2.5 Gallon Tanks - What does yours look like? (2.5 Gallon Tanks ONLY)

That looks super great, KaraWolf!! The growth on that hairgrass is just amazing! :Dgood job!

KaraWolf wrote:Thanks :Djust need to scrub the glass >> and kill all these snail eggs! I have plenty right now 0.o
One I got from anderson_p_r: 26Watts, 120 vac, 1610 lumens. I think it's one of these: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and it usually sits only 2 finger widths above the water surface(can't find the tape measure >> ) though right this second it's sitting at 4 finger widths >> so much evaporation! not sure what the color temp is but real temp wise it puts off a lot less heat then the 60watt one I had in previously which is a great thing since now i don't burn my finger shutting it off at night.
I am very very happy to be seeing all that grass growing in <3 though now that I think about it I might just have to make a small clearing in it so the shrimp can start eating the food i provide rather then sucking on all the dirt lol

Oh wow. I'm impressed you're not experiencing an algae explosion with that much light. With luck you won't get one That much light certainly explains the hairgrass growth.

I use 2x sylvania 13w 6500k bulbs from Lowes over my 10g tanks generally, and some older 18w 6500k bulbs that they don't sell anymore.

Don't worry about a designated place for shrimp to eat food. They'll swim upside down and skim food off the surface of the water if they need to.

Shrimp will only rush out to eat food if there isn't sufficient bio film in the tank to support them, in my experience. Don't worry if they don't appear to be actively eating what you put in the tank - this is normal.

Endlers will likely dispose of the babies for you. In fact, that's how I was able to remove all of the malawa shrimp from one of my tanks in prep for blue velvets (not that you can't mix them, I just wanted to scale back my malawa extravaganza a little). The endlers wiped out all the juveniles, so all I had to do was catch the adults. This took a while to do (malawa are FAST), but little by little I moved them all to another tank.

Yes, given enough cover, some may survive. The tank where I kept mine with malawa shrimp was densely planted, but I also had a TON of endlers in there. Since you only have a couple you might get away with some babies surviving.

Moving all the shrimp was a bit of an undertaking Every time I walked by the tank and saw a shrimp, I netted it out and moved it. They're really fast though (they make RCS look like they're standing still), so half the time I'd miss them and lose them and end up cussing and swearing at the tank. I got pretty good at chasing them down toward the end.