Planted Shrimp Tank Update

[CJz Fishes]

So this is my jungle tank. (Was) my jungle tank. 
 

I housed a dwarf water lily that completely took over my tank with its spaghetti like root system. Turns out they aren’t that dwarf! lol. I’ve also takin out and trimmed up some plants to open the space up and it didn’t turn out too bad. I’m no aquascaper but I’m learning🤘🏼
 

oh and a third generation of shrimplets were born acouple weeks ago😁 feel free to ask me questions if you have any!

[lefty o]

looks good.

[CJz Fishes]

Thank you!

[ErinV]

Love the colours of your plants. I have never had luck with red plants. Green grow like weeds but anything red has melted and never come back.

[CJz Fishes]

I’ve had that problem with some of those reddish, orange and pink plants. Some plants need a little bit more iron for them to really thrive and get that color. The lighting is also key to having that red pigment👍🏼

[PineSong]

It looks like those plants provide every texture and form the shrimp could want. A real shrimp haven. How tall is your tank and what kind of light/s are you using?

 

[CJz Fishes]

Thank you! I tried my hardest to make this tank something the shrimps would really love. I’m not too sure about exact dimensions but the tank is a 3.7 gallon imagitarium pro deluxe. I’d say just by looking at it rn, maybe close to a foot tall not including substrate. I use the light that comes with the tank that has 3 settings. Moonlight is the first, second the white light with a couple blue rgb’s lights. Then the third which is a more relaxed light for evenings.

[PineSong]

On 7/15/2021 at 9:47 PM, CJz Fishes said:

Thank you! I tried my hardest to make this tank something the shrimps would really love. I’m not too sure about exact dimensions but the tank is a 3.7 gallon imagitarium pro deluxe. I’d say just by looking at it rn, maybe close to a foot tall not including substrate. 

Wow, that shows just how far off my sense of scale is. I thought it was a tall tank. That's an impressive amount of plants in such a little tank.

I visited a LFS in another city today that had white cloud minnows--I've never seen them in person before, only online. They were about 1/3 the size I was picturing them. 

[Trish]

On 7/13/2021 at 7:38 PM, CJz Fishes said:

So this is my jungle tank. (Was) my jungle tank. 
 

I housed a dwarf water lily that completely took over my tank with its spaghetti like root system. Turns out they aren’t that dwarf! lol. I’ve also takin out and trimmed up some plants to open the space up and it didn’t turn out too bad. I’m no aquascaper but I’m learning🤘🏼
 

oh and a third generation of shrimplets were born acouple weeks ago😁 feel free to ask me questions if you have any!

Highlights your shrimp beautifully. 

[Sweetpickles]

This is beautiful!! Love the shrimp! They are a joy to watch and amazing how they multiply! Nice job!