As for shrimp & fish, i find theres SO MUCH gnashing of teeth online regarding fish eating baby shrimp and while I'll concede its both possible and even probable, in no circumstances have I ever found it to significantly impact shrimp breeding. Now, if youre breeding for commercial purposes, maybe that's different, but for home aquariums even in my 29g which features dozens of various nano fish (and a bristlenose) or my 40g which has about 12 larger corydoras now and a 3" long Siamese Algae Eater. None of these has put any significant dent in shrimp breeding rates. And ive never witnessed a shrimp eaten - though like your experience ive absolutely seen my cory's absolutely bulldoze shrimp out of the way when theyre snoofering around the substrate. Side note: there's all this talk about cory's, sand, and their barbels. Mine have been breeding in my 40g for a while now, with a large, coarse gravel substrate throughout most of the tank, and they all have if anything grown longer barbels. I'm convinced the "cories need sand" line is just another one of those things people hear and repeat, but which is completely wrong.
Totally agree mate! Theres so many things said online by people who havent tested it that its actually pretty annoying. My corydoras are on Aquasoil now and they are more active than ever and it seems its easier for them to dig into it when looking for their food.
I only track gh and kh in my normal weekly 7-in-1 test strip. Im aware these are less accurate but that doesnt matter - I'm not looking for exact values, I'm looking for changes, for unexpected results. As my tap water is quite neocaradina friendly, i know just doing small weekly water changes will keep things roughly where they ought to be, so theres not much of a concern. Ive never bothered with TDS. I have a meter, but it seems totally useless as it reads *everything* in the water, not just minerals. I suppose monitoring for changes wiuld give you an indication of... Well... Changes. But without any knowledge of what changes or even if its bad. This has worked flawlessly for me for ages. I think ive seen a grand total of three dead shrimp over about 18 months of shrimpkeeping, so im not too concerned. I do find that my ahrimp do better in larger tanks regarding breeding. I *suspect* shrimp get friskier when they see theres lots of available food *and space* as uve noted even with increasing feeding, breeding for me appears to slow as populations increase - insee the biggest spikes in berries shrimp after removing a bunch of shrimp for another tank or to give away.
Yea I picked up a TDS pen but I rarely use it. I only have 6 Gallon tanks for my shrimp breeders right now as I just don't have the space available but eventually I want far larger tanks for them :)
I doubt it, they eat far less than even small fish and produce very little waste. To my knowledge, the main risk of a large shrimp colony is poor mineral content in your water causing alot of them to fail their molt at the same time so they die and their corpse may cause an ammonia spike. Even then though, its easy to see the dead shrimp and remove them before it becomes an issue. I just ordered some shrimp salt to try and remove that risk completely though.
I don't track water parameters either i just let my tanks go do what they do best and thats take care of themselves and as you know from earlier conversations with you i don't do water changes in any tanks any longer. I've never tested KH, GH, Copper, Phosphorus blah blah ever and judging from what you say about the GH, KH tests then im glad i didn't waste the time and money. I like yourself test that the tanks cycling before adding fish i test PH out of curiosity and thats that later i add shrimp and all is always good health wise. That Christmas moss looks good though i use weeping, java and subwassertang moss but i may try Christmas moss for future projects. I have cherry's breeding like crazy in a 25l ive given tons away and shared them between a 60l but the gourami and female beta eat the babies the beta hunts them, gutted. I put blue velvet shrimp in my 125L 3mths ago i see them now and then but not as often as I'd like they mostly come out at night ive seen them all around the tank feeding at night with the torch on phone so im gutted about that, whats even more gutting is i spent £46 on 24 blue velvet and rarely see them they're amazing wished i could see them more. My Shrimp do best in the 25l with dwarf rasbora and guppies and as far as ive seen they don't hunt the baby shrimp and they just keep coming and coming i did a video on the shrimp tank its at the end of this short video i did but unlike you im no pro with a camera or picture quality i forgot to record in 4k. th-cam.com/video/kxOxFMSQRkw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oSEaTXNwcgMxJ310
@GlassBoxDiaries Cheers mate, the first tank has 3 peppered corys and the second has a group of 4 black corys, not sure whether they're Venezuelan or not shop didn't specify they've grown since getting them from tiny babies, i brought the last 4 i wanted more a group of 6 but they've not stocked anymore since. Was mooching around the 125L with a touch last night after watching your video i saw baby blue velvets well happy i have a colony of blue velvets growing in there. Happy days ay.
@@FishFace2216 They are beautiful peppered cories, the ones in the shops in my area look really faded and nothing like that. Thats awsome, I am trying to decide on blue velvet, blue dream, or blue pearl for one of my new shrimp rack tanks right now :)
@GlassBoxDiaries Oh the peppered, yeh they're lovely they have a fluorescent blue tinge to them i have one male and two females they sure are clumsy fish they kick up all the sand and small difficult to root plants they bump into thing like they did in your video all the time but you got to have some corys. My peppered corys really wasn't very colourful in the shop and from my experience all fish are dull in my shops until i add them to a planted environment they colour up in days and im always amazed with the difference. Makes you feel good when you know you've given them a good happy home. I don't know much about those other blue shrimp mate but the blue velvet have the usual stripe going down the back its barely visible some are really dark solid blue and some almost like a blue jelly if that makes sense but i find them gorgeous. Be interesting to see which you choose, i get my shrimp from ebay they give you 2 extra free and all survive the next day delivery and they have been breeding, my LPS is charging £5 a shrimp so i was not paying that i brought 20 for £46 and got 4 free because they separate them in bags of ten and put 2 free in each bag, i guess its for collateral but they always all survive transit and high grade too the legs are fully coloured.
As for shrimp & fish, i find theres SO MUCH gnashing of teeth online regarding fish eating baby shrimp and while I'll concede its both possible and even probable, in no circumstances have I ever found it to significantly impact shrimp breeding. Now, if youre breeding for commercial purposes, maybe that's different, but for home aquariums even in my 29g which features dozens of various nano fish (and a bristlenose) or my 40g which has about 12 larger corydoras now and a 3" long Siamese Algae Eater.
None of these has put any significant dent in shrimp breeding rates. And ive never witnessed a shrimp eaten - though like your experience ive absolutely seen my cory's absolutely bulldoze shrimp out of the way when theyre snoofering around the substrate.
Side note: there's all this talk about cory's, sand, and their barbels. Mine have been breeding in my 40g for a while now, with a large, coarse gravel substrate throughout most of the tank, and they all have if anything grown longer barbels. I'm convinced the "cories need sand" line is just another one of those things people hear and repeat, but which is completely wrong.
Totally agree mate! Theres so many things said online by people who havent tested it that its actually pretty annoying.
My corydoras are on Aquasoil now and they are more active than ever and it seems its easier for them to dig into it when looking for their food.
I only track gh and kh in my normal weekly 7-in-1 test strip. Im aware these are less accurate but that doesnt matter - I'm not looking for exact values, I'm looking for changes, for unexpected results.
As my tap water is quite neocaradina friendly, i know just doing small weekly water changes will keep things roughly where they ought to be, so theres not much of a concern.
Ive never bothered with TDS. I have a meter, but it seems totally useless as it reads *everything* in the water, not just minerals. I suppose monitoring for changes wiuld give you an indication of... Well... Changes. But without any knowledge of what changes or even if its bad.
This has worked flawlessly for me for ages. I think ive seen a grand total of three dead shrimp over about 18 months of shrimpkeeping, so im not too concerned.
I do find that my ahrimp do better in larger tanks regarding breeding. I *suspect* shrimp get friskier when they see theres lots of available food *and space* as uve noted even with increasing feeding, breeding for me appears to slow as populations increase - insee the biggest spikes in berries shrimp after removing a bunch of shrimp for another tank or to give away.
Yea I picked up a TDS pen but I rarely use it.
I only have 6 Gallon tanks for my shrimp breeders right now as I just don't have the space available but eventually I want far larger tanks for them :)
When the popular grows so much there’s no risk of ammonia?
I doubt it, they eat far less than even small fish and produce very little waste.
To my knowledge, the main risk of a large shrimp colony is poor mineral content in your water causing alot of them to fail their molt at the same time so they die and their corpse may cause an ammonia spike.
Even then though, its easy to see the dead shrimp and remove them before it becomes an issue.
I just ordered some shrimp salt to try and remove that risk completely though.
I don't track water parameters either i just let my tanks go do what they do best and thats take care of themselves and as you know from earlier conversations with you i don't do water changes in any tanks any longer.
I've never tested KH, GH, Copper, Phosphorus blah blah ever and judging from what you say about the GH, KH tests then im glad i didn't waste the time and money.
I like yourself test that the tanks cycling before adding fish i test PH out of curiosity and thats that later i add shrimp and all is always good health wise.
That Christmas moss looks good though i use weeping, java and subwassertang moss but i may try Christmas moss for future projects.
I have cherry's breeding like crazy in a 25l ive given tons away and shared them between a 60l but the gourami and female beta eat the babies the beta hunts them, gutted.
I put blue velvet shrimp in my 125L 3mths ago i see them now and then but not as often as I'd like they mostly come out at night ive seen them all around the tank feeding at night with the torch on phone so im gutted about that, whats even more gutting is i spent £46 on 24 blue velvet and rarely see them they're amazing wished i could see them more.
My Shrimp do best in the 25l with dwarf rasbora and guppies and as far as ive seen they don't hunt the baby shrimp and they just keep coming and coming i did a video on the shrimp tank its at the end of this short video i did but unlike you im no pro with a camera or picture quality i forgot to record in 4k.
th-cam.com/video/kxOxFMSQRkw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oSEaTXNwcgMxJ310
Great points as always mate, nice video, what type of corydoras is that in the tank?
@GlassBoxDiaries Cheers mate, the first tank has 3 peppered corys and the second has a group of 4 black corys, not sure whether they're Venezuelan or not shop didn't specify they've grown since getting them from tiny babies, i brought the last 4 i wanted more a group of 6 but they've not stocked anymore since.
Was mooching around the 125L with a touch last night after watching your video i saw baby blue velvets well happy i have a colony of blue velvets growing in there. Happy days ay.
@@FishFace2216 They are beautiful peppered cories, the ones in the shops in my area look really faded and nothing like that.
Thats awsome, I am trying to decide on blue velvet, blue dream, or blue pearl for one of my new shrimp rack tanks right now :)
@GlassBoxDiaries Oh the peppered, yeh they're lovely they have a fluorescent blue tinge to them i have one male and two females they sure are clumsy fish they kick up all the sand and small difficult to root plants they bump into thing like they did in your video all the time but you got to have some corys.
My peppered corys really wasn't very colourful in the shop and from my experience all fish are dull in my shops until i add them to a planted environment they colour up in days and im always amazed with the difference. Makes you feel good when you know you've given them a good happy home.
I don't know much about those other blue shrimp mate but the blue velvet have the usual stripe going down the back its barely visible some are really dark solid blue and some almost like a blue jelly if that makes sense but i find them gorgeous.
Be interesting to see which you choose, i get my shrimp from ebay they give you 2 extra free and all survive the next day delivery and they have been breeding, my LPS is charging £5 a shrimp so i was not paying that i brought 20 for £46 and got 4 free because they separate them in bags of ten and put 2 free in each bag, i guess its for collateral but they always all survive transit and high grade too the legs are fully coloured.
Quick question….can u keep ghost shrimp in the same tank with cherry shrimp?
You mean they can’t have 2 moms ?
:)