Setting up NEW Shrimp Tank, Need Advise

[Shrimpguy]

i have a 29gal planted with a trio of bn pleco breeding in the tank with crystal red and black and red cherry and even amanos breeding all in this tank with ph at 6.8 to 7.0 and temp at 76 and i have about 5 to 6 hundred cherrys and 20 crystals that just started breeding and r now berried agian plus 5 amano which im am waiting for the amano mama to hatch her eggs so i can try and raise the larva in brackish water to get them to methamorph into shrimplets and then convert them back to freshwater to grow.


29gal tank
glo t5 lighting 78 watts
heater set at 76
filteration are 1 large sponge filter

plants are red myrio,unknown rotala,anabias nana,java fern,mayaca,java moss,flame moss,x moss,unknown crypt plant,and two moss balls and also two pieces of driftwood mopani and othr wood is unknown.

 

[LiL GinGeR]

how is it going??

 

[foolishfish]

Have similar water to shrimpguy but I was a little warmer, 78-80, and my cherry's did great & bred regularly. Shared a tank with nerites and some baby BN plecos. Lots of moss and java fern, one large sword and some anubias in a med/low light 15g. Almond leaves, fish flake and snail jello. Everything WAS great 'till I got sick and my wife tried to help. Apparently S.A. cichlids like scrimps...a lot.

I use a bag of Purigen in the shrimp tank filter just to be sure. For cycling, I use a lot of sponge filters in my other tanks, so it's easy to move a pair into a new tank for a while and I've had no cycling issues even with my bare bottom tanks.