I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Lot's of local breeders have also told me green is a very unstable colour in the shrimp world. What are your thoughts on reverse culling? Or do you work on them the conventional way? I'd love to keep up with them, but so many tanks and so little time 😂🤞
From what I understand what most are selling as green jades, are actually Emeralds. Dove into green jades a while back and green jades are more of a greenish yellow coloration. And outcrossing can go horribly wrong because shrimp genetics are hard to get a grasp on, and I can understand why. Without looking into the genetics, most wouldn't know that the greens are thrown by orange shrimp.
@jodip719 yeah genetics are a wild thing, I actually got greens from my oranges while I was trying to breed a new type of pumpkin / sunkist hybrid. It actually worked out well but I got a ton of random yellowish greens.
@jodip719 so I only got the green when I mixed the sunkist with the orange pumpkins. Again getting convoluted but the easiest way to describe it is that sunkist are orange shrimp (bright) and pumpkins are also orange but more yellow, and they look like they've been painted (thick shell) The Sunkist colony on their own haven't thrown any other colours, just various grades and culls obviously, as neos do. Will keep an eye out though because it would be interesting to try and chase a line down.... I need more tanks 😂
had an half IBC bin setup for my turtles and had tossed daphnia in there too, problem I had was when I did a water change they crashed but before then I had tons of daphnia. Just a tip, if your keeping anything in there with the daphnia, make sure for one they don't eat daphnia and two they don't cause so much waste where you have to do a massive water change.
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming thanks so much for the advice, wow turtles would be absolutely awesome though I'd totally trade my daphnia for that 😂 I'm keeping the livestock and daphnia separate for now for this very reason too, but will see how it develops. How difficult would you say it was to keep turtles?
@@SimplyAquaticCT Like you have a mix of Caridina and Neo's For the Neo's pellets and ground up fish flakes. Caridina mostly HWA, Ebi or Vin and Kallax balls
This is great advice thank you so much! I'll definitely have a look at what we can get locally, is there anything specific you have had experience with before?
Let me know in the comments what cold water fish you'd love to see me try breeding in these new outdoor ponds! I’m excited to hear your suggestions and have a chat about the possibilities!
Very dried out banana skins. My dad was the first person to sell daphnia to what was in those days OK bazaars, for live food for the aquarium hobby. Green water with small amounts of yeast every now and then.
Nice to see some local South African content for a change!
@@wearsbunnyslippers thanks so much for the support, glad you enjoyed 😁🦐
Let's see those golden white cloud minnows make the most of your tubs - looking forward to seeing you have great success with this latest adventure!
@@artsfishroom thank you my friend!
Agree on the Green Jades. Lots of work to keep the quality up.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Lot's of local breeders have also told me green is a very unstable colour in the shrimp world.
What are your thoughts on reverse culling? Or do you work on them the conventional way?
I'd love to keep up with them, but so many tanks and so little time 😂🤞
From what I understand what most are selling as green jades, are actually Emeralds. Dove into green jades a while back and green jades are more of a greenish yellow coloration. And outcrossing can go horribly wrong because shrimp genetics are hard to get a grasp on, and I can understand why. Without looking into the genetics, most wouldn't know that the greens are thrown by orange shrimp.
@jodip719 yeah genetics are a wild thing, I actually got greens from my oranges while I was trying to breed a new type of pumpkin / sunkist hybrid. It actually worked out well but I got a ton of random yellowish greens.
@SimplyAquaticCT Thats really awesome actually! My sunkists have yet to throw a green for me, but I keep hoping for it.
@jodip719 so I only got the green when I mixed the sunkist with the orange pumpkins.
Again getting convoluted but the easiest way to describe it is that sunkist are orange shrimp (bright) and pumpkins are also orange but more yellow, and they look like they've been painted (thick shell)
The Sunkist colony on their own haven't thrown any other colours, just various grades and culls obviously, as neos do.
Will keep an eye out though because it would be interesting to try and chase a line down.... I need more tanks 😂
Bass or some salmon😂😂cant wait to see on what you decide.
Brother I'm not going to lie, salmon wouldn't survive long with how much we like sushi in this house 😂
wow
had an half IBC bin setup for my turtles and had tossed daphnia in there too,
problem I had was when I did a water change they crashed but before then I had tons of daphnia.
Just a tip, if your keeping anything in there with the daphnia, make sure for one they don't eat daphnia and two they don't cause so much waste where you have to do a massive water change.
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming thanks so much for the advice, wow turtles would be absolutely awesome though I'd totally trade my daphnia for that 😂
I'm keeping the livestock and daphnia separate for now for this very reason too, but will see how it develops.
How difficult would you say it was to keep turtles?
Great video. One of your best. I have the same problem with my snowballs, if I don’t cull them soon they are going to eat me 😂
😂😂😂 they are evolving!!! Genuinely the most prolific breeders in the rack for sure...
What do you feed them mostly?
@@SimplyAquaticCT Like you have a mix of Caridina and Neo's For the Neo's pellets and ground up fish flakes. Caridina mostly HWA, Ebi or Vin and Kallax balls
Have a look at more Australian natives there are some from Victoria that definitely would handle those temps
This is great advice thank you so much!
I'll definitely have a look at what we can get locally, is there anything specific you have had experience with before?
Let me know in the comments what cold water fish you'd love to see me try breeding in these new outdoor ponds! I’m excited to hear your suggestions and have a chat about the possibilities!
Feed your Daphnia yeast.. That'll free up a tank
@@Skooty68 I've tried this before and made a whole video on why it's not a good idea, even with spirulina 😀
Very dried out banana skins. My dad was the first person to sell daphnia to what was in those days OK bazaars, for live food for the aquarium hobby. Green water with small amounts of yeast every now and then.
@@angelasargeant9267 amazing throwback, had no idea OK sold aquarium stuff back then. So cool! Thanks for sharing :)