Re: [GSAS-Member] Shrimp and CO2

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

Hi Phil:

I run CO2 in both my shrimp tanks, but I put shells and crushed coral in to
buffer the water and help with the crinkled-leaf calcium deficiency. The
shrimp do fine and breed well.

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com
[mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of Phil Lacefield Jr.
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:09 PM
To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
Subject: [GSAS-Member] Shrimp and CO2

Hey gang, at the massive Blue SIerra sale this weekend (and wow, what
deals!!), I picked up an old open-topped display tank they had set up in the
store at one point.  It's an Azoo Garden Aquarium, notch-front so that you
can load it with plants I guess.  Anyway, I set it up and transferred most
of the cherry shrimp I got from Susan a couple weks ago, and they seem to be
loving it.

My quession is: if I set up CO2 in this tank to help the plants, will it
hurt the shrimp?  The tank setup came with a Nutrafin Natural Plant System
C)2 canister, which calls for adding sugar and their "special packets" of
activator and stabilizor.  I assume this is something someone can tell me
how to make on my own without their "special packets"  :-)  But I've never
used a CO2 system before, so I'm totally unsure how to se thte thing or if I
should at all, what with the shrimp.

Ideas?

Thanks! - Phil



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