I know he said oxygenation isn't a huge deal with the shrimp but in my planted tank we put in a little airstone and within a week my extremely lethargic shrimp are all over the place exploring, huge difference.
I just did this yesterday with my shrimp and now they exploring everywhere. Another thing was adding mosses. The tank I have is very heavily planted but I recently added mosses and it's a game changer shrimp love that stuff.
@@zim93boy I've noticed too, java moss they love and I added I believe the name is monte carlo as a carpeting grass and even the extremely little I've got so far they pick at all day.
i have several shrimp tanks. my most successful tank by an absolute mile is a simple 10L tank with a small sponge filter and a decent amount of java moss and small hardscape to provide hiding places. i think the combination of oxygen, hiding spaces, and mosses is crucial to a successful setup
A lot of great info. Thanks for sharing. One thing I Really like is that you aren't using this as a continuous selfie like a lot of you-tubers. You actually show the things you are talking about, instead of your face. Very refreshing. Thanks for that.
Damn... thank God I did watch your video because your statement of "You'll just end up with Brown Shrimp" hit different bc I dead ass was going to try a shrimp community tank BUT never mind lol.
Keeping 1 type of shrimp per tank is true for all Neocaridina. But keeping different types of Caridina can be a conscious choice if you want to try and breed your own Pintos or Mosuras by mixing bolts, tigers, and bees.
I was going to say, well I think he did a good job explaining about the brown shrimp, it sounds like you can keep a cardinal and neo Cardinals I hate autocorrect, but like the blue and the candy cane would not breed crosswise although they probably could.
I have a ghost shrimp, a blue dwarf shrimp, idk what they are called but they have a gold stripe on their back and they are clear,rili shrimp and mixed cherry shrimp and my tank is fine.their even breeding
Wow! You saved me. I was wondering what those tiny things were and had a hunch most of them weren't baby shrimp, it's Planaria! Just bought the removal stuff. Thank you! Cheers
Another great video. I enjoy your young enthusiasm and your vast knowledge at a young age. I am old and though my aquarium hobby has waxed and waned over the years due to many circumstances I have never lost interest. There is just no end to the directions you can go with this hobby. I am sure watching your videos that you will still be keeping fish when you are an old man. It just never gets boring.
I found that putting shells in the bottom of the tank supplies the snails with the calcium/minerals they need without affecting the water as much as cuttlebone or other calcium additives can. The snails will work on the shells as needed so sooner or later the shells will be less attractive in your tank than they were in the beginning.
What kind of shells? Sea shells, dead snail shells? And where do you choose to get yours? Just wondering because I had heard about cuttlebone causing issues with the water so I wasn’t sure what to do instead. Thank you!
@@gabriellahsdancingheart8808Usually 4 or 5 small to medium shells in a 5-10 gallon tank . I use them like tank decorations the snails will work on them as needed. You'll start seeing a change in the shells over time.
For mixing them to keep the colours the same and pronounced you can scoop out the ones that go darker and it will let you selectively choose the ones that breed and you won’t get dark ones if you do that every generation of shrimp or so
I'm going to try the leaf tip. Thank you. I've noticed that a number of my cherry shrimp love to hang out where my hang on back filter flows in. Of course there are shrimp down in the low-flow portions of my tank but I noticed a number of these shrimp will get right under the fast flowing water and sit there and eat any algae and what else they may find. You can get a sponge for your intake on a hang on back small enough to keep the shrimp out. Also if these shrimp come from rivers then more than likely they're used to some flow. I'm sure they love to hide and breed in the low flow areas but rivers aren't no-flow/low-flow. Creeks are low flow but rivers usually are not.
Thank you! I will soon get my 20 L nano from Dennerle, I cannot wait! I am planning to do a nicely decorated, heavily planted tank with an HOB filter, CO2 and LED lighting. I will use black substrate with fertilizer underneath and a little bit of white sand for contrast. After I cycle the tank, (test the water to make sure the parameters are alright) I plan to start with a small population of shrimp to see how they'll do in their new environment. I love the idea of leaf litter, but I am not sure how well it will go in such a small tank (maybe I'll break the leaves apart). if things go well and the shrimp establish a population, then I'll add some microfish to the tank aswell (small fish that wouldn't interfere much or at all with the shrimp) Hope it's gonna go well.
How’d it go? I use a “hygger” brand (amazon) air bubbler and a sponge filter for my low tech nano shrimp tank. Its mini size and so neat for this set up. Sand. Planted. No HOB. Added cholla wood, spider wood decor & I have some small almond/catappa leaves. They love climbing the cholla wood. The only fish at the moment are Oto catfish they’re peaceful & won’t eat any shrimps just algae. I feed using Bacter AE & Shrimp Baby powder & some mineral pellets. But I need to cut back since I’m starting to see additional unwanted tankmates like rhabdo something worms & detritus. Trying to feed less now to avoid Planaria. Anyways, goodluck & enjoy 👍
I plan on adding 12 cherry shrimp to my community tank (3 red, 3 orange, 3 yellow, 2 blue, 1 black) I honestly don’t care whether they breed or not and hope their fry creates a nice snack for my fish 😄
This is so fun! I never knew there where colorful varieties of freshwater shrimp. I live on the Texas Gulf coast and used to catch and keep Sargasso Sea shrimp and also pond reared commercial shrimp. These look like a ton of fun and way easier than marine tanks.
There is a good shrimp seller out of Houston that I got mine from thru Ebay - the neos are easier to start and great if you have hard water like many Texans. Mine are in 7.6ph, 300+gh and breeding like crazy. Lots of north American leaves you can also use (almond leaves have some disease fighting properties though), mine love magnolia - just make sure they dried out naturally on the tree. I have 4 tanks but shrimp and crayfish bring me the most enjoyment- I have male endlers in with mine and they do well together, never hassle each other and never seen them predate shrimplets.
Very informative and well made video! I have one question though: When you grab the eucaliptus leaves, do you put them in the tank "raw" or do you boil them first?
he boils them... there's a video of him collecting botanicals, also, not many people put them in "raw" because they can have unwanted pathogens and bacteria, and so on.
Panacur works great at killing planaria and hydra quickly. It did not harm any shrimp fish or plants. 1 pouch per 50ml of treated water. I added 1ml of well mixed slurry per gallon. I had to treat all six tanks because I moved plants around before discovering both planaria and hydra. (Panacur is dog dewormer) It killed a lot of bladder snails and all the nirites. The Mystery and Assassin snails were not harmed. The panacur disapates after 24hrs and after about 3 days the snails died in droves. The water goes milky white for a couple of hours. Two doses were needed to eradicate the leaches. Great video young man...too late for me I mixed my shrimp varieties already, oops.
At the end of the day. You want to have stable water conditions and temp with neos. If you're doing this strictly as a light hobby, don't worry about listening to videos like this. They will breed given time and the colony will get used to their parameters, water flow, tank mates, etc..
15:08 that's actually Limnophila sessiliflora. Cabomba has finer leaves and a bit harder to keep. If you want something easy like guppy grass, try hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum & Ceratophyllum submersum). You can just float them because they don't have roots.. And mosses, I prefer pelia moss or susswassertang (they're liverworts, not actually a moss) since they grow slower and not as messy looking as normal mosses. These are great since baby shrimp love to hide in them and provide tons of surface area for grazing.
I started with 11 cherry shrimp from another hobbyist and now have hundreds! I just took down my “shrimp” tank and divided the shrimp into 2 big heavily planted aquariums.
You definitely saved me. I have cherry shrimp right now and was that guy that wanted to dump a whole bunch of different colors in there. If I understand this right though, you could put the cherry shrimp with crystal shrimp and they won't interbreed correct?
Yes you can. In case you’re not familiar enough yet, crystal shrimp can be quite finicky/sensitive like he said, so you might want to do more research and look into an RO/DI unit. Fluval stratum is good for maintaining the right pH for crystal shrimp. The cherry shrimp should be able to adapt to crystal shrimp parameters as long as you acclimate them.
Looking forward to getting some shrimp for my nano tank. A little worried they might breed and overpopulate the tank. Hopefully mine we be happy, yet chaste. Lol
Planaria... I had a month where I probably over fed my shrimp and these things were everywhere floating around in my water streams. The boom in population seems to have subsided, but I discovered there is actually a Planaria trap you can put in the corner of the tank. I've yet to try it, but thought I'd put the info out there in case anyone wants a less scary alternative to meds. Great vid clips. Nice info and Good vid!
I don't know if you have figured it out, But your videos in past have helped e a lot. for yellow C Shrimps, Neo Caradina (Soft water), If you can get hands on some RO water then fill a tank full of it, and try to stabilize it according to Care Guide that you are doing. Try with few. as they like Soft water they will slowly adjust. Just something I tried. I have a RO here in my house and I used it and it worked but took around 2 weeks for them to get all healthy and Free swimming and Happy till the started breeding. I have only 1 seller here and they get very less of any shrimp so I started with only 3. 2 males and 1 female, but I was left with only the male, later I bought 1 more female and did what I mentioned above and it worked.
Are you using active substrate for your neos? Your snails seem to be having disolving shells... Active substrate will strip KH and then buffer the water down to a pH of 6 to 6.6... Most neos (and snails) won't like that a whole lot, so might be where your yellows are struggling? I have Bloody Mary going bonkers in active substrate with a pH of 6.4, so what do I know :)
I'm getting cherry shrimp soon! This video is great! The tank is actually acclimating right now, 5 more days, the tank even has a waterfall filter! It's my first tank. And would yellow cherries and red cherries be well together?
All neocaradina davidii come from areas in eastern Asia. There is one neocaradina, the neocaradina palmata for which the wild type comes from Japan. It is the subspecies from which the pearl varieties of neocaradina come from. Neocaradina palmata don't generally crossbreed well with neocaradina davidii, and for that reason, along with the fact that they are separated from the davidii by an entire sea, it has been speculated that they may in fact be an entirely different species. From these they have got the white pearl, the blue pearl, and the amber pearl. The wild type is a light grey with a brown stripe running down its back. The neocaradina davidii came from four wild types and one wild type variant which were a black abdomen with a grey carapace with black speckles, a solid dark brown, a light brow with a darker brown stripe down its back (and its variant which is entirely clear), and a grey with tiny reddish-brown spots on its carapace and on back on it's abdoment. You often here people say that if you breed mixed colours they will revert back to their wild type colours. This is not true. They will create a browning coloured shrimp which can best be described as a mutt, but which almost never bares any resemblance to the wild types. The wild types are colours all of their own, and unfortunately you almost never see them in aquaculture. The wild types are definitely on my wish list, but some of them have become extremely endangered, so getting them is not likely to happen, and you can't get them by back-breading. It just doesn't work that way. The other neocaradina which I would love to have are equally as difficult to find. I'd love to have some topaz, some red rili blue, royal rili/extreme red rili blue. If anyone has a lead on any of these, I'd sure appreciate a shout-out. Thanks.
I just dipped my toe into dirted underwater plants, but I've always kept pothos hanging out of the tank and they keep the nitrates/nitrites at zero without fail. They have a lot of root die-off I hoover up every week with a 10-20% water change, but they're worth that small inconvenience.
duckweed is great, it grows extremely fast and is easy to stop in smaller tanks (just increase flow or surface agitation). the moment a spike happens, duckweed explodes in size and uses it all up, basicaly counteracting accidental overfeeding.
Hi. Enjoying your videos. Please do one on how much to actually feed the fish. I saw another you tuber that fed 20 times what I do. Have I been under feeding my tank? I was alway so cautious, just a pinch.
1) How do you clean the tank with all those small critters in there? I used a stocking over the siphon, but curious if there are other methods. 2) How long do they live? How long before the original generation is replaced? 3) I bought some Sakura red shrimps, which were wonderful, but within a few months, I only had translucent ones -- the new ones were not red, even though I only had a single species.
Super late reply, but put an inch of soil down in a tank, then two inches of sand. Then plant a lot of plants in it. Should work a filter less tank with anaerobic bacteria in the soil layer breaking stuff down, the plants growing off the nitrates, and the shrimp help keeping things clean. "Tanks for Nothing" on YT has three videos on it and they are all quite good.
ezra schwarcz ... The man said ... ONE type per tank. Otherwise they inter breed and you get different colours appearing and sometimes just end up with brownish ones...
Aaaaahhhh man, that reminds me of this setup I did. With shrimp and other type of friendly fish. And it cost me about 500$ to setup. It was completely natural. No need for any type of equipment. Except for a filter. And I gave it to my mothers house. And then she bought a parrot ugly fish. He DESTORYed the landscape and ate every single shrimp. After that. It was downfall. The tank looked like muddy water. It was the last time I did anything for anyone.
I enjoyed this video as well as the one of raising shrimp in bins. Any chance you have done or could do a video of setting up a shrimp tank that can be left for a week if I have to travel for work or go on vacation. Seems the raising in bins sorta did this. (2 week even better)
I haven't kept shrimp yet but been researching a lot the last few days. So take my guess with a grain of salt. I've read in several places that fluval stratum or ada amazonia is bad for neocardinia because it takes all the KH out of the water. Neos need a little kh. I believe this causes problems with their molting. It looked like you had one of those soils in the neo tank so maybe that's why you're having problems with them. I haven't finished researching but probably going to go with flourite black sand for my neo tank.
I wonder if this is why I always have trouble with cherries. I have an inert substrate, but my water naturally is very low KH, soft water and tanks run around 6.5. I think I'll have to keep dosing to increase KH.
My 15gal tank is heavily planted, cycled(and maintained with pure ammonia) and has a piece of driftwood and Fluval shrimp stratum, the Ph hovers around 6.3-6.5 and I havent added any shrimp yet, because I am worried it is too low. I guess Ill give it more time and more RO water changes to hopefully stabilize it out a bit higher.
Mine too! My PH was so low, sitting around 6! I wasn’t planning on adding any shrimp until my plants grew in, but a little amano shrimp must have been trapped inside the red root floaters I added recently - so now I have this little shrimp in my aquarium that just isn’t ready yet…I hope he survives 😢
@Gaborillaa It took the stratum 2 months to fully stabilize for me, but now it has and its doing great. I use "salty shrimp gh/kh+" to bring distilled water up to 180PPM for water changes and my ph is rock solid right at 7.0 and the shrimp are loving life. 4 amanos and a dozen bloody mary shrimp, with 2 carrying eggs. Very happy with it! I think with stratum what I have learned so far that is most important is, it needs a lot more time in the beginning to settle down than I thought it might, and salty shrimp remineralizer in distilled water with a TDS meter made life and water changes so simple I'll never do it any other way. The shrimp are molting well, and haven't had any mortalities, which is shocking. Good luck, and have fun!
On planaria: if you were to add the no-planaria medication while cycling a brand new tank with new plants, would it act as a preventative? Or should you only use it if you see planaria?
Why add chemicals if you don't need to? If you have a brand new tank that is cycling and you put plants in, the planaria will not be able to live because there's no source of nutrients in there and they will most likely starve. You should be able to detect planaria on the tank that the plants are in before you buy them.
@@NinjaSushi2 While I agree with the idea of not added unneeded chemicals, I do disagree with the planaria starving. I had some white planaria make it into a heavily planted brand new tank, no fish or shrimp, and as I let the tank grow out over months the planaria remained. I had copepods and other little critters that were seeded by the plants, and that seemed to be enough for the planaria to survive. So if they do hypothetically starve in a new tank, It takes more than 4 or so months. I would say if you see them, treat them, don't count on the starvation method.
i used to have one of those canister filters you put in the tank, jets water out of the top part and all the shrimp used it to live inside, when i would clean it out, i had to first open it in a bucket, so i could get all the shrimp out.
Hi 👋I love your channel so much and I have some glowlight and silver tip tetras and I was wondering if you could do a video of how to easily breed one of those species😁😊😲😁
I had shrimp in a tank I was trying to grow a few baby guppies and patties, now previously I was trying to breed the shrimp in a really really small tank less than 15L but not much success buuuuut once I started feeding the fish with the powdered foods the liguifry 3 the population suddenly exploded and went from about 7 to well over 30 babies and the adults. I didn't notice them at first but when I tried catching the fish fry or adults I suddenly had a literal cloud of baby shrimp come out of the plants and they're growing on this stuff very quickly oh BTW its well planted with a sponge filter and a old sponge in there just for bacteria maturation purposes
I ended up with planaria and some kind of... heart shaped? growth on my pond snails. It was like two lumps in one growth. Both cured through dog dewormer. Use a tiny amount. Do your research before trying this, and be prepared to do water changes.
Great list of do's and don'ts. Just had to point out to ya that the Ph for Neo's is harder than the Caridina's. I noticed your Ramshorn snail shells are pocked, which is a clear sign the water is too acidic for them...which is a clear sign for the shrimp as well. If the Yellow strain is having problems try raising the PH, Also...Are you aware of the parasites that afflict shrimp ? These little critters can devastate a colony since there hard to see so check that out.
If all else fails, coral magnesium additives gave saved alot of shrimp lives. They need magnesium the same way coral does to absorb the calcium and minerals.
Does anyone know what the small white egg thing is at 5:14? I got my first ever lot of blue diamond shrimp 3 weeks ago and I’ve seen one or two around the tank and that looks like them.
they have no problems at high flow too. cherry branch (cherry, sakura, bloody mary) i even kept them in estimative index aquarium with 30ppm co2. they didnt thrive completely, but the 5 shrimps i bought, became 100 in 6 months.
planaria is very hard to come by. when i started with shrimps i thought i have planaria too. but shrimp soils have the perfect condition for infusoria. my aquaium had detriturs worms, other tiny worms, and even copepods! be happy if you have infusoria in your aquarium. it is an index of amazing health. eventually they will die out because they cant compete with shrimps.
I have a couple of questions Can they be with sand? What size tank could fit 3-5 shrimp? Can you keep them with guppies, If you do then what size tank should i have? Are sponge filters ok to keep them with?
Yes sand & sponge filter works as a low tech tank. Just make sure you change water & test it. I have about a 1 gallon for a bunch of shrimps they seem to have no issues. Oto catfish are algae eaters and 100% peaceful w/ shrimps.
1. they can go with any substrate. 2. it really doesent matter just dont keep them in a mason jar. 3. yes you can keep them with guppies. it matter how many guppies you have too i also recomend a planted tank be sure to use a co2 injector or a co supplement like fluroies exel.
Looking at this chart, the deviation for caridina and neocaridina are clearly far enough to not breed. With that consideration, are ghost shrimp able to survive with other shrimp? I understand how they wouldn’t be everyone’s thing, merely a personal favorite, but they’ve survived in both our freshwater fish tank and axolotl tank, so curiosity abounds.
Ghost shrimp are a bit of a bully when it comes to staying with the little guys. The large size and “aggression” towards the smaller one usually don’t make them a great fit. They will survive just fine but the smaller species might not
Do you feed your shrimp any specific "shrimp foods"? I have fish with my cherry red shrimp and so far they eat fish food that drop to bottom. I would like my shrimp to breed eventually. Great channel, very helpful advice.
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I know he said oxygenation isn't a huge deal with the shrimp but in my planted tank we put in a little airstone and within a week my extremely lethargic shrimp are all over the place exploring, huge difference.
I just did this yesterday with my shrimp and now they exploring everywhere.
Another thing was adding mosses. The tank I have is very heavily planted but I recently added mosses and it's a game changer shrimp love that stuff.
@@zim93boy I've noticed too, java moss they love and I added I believe the name is monte carlo as a carpeting grass and even the extremely little I've got so far they pick at all day.
i have several shrimp tanks. my most successful tank by an absolute mile is a simple 10L tank with a small sponge filter and a decent amount of java moss and small hardscape to provide hiding places. i think the combination of oxygen, hiding spaces, and mosses is crucial to a successful setup
I just use a sponge filter
A heavily planned tank does the same
A lot of great info. Thanks for sharing.
One thing I Really like is that you aren't using this as a continuous selfie like a lot of you-tubers. You actually show the things you are talking about, instead of your face. Very refreshing. Thanks for that.
Damn... thank God I did watch your video because your statement of "You'll just end up with Brown Shrimp" hit different bc I dead ass was going to try a shrimp community tank BUT never mind lol.
Keeping 1 type of shrimp per tank is true for all Neocaridina. But keeping different types of Caridina can be a conscious choice if you want to try and breed your own Pintos or Mosuras by mixing bolts, tigers, and bees.
Sounds like an interesting experiment
I was going to say, well I think he did a good job explaining about the brown shrimp, it sounds like you can keep a cardinal and neo Cardinals I hate autocorrect, but like the blue and the candy cane would not breed crosswise although they probably could.
I have a ghost shrimp, a blue dwarf shrimp, idk what they are called but they have a gold stripe on their back and they are clear,rili shrimp and mixed cherry shrimp and my tank is fine.their even breeding
So what shrimps shall i have to keep... the cherry shrimps or any that you recommend to..
@@robertcarlosllenarizas7987 Cherry. They breed on their own usually. You'll have more fun with those.
Wow! You saved me. I was wondering what those tiny things were and had a hunch most of them weren't baby shrimp, it's Planaria! Just bought the removal stuff. Thank you! Cheers
Cool!
Yo it's a year later, did your shrimp tank survive the planaria?
@@wishiwasamuffin yes! They did
@@wishiwasamuffin those weren't planeria. Those are water fleas or daphnia.
Planaria is a species of flat worm similar to the tapeworm that humans get.
I just got my first crystal reds a couple weeks ago and now one of my females is now holding eggs. Great video👍
Good stuff!
@@KeepingFishSimpleMy shrimp cracked her exoskeleton....what should I do??
I love this style of video! It is so calming and reflective, it makes me wanna fall asleep! Definitely keep it up 🥰 love you kfs 💘💘💘👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🦐🦐🦐
Thanks sarah
Another great video. I enjoy your young enthusiasm and your vast knowledge at a young age. I am old and though my aquarium hobby has waxed and waned over the years due to many circumstances I have never lost interest. There is just no end to the directions you can go with this hobby. I am sure watching your videos that you will still be keeping fish when you are an old man. It just never gets boring.
This is such a sweet comment, I hope your fish are doing well if you have any :)
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@@bibubbletea he recently poured beer in his tank
I found that putting shells in the bottom of the tank supplies the snails with the calcium/minerals they need without affecting the water as much as cuttlebone or other calcium additives can. The snails will work on the shells as needed so sooner or later the shells will be less attractive in your tank than they were in the beginning.
What kind of shells? Sea shells, dead snail shells? And where do you choose to get yours? Just wondering because I had heard about cuttlebone causing issues with the water so I wasn’t sure what to do instead. Thank you!
Thank you! Maybe I could boil them? I heard people do that with rocks. I did that with mine
I rinse my egg shells thoroughly and dry/sterilize them in the oven. @@MsSkoodals
How much/many shells do you add per gallon?
@@gabriellahsdancingheart8808Usually 4 or 5 small to medium shells in a 5-10 gallon tank . I use them like tank decorations the snails will work on them as needed. You'll start seeing a change in the shells over time.
As a beginner aquarium enthusiast I enjoy your vlogs & learn a lot. Thanks from another Aussie.
Thanks for the tips! I’ve been looking into getting some shrimp and this really helped!
Thank you
For mixing them to keep the colours the same and pronounced you can scoop out the ones that go darker and it will let you selectively choose the ones that breed and you won’t get dark ones if you do that every generation of shrimp or so
what do you do with the scooped out darker ones?
@@stormtrooper2k581 eat them
I love shrimp so much, I can't wait to have all sorts of them one day!
shrimps lowkey icing on the cake vibes additions in an aquarium tho
So happy when you said we can use Eucalyptus leaves! Will definitely be giving them a go!
Nice!
I'm going to try the leaf tip. Thank you.
I've noticed that a number of my cherry shrimp love to hang out where my hang on back filter flows in. Of course there are shrimp down in the low-flow portions of my tank but I noticed a number of these shrimp will get right under the fast flowing water and sit there and eat any algae and what else they may find.
You can get a sponge for your intake on a hang on back small enough to keep the shrimp out. Also if these shrimp come from rivers then more than likely they're used to some flow. I'm sure they love to hide and breed in the low flow areas but rivers aren't no-flow/low-flow. Creeks are low flow but rivers usually are not.
Thank you!
I will soon get my 20 L nano from Dennerle, I cannot wait! I am planning to do a nicely decorated, heavily planted tank with an HOB filter, CO2 and LED lighting. I will use black substrate with fertilizer underneath and a little bit of white sand for contrast. After I cycle the tank, (test the water to make sure the parameters are alright) I plan to start with a small population of shrimp to see how they'll do in their new environment. I love the idea of leaf litter, but I am not sure how well it will go in such a small tank (maybe I'll break the leaves apart). if things go well and the shrimp establish a population, then I'll add some microfish to the tank aswell (small fish that wouldn't interfere much or at all with the shrimp) Hope it's gonna go well.
How’d it go? I use a “hygger” brand (amazon) air bubbler and a sponge filter for my low tech nano shrimp tank. Its mini size and so neat for this set up. Sand. Planted. No HOB. Added cholla wood, spider wood decor & I have some small almond/catappa leaves. They love climbing the cholla wood. The only fish at the moment are Oto catfish they’re peaceful & won’t eat any shrimps just algae. I feed using Bacter AE & Shrimp Baby powder & some mineral pellets. But I need to cut back since I’m starting to see additional unwanted tankmates like rhabdo something worms & detritus. Trying to feed less now to avoid Planaria.
Anyways, goodluck & enjoy 👍
howd it go?
I plan on adding 12 cherry shrimp to my community tank (3 red, 3 orange, 3 yellow, 2 blue, 1 black) I honestly don’t care whether they breed or not and hope their fry creates a nice snack for my fish 😄
That’s the spirit, home grown live food for the tank!
Bro I bought 10 pcs and my fishes ate them all in less than 2h 🤦♂️😂
@@goransasic4079 😂 oops!
@@goransasic4079 what fish were they?
i want to add 6 shrimp to a tank with 6 zebra danios and 5 4cm tetras
@@zenzeus4351 zebras 😂
Your vid quality continues to improve, really relaxing video
Thank you
This is so fun! I never knew there where colorful varieties of freshwater shrimp. I live on the Texas Gulf coast and used to catch and keep Sargasso Sea shrimp and also pond reared commercial shrimp. These look like a ton of fun and way easier than marine tanks.
There is a good shrimp seller out of Houston that I got mine from thru Ebay - the neos are easier to start and great if you have hard water like many Texans. Mine are in 7.6ph, 300+gh and breeding like crazy. Lots of north American leaves you can also use (almond leaves have some disease fighting properties though), mine love magnolia - just make sure they dried out naturally on the tree. I have 4 tanks but shrimp and crayfish bring me the most enjoyment- I have male endlers in with mine and they do well together, never hassle each other and never seen them predate shrimplets.
Very informative and well made video! I have one question though: When you grab the eucaliptus leaves, do you put them in the tank "raw" or do you boil them first?
he boils them... there's a video of him collecting botanicals, also, not many people put them in "raw" because they can have unwanted pathogens and bacteria, and so on.
@@kevinnam322 i figured but i sill wanted to confirm, so thanks for explaining Kevin!
Panacur works great at killing planaria and hydra quickly. It did not harm any shrimp fish or plants. 1 pouch per 50ml of treated water. I added 1ml of well mixed slurry per gallon. I had to treat all six tanks because I moved plants around before discovering both planaria and hydra. (Panacur is dog dewormer) It killed a lot of bladder snails and all the nirites. The Mystery and Assassin snails were not harmed. The panacur disapates after 24hrs and after about 3 days the snails died in droves. The water goes milky white for a couple of hours. Two doses were needed to eradicate the leaches. Great video young man...too late for me I mixed my shrimp varieties already, oops.
Thinking about getting a few shrimp. Thanks for the tips.
At the end of the day. You want to have stable water conditions and temp with neos. If you're doing this strictly as a light hobby, don't worry about listening to videos like this. They will breed given time and the colony will get used to their parameters, water flow, tank mates, etc..
So true
I love this! Great work 👍🏻
15:08 that's actually Limnophila sessiliflora. Cabomba has finer leaves and a bit harder to keep. If you want something easy like guppy grass, try hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum & Ceratophyllum submersum). You can just float them because they don't have roots.. And mosses, I prefer pelia moss or susswassertang (they're liverworts, not actually a moss) since they grow slower and not as messy looking as normal mosses. These are great since baby shrimp love to hide in them and provide tons of surface area for grazing.
I'm a new aquascaper and canova seems pretty easy to keep for me
I've got L. sessiliflora in my Neocaridina tank. It's a incredibly fast growing plant.
Nice vid! Keep up the great work! I haven’t kept shrimp but hope to in the future and I will definitely follow these tips!
Nice
Lower filter flow tip: tried and it DOES help. Thanks
15:10 Happy to see that. I have cabomba's since the very beggining just because I liked them, and I rarely see them anywhere.
I started with 11 cherry shrimp from another hobbyist and now have hundreds! I just took down my “shrimp” tank and divided the shrimp into 2 big heavily planted aquariums.
Great video! I found it very informative. Keep up the great work!
You definitely saved me. I have cherry shrimp right now and was that guy that wanted to dump a whole bunch of different colors in there. If I understand this right though, you could put the cherry shrimp with crystal shrimp and they won't interbreed correct?
Yes you can. In case you’re not familiar enough yet, crystal shrimp can be quite finicky/sensitive like he said, so you might want to do more research and look into an RO/DI unit. Fluval stratum is good for maintaining the right pH for crystal shrimp. The cherry shrimp should be able to adapt to crystal shrimp parameters as long as you acclimate them.
Looking forward to getting some shrimp for my nano tank. A little worried they might breed and overpopulate the tank.
Hopefully mine we be happy, yet chaste. Lol
Planaria... I had a month where I probably over fed my shrimp and these things were everywhere floating around in my water streams. The boom in population seems to have subsided, but I discovered there is actually a Planaria trap you can put in the corner of the tank. I've yet to try it, but thought I'd put the info out there in case anyone wants a less scary alternative to meds. Great vid clips. Nice info and Good vid!
Thank you for the good information!
i just asked my LFS to order some cherry shrimp, so this was good timing
Nice!
Jam packed with info ! !
This sounds like my next project. Maybe a paludarium, maybe an aquarium. I already keep leaf litter for my isopods & tarantula.😊❤
I don't know if you have figured it out, But your videos in past have helped e a lot. for yellow C Shrimps, Neo Caradina (Soft water), If you can get hands on some RO water then fill a tank full of it, and try to stabilize it according to Care Guide that you are doing. Try with few. as they like Soft water they will slowly adjust. Just something I tried. I have a RO here in my house and I used it and it worked but took around 2 weeks for them to get all healthy and Free swimming and Happy till the started breeding. I have only 1 seller here and they get very less of any shrimp so I started with only 3. 2 males and 1 female, but I was left with only the male, later I bought 1 more female and did what I mentioned above and it worked.
Straight to the point and very relevant. Thank you.
Are you using active substrate for your neos? Your snails seem to be having disolving shells... Active substrate will strip KH and then buffer the water down to a pH of 6 to 6.6... Most neos (and snails) won't like that a whole lot, so might be where your yellows are struggling? I have Bloody Mary going bonkers in active substrate with a pH of 6.4, so what do I know :)
I’ve taken it out
Awesome video buddy, thanks for a very informative video, keep up the amazing work buddy
Thank you
Love the vid man! Will definitely follow these tips for my new established shrimp tank. Thanks!
Thanks bro !
What if I don't want an excessive amount of shrimp? Would it be ok to get a few females and no males? Will they still be happy?
I'm getting cherry shrimp soon! This video is great! The tank is actually acclimating right now, 5 more days, the tank even has a waterfall filter! It's my first tank. And would yellow cherries and red cherries be well together?
So nice to see family and genus
Thanks
planaria can grow back in full if you cut them in half and sometimes into smaller sections
Awesome video. Great job on cranking out the vids. Keep it up..... 👌👍😁
Thanks Lachie
sponge filter makes a perfect nursery for baby shrimp too 🙏
All neocaradina davidii come from areas in eastern Asia. There is one neocaradina, the neocaradina palmata for which the wild type comes from Japan. It is the subspecies from which the pearl varieties of neocaradina come from. Neocaradina palmata don't generally crossbreed well with neocaradina davidii, and for that reason, along with the fact that they are separated from the davidii by an entire sea, it has been speculated that they may in fact be an entirely different species. From these they have got the white pearl, the blue pearl, and the amber pearl. The wild type is a light grey with a brown stripe running down its back.
The neocaradina davidii came from four wild types and one wild type variant which were a black abdomen with a grey carapace with black speckles, a solid dark brown, a light brow with a darker brown stripe down its back (and its variant which is entirely clear), and a grey with tiny reddish-brown spots on its carapace and on back on it's abdoment. You often here people say that if you breed mixed colours they will revert back to their wild type colours. This is not true. They will create a browning coloured shrimp which can best be described as a mutt, but which almost never bares any resemblance to the wild types. The wild types are colours all of their own, and unfortunately you almost never see them in aquaculture. The wild types are definitely on my wish list, but some of them have become extremely endangered, so getting them is not likely to happen, and you can't get them by back-breading. It just doesn't work that way. The other neocaradina which I would love to have are equally as difficult to find. I'd love to have some topaz, some red rili blue, royal rili/extreme red rili blue. If anyone has a lead on any of these, I'd sure appreciate a shout-out. Thanks.
taking care of these little critters are actually quite shrimple
Thx
I just dipped my toe into dirted underwater plants, but I've always kept pothos hanging out of the tank and they keep the nitrates/nitrites at zero without fail. They have a lot of root die-off I hoover up every week with a 10-20% water change, but they're worth that small inconvenience.
Very good information, detailed, I think I´m ready for keeping shrimp :)
duckweed is great, it grows extremely fast and is easy to stop in smaller tanks (just increase flow or surface agitation).
the moment a spike happens, duckweed explodes in size and uses it all up, basicaly counteracting accidental overfeeding.
Hi. Enjoying your videos. Please do one on how much to actually feed the fish. I saw another you tuber that fed 20 times what I do. Have I been under feeding my tank? I was alway so cautious, just a pinch.
I have three different types in my tank and now they’re coming out red and white pretty cool looking
I’ve never had shrimps I really want them they are so adorable!!
1) How do you clean the tank with all those small critters in there? I used a stocking over the siphon, but curious if there are other methods. 2) How long do they live? How long before the original generation is replaced? 3) I bought some Sakura red shrimps, which were wonderful, but within a few months, I only had translucent ones -- the new ones were not red, even though I only had a single species.
Super late reply, but put an inch of soil down in a tank, then two inches of sand. Then plant a lot of plants in it. Should work a filter less tank with anaerobic bacteria in the soil layer breaking stuff down, the plants growing off the nitrates, and the shrimp help keeping things clean. "Tanks for Nothing" on YT has three videos on it and they are all quite good.
This is awesome!! But how many type of shrimp should I keep per tank?
ezra schwarcz ... The man said ... ONE type per tank. Otherwise they inter breed and you get different colours appearing and sometimes just end up with brownish ones...
Some nice shrimp there nick cannot wait until there on the website
It looks like there are some shrimp on the site :)
Thanks bro
Aaaaahhhh man, that reminds me of this setup I did. With shrimp and other type of friendly fish. And it cost me about 500$ to setup. It was completely natural. No need for any type of equipment. Except for a filter.
And I gave it to my mothers house. And then she bought a parrot ugly fish. He DESTORYed the landscape and ate every single shrimp. After that. It was downfall. The tank looked like muddy water. It was the last time I did anything for anyone.
Do it again, dont let the past stop you from doing what you love
I enjoyed this video as well as the one of raising shrimp in bins. Any chance you have done or could do a video of setting up a shrimp tank that can be left for a week if I have to travel for work or go on vacation. Seems the raising in bins sorta did this. (2 week even better)
I haven't kept shrimp yet but been researching a lot the last few days. So take my guess with a grain of salt. I've read in several places that fluval stratum or ada amazonia is bad for neocardinia because it takes all the KH out of the water. Neos need a little kh. I believe this causes problems with their molting. It looked like you had one of those soils in the neo tank so maybe that's why you're having problems with them. I haven't finished researching but probably going to go with flourite black sand for my neo tank.
Just took the substrate out!
@@KeepingFishSimple hopefully it helps! i'll be looking for an update video
I wonder if this is why I always have trouble with cherries. I have an inert substrate, but my water naturally is very low KH, soft water and tanks run around 6.5. I think I'll have to keep dosing to increase KH.
My 15gal tank is heavily planted, cycled(and maintained with pure ammonia) and has a piece of driftwood and Fluval shrimp stratum, the Ph hovers around 6.3-6.5 and I havent added any shrimp yet, because I am worried it is too low. I guess Ill give it more time and more RO water changes to hopefully stabilize it out a bit higher.
Mine too! My PH was so low, sitting around 6! I wasn’t planning on adding any shrimp until my plants grew in, but a little amano shrimp must have been trapped inside the red root floaters I added recently - so now I have this little shrimp in my aquarium that just isn’t ready yet…I hope he survives 😢
@Gaborillaa It took the stratum 2 months to fully stabilize for me, but now it has and its doing great. I use "salty shrimp gh/kh+" to bring distilled water up to 180PPM for water changes and my ph is rock solid right at 7.0 and the shrimp are loving life. 4 amanos and a dozen bloody mary shrimp, with 2 carrying eggs. Very happy with it! I think with stratum what I have learned so far that is most important is, it needs a lot more time in the beginning to settle down than I thought it might, and salty shrimp remineralizer in distilled water with a TDS meter made life and water changes so simple I'll never do it any other way. The shrimp are molting well, and haven't had any mortalities, which is shocking. Good luck, and have fun!
On planaria: if you were to add the no-planaria medication while cycling a brand new tank with new plants, would it act as a preventative? Or should you only use it if you see planaria?
Why add chemicals if you don't need to? If you have a brand new tank that is cycling and you put plants in, the planaria will not be able to live because there's no source of nutrients in there and they will most likely starve. You should be able to detect planaria on the tank that the plants are in before you buy them.
@@NinjaSushi2 While I agree with the idea of not added unneeded chemicals, I do disagree with the planaria starving. I had some white planaria make it into a heavily planted brand new tank, no fish or shrimp, and as I let the tank grow out over months the planaria remained. I had copepods and other little critters that were seeded by the plants, and that seemed to be enough for the planaria to survive. So if they do hypothetically starve in a new tank, It takes more than 4 or so months. I would say if you see them, treat them, don't count on the starvation method.
i used to have one of those canister filters you put in the tank, jets water out of the top part and all the shrimp used it to live inside, when i would clean it out, i had to first open it in a bucket, so i could get all the shrimp out.
I just love your videos , they are so informative & satisfying..
Thanks
Hi 👋I love your channel so much and I have some glowlight and silver tip tetras and I was wondering if you could do a video of how to easily breed one of those species😁😊😲😁
🦐 got myself some fire red cherries lately and added them to my betta/white cloud tank.
Good stuff
I first got shrimp when i was 13 and now im becoming 14 in 2 months and so far i own 2 shrimp species, ghost shrimp and cherry shrimp.
How're the shrimp doing
@@Saltiren they are doing pretty good and now i have alot of shrimp
@@megazillasaurus glad to hear and hope you keep enjoying raising them!
What a cool idea! I have been searching out breeding options for shrimpy. This one never occurred to me.
I had shrimp in a tank I was trying to grow a few baby guppies and patties, now previously I was trying to breed the shrimp in a really really small tank less than 15L but not much success buuuuut once I started feeding the fish with the powdered foods the liguifry 3 the population suddenly exploded and went from about 7 to well over 30 babies and the adults. I didn't notice them at first but when I tried catching the fish fry or adults I suddenly had a literal cloud of baby shrimp come out of the plants and they're growing on this stuff very quickly oh BTW its well planted with a sponge filter and a old sponge in there just for bacteria maturation purposes
super nice and good advices there thanks
First thank you for all the info and I might breed betta’s
Thank you
@@KeepingFishSimple no problem
@KeepingFishSimple Thank´s for a great video. How do you clean the gravel in shrimp tanks without siphoning up the shrimps?
How long do the eucalyptus leaves take to break down and how long do you leave them in for? :)
Great show, I'm having problems with my Shrimp, so Thanks..
Thank you
Thanks for sharing!! :D
Thank you
Thanks for the tip with the banana leaf and acid without discoloration.
Any thoughts on oak and magnolia? Because free near me.
I ended up with planaria and some kind of... heart shaped? growth on my pond snails. It was like two lumps in one growth. Both cured through dog dewormer. Use a tiny amount. Do your research before trying this, and be prepared to do water changes.
Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍
Great as always
Thank you
Brother!! Have you tried keeping mudskippers??...put a caring vedio of this in future
Maybe
Great list of do's and don'ts. Just had to point out to ya that the Ph for Neo's is harder than the Caridina's. I noticed your Ramshorn snail shells are pocked, which is a clear sign the water is too acidic for them...which is a clear sign for the shrimp as well. If the Yellow strain is having problems try raising the PH, Also...Are you aware of the parasites that afflict shrimp ? These little critters can devastate a colony since there hard to see so check that out.
If all else fails, coral magnesium additives gave saved alot of shrimp lives. They need magnesium the same way coral does to absorb the calcium and minerals.
Does anyone know what the small white egg thing is at 5:14? I got my first ever lot of blue diamond shrimp 3 weeks ago and I’ve seen one or two around the tank and that looks like them.
Thanks for the tips, Just getting started in my fish breeding hobby and learning alot from you.
Nice video, thanks. However, you didn't talk about the other animals in the tank that go really well with the shrimp, snails.
Thanks for the video, really nice tips regarding the maintenance of an aquarium with shrimp :)
Very helpful video dude thank you
What are those tiny things swimming around in the water(they are whiteish), kindve towards the top of the tank at 9:17
Life food, brine shrimp!
I notice you have snails in almost all of your shrimp tanks. Is there any rhyme or reason and if so what kind of snail would you recommend?
they have no problems at high flow too. cherry branch (cherry, sakura, bloody mary) i even kept them in estimative index aquarium with 30ppm co2. they didnt thrive completely, but the 5 shrimps i bought, became 100 in 6 months.
planaria is very hard to come by. when i started with shrimps i thought i have planaria too. but shrimp soils have the perfect condition for infusoria. my aquaium had detriturs worms, other tiny worms, and even copepods! be happy if you have infusoria in your aquarium. it is an index of amazing health. eventually they will die out because they cant compete with shrimps.
For the yellow shrimp, maybe take out some snails. They probably are competition when it comes to food
Great video thanks for sharing
Well done! Thank you!
I have a couple of questions
Can they be with sand?
What size tank could fit 3-5 shrimp?
Can you keep them with guppies, If you do then what size tank should i have?
Are sponge filters ok to keep them with?
Yes sand & sponge filter works as a low tech tank. Just make sure you change water & test it. I have about a 1 gallon for a bunch of shrimps they seem to have no issues. Oto catfish are algae eaters and 100% peaceful w/ shrimps.
1. they can go with any substrate.
2. it really doesent matter just dont keep them in a mason jar.
3. yes you can keep them with guppies.
it matter how many guppies you have too
i also recomend a planted tank be sure to use a co2 injector or a co supplement like fluroies exel.
Did u even watch the video?
Looking at this chart, the deviation for caridina and neocaridina are clearly far enough to not breed. With that consideration, are ghost shrimp able to survive with other shrimp? I understand how they wouldn’t be everyone’s thing, merely a personal favorite, but they’ve survived in both our freshwater fish tank and axolotl tank, so curiosity abounds.
Ghost shrimp are a bit of a bully when it comes to staying with the little guys. The large size and “aggression” towards the smaller one usually don’t make them a great fit. They will survive just fine but the smaller species might not
Oh wow, great to know that Eucalyptus leaves are okay!
Do you feed your shrimp any specific "shrimp foods"? I have fish with my cherry red shrimp and so far they eat fish food that drop to bottom. I would like my shrimp to breed eventually. Great channel, very helpful advice.