Three weeks after the first sighting of a new baby shrimp we seem to have arrival of the next crop. These guys are really tiny which does suggest the earlier one had been hiding out for a week or so before debuting. There was a 50% water change today – the usual story with EI […]
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Low-tech shrimp+snails aquarium; no CO2 injection; project-specific notes, observations, and maintenance.
Baby cherry shrimp and friends All those white things zooming around in the water column whilst the baby bloody mary cherry shrimp hangs out on one of the roots of the Java fern (Microsorum pteropus ‘Windelov’ ) are copepods! Unintentional yet still welcome residents of the Shrimphaus, copepods are a form of zooplankton. Like their […]
Read more →There’s a new citizen in the Shrimphaus! Recently a juvenile bloody mary shrimp has started openly exploring. It seems strange that there is only one so far, but there was a mother shrimp that dropped most of her eggs and maybe this is one she held onto. The new shrimp has already successfully moulted and […]
Read more →‘Pangolino’ from Dennerle is thought to be the anubias with the smallest leaves and thereby very suitable for nanotanks. I’ve been looking for this plant for a long time but it has been consistently unavailable until very recently when I noticed some in stock at Horizon Aquatics. As a bonus Horizon is also a sponsor […]
Read more →The goal is to get epiphytes such as Anubias or Bucephalandra to grow emersed in the open-topped Shrimphaus exposed to normal room humidity. There is a lot of internet opinion, most of which says “forget it”, but some people have managed to make a go of it. My first try was Anubias nana ‘Coin’ which […]
Read more →The initial concept for the aquaduct of the Shrimphaus was for water flowing over slate with epiphytic plants and mosses clinging to the slate under the water with leaves growing up out of the water. That didn’t work out very well. The underwater rhizome of the Anubias nana ‘Coin’ slowly rotted away, killing the plant. […]
Read more →Following on from the disastrous experience of adding new cherry shrimp to the Fireplace Aquarium I decided to give the shrimp their own aquarium with no predatory fish! I built them their own customised Shrimphaus and after a couple weeks of equilibrating the water chemistry and biology I added some Bloody Mary shrimp sourced from […]
Read more →Aquarium Shrimphaus was created from an ADA Cube Garden 22 litre shallow tank with bespoke slate hardscape. Shrimphaus is a modified rebuild of the original concept Shrimphaus. Shrimphaus was last rescaped in Jan 2025. Shrimphaus uses hard, alkaline Cambridgeshire tap water that has been brought to low alkalinity with hydrochloric acid. An airstone and high surface […]
Read more →Shrimphaus! Shrimphaus is a ‘low tech’ (no injected CO2 gas) shallow tank designed to support shrimp and also both submersed and emersed plant growth. The aquarium is an ADA Cube Garden 45-F model made from ultraclear low-iron glass with near invisible silcone seams. The tank measures 45 cm wide by 27 cm deep by 20 […]
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