My 11 Gal exclusively for CPD (and red cherry shrimps).
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Hi, I’m new here and I started more than one and half month ago a new tank for CPD I introduced last week.
I like this small fish.
I choose to have a well planted aquarium with optimal parameters considering all the information I could reach about CPD. I try to keep 22~24°C temperature and Ph~7-7.4.
For this tank I try a home made lighting system made with power LED. Plants seem to be happy with this light and CPD too.
So here is my tank :
And some CPD :
Suggestions and comments are welcome.
Thanks.
Jean
Welcome to the forum Jean!
Very nice. Both the tank and the fish. Some excellent photo work as well!
Dennis
LOVING your tank….very nice indeed!
In case you want to breed the shrimp, my CPDs eat virtually all the shrimp young.
Very nice looking tank and fish! I agree that the fish will pick off the baby shrimp.
Lots of luck with the new critters! Thank you for sharing you pictures with us.
Update for sure.
I had problems with cyano this summer : I tried several solutions and my plants did not like it very much… I finally find the “magic product” that killed my cyano and keep my tank healthy (it is UltraLife blue green remover… Simply magic and no side effects).
I changed my lighting too. I built a new power LED lighting for the tank that increase dramatically the amount of light.
Here is a new photo of my tank yesterday :
I trim a lot of plants, make a few changes in the species of plants and try to grow up my (past) beautifull Hemianthus Cuba that did not like the cyano… Hope the HC will grow up soon.
I do not have new breeding for 3 months, corresponding the time my HC began to have problems. The CPD like the HC and breed in it, I saw them lot of time swiming between the leafs of HC.
I hope they will spawn again but I saw yesterday that my school contains 17CPD when I bought 12… :wink:@Tom2006 wrote:
LOVING your tank….very nice indeed!
In case you want to breed the shrimp, my CPDs eat virtually all the shrimp young.
Mine do the same… Impossible to breed red cherry…
Sometimes I think they kill some big ones too, I eventually find 1 dead every week…
Don’t know if I can put other shrimps like Japonica.
:Oh yes, they love it…
The last image was the “day 0” of a big change concerning my plants and after a big problem of cyanos.
Here is an image one month later (last week):
Sure, substrate is good for plants but with good fertilization/Co2/light, they grow very quickly.
I’m waiting for Fissidens fontanus to put on my wood and will re-introduce red shrimps.That is very lovely. Are the CPD’s still in there… I don’t see any in the photo.
Thanks for sharing!
Dennis
Simply fantastic Jean. Would you be interested in sharing some info about your set-up? I’m interested in where you got your tank. I’m very much in awe of the way the rim-less tanks look. Also your equipment. It looks as though you are using CO2. I guess when I see a tank that looks as nice as yours, I’m always curious to know what makes it all work and look so beautiful.
Dennis
For sure…
The tank is a “boxing day” sale, I paid 29$ if I remember. The brand was Dolphin, it’s a chinese glass aquarium. I think it’s the same rimless tank you can find in other brands. I bought it in Montreal, at Aquatropicale store.
I use the ZooMed Turtle 511 canister filter with noddles+wool+ceramic media. I manage my CO2 tank (5lbs) with the Milwauke SMS122 controler to keep around pH 7.1 as my KH is around 8~9.
I use Flourish+Flourish Excel+Flourish Traces for fertilization. Sometimes, I put some Nutrafin Waste Control because it’s difficult to clean with the plants. That’s all… :wink:That’s really cool, thanks for all the info. I normally stay away from the hi-tech stuff, but looking at your tank it is really tempting me…
isaisbreetai suggested we set-up a section for tank journals. If you’re so inclined, you might start a journal for this tank… just a though. http://www.celestialpearldanio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=23
Dennis
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