Shrimps in Planted Tank? Plants in Shrimped Tank?? | Caridina Shrimp Tank

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It's a Caridina Tank!! Did you guess it right?
Eventually, I want to get fancier shrimps like pintos, galaxies, and blue bolts. These shrimps (although not particularly cheap either) will serve as a cheaper practice alternative for me. Remember when I massacred those Sulawesi Shrimps? (╥﹏╥)

00:00 | First Maintenance after two weeks
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What plants to put in a shrimp tank? Why would you want plants in a shrimp tank? Here are the reasons:
01:37 | Plant as Waste Management
Livestock waste will become nutrients (like nitrates), which is toxic in very high amounts. Plants will absorb and eat up those nutrients and clean your water. In my case, these floating plants out-compete and remove algae from this tank. Algae is quite important food source in a shrimp focused tank. So I opted to remove some of the plants, mainly the floaters.

02:30 | Plants just to make the tank more colorful
As for the Bucephalandra (and Sagittaria subulata), I just like them. They add more colors to the tank. Moreover they are slow growers, they don't absorb nutrients as fast as stem plants or floating plants do.

02:55 | Plants provide cover and surface area for the shrimps to forage on
I also liked Pearlweed, but stem plants do absorb a lot of nutrients like the floaters does, so I removed them too.
(Note: If you want to remove algae from your tank, try floating plants, they have virtually unlimited and concentrated supply of CO2 from air which makes them absolutely OP)
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03:27 | The plants decimated my algae population
03:58 | Re-seeding the tank with algae
04:55 | Shrimp
05:56 | Acclimating livestock is very important
06:39 | Shrimp Appreciation Content
06:50 | Caridina Tank Temperature
07:07 | Shrimp Appreciation Content #2

Aquarium: 30x20x25cm ~ 15L
Soil: ADA Amazonia v2 and JUN Platinum Soil
Temperature: ~24 Celcius

DIY Minerals:
5dGH, 0dKH, 140 TDS
Ca : Mg (4 : 1)

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