Bare tank project

Just setup a small tank / container abt 25 x 15 x 17cm with Gex soil <red> some plants, 2 x cherries, 1 x sakura + 1 sakura baby. Placed it at the Corridor outside my window,where theres sunshine.This are taken on day 4. Do you think this will work out?






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I wouldn't do what you did. Leaving it in the corridor with direct sunlight means algae growth can be fast, at the same time, temperature changes are drastic, which may wipe out ur shrimps soon.

Another thing, u are not able to control the environment. If an insect flies into the tank and dies there, it may poison the shrimps, else if some passerby delibrately throw in something and polute the tank, there goes the shrimps too.

Keeping shrimps are not like keeping normal fishes. Shrimps needs a lot more dedicate care thus if we want to keep shrimps, keep it properly than randomly. Small dedicate life is in our hands

Best to keep this indoors. Place some moss and/or moss ball(s) in the tank. They can grow in normal room lights and provide the shrimp with food. Having such a small tank will make it susceptible to sudden swings in temperatures (because volume of water is small, thus mass of water is small and the heat capacity of that particular volume of water is low). Better to place it indoor where the temperature is more stable. I place my jar indoors, with no problems as of yet. Got 2 blue shrimps and about 40 month-old baby shrimps inside.

dun place the tank on the window very very danger if drop u going to die if u hit ppl below..
Police will come than we will be seeing ur face on new paper keeping tank on the window... heheh

Also if the shrimp jump out, confirm no chance of rescue because by the time it lands, who knows how far away by the wind it could've been blown..

Thanks for all the feedback, the tank had been move indoors.What im trying to do is to see if its possable to setup the tank with out filter and air pump.

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Originally Posted by AG8011

Thanks for all the feedback, the tank had been move indoors.What im trying to do is to see if its possable to setup the tank with out filter and air pump.

it is possible, my 2 ft tank has 60+ shrimps, 3 oto, 1 sucker fish, still ok.

Originally Posted by AG8011

Thanks for all the feedback, the tank had been move indoors.What im trying to do is to see if its possable to setup the tank with out filter and air pump.

so idea is u wanna set up a self sustainable aquarium??

well for a system to b self sustainable, it needs to be considerably big to buffer any changes in the system..(think of a pond rather den a tank)

also in "natural" ponds, the water is rather green to absorb the ammonia and nitrates to balance the ecosystem..

and also for such a tank, ur dissolved oxygen will fluctuate alot depending on the lights it receives in the day or night

i doubt such a tank would work out in the long run.. but i might be wrong

hope this helps=)

agreed. shrimps are delicate creatures and they cant handle water condition fluctuations.

I've been keeping some shrimps in a jar for about 1 month now, no problems. Got lots of plants and keeping the lights turned on 24/7. Staying in hall so electricity is free.