Hello! Please checkout my Cherry shrimp in bottle.

[tome30]

I came across a large scientific jar or bottle, and thought how nice it would be with something living in it!!I've put 3 cherry shrimp in and they seem to be thriving (Day3) It's been cycled and checked for PH, and in my server room it stays at a steady 26-27.C Looks cool I think. Its 9inches high with a radius of 2.5inches which makes it a 0.64 gallon.

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[Northernguy]

Welcome to the Fabulous AC!:22:

The jar looks great but I doubt its cycled without a filter.Check out the ebook.
Do you have any other tanks?

[tome30]

when I say cycled I mean its out of an existing tank, going to work out measurements and replace with new water every....how long?

[tanks4thememories]

Looks kewl. Looks like a scientific experiment....lol

[Cliff]

Welcome to the forum

Northernguy gave you some great advice.

If your kinda new to fish keeping, you'll find a lot of good suff in the free E-book. After many years of fish keeping off and on, I learned a LOT from this book, and I'm still learning

Can't say enough good things about it

[toddnbecka]

Surface area ratio would be much better (for O2 exchange) if you dropped the water level a bit. The live plants will help with ammonia while the bacteria get established, but I wouldn't feed more than very tiny amounts in the meantime.

[Northernguy]

I would change a large portion of the water at least twice a week.
Lowering the water level as mentioned will help keep the oxygen levels up.
Have you considered adding an airstone?

[The Curious]

I have a 1 gallon cylindar bowl thingy (I know...very descriptive) that i was thinking about keeping rcs in...right now it has cycled water, a piece of driftwood, and a good amount of hornwort in it.

I really like the look of it so I've had it set-up for about 3 weeks now with no occupants.

Would an airstone be necessary for such a set-up? Mine is open on top...so the O2 exchange would not be as much of an issue as it would be in tome30's badass looking scientific jar. I really dig how that looks btwthumbs2:.

Also is a heat source needed for the rcs?

[EmmanuelJB]

Welcome to Aquatic Community! :welcomeconfetti:

I agree it needs a filter. Looks nice though!

[gadget228]

Welcome to the AC... :22:

[funky_fish]

Welcome aboard. Nice tank... uh...I mean bottle.

[lowlight]

Welcome to the AC.

[Cobaltxfe09]

Interesting

[tome30]

Thank you all for your positive words and advice, I'm getting some Java fern too, because the little fellas do seem freeze in fear when i get too near....then saying that looking out through convex glass....I bet I do look scary!!

Also this morning the temp had gone down to 17-18,they were very still, as soon as they were back up to daytime temp 24-26 they were whizzing about, i might look at getting a heat mat for night-time would that be ok as I dont want to boil them. (Yummy!)

My girlfriend has named them Kung-pau, Alfredo, and Jean-Claud. Bless.