Lennie Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 Hey guys, As I got away from the Idea of setting up an apisto breeding tank, I am considering to turn the new 10g tank into a heavily planted caridina shrimp tank. I've kept orange sakuras and bloody marys. But I have no experience with caridinas. My ph from tap reads 8.0 but I have RO water as well as active substrate, cycled HOB, equilibrium etc. Basically everything needed. So basically I wanna try some caridinas for the first time in the new 10g tank. But I can't be sure what to keep. I've talked to the breeder guy I get my shrimp from, and he said, Yellow King Kongs can get groups of deaths out of nowhere from time to time even under perfect conditions and parameters and without any valid reasons, and raising their babies can be a bit more challenging. So he adviced not to start with yellow king kongs as it be a bit disencouraging experience for some people. He said taiwan bees and tigers can be a better start considering I don't have any experience with caridinas. Has anyone have experience with caridinas? What would you suggest? Are yellow king kongs that hard to keep? Also I use equilibrium in all of my tanks. Would it be enough as a gh booster or do I really need to buy Shrimp gh+ products for caridinas? The caridinas I like the most by now are; Ghost White Bee caridinas: Blue bolts: Crystal reds: Bee pandas: Yellow King Kongs: Any suggestions are welcomed. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashBandit05 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 What color is your substrate? I'd go with something that contrasts the substrate. I like the bee pandas color scheme best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 6:29 PM, CrashBandit05 said: What color is your substrate? I'd go with something that contrasts the substrate. I like the bee pandas color scheme best! I always use Tropica aquasoil in my tanks. So it is black I think majority of shrimp goes better with black/dark susbtrate tbh. Otherwise they tend to have lighter colors than normal Maybe not black roses 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllFishNoBrakes Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 I personally think the Blue Tiger Orange Eyes are dooooope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 7:19 PM, AllFishNoBrakes said: I personally think the Blue Tiger Orange Eyes are dooooope. He has those too! Here is some pics from his tanks: they are cool but looking a lil creepy to me 😛 Tigers are actually a better choice since I they can go higher ph and I can cull to my community tanks, However, with a lil googling I found out that tigers become a bit sensitive to bacterial infections when the temp increases and in where I live temp increases during summer time no matter what I do. I don’t know how true that is. I can’t easily find someone with caridina experience >_> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 11:17 AM, Lennie said: I can’t easily find someone with caridina experience >_> Marks shrimp tanks on YouTube has a plethora of Caridina videos. More than enough to get you started in the right food and have good success with them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennie Posted April 11, 2023 Author Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 4/11/2023 at 11:20 PM, nabokovfan87 said: Marks shrimp tanks on YouTube has a plethora of Caridina videos. More than enough to get you started in the right food and have good success with them. I like his videos already. Def gonna check more in detail 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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