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Added some sakuras and yellow Cherrys to my bottom tank on my shrimp rack. Thanks vinnie for the shrimp.






On a side note the blue dream ten gallon in the kitchen is doing great. I feel like I have a 100% shrimplet survival rate. Here's a picture during feeding. This isn't even close to the amount of shrimp in here. It's tripled for sure since I started with 10

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UPDATE: some good and bad news. The good news is that my scarlet badis have laid eggs! The bad news is that it was in the staurogyne, so now that will be full of fry in a few days. I've decided to offer, in place of the staurogyne, a small rhizome of Anubis nana "eyes" (5 leaves). It's a nice little anub, with leaves only getting about an inch long with a round, eye-like shape. When I grew it emersed, it grew little yellow flowers! I will update the OP with a picture.
With that being said, if I can get a few stems up safely I will send them along as as well.

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Thanks for the RAOK
Don't really care which plants they are but I know they'd look good in my 40b

Picked up a 55 gallon today at my petco !
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No they're divided by a glass pane in the middle. You can see in the earlier posts how did it. I also put a planting mesh forward the top of the HMF sponges so they can't climb over
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That's what I thought as well lol don't like my shrimp rack you can stay in the hotel down the street. Finished substrate and installed the stingray lights for all three tanks.

Top two tanks have
Bottom tank has flora max for neos.
After I finished this I thought to myself "I have a problem" this makes three 20L, one ten in the kitchen and my 40 breeder in the game room. [emoji16]
Here's how the common water space looks like behind the HMF on the shared tanks

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So installed the hmf filter in the 20longs. Two of the tanks are divided and share water so I'm able to keep desired water parameters easier. And the third tank just has one hmf in the corner. I used a piece of glass to divide the two tanks but didn't let it go all the way across.
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Just received my HMF filters for my shrimp rack. Thanks Swiss tropical.

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Hello all I'm finally getting around to building my shrimp rack. I finally had the courage to ask my wife if I could add more tanks to my collection and she said ya sure haha. So the plan is to set up 3 20longs two of them divided but sharing common water. The third tank just being an open full 20long. I'm making one divided and the full tank Caradina tanks with the second divided one being for high grade RCS and yellows. I haven't made the final decision on what shrimp I want in the Caradina tanks but I'm leaning forward blue bolts and CRS but I need help with a third so open to suggestions. I'll update pictures as I go.


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So I purchased some CRS, CBS and golden mischlings from junglefowl. Btw I'd purchase from junglefowl again packaging was excellent. I placed them in my open 20 long tank that's on the top of the rack. Here's some pictures!!



Now I'm starting to look like a shrimp keeper with my caridina shrimp [emoji106]
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Tank looks great, is that Hygrophila? If so, what type? 

Hello I'm writing this because someone asked me how I split my 20 longs using corner HMF filters. Figured I'd do this just in case anyone down the road wanted to know how or get an idea that can help them further along.

Here's a drawing plan I did that kinda gives a over tank visual. (Excuse my horrible artistic skills)
My measurements and list of things needed:
-Glass pane from hardware store 9inchesX11.5 inches for glass partition.
-I purchased my two corner filters from Swiss tropicals. I ordered two small corner filters. He will want the height of the inside of the tank. For my 20 long it was 11.5 inches
-i bought some silicone from Swiss tropicals as well it was an extra 4 bucks.
1. First step I did was measure the inside dimension of the tank. NOT the outside of the tank because you'll end up with wrong measurements.
2. I personally bought my stuff from Swiss tropicals and they were great. I sent him an email with the size of the HMF that I wanted which for this tank split I did two small corner filters for one 20 long. The inside height I measured for my 20 long was 11.5 inches. He cuts the glass braces and the foam for you.
3. Next I knew that I wanted to split the tank, but I needed a piece of glass to sit in the middle of the tank from top to bottom but not all the way from front to back. In the picture you can see the dark line in the middle of the tank doesn't reach all the way to the back to allow for a common water flow area that keeps the tank separate still. The measurement for this was a square piece of glass from lowes that is 11.5 inches tall x 9 inches wide.
4. I first mounted the pane of glass down the center with some silicone. This was kinda hard because it didn't reach across all the way to the back of the tank so you'll have to hold it for a bit until it's sturdy enough not to fall over. I let it dry for 6 hours before mounting the glass braces.
5. I flipped the tank over and mounted the back two braces on the back of the tank. For the small HMF filters they need to be mounted five inches from the middle of the tank. I drew the back two braces in the picture on the back of the tank to show. Once mounted they should be ten inches apart. I Let those two dry for another six hours.
6. I then had to mount the two glass braces onto the glass partition. So I had to flip the tank twice in order to do each side. I used a small 90 degree angle to measure 5 inches from the back of the tank onto the middle partition. I drew in the plans how it should look with the glass braces 5 inches from the back glass.
7. I let the tank dry for 3 days just to be safe then put in the HMF foam.
Sorry about the crappy instructions wish I would've made a video while doing this.
Here are some more pictures to give you a better visual.





If you need a video to help with installation the one that I used was Christine Ha's install video on YouTube. It is only a corner install though.
http://youtu.be/_5ZcM1msdV8
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Added some sakuras and yellow Cherrys to my bottom tank on my shrimp rack. Thanks vinnie for the shrimp.






On a side note the blue dream ten gallon in the kitchen is doing great. I feel like I have a 100% shrimplet survival rate. Here's a picture during feeding. This isn't even close to the amount of shrimp in here. It's tripled for sure since I started with 10

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So I purchased some CRS, CBS and golden mischlings from junglefowl. Btw I'd purchase from junglefowl again packaging was excellent. I placed them in my open 20 long tank that's on the top of the rack. Here's some pictures!!



Now I'm starting to look like a shrimp keeper with my caridina shrimp [emoji106]
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When I did it I used a tablespoon of salt for one cup of water. I used a glass Pyrex measuring cup. The shrimp are fine to this very day and that was months ago. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I did a salt dip on two of my new shrimp when I got them. I used a tablespoon of salt in a cup of water. I let the salt completely dissolve then pulled the two out and put them in the salt water. They jumped around a bit and then just held on to the net after about ten seconds. I pulled them out after 30 seconds and put them into clean tank water in a separate container. I let them sit there for a while. After inspection the white worm on their heads were gone.
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I did a salt dip on two of my new shrimp when I got them. I used a tablespoon of salt in a cup of water. I let the salt completely dissolve then pulled the two out and put them in the salt water. They jumped around a bit and then just held on to the net after about ten seconds. I pulled them out after 30 seconds and put them into clean tank water in a separate container. I let them sit there for a while. After inspection the white worm on their heads were gone.
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First berried female in the shrimp rack !! Now just to see if the babies survive.

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To celebrate LOWKEYS Japan Grand Opening of there new store.
 
I will be offering 15% off LOWKEYS items.

Please use discount code at checkout,
LOWKEYSUSA15%
 
Sale ends when i return from my trip to Japan.
(3/13/16)
 
Thanks,
Han
 

On a side note not in my rack but my ten gallon blue dream tank I have my first shrimplets!!! I've found three so far.

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Made some updates to my site and also played around with my new GoPro for some underwater shots. http://www.taylorsaquatics.com/gopro-videos/angeltank
Let me know what you guys think. Tomorrow shooting a time lapse video for my shrimp food! So far digging the GoPro and excited to see what I can do. Video is shaky due to holding and don't have mounts set up yet.
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We finally have babies! Born either February 11th or 12th.
 

Thanks SANDO! Once all the tanks are cycled and shrimp are in, I will post lots of pics of shrimp and each individual tank!

Awesome set up !! Can't wait to see more pictures. Definitely following.
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Wow I just went to lowes today to see if they had black pvc pipe awesome find!
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