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 […]
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Low-tech shrimp+snails aquarium; no CO2 injection; project-specific notes, observations, and maintenance.
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 and had the copper removed […]
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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