How I'm going to try to breed CPD's.

Yes it will work, I have been using plastic sandwich containers weighed down with marbles to do this in my smaller tanks.

I have shrimp in the cpd tank and I'm kind of in the air about whether I am going to keep them together. I'm thinking of just letting the rcs and plecos have a planted 40 to themselves and then planting another 40 for the CPDs.
 
Yes it will work, I have been using plastic sandwich containers weighed down with marbles to do this in my smaller tanks.

I have shrimp in the cpd tank and I'm kind of in the air about whether I am going to keep them together. I'm thinking of just letting the rcs and plecos have a planted 40 to themselves and then planting another 40 for the CPDs.
Yeah, I've got to save up for CPD's anyway. I'm 14 and grass cutting season is just about over up here.
 
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