One day I was culling a bunch of shrimp to move to another tank and had left them in the breeder box while I made and ate supper. Came back the breeder box was empty. I think they climbed the sponge that was blocking the outflow. In my mind I could hear the Mission Impossible theme song playing during their clever escape. Talented escape artists!
You can do this with just a bucket if you have only one tank, just make sure the bucket has some filtration, I will do a video for it and again its a fast cycle 7 days and your ready to add shrimp, Ive done this with a couple of tanks now and they all have had no issues.
I'm definitly going to be getting one of those boxes now, never thought of using them that way. All we have right now are those floating breeder boxes.
Hello Mark, What's your opinion on putting new soil on top of older aquasoil? For example, my shrimp tank is about 7 months old it has around a 100 crystal reds in there because i've sold like 70 last month. What i've done before is just pour in a jug of new aquasoil ontop of the existing layer and the shrimp never had any issues. The tank is 45L
@@MarksShrimpTanks I never miss a video or a short. You’re actually my inspiration for my ventures into shrimp keeping. From the food I have bought from you in the past to all your videos/tips/tricks have helped tremendously. Big thanks my brother from another mother.
Hi Mark! just saw this video, i think Ada Gold is discontinued now and i have 2 bags of Akadama 3 line, you mentioned 2 lines. I really loved this video and was thinking i would try the 3 line unless you dont recommend it anymore. Oh where can I get the peroxide glass thing you put in your tank. Sorry for all the questions, Thanks Picard!
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you Mark! i just ordered the peroxide glass and will setup the akadama like your instructions. Last question 1 have a 14 gallon cube take, should i do ugf box and thin layer or just do the 5 cm like you suggested? or both 5cm and ugf? if so how much in ugf? Thank you so much! been having a death just about everyday so seeing you succeed give me the energy to keep at it! many thanks
Always enjoy your videos Mark and always learning something. I use RODI with Salty Shrimp GH/KH+ on all my shrimp and fish tanks, I do confess I don’t check and just go on instructions of one scoop per 10L
I know you're obviously very good at this and probably know already, but when I've used that substrate, there are ALWAYS baby shrimp hidden in it. I shut a tank down recently and pulled out every baby I could see. The next day, almost as many had come out of nowhere. Slightly less the following day. This went on for maybe 4-5 days. It's the only frustrating thing about rearranging and shutting down shrimp tanks. lol. Nice tanks by the way, I love coming across new channels and seeing what people keep and how they keep it. Great info too
Hello Strider, Yes I know about the baby shrimp hiding in the substrate, I normally start watching a tank and wait 2-3 weeks before changing it over, the bee shrimp I keep are around what 5-8mm after a few weeks from birth so even blind me can spot them. :)
That’s so cool! I wish I had shrimp but they are so expensive around here and when i bought a few they all died in days for no reason ( parameters where fine ) And now my guppies would probably bully them and if I still have moth catfish they would compete ( I bought them and haven’t seen them since, but my Ottos disappeared for ages and one day the only one I still have was just there )
Hey Mark, you really made me consider going into shrimp breeding as well! Thanks a lot for infesting me with the shrimp virus :D... Currently I have two 30l cubes where I keep Caridina that just breed the way they want. I thought about buying myself 4 more 27l tanks for my IKEA Kallax (I can only breed shrimps in my living room and so it has to look decent). Could you perhaps make a video one day about how your lighting for your tanks is (which lights you use, Kelvin, perhaps linking them together or something like that)? That would be gorgeous! If you already have a video like that, I'm sorry. I only found your channel a couple of days ago and I have so much catching up to do. Thanks a lot :)
Looks good Mark. I have loads of those breeder boxes that I used to use for guppies to drop fry in. Even with the exit flow peice with the smallest slats I would get new born guppy fry get through and end up getting ate in tank. Would love to be able to figure out a way to make those shrimp safe to do some super targeted breeding with just 1 male and a couple females, but hard to figure out a way to make it work without baby shrimp escaping or with water on floor by trying to shrimp proof exit flow. I tried something similar with a sponge like you and ended up with water on floor lol, so be careful. Resetting tanks is lots of work 😊👍
you could use it just to get the girls berried up and then let them go again I suppose. the sponge I used had super large holes on it so I wasnt worried about overflows, I still dont know how the 3rd shrimp got out because the sponge hadnt moved and there is no gaps lol
@Marks Shrimp Tanks shrimp will find ways. Every time I clean sponge media out in my hang on back filters its pretty much guaranteed to have at least a shrimp or 2, the 20g blue tank I just had a video about a few days ago seriously used to have a colony of tiny shrimp living in the sponge, of course I picked out the ones I could, but many were 2 or 3 cell pours deep into the sponge lol.
its the gopro 9 I use with a mic adapter and the røde wireless set, I do have a camera thats 4 times the price of the gopro but I cant get the picture to be anywhere near as good.
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you brother appreciate it yeh im the same everytime i use a £1000 or so camera its like using a potatoe 🤣🤣 its annoying … i will look into a gopro 9 thank you keep doing what your doing brother i love you videos have for years now 🫡💯
cool addition with the zeolite, kind of the same concept as biocenosis baskets they use for koi ponds (kitty litter apparently works too! tho this is unproven)
Crystal red shrimp (Caridina cantonensis) are sensitive to changes in water chemistry and require specific water parameters in order to thrive. One of the most important parameters to consider is pH, which refers to the measure of the acidity or basicity of the water. For crystal red shrimp, it is generally recommended to maintain a pH level between 5.5 and 6.5 This range falls within the natural pH range for these shrimp, which is thought to be optimal for their health and well-being. It is important to monitor the pH levels in your shrimp tank regularly, as even small changes can have a significant impact on the shrimp's health. If the pH level falls outside of the recommended range, it is important to take steps to adjust it as needed to ensure that the shrimp are kept in a healthy and stable environment. It is also important to note that crystal red shrimp may be more sensitive to changes in pH than other species of shrimp, so it is especially important to be cautious when adjusting the pH in a tank that contains these shrimp.
I use JBL soil and it take 3 weeks to 4 weeks to stabilize and release everything in it and change 50% twice per week during 3 or 4 weeks and then put my shrimp so how u take only one week and your tank be ready
@@MarksShrimpTanks Oh Yes, I hand pick the best two of three females, toss my best male in and let time pass into I see the ladies are berried. Doing this with my top end BOA females and my best Purple Metallic Pinto males.
Literally what we did wrong I’m afraid. We redid our tank and added plants back right away and moved over the old filter and media bag and doses it with stability for a week or so. I was testing parameters and it all looked good BUT I didn’t test pH after a few days, only watching the nitrogen cycle. After 10ish days it looked like ammonia and nitrites were zero but nitrates were high and I assumed since i was Priming it daily that wouldn’t be a problem and the temp tank was a nuisance. So we moved our 10 shrimp and couple of ottos over and it looked ok, I was testing daily and they seemed happy for over a week (the nitrate remained high but I kept putting stability in and assuming the nitrifying bacteria would kick in soon) but then 2 shrimp died. Looked like molting issues, so I did a water change to get the nitrates down further but the next day 2 more died. *FINALLY* I tested Gh, KH and pH and pH was below 6 and Kh was basically zero. GH was over 10. I feel awful since it was so avoidable. Right now we are using Seachem Alkaline Buffer to get the KH above 2 or 3 daily but it dips as the day goes on. We added crushed coral and a wondershell which is slowly, slowly getting the KH up and the pH does vary throughout the day but is around 6.8 now.
The video is for softwater bee shrimp with an active soil, I am aware of what your talking about and yes you will have issues with ph swings if you have no kH value in the water and you would also have issues with ammonia because it becomes toxic when percentages of ammonium are converted to ammonia around about 6.5ph level...thank you for this input, it helps me understand the issues people can have. 👍
You know for years ive been trying to get someone to make me a filter in this design, air driven can hold a few liters of material not to expensive. so I might try it with this.
i would be more hesitant to reuse stuff and just drop the leftover animals from a failed tank in a working one. Worst case is your problem spreading, especially as you seem uncertain to why it failed.
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Mark is the mad scientist of the shrimp world. Great video as always.
Thank you Jon
One day I was culling a bunch of shrimp to move to another tank and had left them in the breeder box while I made and ate supper. Came back the breeder box was empty. I think they climbed the sponge that was blocking the outflow. In my mind I could hear the Mission Impossible theme song playing during their clever escape. Talented escape artists!
yeah you have to wedge in the piece of sponge between the lid and the bottom of the opening 😲
What is the little well looking thing in the middle of the tank?
Hi what & where I might buy the little oxygenator ? Do you have a link
Really helpful. I have to refresh my only shrimp tank in a few months and thus was excellent. Thanks Mark.
You can do this with just a bucket if you have only one tank, just make sure the bucket has some filtration, I will do a video for it and again its a fast cycle 7 days and your ready to add shrimp, Ive done this with a couple of tanks now and they all have had no issues.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Thanks Mark, much appreciated 👍🏻🦐
I'm definitly going to be getting one of those boxes now, never thought of using them that way. All we have right now are those floating breeder boxes.
I am heading to the store to buy what they have in stock 😂
Good video mark!
Thanks for explaining i might try akadama in my new tanks, using Glasgarten Environment now with great succes.
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When u go to the store to buy supply please document the process too cause if i recall its rare to see you doing trip videos to pet shops 😘😘😘
You are correct the last store didnt want me filming so I never showed it.
Great setup and interesting to watch!
Thank you! Cheers!
Hallo Mark 👊 Danke für das schöne 🦐 Video 👌👍
hello mate how are you doing ?
Thanks for all your instructions and advice! I have had much better success since following your example! 😊
Thank you mate
Now i know what to do if i have to renew the tank and only got one.
Thx Mark! 🤗
Hello Mark, What's your opinion on putting new soil on top of older aquasoil? For example, my shrimp tank is about 7 months old it has around a 100 crystal reds in there because i've sold like 70 last month. What i've done before is just pour in a jug of new aquasoil ontop of the existing layer and the shrimp never had any issues. The tank is 45L
its a good plaster over an injury that will get you by for a while but it really needs to be reset, I do it sometimes just to buy me extra time.
Out of the topic breeder box sir Mark, how to keep away mosquito / mosquito larvae in shrimp tanks? Thank you for your awesome tips! Keep it up sir!
hello mate, i have mesh on all my windows and doors to stop them getting into the house.
Awesome video Mark! That’s a great idea.
Thank you for watching Mathew
@@MarksShrimpTanks I never miss a video or a short. You’re actually my inspiration for my ventures into shrimp keeping. From the food I have bought from you in the past to all your videos/tips/tricks have helped tremendously. Big thanks my brother from another mother.
Looks like it's of to the aquarium shop again !
me too
hi Mark, Amazonia VS Arkidama , can you do a comparison? SO far people say bthese two gave them the best result. just want to hear your opinions
thats a hard one as I love both
Hi Mark! just saw this video, i think Ada Gold is discontinued now and i have 2 bags of Akadama 3 line, you mentioned 2 lines. I really loved this video and was thinking i would try the 3 line unless you dont recommend it anymore. Oh where can I get the peroxide glass thing you put in your tank. Sorry for all the questions, Thanks Picard!
Yeah use the 3 line stuff, its good, the hydrogen peroxide doser I get from this place www.aquaristikshop.com/no/421683
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you Mark! i just ordered the peroxide glass and will setup the akadama like your instructions. Last question 1 have a 14 gallon cube take, should i do ugf box and thin layer or just do the 5 cm like you suggested? or both 5cm and ugf? if so how much in ugf? Thank you so much! been having a death just about everyday so seeing you succeed give me the energy to keep at it! many thanks
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you should i get mini or regular Oxydator? sorry ill stop asking questions now!
Always enjoy your videos Mark and always learning something. I use RODI with Salty Shrimp GH/KH+ on all my shrimp and fish tanks, I do confess I don’t check and just go on instructions of one scoop per 10L
Sounds great!
I know you're obviously very good at this and probably know already, but when I've used that substrate, there are ALWAYS baby shrimp hidden in it. I shut a tank down recently and pulled out every baby I could see. The next day, almost as many had come out of nowhere. Slightly less the following day. This went on for maybe 4-5 days. It's the only frustrating thing about rearranging and shutting down shrimp tanks. lol.
Nice tanks by the way, I love coming across new channels and seeing what people keep and how they keep it. Great info too
Hello Strider, Yes I know about the baby shrimp hiding in the substrate, I normally start watching a tank and wait 2-3 weeks before changing it over, the bee shrimp I keep are around what 5-8mm after a few weeks from birth so even blind me can spot them. :)
That’s so cool! I wish I had shrimp but they are so expensive around here and when i bought a few they all died in days for no reason ( parameters where fine )
And now my guppies would probably bully them and if I still have moth catfish they would compete ( I bought them and haven’t seen them since, but my Ottos disappeared for ages and one day the only one I still have was just there )
Hey Mark, you really made me consider going into shrimp breeding as well! Thanks a lot for infesting me with the shrimp virus :D... Currently I have two 30l cubes where I keep Caridina that just breed the way they want. I thought about buying myself 4 more 27l tanks for my IKEA Kallax (I can only breed shrimps in my living room and so it has to look decent). Could you perhaps make a video one day about how your lighting for your tanks is (which lights you use, Kelvin, perhaps linking them together or something like that)? That would be gorgeous! If you already have a video like that, I'm sorry. I only found your channel a couple of days ago and I have so much catching up to do. Thanks a lot :)
Mark, do remineralize to the Salty Shrimp microsiemen recommendation or based on a tds of your desired Kh/Gh reading?
for bee shrimp I use a gh of 4 so thats gives me a conductivity of around 200, for neos I just ues the salty mineral recommendation amount.
Thanks.
Looks good Mark. I have loads of those breeder boxes that I used to use for guppies to drop fry in. Even with the exit flow peice with the smallest slats I would get new born guppy fry get through and end up getting ate in tank. Would love to be able to figure out a way to make those shrimp safe to do some super targeted breeding with just 1 male and a couple females, but hard to figure out a way to make it work without baby shrimp escaping or with water on floor by trying to shrimp proof exit flow. I tried something similar with a sponge like you and ended up with water on floor lol, so be careful.
Resetting tanks is lots of work 😊👍
you could use it just to get the girls berried up and then let them go again I suppose. the sponge I used had super large holes on it so I wasnt worried about overflows, I still dont know how the 3rd shrimp got out because the sponge hadnt moved and there is no gaps lol
@Marks Shrimp Tanks shrimp will find ways. Every time I clean sponge media out in my hang on back filters its pretty much guaranteed to have at least a shrimp or 2, the 20g blue tank I just had a video about a few days ago seriously used to have a colony of tiny shrimp living in the sponge, of course I picked out the ones I could, but many were 2 or 3 cell pours deep into the sponge lol.
hi mark what type of camera do you use as i am using a 4k 60fps camera and it seems to be rubbish its so annoying lol
its the gopro 9 I use with a mic adapter and the røde wireless set, I do have a camera thats 4 times the price of the gopro but I cant get the picture to be anywhere near as good.
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you brother appreciate it yeh im the same everytime i use a £1000 or so camera its like using a potatoe 🤣🤣 its annoying … i will look into a gopro 9 thank you keep doing what your doing brother i love you videos have for years now 🫡💯
Great informative vid 👌
Thank you Blake
Where can i buy this breeder box online that ships worldwide 😅
cool addition with the zeolite, kind of the same concept as biocenosis baskets they use for koi ponds (kitty litter apparently works too! tho this is unproven)
awesome, I am away to google them now, thanks for the info.
Hi , whats your recommended PH parameter for CRS or PRl ?
Crystal red shrimp (Caridina cantonensis) are sensitive to changes in water chemistry and require specific water parameters in order to thrive. One of the most important parameters to consider is pH, which refers to the measure of the acidity or basicity of the water.
For crystal red shrimp, it is generally recommended to maintain a pH level between 5.5 and 6.5 This range falls within the natural pH range for these shrimp, which is thought to be optimal for their health and well-being.
It is important to monitor the pH levels in your shrimp tank regularly, as even small changes can have a significant impact on the shrimp's health. If the pH level falls outside of the recommended range, it is important to take steps to adjust it as needed to ensure that the shrimp are kept in a healthy and stable environment.
It is also important to note that crystal red shrimp may be more sensitive to changes in pH than other species of shrimp, so it is especially important to be cautious when adjusting the pH in a tank that contains these shrimp.
@@MarksShrimpTanks complete explanations. thanks for the answer
What is that gadget for oxygenating the water? I've never seen one of those. Thanks.
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What are the little vials in the feeding dish
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I use JBL soil and it take 3 weeks to 4 weeks to stabilize and release everything in it and change 50% twice per week during 3 or 4 weeks and then put my shrimp so how u take only one week and your tank be ready
I used seachem stability and followed the instructions :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks so the secret in stability
Nice,maybe next spring you can try a outdoor shrimp pond
done it before, weather is to up and down here to keep shrimp.
@@MarksShrimpTanks maybe try a Sulawesi shrimp tank again(maybe malawa shrimp or cardinal shrimp)
Where do u buy the zeolite?
www.aquaristikshop.com/aquaristic/Hobby-Zeolith/103055/
Great method, and I was just using than for breeding .... 🙃
Did it work?
@@MarksShrimpTanks Oh Yes, I hand pick the best two of three females, toss my best male in and let time pass into I see the ladies are berried. Doing this with my top end BOA females and my best Purple Metallic Pinto males.
The boxes are worth there wait in gold, also great for selective breeding .
Yes they are!
Literally what we did wrong I’m afraid. We redid our tank and added plants back right away and moved over the old filter and media bag and doses it with stability for a week or so. I was testing parameters and it all looked good BUT I didn’t test pH after a few days, only watching the nitrogen cycle. After 10ish days it looked like ammonia and nitrites were zero but nitrates were high and I assumed since i was Priming it daily that wouldn’t be a problem and the temp tank was a nuisance.
So we moved our 10 shrimp and couple of ottos over and it looked ok, I was testing daily and they seemed happy for over a week (the nitrate remained high but I kept putting stability in and assuming the nitrifying bacteria would kick in soon) but then 2 shrimp died. Looked like molting issues, so I did a water change to get the nitrates down further but the next day 2 more died. *FINALLY* I tested Gh, KH and pH and pH was below 6 and Kh was basically zero. GH was over 10. I feel awful since it was so avoidable.
Right now we are using Seachem Alkaline Buffer to get the KH above 2 or 3 daily but it dips as the day goes on. We added crushed coral and a wondershell which is slowly, slowly getting the KH up and the pH does vary throughout the day but is around 6.8 now.
The video is for softwater bee shrimp with an active soil, I am aware of what your talking about and yes you will have issues with ph swings if you have no kH value in the water and you would also have issues with ammonia because it becomes toxic when percentages of ammonium are converted to ammonia around about 6.5ph level...thank you for this input, it helps me understand the issues people can have. 👍
You didn’t have to cycle the tank?
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Great way to mix colonies without actually mixing the colony. Amazon link? Haha
I don't have a link, I bought this from a local store.
I bet you could use those breeder boxes to do water changes too! Might be easier than dealing with siphons and drip float valves
You know for years ive been trying to get someone to make me a filter in this design, air driven can hold a few liters of material not to expensive. so I might try it with this.
i would be more hesitant to reuse stuff and just drop the leftover animals from a failed tank in a working one. Worst case is your problem spreading, especially as you seem uncertain to why it failed.