Shrimphaus rescape

Posted on 26 January 20253 January 2026 by Andy Pierce

With the caridina shrimp I’m trying to keep the KH around 30 ppm CaCO3 (about 1.7 dKH) by pre-treating Cambridgeshire tap water with a suitable amount of hydrochloric acid (HCl). The problem is the old aquasoil has been resisting the new water chemistry. The other problem is the aquasoil is brown/black and the slate is […]

Drip acclimate shrimp

To help promote genetic diversity I acquired some bloody mary shrimp from Best Aquarium Shrimps UK to supplement the existing colony in the Shrimphaus. They arrived happy and healthy in a plastic bag filled with water and a bit of plastic mesh for them to climb on. How to successfully transition them to their new […]

Creating Shrimphaus 2.0

The original Shrimphaus was crusted over with black beard algae which did not respond to systemic treatment, so I took down Shrimphaus, did a thorough clean and rebuilt Shrimphaus with a modified, more maintenance-friendly design. In the original Shrimphaus concept, I was going for an all-slate hardscape with mainly epiphyte plants like Anubias and Bucephalandra. […]

Shrimp on a shelf

Posted on 2 June 20223 January 2026 by Andy Pierce

shrimp on the riverbank Particularly after a water change, the shrimp like to collect on the river run shelf. I’m not sure what they’re after here, but this is a consistent behaviour of theirs. This is the kind of thing you’re not going to be able to observe without a shallow flowing water component to […]

Shrimp in the Haus!

Posted on 12 February 20223 January 2026 by Andy Pierce

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 […]

Creating Shrimphaus

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 […]