Hi,

I'm a newbie. Just want some advice on how to start a shrimp tank. I have a 30 l rectangle tank. Its empty now but want to start with some shrimps.

Thinking of some cherry shrimps and yamato shrimps...is the combo good?

What do i need?
What type of water required?
Plants?

Thanks in advance

Hi, welcome to the hobby. Well, I m not the expert here, but so far my cherry shrimp and malayan shrimp are doing fine.

First, you need to cycle your water. Setup the tank, let the water flow for around few day, feed like there its fish, this is to grow bacteria.

Its always good to have plant. But if you want to focus on shrimp, then try simple plant, those cheap one around RM 1.50 per bunch. And moss, just tide it to rock or wood. I m using holland sand, cheap and good. Since with those easy plant, holland sand should be good enough. Make sure the lighthing its enough, you can DIY it. Btw, how big its your tank? size? You also can DIY co2 for the plant.

For shrimp, try to keep the temp around 24'c - 26'c. At nite I can get around 26'c with fans blowing. I think this should be bout it. Try it step by step.

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Thanks, but it is necessary to keep the temp at around 24-26'c ???

All aquatic fauna and flora grow well in lower temperature. high temperature will kill them.

Recommend to cycle the tank. Put lot of mosses and grow them first. Remember to turn on the air-pump at night to provide more aeration. Introduce the shrimp only after a month or two. You can keep the cherry with yamato. They will not cross breed.

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itchy

first, it really depends on the shrimp types.
for difficulty level, i would rank
CRS>YAMATO>TIGER>CHERRY>MALAYAN

for my Malayan shrimp, they seems to live and survive in most of the condition. some of them live in my 1.5feet tank without fan. some of them live in another 1.5footer with only a air bubble filter. all this are planted tank of coz.

some live in more uncomfortable condtion... . in a jar, in a plastic tub (without fan, without filter, without light tube, only natural light)... only moss in there. and the funniest case is, only the jar one breed before... i never got any shrimplet in tank... but i believe is due to the fishes...

for cherry shrimp case, they are quite similar to malayan shrimp. but still do what should be done with a new tank... cycle the tank, grow lots of moss like what DOM suggest... also put a fan and keep the temp below 28degree. you should be fine keeping cherry and yamato. i hv no experty in CRS tough...

good lucks and have fun in this hobby!

For my level, I personally found the Bee shrimp is the most difficult to keep and breed. Personally, I am managed to breed once in temperature 24C. CRS is almost the same like Bee.

Cherry, Malayan, Tiger are easy to keep and breed. Yamato are easy to keep. But breeding it and you need more knowledge about how to grow the yamato larvae in salt water and the salinity level is important to grow the larvae. Which is the same like Red Nose and Mosquito shrimp.

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Hey,

Thanks for all the advice, I think i will start with the cherry and tiger shrimp first.

P.S. Is there any place in PJ area that sells both the cherry and tiger shrimps?

I went to Fish Paradise in Centre Point and SLS in Ara Damansara and they are selling it. If other lfs...i m not sure.

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