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Now that my shrimp rack is finally complete (for the time being) and I finally cleaned the glass on the tanks the other day, I thought I share some on the photos of the tanks and their inhabitants. My Shrimp Rack started at the beginning of the year when I decided it was time to redone my existing shrimps tanks at the time (2 x 20G, 1 x 10G) and switch the substrate over to ADA Aquasoil. Long story short, I was having issues with the Fluval Shrimp Stratum (low survival rates of shrimplets, etc;) and seeing how a few others on the net were experiencing the same issues and it was almost time to change the substrate over (1 year) and decided to switch to ADA Aquasoil as see if i would have any better luck. I decided to take the opportunity to move the tanks to my spare den to see if it the temperatures would be more stable there. Than I thought i would be neat to have a type of gravity fed "drip" system for my water changes and top-offs so i could slowly fill up the tank during water changes and automatically top off any daily evaporation - from there the Shrimp Rack idea was born! I started putting together my Shrimp rack at the end of March and went with a 48" x 18" medal frame rack from costco and set it up to have 3 levels for tanks and a couple of short level for supplies and storage. The tanks consists of 3 x 10G on the bottom rack, my 2 existing 20G would go on to the middle level. The top level consist of a new 20G long, as well as the two reservoir tanks for water changes (10G) and top-offs (5G). The 3 x 10G were to first to populate the rack at the end of March, the 20G Long was added a in the end of April and than finally my existing 20G were move later in the summer. Unfortunately I didn't really document the process other than a few photos when i first set them up. Here is a photo of the rack today: Current inhabitants are as follows: 20G Long: Super Tiger Shrimps 20G Left: Crystal Red Shrimps (Breeding Group) 20G Right: Taiwan Bee Shrimps (BKK, Panda's) 10G Left: APB Pure Black Line Crystal Black Shrimps 10G Center: Crystal Red Shrimps (Culls) 10G Right: Misc. (Golden Bee, low grade CRS) Other shrimp tanks NOT in the rack but includes: 33G: BTOE / OEBT 9G Eheim AquaStyle: PFR, Green Shrimps 12G Long: tbd 110G Tall: PFR Filtration system in all the tanks consist of a type of undergravel system which are connected to either HOB or canister filters. There is a sponge filter in each tank as well. Substrate in all the tank consist of ADA Africana and Amazonia, the depth and mixture varies in the tanks depending on my targeted parameters. I use 100% R/O water remineralize with Fluval Shrimp Supplement, Mosura MineralPlus or Bee Shrimp GH+. Tanks are kept fairly bare, usually a piece of driftwood with some moss and java fern. Will post more details and pics about the individual tanks below...
