain stable, shrimp seem to be doing well. Coloring up and molting. I saw 2 little shrimplets, but I'm still not sure if they're new or they snuck in with the originals. Assassin snail is cruising around keeping the hitchhiker snail population under control. A little bit of algae on the back corner of the tank but nothing major, and the shrimp seem to graze on it sometimes. Hopefully babies start popping out in the future.

Awesome, glad to see someone working with rice fish

Not the greatest shot, but I saw a shrimp molt right against the side of the tank and a little cherry shrimp nearby in the corner.

Thanks 🙂 once the shrimp get established and start breeding, I'm thinking either panda or paleatus corydoras, and maybe either cherry barbs or chili rasporas

Nice looking tank. I've heard mollies and platies and other live bearers will nip at green hair algae.

Cool variety, love those Dalmatian mollies and the corydoras

Nice setup, kudos for keeping your betta so well, I'm sure he appreciates it.

Hi everyone. I kept fish fairly successfully growing up with only basic knowledge, but have been out of the hobby at least 10 years. After watching aquarium co op videos for months, I feel like I've learned so much. A couple weeks ago I got my old 29 gallon tank out of storage and decided to set it up. My first planted tank. It has a mix of eco complete and two kinds of flourite for substrate. Along with lots of rock work from found rocks, and a few pieces of wood. Plants are hornwort, dwarf sagittaria, cryptocoryne wendtii red, and an anubius leaf that seems to be hanging on (Idk if I added the plant too early and with not enough fert, or possibly not enough light because I had a super weak light at first. I didn't plant it, just had it on some rocks). Also have some new java fern I have yet to photograph. And a few pieces of locally found terrestrial moss that seems to be doing ok so far submerged. Stocking is currently 20 cherry shrimp which I'm hoping to breed, a bunch of little plant hitchhiker snails, and two assassin snails (though I usually just see one) to keep the little ones in check. Sponge filter and a light my friend had left over from an old tank. No heater but stable around 73 Fahrenheit. Water test all pretty standard and stable, just a touch on the alkaline side. I have seen a couple shrimp molts that I think indicate good health. Any experienced opinion is welcome. The assassin snail I see seems to hang out peacefully with the shrimp so far. They were climbing on his shell at one point. I'm happy to be back with such a cool hobby.