MOTHER NATURES SHRIMP FOODS AND HIDES.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi guys on this episode I'll be taking a walk through my woods and looking at the types of plants and leaves you can feed your shrimp. Also a funky way to make shrimp and pleco hides.
Great information! Thank you!
I love the way you keep your tanks natural,no fake pirate ships or scuba divers....lol, awesome video, hello lemon🙀 what a nice cat, I liked the field trip to collect stuff, I didn’t know you can use dandelion leaves, cool tips you should do another but collecting wood to use in your aquariums😺👀
A man of many talents, great video Mark.
Can’t get enough of all that you know that I can learn you’re awesome! Thank you this is Dana from Colorado USA
Love your videos Mark. People so in touch with nature are a treasure. Thank you for the quality content, always!
Thank you Jo. 😀👍
Natural shrimp food and hides.....Pure Genius!!!
Wow Mark thanks for the video I am amazed at what things you can use from your local wood yes I live in the UK and you have given me alot of inspiration to have a good sort out with my tank and I had an heart attack 18 month ago and I didn't know what to do with my self so now it's fish time again. And now a trip to my local wood and awsome video
Another fabulous video! Loved this!
Your country looks so beautiful. Kinda making me want to move over there lol
Nice video Mark!!! Thanks for the field trip.
Bushcraft and fish I like your concept . Just found your channel great content exactly what I was looking for. Well done mate
Great scenery and I had the teddybears picnic song stuck in my head lol
The amount of knowledge you have accumulated is astounding!
Thank you Tyrone.👍😀
Great video. Very informative and fun field trip.
very good video Mate very informative thank you..
Hi.discovered your channel 2 weeks ago learnt allot good to hear a Brit doing well on aquatics
Thanks John. 😀👍
Awesome diy ideas for the caves. I might use that trick in terrarium my son and I are making. Would be great little hides for the isopods and beetles.
Just use terra cotta pots and cut an opening with a hacksaw
I agree with you on the 4 wheelers tearing up the paths. It’s very upsetting!
aah, the great outdoors :)
I know there a pest tree and grow everywhere but its best just cutting the one half and another off another tree cause you have just killed that top or if you are doing that do it right and create an airlayer on the tree after you do this! I am in the hobby myself but am a horticulturalst by trade and tree specialist but if you just cut the one side the tree will still have enuff sap and cambium to callus over and heal but not if cut a full ring you kill it!
Thanks mark.
That’s great as have two in my garden and upto now the leaves have been a pain. Now to look for my first shrimps to put in the tank any preferences where I should look👍😎
great ,now i know what to do with the sycamore that`s threatening to drop a branch on my caravan,, ring bark the buggers,,actually despite being a nature conservationist and not liking them at all in the past ,ive grown quite fond of the big one outside my kitchen window ,i like to hang the bird food on it ,i even put bird boxes on it but they were never used , in fact they support very little wildlife , but you can make nice spoons and what not out of the wood .. love your nature rambles mark thank you
I love these vids. Now that's a lot of baby cherries.
Them tabs are good for sticking to the glass so u can watch the fish and stuff feed.
I love getting older. Instead of saying GET OFF MY LAWN, I just collect their baseballs when they lose them and cannot find them in my yard.
I wish I wasn't so allergic to nettles. I hear you can make tea with them. They always leave oodles of stingers in me when I get near them.
Thank you for such great content, i can't wait to start a shrimp tank using mother nature, from my area. I've only just found your channel sorry, but do you have an idiots guide to setting up a shrimp tank and general care?? Keep up the great work mate
If you can find any Alder trees they are class for cones which have anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties (loads of tannins) so I'd imagine if you took the bark off like you did with the sycamore it would be an awesome one for breeding and also for shrimps too.
Not sure about sycamore leaves as they produce a sap which may not be good for the water but oak and beech are really good ones for lowering pH.
We had a large turkey oak in the garden but I chopped it down last year after gathering all the leaves up and drying them - I'll send some down for you as they are much bigger then English oak.
Got loads of Alder trees by me and regularly pick them. I only use the fresh sprouted leaves of the sycamore .
That should be OK as the sap does not come out of them until high summer - alder trees have a nation of uses, lol
Gods I miss living in the country!
You ever been a survivalist or emergency prepper in a previous life?? I’d probably end up eating something green and dying from eating poison ivy... all looks green to me !!
Lol !! Yes right into my bushcraft. love being out in the sticks.😀
Have you ever thought of rolling these up and growing plants from the tops to look like trees? You may have inspired me :D
Good idea! Thanks for watching Tom.👍😀
or even as a background if you could find a really nice big piece! That would looking amazing
Hi Mark watched this many times and still great has anyone mentioned wether you can use sweet chestnut leaves thanks in advance
Rich
Yes there fine to use.👍😀
Just watching your video on the bark for the plecos and how long to boil the bark and that's great and my 15in plecos going to have a new home thanks
Hi ade. About 15 minutes 😊👍
@@MARKSAQUATICS thanks so much your the man
Sycamore it is a beautiful tree
Hi, you take a fresh leaf for make food for shrimp ? And after you dry it in your house, that's it ?
I should of paid attention more in boy scouts and 4-h lol
Very useful tips right there!
I have one question here. I have a big bag of black mulberry (green powder) from last year that I bought to feed my batch of silkworms. Bought it from an online shop who breeds these caterpillars themselves and who make their food too. I know they put other stuff in it besides black mulberry, to lower their costs you know (they refuse to tell what other ingredients they use though LOL), so I have no idea if it would be okay to use that powder to make dried food out of it for my neo shrimp. Any advice you could give me? The bag is just sitting there in my cabinet, taking up space. Would be a shame if I had to dump it out, while it might be perfectly fine for the shrimp.
Cheers.
When I saw the title, why o why did I think in my brain Marie Rose/ Thousand island sauce LOL
Lol 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤🍴
Hi Mark I’m just setting up my shrimp tank which may be a bit large for shrimps but find them so fascinating. Not sure if you are still breeding shrimps, can you please let me know as I’m interested I buying quite a few different breeds to get me started thanks Rich
Hi Richard. Sorry I'm not selling them at the moment. Thanks for watching 😀👍
You said use super glue and how long before you put it in the tank to glue the bark
You can put it in the tank straight away the water makes the glue set even quicker.
What would be an other name for Branble? Im from Canada
How long do you boil the leaves? And the woods?
Oak & Maple leaves I've used. but, how about the paper birch tree? ,..i wonder about it's usefulness.
These trees where once considered to be the medicinal tree of our indigenous peoples.
Mandarin Aquatics Hi. In the UK you silver birch is used to collect water from in the spring for drinking. I use the leaves for my shrimp also. I know the bark is used for making native American canoes.
Wait can i just go out and grab some dandelion
Yes. Drop them in some boiling water for a couple of minutes and then feed .
Mark can you use old leaf compost instead of peat in aquarium
Yes that's fine to use.😀👍
Is that dock leaf also known as burdock. Because we have that all over here in minnesota us
No we get burdock here to .Dock leaves are different plant. Scientific name is rumex obtusifolius. 😀👍
I have only spent five days in Wales in 1952 and am wondering where in Wales you can find those plecos
Maidenhead Aquatics👍😀
Is it possible to put the bark in a shrimptank aswell? And how is your mossaquarium doing?
Yes they're great for shrimp. I gave the moss tank to a friend to look after. He tell me I'ts still going but not as thick as it was. .
The big tree was a peach right?
Hi. It was a beech tree 😀👍
Wait fertilizer kills shrimp? I didnt know that
What about any blossom.
Yes you can use blossom from fruit trees. brambles, 👍😀
Shrimps rely need filter or pump
Is that raspberry leaf?
BlackBerry 😀🍇🍇🍇
I love your videos but stripping bark from live trees is wanton destruction of the woodland. :(
This is a pest species of tree in Britain. They are readily cut down and cleared.
@@MARKSAQUATICS I appreciate that sycamore is a bit of a pest but I'm worried you didn't point out in the video that this shouldn't normally be done. You can identify tree types, others may not and could think it ok to do that with any tree.