Starting a FW shrimp nursery

[Beast1961]

Hi, A lot of freshwater shrimp fry start in a larvae stage that requires a transplant from FW to SW until they complete there larval stages.

What I want to do is make a SW nursery for them but I can't afford all the lighting, skimmers and all the other whistles that go with a full blown Reef tank. I can get live rock, Whole and pieces, live sand and premixed RO water to the right SG. Can I get by with just LR, LS and a clean up crew?
What other "low light" SW tank options do I have?

I haven't started to put this together yet except I have the 20g tank with the stock fluorescent light. and a good "bio-wheel filter...Penguin 400 I think. I will be wrapping the filter siphon with a sponge to keep my baby shrimp from entering the filter...With this it acts like a prefilter so not much else makes it into the actual filter, Can I just fill the filter cartrige area with some of the small pre-bagged bacteria growing media...IE..ceramic balls, sponges..ect.

I've never done anything with SW befor so please any and ALL comments are requested.
Sincerely
Rick From Upstate NY

[Gilraen Took]

Why don't you get something like cherry shrimp at first? They don't need salted water ever, so they'd be good until you get your feet wet and know what you are doing pretty well. Unless you've already got them and are going more challenging, then I'm no help at all ^_^

[Beast1961]

Hi Gil, I have some RCS right now and expect some to become berried soon.
I would like to get a SW tank up and running and have it cycleing with just live sand and rock for as long as possible for when I do adventure further into the shrimping world.
I just got word that I'm getting 2 29G tanks so 1 will definetly be a SW tank for breeding baby shrimp larvae...The other, who knows...Maybe a SW tank with some live rock and a couple SW shrimp...But anyway..any answeres to the original questions?
Thanks, Rick