The Top 5 Easiest Shrimp Species to Keep & Care For. Great Breeders, Algae Eaters & Waste Cleaners.
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Great video, appreciate you not being shellfish with knowledge!
Haha glad to hear it
Im new to shrimp ive found amanos really easy , great pets not shy at all
I totally agree... but sometimes they're a bit aggressive
yess the video i have been waiting for!! thank u alex!
So glad to hear it. Cheers, mate!
Thank you I needed something like this as I’m looking for more shrimp to put in my aquariums
Right on! No problem. I'm glad I've kept about 25 species and sadly failed at half first... so you don't have to haha. We're saving shrimps in the long run hehe.
Best of luck to you
I love your videos. I had no intention of keeping shrimp until I came across your channel. Henceforth I shall refer to you as “The Professor “.
So nice of you. Sorry to get you into shrimpin' biz lol.
Father Fish and Shrimp Professor. 🤣😜😉
*More live reproduction food for the fish - the more self sustainable aquarium will be*
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Thanks Alex! Great info! Keep it up! - Little Bobby
Thanks little Bobby!
Great Video, beautiful shrimp!
Thanks :) I like them hah
You got me interested in those malawa shrimp!
*More live reproduction food for the fish - the more self sustainable aquarium will be*
Thank you!
Great information
After trying out the obligatory cherry shrimp I got some tangerine tigers and they are by far my favorite. I keep them in tap water, neo parameters on the soft side and they have been extremely hardy and prolific. Every time I look in their tank I see at least half a dozen berried females. Mileage will of course vary, but in my experience they have been very easy to keep. I am curious about the degree to which they have been selectively bred. My understanding is that they are a natural caridina color morph from Taiwan, and photos I’ve come across of wild shrimp vs. domestic look about the same. That said, as they are more popular already as some of the new wild caridinas coming in, I’m sure there’s been some tinkering.
If they are orange they are selectively bred from tan/soft yellow clear colored milky looking wild shrimp, but they're one of the first caridina fancy lines to appear in the late 1990s
@@Fishtory Oh cool! Figured you’d know ;)
Thanks for the great information brother. I just ordered 10 cherry shrimp for a 10 gal I set up almost 2 months ago hoping to have good luck with them 😁🙋🏽♂️
Glad to hear it!
Great video thanks
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. Have a great week
Tak!
Finally got my hands on the right kind of ghost shrimp peaceful and great cleaners keep them with red cherries and nano fish
Right on! Where at and what species did they end up being?
Palaemonetes paludosus, not too great with scientific name but that is what I believe what they are I am coming from Missouri the person that I got them from someone locally who breeds them it is truly a treat to have this kind of ghost shrimp
Excellent info! Many thanks! 💚
I want them to be live food for the fish. 🤣👍
Love the beanie homie!
Nice footage, bro 🦐
Thanks
great video
Thank you so very much! Have a great weekend!
Great to know Malawa can get a bit cold it seems like you stumbled into becoming a premier Malawa shrimp keeping expert. I got some off aquabid since they seem to be very difficult to find and have been introducing them into my tanks. Have you run into them crossing with any other shrimp?
malawa (sulawesi) is a caridina and they do not crossbreed with neocaridina. be carefull: malawa shrimp are sometimes confused with mini-japonica shrimp (and mini-japonica is also another specie then the bigger japonica)....
*More live reproduction food for the fish - the more self sustainable aquarium will be*
Always love watching your videos, was wondering why you have tanks with blue/orange neocaridinas, or reds with other colors. Do you not mind them interbreeding and losing their color? Or do those specific species not interbreed?
I have a video called "keeping several lines of shrimp in the same tank" that talls about it. But the short answer, is i just want them to clean and eat extra food/algae
After trying few varieties of shrimp, i can say, water quality, is most important.
But, keep that in mind, shrimp are great addition.
Hi Alex, could you give me a bit of advice? I am getting some Malawa shrimp sent to me, they will have been in a bag- (not a breather bag) I plan to float them, should I then drip acclimate them then add- or net and dump them into the tank after temp acclimating them?
if they were in a breather bag I would definitely drip acclimate them.
the shrimp are coming from a tank with a ph of 6.4 my tank is 7.3.
Great video, but I have a question.
In my LFS, they have these large, brightly red shrimp, with white legs and antennae called Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina denerlii). Yours looks nothing like those, so I'm quite intrigued why they have the same name.
So Malawa are from the part of the island called "Malawa" heh.... the cardinals and 63 other species live in a system of 5 lakes on the island which is roughly the size of Ireland. So it has the most shrimp diversity in the world... over 400 species in the waters near or on the island...pretty amazing place
@Alex Hello Alex you were busy during the stream yesterday. You missed my question.
Do you know of any South American shrimp safe for a nano fish aquarium?
Only "grass shrimp" AKA glass shrimp/ ghost shrimp species...that I know of anyhow
@@Fishtory Thanks I will do some research before I buy them
Thanks for the information Alex.
Could you sent some Malawi to SC?
No problem. And yes I can. Currently I have a group of 25 people that are getting shipped a bunch...but email me at alexanderjwilliamson@gmail.com later this summer and I'll have more
@@Fishtory I will. Thanks
do you know of any good shrimp or inverts to keep with some blue dream neos in a 7 gallon. only tankmates are ramshorns, trumpet snails, 2 small amano shrimp and 5 pygmy cories
Any other neos but if they spawn and are different colors, they often revert to more natural clear coloring.
I'd say the amanos may be out competing your neos for food...it's common...but perhaps not? Anyhow
Caridina babaulti greens, cardina malawa or Pinocchio shrimp would work also
Are there any Coldwater shrimp that can survive in an outdoor pond? Top freezes in the winter.
Not frozen solid...but in 32 degree cold water...yes some can bury in substrate and even neocardinas have been known to survive frosts when its gradually cooling over weeks... also grass shrimp and most japanese native shrimp can tolerate cold...short nose algae eating shrimp they're called. Glass/ grass shrimp also.
Snails do snails ❤ they are easy but so many and so little in the hobby
I did a snail video...and i list the easiest 5 in the course of the video actually. But pond snails, bladder snails, ramshornss, malaysian trumpet snails and then nerites & mystery snails followed by assasins and cappachinos/batman/koopas. from eastiest to harder
I have a curiosity, do you film this videos in the open at night? it's a really dark backround
So my wife sleeps 10-6am and so from 11 to 4am I do most my non-graphic design work (meaning non-day job stuff). But a 3,000 lumen flood light with 6500kelvin works really well blacking out the rest of the yard lol and my wife doesn't hear me babbling on
@@Fishtory haha, thats cool and nice from you! Have a good day
What is the shrimp supplement you are using? I saw a guy using tums.
So i use crushed coral ..
About a cup per 5 gallons...and that works well with my tap water. Im guessing anyone using tums may be keeping harder water shrimp like amanos, Pinocchios or Sulawesi shrimp. If you are keeping caridina shrimp, usually people use RO water and "salty shrimp" is added to get the kh to where they want it. ...that brand is basically becoming the fancy shrimp breeder standard.
I have a 10 gallon tank
1 swordtail, 5 harlequin rasboras, and 3 dwarf guppies. How many of the cherry shrimp can I add to clean up my tank? Thankyou
Probably 1 otocinctlus or 1 or 2 nerite snails will clean algae off class and hard surfaces. Then shrimp id say you can have 5 to 20 in there...but your sword tail may eat small ones or babies
@Fishtory ok so will the 10 gallon handle the bio load for the shrimp? Should I maybe just add 5 to start, or how would you do it?
Will any of these shrimps try to escape the tank, besides Amano?
Theoretically they can... but ive had one neocaridina or caridina leave the tank each year or so on average... out of several thousand pet shrimp at times...so its rare...where amanos i see it monthly lol
I have a small colony of blue dream shrimp doing well, but I'm concerned if inbreeding could be an issue since I started out with total of only 4-5 shrimp. Could inbreeding be a potential problem if my shrimp tank continue to grow with new babies? Thanks!
Probably not in a problematic way. Maybe in 5 years or more, they can be weak or prone to illness if they're all from the first small group...but shrimp don't need to hold down jobs or go to college haha...so luckily we don't notice most of the health or development issues expressing in a harmful way...for quite a while
In other words not a bad idea to obtain another 5 or 10 from another source separate from where you initially got yours to ensure some decent diversity and add a couple every so often
Malawa shrimp looks like just what I want when my tank is ready. Except I can't find anyone selling it. Where can you get them?
Me essentially lol. I havent seen them in years. Are you in the USA? I live in Seattle
@@Fishtory I'm in New Mexico, but I just watched your video where you toured the domestic shrimp breeders. They had some Malawi's on the tour, but it appeared that they were a little harder to care for. On their website they have the wild type neo's so I think that's the way I'm going to go. I hope they still have them in a few weeks when I should be ready.
@Karin Christensen yeah tgoe also had malawai shrimp which i hadnt heard of before visiting. Their malawa may be a different species of caridina from the island of Sulawesi and the Malawa region/lake.
If their shrimp are listed as needing harder water or a ph over 7.0 then they arent the same as C. par paredentada aka my sulawesi malawa shrimp which live in a wide range of conditions, from creeks filled with rainwater to limestone bottom lakes...so theyre one of the most flexible shrimp amazingly
Blue nail polish?
So I realize it's unlikely but I'm keeping my group of 17 cherry shrimp with my angel medium size and I've had 1 problem at first but since none, been feeding her a bit more past 2 weeks but shrimp aren't shy around her and she doesn't seem to mind them. Anyone else have similar situations and if so how'd it turn out?
I've had them live together, and usually full grown angels will eat them when they swim near..but only the rare angelfish will actually hunt them down to eat.
So it's a bit risky, but I have kept them together if you put enough plants and hiding spots in the tank
@@Fishtory nine different species and over 30 plants in a 29 gallon with 2 pieces of drift wood lol that might be why I'm doing okay then. Thank you for your response
Where can I get Caradina per pere dentada?
Me lol ...sometimes aquatic arts and aquarium zen in Seattle are the only places I know of
Did anyone notice that he showed vampire shrimp instead of bamboo shrimp
Yeah just mixed it up accidently.
The first one you showed was a vampire shrimp 😂 not bamboo shrimp
Yeah...ooops lol i was editing on my phone
Thanks
Are you holding the camera/phone?
Any movement is being exaggerated when your head is the only thing in frame with the blacked out background...
Unless you are trying to bring back Max Headroom....
Usually a little wobbly tripod (I need to get a better one) but I have one that wobbles when it's up high, then I have a "auto tracking, auto focus" feature on the camera.
I guess I feel like it's nice and stark... a bit different than most pet channels perhaps
Update the video and quality
i like your channel but you totally freak me out. Can you do without that beard?
Haha yes.
blue fingernails? find a high bridge please.
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