Crystal Red Shrimps Project

Heres the first exposure to my next project, it's not a new chapter so to say in my aquarium keeping hobby, but more like a revisit to something i had left a while ago. The current project and the post of this is my approach in helping everyone who is interested in breeding them. The current breeding line is a blood line me and a friend are developing to try and rival those of JPRLs though we get some pretty solid colors, we believe we are still a little ways from being able to compete on that level.

The current setup is:

Tank: ADA 60P

Light: 2x 28w CFL

Filter: 1x eheim 2213, 1x eheim ecco 2236

Ph: 6.1 (CO2 going at 3BPS)

substrate: ADA amazonia powder

TDS: 160

Gh: 3-4

kH: 0

aluminum T5 addon

Since the tank has switched over to LEDs I've not had the desire to add any T5s to my tank. But due to the recent lack of activity/purchases to my tank i felt like I needed to do something. So this project was born.

I wanted to do something that was modular, that allowed me to me to add these T5s on quickly and without much work yet work efficiently. The T5 ballast i decided to go with is a brand called sunblaster. A fixture that has the ballast built into the light strip that has its own sockets, the reason was they recently just came out with individual reflectors that was small and also remove-able and modular.

The T5 light addon allows me to aim the T5s anywhere from 45degrees from the water surface to parallel to the water surface. It also allows me to remove them whenever I want as to say the addon is not a permanent thing which is great.

Here are the pictures.