10 Gallon Shrimp Tank

[JoeeStacks]

I dirted my first tank today. I did a lot of things wrong and I corrected some of them but lets see how this goes. I capped it with play sand. I am attempting to make it an all shrimp tank. The problem is I am broke and I have a 3 gallon filter while the tank is 10 gallons. I have heard that an underrated filter is okay as long as there is a lot of plants in the tank. I am planning to make it a planted tank. Lots of plants. No CO2 and high lighting.

[nmart13]

What lights, shrimp, and plants do you plan on putting in the setup? Also did you wash the play sand first? It takes lots of rinses I did used it for a 55 gal last year.

[FrenchFry]

If you do high light without CO2 or other ferts, your plants will eventually wind up showing signs of nutrient deficiencies. I would consider going low to medium light if you don't want to deal with CO2. There are a large number of plants that would thrive under those conditions, some of which grow fairly quickly and serve as great supplemental filters.


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[JoeeStacks]

What lights, shrimp, and plants do you plan on putting in the setup? Also did you wash the play sand first? It takes lots of rinses I did used it for a 55 gal last year.

I am planning to put flame moss and a carpet of some kind. Oh and also grow out bigger plants for bigger tanks. I am not sure for the lighting yet. For shrimp I really want the OEBT but I am afraid that if I get them they might die because of my lack of experience. Yes I did wash the playsand.


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[FrenchFry]

You can always start out with some hardy cherries to gain some experience and then add OEBTs later. The two can be safely housed with no crossbreeding.


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[nmart13]

With high lighting and no co2 I bet chain swords would work as a carpet. I used them with med light and no co2 and they carpeted nicely. I started with crystal black and crystal red shrimp and they did fine in my hard water with not many plants. Especially the blacks.

[Ptrick125]

I dirted my first tank today. I did a lot of things wrong and I corrected some of them but lets see how this goes. I capped it with play sand. I am attempting to make it an all shrimp tank. The problem is I am broke and I have a 3 gallon filter while the tank is 10 gallons. I have heard that an underrated filter is okay as long as there is a lot of plants in the tank. I am planning to make it a planted tank. Lots of plants. No CO2 and high lighting.

Without a filter, make sure you have some ghost shrimp, (they eat pretty much anything) but with shrimp you don't really want much flow, so you should be fine.

Remember:
Plants and Ghost shrimp


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[ManEatingShrimp]

Ghost shrimp will eat scraps but most of the feeder ghost shrimp they sell don't eat algae and will kill other shrimp. Cherry shrimp are a cheap colorful beginner shrimp

[JoeeStacks]

I am looking into Cherry shrimp since they are nice and perfect for beginners.

[jpappy789]

Without a filter, make sure you have some ghost shrimp, (they eat pretty much anything) but with shrimp you don't really want much flow, so you should be fine.

Remember:
Plants and Ghost shrimp


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By adding more shrimp you're increasing the bioload...so regardless of whether they eat extra food or not, you're not making up for under-filtering.

Shrimp are low bioload and that's a relatively large volume (on shrimp setup scale) so I wouldn't be too worried if you plant well. If it makes you feel any better you can always increase water change frequency and/or volume.