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A couple of months ago I set up this 12 inch cube to show you how you might go
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about selectively breeding your shrimp. But selectively breeding shrimp was never my my long-term goal that wasn't a project I intended to last. So today I'm
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going to tear this tank down and set it up my new blue diamond near Caradina
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shrimp. Let's get started. Okay, so that's the tank cleared out, water's gone, gravel's gone, we're going to start fresh
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What I haven't done is I haven't wiped the back and the sides of the tank down
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because I want to bring as much biofilm back into the new aquarium as possible
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Biofilm develops on all surfaces in the aquarium pretty much equally. The glass will be covered in it, the rocks, the jar of moss I'm going to bring back in
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will all be covered in biofilm. And when I put the new shrimp in, they'll be super pleased about that
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Let start by adding some substrate Biofilm Straight so I think that's probably about it for substrate and hardscape we've gone for the
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fluval stratum there's the substrate I love using fluval stratum it's so easy to plant into the
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plant roots just take to it simply and then this one rock I don't know what rock it is but I love
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using this. I've got a whole box of this. It just has so much character, the color, just the shrimp
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really shine against it. Sponge filter's gone back in, same filter I took out the previous tank
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therefore it's cycled, it's ready to go. I put the old rock back in, which is wet and covered in
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biofilm. Next it's time to add some plants. The day that I would pray for you
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I'd go and misbehave just so you'd notice too Sneaking looks up and down from across the room
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Damn, what a hell of a view I feel good, you look great
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I like you, I can't wait Our first time, our first date
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You're so fine, I'm so late You sip wine, I drink straight, don't waste time, to my place, I feel my heart erase, so catch me if I fall
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Okay, so I've just gone super simple on the planting. I've gone for a couple of Cryptocorini when Ditti are green at the back
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a small clump of Java moss to the side here, and at the front, the name of this plant completely escapes me
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I'll put it on the bottom of the screen now for you, but I've just removed a small clipping of this from the betters tank above, popped it in there
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and again, these plants have all come out of existing tanks. They'll bring with them life
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They'll bring biofilm. They'll bring the starts of algae. They will jumpstart this tank, meaning I can add the shrimp really quite quickly
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Let's get some water in. So there we go that it a very simple little 7 gallon tank a 12 inch tube I used fluval stratton for substrate
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a small handful of rocks, plants which, let's be honest, are removed from my other tanks
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a small sponge filter connected to an air pump. That's it, it really doesn't have to be complicated when it comes to setting up a tank for near-caradena shrimp
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give this a couple of weeks and those plants are going to really bush out. The back will be covered
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the java moss will grow no end and this is going to be a little shrimp heaven. So I'm not going to
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add the shrimp today, I'm going to save that for a separate video, but bear with me because in a
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minute I'll cut to footage of the shrimp living in the tank after I've recorded that video so you
