I really enjoy your videos Mark! I saw my first cherry shrimplets yesterday, I was able to count seven however I know I have more but the green water is making it difficult to see. I’ve done blackouts several times and can’t seem to get rid of it. I also have blue bolts in the same tank but plan to move them to their own tank soon. Keep up the great work!!
Haven't watched in a while, but going back and catching up with the videos. Just wanted to say hi and let you know I appreciate the information. Hopefully my second go with cherry shrimp goes better.
Hello Mark I am a big fan of your work, because you had a hart for the shrimp hobbiest with narrow pockets. You Bread your shrimp with minimum money. Everything was home made Or had a Good and cheap solution for it. I wish you al the best Mark and you Desirve it. The magic of your video’s is fading with sponsored content. Still tumps up for the video
Thank you sir, Just to let you know though I dont actually have any sponsors and nobody pays me to promote stuff, If I do its because I use the thing I promote 😀
Thanks Mark for all your tips. 3 weeks after start using Nutridust / Bacter AE / Polytase (one of those) with beta-glucans and PollenMix every second day, the survival rate of baby shrimp has exploded. Btw I use your NettleMix the others day and my shrimps love it, now I'll buy only my food on your shop! The amount of buried female increased to. Next step buying one reverse osmosis system (and others tank 😂) 👍👏
I keep plants, alder cones, and oak leaves for the babies. I also let some algae grow on the glass. Here's a question....I live down the street from a hippy grocery store that has weigh your own herbs and spices. They have things like spirulina powder and bee pollen which are good for shrimp... What other things at the grocery store should we look for for our shrimps?
My Bacter AE has arrived. I don't keep shrimp (yet). Just want a biofilm for my cobalt goby fish as they thrive on the biofilm even though they eat pellets. Would you recommend QTR spoon daily? Many thanks Mark 😀
Every other day I dissolve some pollen, Bacter AE, yeast powder, glucazyme and montmorillonite clay in some aquarium water and add it to my tank. it must be working cos I have a noticeable layer of biofilm everywhere. And if there are shrimplet deaths in my tank, they aren't noticeable in the numbers of shrimp. out of 24 initial CRS that i bought, I have about 20 left after roughly 6 months (they reached adulthood about 3 months ago) and 1 and a half month ago I saw my first shrimplets. by now i must have at least 100 shrimplets in all sizes and that first batch of shrimplets is almost at 15mm in length now ;P Oh and also i have at least 2 catappa leaves in the tank at all times, some wood (overgrown by moss) and lots and lots of plants and moss. Added to this i have a considerable amount of ohko dragon stone in my tank, and the shrimplets are always going in and out of the crevices in the stones in the search for biofilm and other food ;P.
hello mark, im planing on setting up a cherry shrimp tank. I dont have an ro water system or any starter powders (the powders you put under substrate). Could i succeed if i used dechlorinated tap water, some sort of inert substrate, sponge filter, almond leaves, live plants and let it cycle? please help..also im a beginner..
J hi, Im new too to the shrimp hobby, I didn't have special things so I used my tap water which has a tds of 303, I buy distilled water with 0 tds and mix them untill I get a reading of 200 tds, a cheap tds pen cost me 11 bucks. Of course I use prime to condition the tap water 1st. My shrimp have survived 3 months now and are berried with new babies coming soon. I slowly started buying things like cactus wood, I already had Indian almond leaf from my betta fish so I added that but they barely stated eating that since it took awhile to break down. I also bought Bacter AE a couple of weeks ago, and bought cheap national geographic shrimp and lobster pellets to feed them, it was like 5 bucks. I only have a 5 gallon planted tank. So you can buy as you go, but you def. need to cycle the tank 1st, they wont survive if the tank is not fully cycled since they can't tolerate ammonia.
Hey Mark, Love your videos. Going to start a small shrimp breeding project down here in Australia. Quick question, How did you get your subwassertang to grow up into columns like in your crystal red tank. It looks AMAZING. Cheers,
Those ropes you made look fantastic! How do you use the probiotic in your starter packs, I’m expecting my first Shrimplet’s soon, my tank is now well mature but I want to help them and the adults survive. I’ve got some Genchem polytase too. Yesterday I put a snail trap in with a calcium block in it (catching snails to feed my Dwarf Puffers) and the shrimp went in to eat the calcium block. They seemed to really love it. Would it be ok if I left it in the tank for them?
Hello Deanne !! if your tank is already setup and running you can add a pinch of the stuff after every water change this will also help with biofilm , which your shrimp will love you for.
Marks Shrimp Tanks🦐 or what do you recommend me to do, I have some blue dreams coming in. My aquarium is 2 years old but I don’t grow algae I don’t know the reason. Parameter are good.. do you have a Instagram or somewhere else where we can chat it up.. I would appreciate it greatly.. :)
I don’t use anything to increase biofilm in my shrimp tank. I’m a newcomer and currently only have a nano fire red cherry tank with some babies. Is it absolutely necessary to use a biofilm promoter? They seems happy grazing on all the plants and alder cones.
It natural forms on everything thats in the water so while not necessary there are benefits to it..alot of tanks when people start out dont have enough biofilm and people struggle to keep shrimp, adding a biofilm promoter help survival rates.
Marks Shrimp Tanks thanks mark. The tank was running for 6 months before I introduced any shrimp so maybe I’m okay. I’m going to look into one of these products anyway. Cheers!
Think of it as a way to get more shrimp if thats what you want ,just remember if you do buy any products dont do full doses like they say to do half dose is recommended in the beginning :)
You will see in the next couple of videos, I havnt forgotten the triops but just getting them to hatch was a problem and they were only living a few days ,now cannibalism is the issue until only one is left which you will see 🙂
Allright thanks, had it in one tank was abit worried but remember i saw something like having the pump drop down on the water and it will dissapear. Good to know!
Hi Mark, Everything I've seen on baby shrimp is so macro I can't tell what to look for. I just had 5 red cherry babies, 3 days old. They are clear with eyes. I can see their bodies with a msgnifier. They are darting around near the top of the tank with no apparent interest in my moss, glass, etc. Is this normal? Tx for the help. Joanne
@@MarksShrimpTanks you got it! They are fish fry, thinking black skirt tetra - long with a silver shimmer. I'm so disappointed 😣. Happy I succeeding with breeding, just not the breeding I got. I had shrimp & fish together. I moved the fisk to another tank as soon as I noticed my shrimp fanning her eggs a lot and my new tank cycling was complete. The tetra must have left her eggs behind when I packed her bags. I saw my shrimp drop eggs but they did not look like shrimp. Next day they were gone and the fry were near the top. I presumed they were the baby shrimp. Coincidental for sure. I wrote to you when I didn't see the behavior I was expecting, the long bodies and no red color. Guess it was wishful thinking. So far I don't see any baby shrimp. Hoping for success on the next go around. 😥 Thanks for being there and listening. Love your love of shrimp, terrific vids, and how you share your knowledge with us newbies out there!!!
We have too many bladder snails -- the colony of cherry shrimp seem to be doing ok, plenty of babies and juveniles. It might be that the snails are not reducing the biofilm. If biofilm is a bacterial colony, I am not sure how the snails cause it (perhaps they keep it fed with the slime they produce? Do the snails only eat the algae and leave the bacteria? How can we control the bladder snail population?
Bacteria is passed through the gut of the snail in its poop, if you do have loads of snails the best way to reduce the numbers is to feed less and remove as much as you can by hand.
This is wonderful ! So glad I found this channel. Subbed. I have a question: Does Seachem "Purigen" and/or Activated Carbon, strip all the BioFilm from the tank ? I know shrimp really need a well established tank full of BioFilm to munch on. Bit worried about using Purigen in my filter. Coming from a 'scaping' perspective, where it's used a lot. I'm trying to set up a small show-tank with cherry shrimp. Not breeding. Would also like clear water... Happy to let the tank settle-in for a few months before adding the shrimp. I just don't want to strip all the good stuff away for the little guys with water polishers... Any advice ?
Yes anything you put in the water will get biofilm on it ,you can test this if you put a leaf in the tank after a week take it out and feel it ,it will be slime to touch.
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I love that you occasionally baby-talk to your shrimp..."hel-loooo!" :-)
Amazing water clarity!
Thank you :)
Shrimp and plants looking great.
Thank you Sir :)
Your moss walls look fantastic, I have to find some subwassertang
Omg the moss in that top tank is AMAZING! what do you have it growing on that it’s growing up the back like that?
hello Michele, that stuff is subwassertang, in that tank it was tied to string and hung from the spray bar in the tank.
I really enjoy your videos Mark! I saw my first cherry shrimplets yesterday, I was able to count seven however I know I have more but the green water is making it difficult to see. I’ve done blackouts several times and can’t seem to get rid of it. I also have blue bolts in the same tank but plan to move them to their own tank soon. Keep up the great work!!
I would check your nitrates and lower your lighting period ,you can go down to like 6hrs a day and it will be fine :)
Beautiful shrimp!🦐
Thank you Deborah 🤙
My baby shrimp have really taken off since I've been using the nutridust. Very good video!
Hows the channel going Nathan ?
Marks Shrimp Tanks doing pretty good! Canada needs a little shrimp love.
+Soo Shrimp Breeders yeah they do ☺
Haven't watched in a while, but going back and catching up with the videos. Just wanted to say hi and let you know I appreciate the information. Hopefully my second go with cherry shrimp goes better.
Hello Mark I am a big fan of your work, because you had a hart for the shrimp hobbiest with narrow pockets. You Bread your shrimp with minimum money. Everything was home made Or had a Good and cheap solution for it. I wish you al the best Mark and you Desirve it. The magic of your video’s is fading with sponsored content. Still tumps up for the video
Thank you sir, Just to let you know though I dont actually have any sponsors and nobody pays me to promote stuff, If I do its because I use the thing I promote 😀
Hello yeah :) I use to Nutridust. Great product. Another great product : Mosura Rich Water, Aqua Eden Bio Protein and SL-AQUA Magic Powder.
Hello, are you the one who makes your biofilm powder? Or do you buy the biofilm powder?
Thanks Mark for all your tips.
3 weeks after start using Nutridust / Bacter AE / Polytase (one of those) with beta-glucans and PollenMix every second day, the survival rate of baby shrimp has exploded.
Btw I use your NettleMix the others day and my shrimps love it, now I'll buy only my food on your shop!
The amount of buried female increased to.
Next step buying one reverse osmosis system (and others tank 😂)
👍👏
Thank you for the awesome comment and I am so happy you are finding all this very useful :)
wow Mark you are the shrimp gooru daddy thank you for so good info....bro!!
I added a riser on my 20 long planted to get full coverage for my light of the tank is it safe to leave it lidless the shrimp will be ok
I keep plants, alder cones, and oak leaves for the babies. I also let some algae grow on the glass. Here's a question....I live down the street from a hippy grocery store that has weigh your own herbs and spices. They have things like spirulina powder and bee pollen which are good for shrimp... What other things at the grocery store should we look for for our shrimps?
Thanks for this Mark!! Placed my order today!!
Cheers Nick it will be sent to you tomorrow :)
Enjoyed video. Thanks. Can't see the Nutradust on Amazon. Do you have a link please 👍
You can get BacterAE on amazon :) just dont overfeed it.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Thank you. Got it ordered. How much you recommend for 14G tank please? I have digital kitchen scales to measure tenths of a gram. 👍
My Bacter AE has arrived. I don't keep shrimp (yet). Just want a biofilm for my cobalt goby fish as they thrive on the biofilm even though they eat pellets. Would you recommend QTR spoon daily? Many thanks Mark 😀
I'm currently using Heron's algae wafers to feed my shrimp, the problem is the Platys love them too, may switch to dust to make sure they get fed.
Awesome video! Thank you for always putting out quality content!
Thank you for watching 👍
What do you guys use to increase biofilm in your Shrimp Tanks ?
Every other day I dissolve some pollen, Bacter AE, yeast powder, glucazyme and montmorillonite clay in some aquarium water and add it to my tank. it must be working cos I have a noticeable layer of biofilm everywhere. And if there are shrimplet deaths in my tank, they aren't noticeable in the numbers of shrimp. out of 24 initial CRS that i bought, I have about 20 left after roughly 6 months (they reached adulthood about 3 months ago) and 1 and a half month ago I saw my first shrimplets. by now i must have at least 100 shrimplets in all sizes and that first batch of shrimplets is almost at 15mm in length now ;P
Oh and also i have at least 2 catappa leaves in the tank at all times, some wood (overgrown by moss) and lots and lots of plants and moss. Added to this i have a considerable amount of ohko dragon stone in my tank, and the shrimplets are always going in and out of the crevices in the stones in the search for biofilm and other food ;P.
I just put in some leaves drift wood and alder cones and I got a bunch of biofilm in mine
Marks Shrimp Tanks I have Java moss and subwassertang I bought from you, I love the look of that stuff!
i rotate pieces of drift wood from other aquariums housing larger fish (dirtier fish)
Superb Intro - Marks Shrimp Tanks. Love it.
Thank you Neeraj
hello mark,
im planing on setting up a cherry shrimp tank. I dont have an ro water system or any starter powders (the powders you put under substrate). Could i succeed if i used dechlorinated tap water, some sort of inert substrate, sponge filter, almond leaves, live plants and let it cycle? please help..also im a beginner..
Hello Tiny ,what you suggest will 100% work for cherry shrimp ..I think you know what you are doing :)
J hi, Im new too to the shrimp hobby, I didn't have special things so I used my tap water which has a tds of 303, I buy distilled water with 0 tds and mix them untill I get a reading of 200 tds, a cheap tds pen cost me 11 bucks. Of course I use prime to condition the tap water 1st. My shrimp have survived 3 months now and are berried with new babies coming soon. I slowly started buying things like cactus wood, I already had Indian almond leaf from my betta fish so I added that but they barely stated eating that since it took awhile to break down. I also bought Bacter AE a couple of weeks ago, and bought cheap national geographic shrimp and lobster pellets to feed them, it was like 5 bucks. I only have a 5 gallon planted tank. So you can buy as you go, but you def. need to cycle the tank 1st, they wont survive if the tank is not fully cycled since they can't tolerate ammonia.
I'm using product from Borneo wild because still hard to find other product to boost biofilms in Indonesia
Yes I like Borneo wild their range is pretty good
Do u add co2 in shrimp tank?, ur plant really nice,
No I dont Lushen
Thanks mark great video
You are welcome Glenn 👍
Does your friend ship to Canada?
Where can I buy this stuff
Great video. Mark, how many tanks do you have? I love the blue.
Hello Brenda I have 12 tanks now ..blue is my favorite :)
Hey Mark,
Love your videos.
Going to start a small shrimp breeding project down here in Australia.
Quick question, How did you get your subwassertang to grow up into columns like in your crystal red tank.
It looks AMAZING.
Cheers,
Those ropes you made look fantastic! How do you use the probiotic in your starter packs, I’m expecting my first Shrimplet’s soon, my tank is now well mature but I want to help them and the adults survive. I’ve got some Genchem polytase too. Yesterday I put a snail trap in with a calcium block in it (catching snails to feed my Dwarf Puffers) and the shrimp went in to eat the calcium block. They seemed to really love it. Would it be ok if I left it in the tank for them?
Hello Deanne !! if your tank is already setup and running you can add a pinch of the stuff after every water change this will also help with biofilm , which your shrimp will love you for.
Marks Shrimp Tanks thank you. 😊
I alternate use Nutrition Dust and BacterAE twice per week, but have to be careful as it can cause NitrAte spikes
I do the same thing, great minds and all 😍
Where do I order I can’t find anywhere in your website, or do you use a different brand today?? Pls recommend.. :)))
order what ?
My apologies, nutri dust..
I dont think the seller makes it anymore. you could maybe ask them on facebook under the name pureshrimp and see what they say.
Marks Shrimp Tanks🦐 or what do you recommend me to do, I have some blue dreams coming in. My aquarium is 2 years old but I don’t grow algae I don’t know the reason. Parameter are good.. do you have a Instagram or somewhere else where we can chat it up.. I would appreciate it greatly.. :)
Where can we find that product to build biofilm
they are so cute.
Hi Mark, what are those white balls on the ground? Sure you mentioned it somewhere but hard to find in all that content :o
They are just mineral balls , that brand was PurNordic
I don’t use anything to increase biofilm in my shrimp tank. I’m a newcomer and currently only have a nano fire red cherry tank with some babies. Is it absolutely necessary to use a biofilm promoter? They seems happy grazing on all the plants and alder cones.
It natural forms on everything thats in the water so while not necessary there are benefits to it..alot of tanks when people start out dont have enough biofilm and people struggle to keep shrimp, adding a biofilm promoter help survival rates.
Marks Shrimp Tanks thanks mark. The tank was running for 6 months before I introduced any shrimp so maybe I’m okay. I’m going to look into one of these products anyway. Cheers!
Think of it as a way to get more shrimp if thats what you want ,just remember if you do buy any products dont do full doses like they say to do half dose is recommended in the beginning :)
mark..need an update on your triops setup
You will see in the next couple of videos, I havnt forgotten the triops but just getting them to hatch was a problem and they were only living a few days ,now cannibalism is the issue until only one is left which you will see 🙂
Do you use CO2 for your plants? How do you make that wall with plants?
They are subwassertang ropes, if you google it will show you a video where I make it
Is biofilm also that layer that can be seen on top of the water sometimes?
No but I think technically you could call it a biofilm ..normally when you see that its some type of oil thats come of the food.
Allright thanks, had it in one tank was abit worried but remember i saw something like having the pump drop down on the water and it will dissapear. Good to know!
I think most tanks get it until you add a little bit of water movement ,Its nothing to worry about :)
Camera model?
Awesome video
Hello Brenda :)
Hi Mark, Everything I've seen on baby shrimp is so macro I can't tell what to look for. I just had 5 red cherry babies, 3 days old. They are clear with eyes. I can see their bodies with a msgnifier. They are darting around near the top of the tank with no apparent interest in my moss, glass, etc. Is this normal? Tx for the help. Joanne
are you sure they are shrimp ? mosquito larva can look pretty similar and they live near the top of the water.
@@MarksShrimpTanks you got it! They are fish fry, thinking black skirt tetra - long with a silver shimmer. I'm so disappointed 😣. Happy I succeeding with breeding, just not the breeding I got.
I had shrimp & fish together. I moved the fisk to another tank as soon as I noticed my shrimp fanning her eggs a lot and my new tank cycling was complete. The tetra must have left her eggs behind when I packed her bags.
I saw my shrimp drop eggs but they did not look like shrimp. Next day they were gone and the fry were near the top. I presumed they were the baby shrimp. Coincidental for sure.
I wrote to you when I didn't see the behavior I was expecting, the long bodies and no red color. Guess it was wishful thinking.
So far I don't see any baby shrimp. Hoping for success on the next go around. 😥
Thanks for being there and listening. Love your love of shrimp, terrific vids, and how you share your knowledge with us newbies out there!!!
I HAVE 1 BABY SHRIMP! It's yellow, probably fathered by the brownish male I have. My neck and eyes hurt so I'll look more tmrw.😂
Thanks
Have you ever tried SL Aqua Magic powder?
I do have it but I just dont know enough about it to make a video on it yet.
I use biofilm in all my tanks, seems to be all my adult crystals are interested in eating when I have babies in the tank.
Is there way to do it with out bio film booster
Crushed flakes that people use for fish food works too
Your videos have helped
me heaps with my cherry shrimp, crystal reds and crystal blues.
Thanks Mark
I just use fluval, moss and endlers poop lol
Funkey you are welcome and thanks for watching my videos :)
The white sphere is calcium ?thanks
I think its ether ceramic or tourmaline
Does bacter ae cause algae? Pls I need to know I can’t find it on the internet
Do pest snails reduce the biofilm?
for years it was thought that snails help to create it :)
Blaise Mibeck I use mystery and red ramhorns snails. Plus a sponge filter that's already been cycled
Blaise Mibeck I think this is a good question I hope he answers it.
We have too many bladder snails -- the colony of cherry shrimp seem to be doing ok, plenty of babies and juveniles. It might be that the snails are not reducing the biofilm. If biofilm is a bacterial colony, I am not sure how the snails cause it (perhaps they keep it fed with the slime they produce? Do the snails only eat the algae and leave the bacteria?
How can we control the bladder snail population?
Bacteria is passed through the gut of the snail in its poop, if you do have loads of snails the best way to reduce the numbers is to feed less and remove as much as you can by hand.
Good video :]
+ricelovesshoes thank you sir 😃
How do you get rid of the pest snails 😁
This is wonderful ! So glad I found this channel. Subbed.
I have a question:
Does Seachem "Purigen" and/or Activated Carbon, strip all the BioFilm from the tank ?
I know shrimp really need a well established tank full of BioFilm to munch on.
Bit worried about using Purigen in my filter.
Coming from a 'scaping' perspective, where it's used a lot.
I'm trying to set up a small show-tank with cherry shrimp. Not breeding.
Would also like clear water...
Happy to let the tank settle-in for a few months before adding the shrimp.
I just don't want to strip all the good stuff away for the little guys with water polishers... Any advice ?
There is something going wrong if there not breeding look it too that sorry I was a year late
I use SL-AQUA Magic Powder in all my tanks. I think magic powder has really helped my Sulawesi Cardinal tank.
Yes the SL-Aqua range is pretty good
Did u mention moringa?
Ive used it before in shrimp food 👍
Can't buy in Australia
Can every moss produce biofilm
Its not the most that produces the biofilm its the surface area it creates that gives you more biofilm :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks oh thx so the moss produce it in the surface
Yes anything you put in the water will get biofilm on it ,you can test this if you put a leaf in the tank after a week take it out and feel it ,it will be slime to touch.
I just order it :) 1 tube :)
Thank you Ovidiu ,It shall be sent first thing tomorrow morning :)
I use GlasGarten Shrimp Baby food everynow and again
Yeah its good stuff, I think I mentioned in my Friday Video that its also good for fighting bacterial infections 👍