Thank you for the video! I have recently also been looking at akadama again instead of regular active soils. I find that a lot of them are made for plants with a lot of nutrients and they lower the pH to at least 6 or more often 5.5 or sometimes even 5. I never thought much of it until I learned that regular nitrifying bacteria don't metabolise compounds anymore at a pH of 6 or lower. There are other species of acidic water bacteria but they are much less efficient. I noticed that in my pH 5.5 tanks my babies only ever survived if I fed bacter AE or dust food at least every day. But even then I only counted 14 babies from 4 pregnant females what should have been at least 40. So I assumed this was because there is no natural food in my tanks (there are also only 10 adults in my tank). I couldn't find akadama that easily so I went for red bee sand this time which promises a pH around 6.5. Very interested if that will result in a healthier system with more natural food or just the death of my shrimp because of the too high pH haha. I will keep on experimenting but so far it looks promising. Hope it works better for you as well! Greetings from the Netherlands!
Hello to Netherland - there are so many reasons why young shrimp die, that its hrad to tell on one tank - lots of testing/changing one factor each time. Powder food helps a lot, young shrimps that sometimes molt each day will need a lot of food to have energy. Maybe I should do a video on young shrimps survival rate :)
@@ShrimpTimeInt Yeah I am definately not sure this is the reason. I decided to test it out since all my neocaridina appear fine without supplements on pH of 7.5, of course they are very different but I thought it could be a small indication. My previous experiences with akadama and crystal red have been very good. We will see if this works or not. It would be amazing if you could do a video on the survival rate of young shrimps and all the tips & tricks you have learned to increase their survival rate!
great video about akadama soil. Unfortuantly, akadama is more expensive than ada amazonia in my area so i'll stick with ada amazonia for now and it's been working for me. Kerric is a great guy, chatted with him a few times, his shrimp look top notch!
I don't have access to Ada 1 - here I wolud even pay higher money for Ada 1 :D Best soil ever, second place benibachi fluvic and old Benibachi normal :D - miss those soils so much
@@ShrimpTimeInt that's great info for sure. Have you heard of or tried of uns contra soil. I haven't tried but will give it a try one day. I think the ada distributor is pulling out of my country soon, my guess 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
@@ShrimpTimeInt benibachi is the best substrate ever , i have 5 years old tank with benibachi normal and still working wery well :) full tank of shrimps , pH 5,6
Thank you for the video I didn’t know this regarding akadama soil. Greatly appreciate the information. What was rhetorical PH level? Would love to see long term how the PH maintains
Hi Shrimp time. Great informative videos. I have been watching you video on ugfs. What do you recommend the flow to be on the ugfs? As my new setup with ugfs with tanks cycling seem to be a little cloudy? I was thinking the flow was to high? Any help is appreciated Thanks
Hi I need help with my blue dreams they dont wana bread i can see some babies but when the female is full of eggs only 1 or 5 hatch and survive. im making 30% waterchane every 2 weeks. i have lots of moss and flowers, but i have long hairy alge on the moss so that is kind a ugly. can you help ?
Blue dreams are Neocaridina cherry shrimp, they need to be kept at a neutral to slightly alkaline PH of 7-7.5 you cannot keep them in acidic conditions and should not have any buffering soils with them as they are not Caridina like crystal reds and will not survive in low PH and low KH conditions.
Thank you for the video! I have recently also been looking at akadama again instead of regular active soils. I find that a lot of them are made for plants with a lot of nutrients and they lower the pH to at least 6 or more often 5.5 or sometimes even 5. I never thought much of it until I learned that regular nitrifying bacteria don't metabolise compounds anymore at a pH of 6 or lower. There are other species of acidic water bacteria but they are much less efficient. I noticed that in my pH 5.5 tanks my babies only ever survived if I fed bacter AE or dust food at least every day. But even then I only counted 14 babies from 4 pregnant females what should have been at least 40. So I assumed this was because there is no natural food in my tanks (there are also only 10 adults in my tank). I couldn't find akadama that easily so I went for red bee sand this time which promises a pH around 6.5. Very interested if that will result in a healthier system with more natural food or just the death of my shrimp because of the too high pH haha. I will keep on experimenting but so far it looks promising. Hope it works better for you as well! Greetings from the Netherlands!
Hello to Netherland - there are so many reasons why young shrimp die, that its hrad to tell on one tank - lots of testing/changing one factor each time. Powder food helps a lot, young shrimps that sometimes molt each day will need a lot of food to have energy. Maybe I should do a video on young shrimps survival rate :)
@@ShrimpTimeInt Yeah I am definately not sure this is the reason. I decided to test it out since all my neocaridina appear fine without supplements on pH of 7.5, of course they are very different but I thought it could be a small indication. My previous experiences with akadama and crystal red have been very good. We will see if this works or not. It would be amazing if you could do a video on the survival rate of young shrimps and all the tips & tricks you have learned to increase their survival rate!
great video about akadama soil. Unfortuantly, akadama is more expensive than ada amazonia in my area so i'll stick with ada amazonia for now and it's been working for me. Kerric is a great guy, chatted with him a few times, his shrimp look top notch!
I don't have access to Ada 1 - here I wolud even pay higher money for Ada 1 :D Best soil ever, second place benibachi fluvic and old Benibachi normal :D - miss those soils so much
@@ShrimpTimeInt that's great info for sure. Have you heard of or tried of uns contra soil. I haven't tried but will give it a try one day. I think the ada distributor is pulling out of my country soon, my guess 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦
@@ShrimpTimeInt benibachi is the best substrate ever , i have 5 years old tank with benibachi normal and still working wery well :) full tank of shrimps , pH 5,6
I've been keeping CRS in akadama for years, the pH stays in the low 6s and no ammonia leech. I find it perfect for crystal shrimp.
Very simmilar results here :). Akadama can be very easy for bee shrimps type :)
Thank you for the video I didn’t know this regarding akadama soil. Greatly appreciate the information.
What was rhetorical PH level? Would love to see long term how the PH maintains
In tanks without envi soil it was about 6.2 - 6.4. With envi it was slightly bellow 6.
How about water KH, can get down to 0 with this soil?
Hey..was it possible for me to add on in directly to insisting cardina shrimp tank?
Hi Shrimp time. Great informative videos. I have been watching you video on ugfs. What do you recommend the flow to be on the ugfs? As my new setup with ugfs with tanks cycling seem to be a little cloudy? I was thinking the flow was to high? Any help is appreciated Thanks
Now thats its been 7 months do you still like akadama?
How os the ph now? Still the same?
How do you change the language on uour webpage to.english?
Hi I need help with my blue dreams they dont wana bread i can see some babies but when the female is full of eggs only 1 or 5 hatch and survive. im making 30% waterchane every 2 weeks. i have lots of moss and flowers, but i have long hairy alge on the moss so that is kind a ugly.
can you help ?
Blue dreams are Neocaridina cherry shrimp, they need to be kept at a neutral to slightly alkaline PH of 7-7.5 you cannot keep them in acidic conditions and should not have any buffering soils with them as they are not Caridina like crystal reds and will not survive in low PH and low KH conditions.