crs planted nano neat jar

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I was at my parents house awhile ago, they were in the process of moving and my mom gave me the really cool looking jar that holds 2.65 gallons of water. I was thinking of doing a planted nano with 4 -6 crs in it.

I was going to run a sponge filter and small heater. For lighting one cf in a desklamp. Whats every think? To many shrimp or would I be ok with more? Tank will be cycled when I move the shrimp in.

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It's doable, but I wouldn't put shrimp in it. Maintaining water quality may be touchy, with such a small volume to deal with.
 
id be worried about over populating very quickly. also, are you talking cherries or crystal reds? crs is crystal red and rcs is cherry. people often confuse the two acronyms. and fishy_fun is right about rcs being cheaper. also, a lot less picky about parameters. the only reason i ask is i started with 6 rcs in a ten gallon, 5 females, 1 male. two of the females died, but i still got over 2 dozen baby shrimp from the two females that carried eggs. now all three of my females are berried and due to drop babies anytime in the next week or so.
 
actually I was talking about cherries. I mix the acro's up everytime. I thought about the overpopulation thing and was going to select all males or all females for the tank.
 
You'll be okay, I've seen "shrimp jars" that are smaller.

If you're going to run filtration/heating/lighting anyways, then you can just think of it as an oddly shaped 2.5g tank.
 
if you get all males, you wont see much. male cherries are pretty colorless. get females. they will berry without a male, but they drop the eggs and wont reproduce
 
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