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I have a 5.5 gallon shrimp tank that's been doing fine without any mechanical filtration or water movement for a number of years (it has also had fish in it several times, but none currently), so it can definitely be done. However, the smaller tank will make it more difficult. If you want to...

Good luck with that.

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I'm pretty sure this is the one I had. It was not flimsy.

According to Google, your winters are pretty mild, so you might consider leaving them in the pond. They are not tropical fish, and don't need warm water. I keep goldfish in cattle troughs to control algae and mosquito larva, and I leave them in year-round. Here where I live we occasionally...

I had a steel one I bought from Petco. It was sturdy.

I agree that one of the complete fertilizers would be a better option than Flourish. I would also like to add that, while Easy Green (from Aquarium Co-op) is a good suggestion, it's my understanding that the type of iron it contains is only compatible with low pH tanks. If yours is high then...

It does not.

Maybe Java moss, or one of the other mosses (or susswassertang)? Or floating plants?

Welcome. Assuming you plan to keep neocaridina shrimp, this article may be of interest.

To put it simply, less light and more live plants will generally get the job done.

I didn't reply earlier, but I wouldn't hesitate to use it.

I will speak from my limited experience with my hard 8.2 pH water. Though a number of tetras have done well for me, cardinal tetras did not. I can't, of course, say for sure that my water was the problem, and not something else. Green neon tetras, however, have done relatively well, if you'd...

I had a 40 gallon breeder tank and really liked it. I only gave it away because I cut back on the number of tanks. I am down from ten tanks to two; a 65 gallon tank at home and a 5 on my desk at work.

That's possible, and also tinylostwine made a good point about gh and kh. Crypts do very well in pool filter sand, quickly spreading so that they need to be thinned, in pool filter sand with my hard water.