Dude, I just found your channel and I love your approach! I just wanted to start a small tank with live plants, as many as I could put in there, then I got a few pigmy corys, then I got green algae on all the leaves so I though, I'll try Cherry shrimp. They knocked out that algae in 4 days! And I really didn't think I'd like shrimp. now I'm obsessed with the little guys. they are, like you said, so interesting to watch! I'm actually spending too much time in front of my shrimp tank. LoL. So anyway, thanks for this great info. you're a joy to listen too. Thanks!
SPOT ON advice on #1 - above all else! I see so much advice online that just makes me roll my eyes hard enough to see my brain. LOL What's MOST ridiculous is when the people dishing out the erroneous advice have less actual experience than you do, especially when it's LOTS less. I've definitely done things I was told "You can't do that" and it worked out great. I've also done things "perfectly" per the dogmatic folks and had nothing but disaster. Now, I just look to nature and move forward and disregard any online advice that doesn't fit nature.
I have a 55-gallon tank with 2 comet goldfish and 8 red eyed tetras. They have lived together perfectly for 2 years now. It does have a 5-gallon canister filter and some pathos growing from it. Along with some plants they like to dig up that I keep replanting.
Tip #7 - I have a small tank on my desk that includes shrimp next to a 2g shrimp jarrarium. They're a constant distraction. I enjoy just sitting and watching their activity. You're so right - they're constantly on the go. I really enjoy them. Definitely good advice to just sit and watch.
I already have shrimp but this will help me! 2 weeks ago I got a brand new 4gal with a filter which is a great upgrade for the shrimp, lots of biofilm has grown and everything seems to be doing great. This advice will still be very useful!
Great set of tips! I really like what you chose to open with, your tip #1. I am happy to offer people advice but your tip #1 is important. I particularly like tip #5 as well. One of the things I advise people who want to keep shrimp, "the 3 absolutely essential things you need to start are a tank, water and patience". I need to follow tip #7 more. Lately I have been spending a lot of time planning an expansion to my shrimp racks and can overlook enjoying what I currently have.
Since watching yiur very helpful and informative videos...Im on my 2nd shrimp tank. .a 8g BioOrb ( big round tank) with blue dream shrimp about 20 so far. I'll be adding 10 chili raspboras, whenever they're available....and Im adding an RO system too...wish we could share pictures here...cheers, and Happy New Year....Amy from Michigan 🦐✋️
I love my cherries, they also love being in my barrel pond, so much so they breed and I have some natural drab brown ones but so what they are great and lovely to see in the pond feeding on rocks and moss….ignored by the rice fish.
Yea I feel it lol people say u can’t keep betta whit other fish but mine is fine whit Mollies and neon Tetras and corydoras i only said that bc u said u can do thing that’s people say u can’t 😊
I hear you. The problem is, sometimes people don’t want to stick their necks out and say ‘I keep X with Y’ because the internet will shoot them down. It’s a shame really because there are some great combinations we can keep, but the vocal minority say it can’t be done 😞
I think my shrimp we will name him George just swims back and forth for hours in a 75 gallon tank. I don't know if he eats, but sometimes he will come to me when I am watching him. I think he has personality. I have 1 more in the tank that I hardly ever see. Is it normal for shrimp to swim a lot mid tank? I have more shrimp coming in the mail lol.
When shrimp feel safe they will travel all over the tank. Typically, the more hiding places you offer your shrimp, the happier and safer they feel, meaning they are out and about for often 👍🏻
I figured out why my shrimp were not successful - I tested my tap water and it's shows 3.0ppm ammonia. That's because it's treated with chloramine and the Nutrafin dechlorinator I was using only breaks the bond between chlorine and ammonia - It doesn't instantly detoxify the ammonia and ammonium left in the tank. The filtration system and filter media were forced to deal with it. My water dosed with nutrafin shows 3.0 ammonia My water dosed with SAFE and tested immediately shows 0! Lesson learned here is to get PRIME or SAFE because it truly works.
Hey, thanks for sharing. I have to admit, I only ever you Seachem Prime (which from memory works the same as Safe). I don’t trust any other dechlorinator
QUESTION : Is it safe for the baby shrimps to be around cyclops ? Because a cyclop bloom totally destroyed my daphnea colony with thousands of individuals in a matther of hours. I'm worried about cyclops attacking shrimps too ... I've spotted them in my shrimp tank.
As a shrimp breeder does there come a point in time when you know that the odds of a generation of shrimp are going to make it to adulthood? Babies past 2 weeks or 60 days, for example?
Hi Richard could you please help me I'm setting up a super fish qubiq 30 ltrs with a filter and heater I've ordered a bloody Mary , blue bolt, blue dream and a crystal red what would be the temperature I need to have my water at to ensure they are all happy many thanks debby tate
Hi. Are you planning to keep all of them together? Unfortunately, the Bloody Mary and the Blue Dream want drastically different water parameters to the Crystal Red and the Blue Bolt. If I has misunderstood, and you are keeping them separately, feel free to come back to me 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers you are right I was hoping to keep them altogether I live in a hard water area and just want some pretty looking shrimps in the tank so could you suggest any that would happily live together I'm getting stressed out with it thanks
So, I too live in a hard water area and as such I keep Neocaridina Shrimp. Neocaridina shrimp like Red Cherry Shrimp, Blue Dream Shrimp and Green Jade Shrimp love the dissolved minerals hard water has in it. You could go for Caridina Shrimp, but you would have to start using RO water and that’s brings another level of complexity to the hobby.
@@FishKeepingAnswers I've never heard of it before either, but I've observed it multiple times... The blues with the blues, yellows with yellows (The reds and dark oranges intermingle most)... They still mix, but I often see groups of a particular color chillin together
any ideas how to feed sinking food for shrimp, with community tank. my rummy nose, tetras, siamese algae eater will just grab food and run... Right now only food i can put is bacter AE
You could always try feeding after lights out, assuming the room is dark. Personally, I just add the food to the tank, and by the natural action of the other fish eating the food, tiny particles break off and float around the tank where the shrimp will find them.
Hi. First of all, I love you videos and love having shrimp. I have a question though: What’s you experience with keeping fish and pea puffers in the same tank? Rather small one too, about 5 gallons. Keep up the good work and keep sharing your passion.
Hi. Thank you for your kind words. 🫶🏻 I currently keep 3 Pea Puffers in a 7 gallon. 7 gallon is a little small for 3, but I believe they get on fine thanks to the mass of live plants, meaning they can each pick out a territory and leave one another alone. Personally, I wouldn’t add another species with Pea Puffers in such a small tank.
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you for your answer. What about pea puffers and shrimp in the same tank? I imagine that’s not a great idea but was wondering since I don’t have a lot of space for another dedicated species tank.
Personally, I don’t add anything to my water, but it may depend on the structure of your water. Provided they have access to plenty of calcium they should be fine 👍🏻
I do use fertiliser. The vast majority are fine for shrimp and snails. Check out this video 👉🏻 Is Copper Toxic To Shirmp? - Surprising Facts About Copper and Shrimp th-cam.com/video/UK1fFOesJCc/w-d-xo.html
I have a 250 litre tank with cherry shrimp and 6x danios, I've got to the point where I've given up on shrimp keeping, cost too much to buy, the plants die off quick because you can't use fertilisers in the tank due to copper in them, I find the slightest change in water. I change the foods everyday, only do 5 - 10% water changes every 2 weeks (which is hard water/tap water), keep checking my water parameters every other day, give them calcium blocks etc etc. I give up with shrimp now. I had a lot better luck and success with amano shrimp weirdly but shrimp over all are way overpriced in the uk!
Me with a fresh shipment of different shrimp parsed into Tupperware on my nightstand trying to figure out where to put them after they came two days early, wish me luck lol
It's a calcium build up or mineral build up on the glass of the aquarium it only take 12hours to take over the glass and the only way for me to get rid of it is by using a blade and comes back
I have read while doing reasearch that bee pollen & cinnamon are great for shrimp? But I never really hear any one speak of it. Do you have any experience ?
Hi again I'm setting a shrimp tank and my tank has that white thing building up I think it's calcium or mineral build up every time I clean it Ang change the water it's getting worse. Any tips? By the way may water is deep well water
It's a water mark but the problem is it does not build up at the top it builds up on the whole glass leaving it covered and can't see anything inside the tank
Hi. Skittles tanks look amazing when you first set them up, but the shrimp will crossbreed and eventually breed themselves back to just brown or clear shrimp. They do look great at the start though 😎
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you for the input! I've been reading and watching about this. So does that mean if I want multiple colors to keep, I would definitely need multiple tanks? 😅
@@FishKeepingAnswers oh no, not sure I have enough space in our house lol maybe couple of 2 gals would work? 😂 Need to get wife's permission first though hahahah do you think if I start with skittles I can keep the colors by culling? I have a 29 gal and can put all odd colored offsprings on there as needed, I guess it will be an experiment. Have you tried that method or have experience on that before?
So essentially, if you cull any shrimp that do not show the desired colours, you can end up with an amazing skittles tank, and a tank of slightly less colourful, but still active and interesting shrimp. It just take effort and patience. I still cringe slightly when I bring a new tank into the house as I can picture my wife’s face when she sees it 🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes, stores sell poor quality ‘feeder shrimp’ as ghost shrimp. They are typically very weak. Have you tried a small group of Red Cherry Shrimp? 🦐
Finally someone acknowledging the huge problem octopuses can pose to new aqaurists.
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Hahahahahaha. Comment of the day! Even though you posted it two weeks ago. lol
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I feel hurten but I can't pin point out why...
Im in AP Gov, im supposed to doing some court case shit but guess what, Im here watching shrimp videos.
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Damn, how’d it go man?
@@TheSoupDealer I'm failing the exam for sure
@@nahiyansattar3717 oop💀
Waiting for your tour of your all your aquarium
I’m on it 👍🏻
Great video packed full with amazing tips. Can't wait for the next video
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Thanks for making these kind of videos and replying back to your comment section you are great this is the reason why I followed you.
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Dude, I just found your channel and I love your approach! I just wanted to start a small tank with live plants, as many as I could put in there, then I got a few pigmy corys, then I got green algae on all the leaves so I though, I'll try Cherry shrimp. They knocked out that algae in 4 days! And I really didn't think I'd like shrimp. now I'm obsessed with the little guys. they are, like you said, so interesting to watch! I'm actually spending too much time in front of my shrimp tank. LoL. So anyway, thanks for this great info. you're a joy to listen too. Thanks!
Hey, thanks for the feedback and taking the time to comment. Be careful, shrimp keeping is highly addictive 🤣
Thank you! I’ve learned so much from your videos! I love watching my shrimp tanks, and a few months in, there are now babies!
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Subscribed sir..
Great explaining about shrimps.
Richard, your channel has come a long way. Great video! Keep up the good work!
Thank you. 🫶🏻
You are my favourite source of info !
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SPOT ON advice on #1 - above all else! I see so much advice online that just makes me roll my eyes hard enough to see my brain. LOL What's MOST ridiculous is when the people dishing out the erroneous advice have less actual experience than you do, especially when it's LOTS less. I've definitely done things I was told "You can't do that" and it worked out great. I've also done things "perfectly" per the dogmatic folks and had nothing but disaster. Now, I just look to nature and move forward and disregard any online advice that doesn't fit nature.
I have a 55-gallon tank with 2 comet goldfish and 8 red eyed tetras. They have lived together perfectly for 2 years now. It does have a 5-gallon canister filter and some pathos growing from it. Along with some plants they like to dig up that I keep replanting.
Love it! Any combination can work if you set the tank up properly 😎
This is the first video I’ve seen from you Instant subscriber
Thank you and welcome to the channel 🫶🏻
I like your channel a lot, you are very experienced and are good at explaining! I hope your channel gets more exposed
By the way I have problem growing algae, I leave my lights on for 13 hours and no a single speck of algae 😢
Thanks for the positive feedback 🫶🏻
13 hours a day and no algae 😳😳😳
Tip #7 - I have a small tank on my desk that includes shrimp next to a 2g shrimp jarrarium. They're a constant distraction. I enjoy just sitting and watching their activity. You're so right - they're constantly on the go. I really enjoy them. Definitely good advice to just sit and watch.
I already have shrimp but this will help me! 2 weeks ago I got a brand new 4gal with a filter which is a great upgrade for the shrimp, lots of biofilm has grown and everything seems to be doing great. This advice will still be very useful!
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Glad the video was helpful 👍🏻
Not making fun but (American here) i LOVE the way you say “aquatic”
Thanks (I think 😂)
Great set of tips! I really like what you chose to open with, your tip #1. I am happy to offer people advice but your tip #1 is important.
I particularly like tip #5 as well. One of the things I advise people who want to keep shrimp, "the 3 absolutely essential things you need to start are a tank, water and patience".
I need to follow tip #7 more. Lately I have been spending a lot of time planning an expansion to my shrimp racks and can overlook enjoying what I currently have.
Thanks for taking the time to share my friend. I was especially pleased with tip #7. I tried not to recycle the same old tips everyone shares. 💪🏻
Good advice.
Thank you 🫶🏻
Thanks for sharing, great video learned a lot cheers
Pleasure! Thanks for the feedback 🤜🏻
Since watching yiur very helpful and informative videos...Im on my 2nd shrimp tank. .a 8g BioOrb ( big round tank) with blue dream shrimp about 20 so far. I'll be adding 10 chili raspboras, whenever they're available....and Im adding an RO system too...wish we could share pictures here...cheers, and Happy New Year....Amy from Michigan 🦐✋️
I love my cherries, they also love being in my barrel pond, so much so they breed and I have some natural drab brown ones but so what they are great and lovely to see in the pond feeding on rocks and moss….ignored by the rice fish.
Yea I feel it lol people say u can’t keep betta whit other fish but mine is fine whit Mollies and neon Tetras and corydoras i only said that bc u said u can do thing that’s people say u can’t 😊
I hear you. The problem is, sometimes people don’t want to stick their necks out and say ‘I keep X with Y’ because the internet will shoot them down. It’s a shame really because there are some great combinations we can keep, but the vocal minority say it can’t be done 😞
I think my shrimp we will name him George just swims back and forth for hours in a 75 gallon tank. I don't know if he eats, but sometimes he will come to me when I am watching him. I think he has personality. I have 1 more in the tank that I hardly ever see. Is it normal for shrimp to swim a lot mid tank? I have more shrimp coming in the mail lol.
When shrimp feel safe they will travel all over the tank. Typically, the more hiding places you offer your shrimp, the happier and safer they feel, meaning they are out and about for often 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you
I figured out why my shrimp were not successful - I tested my tap water and it's shows 3.0ppm ammonia.
That's because it's treated with chloramine and the Nutrafin dechlorinator I was using only breaks the bond between chlorine and ammonia -
It doesn't instantly detoxify the ammonia and ammonium left in the tank. The filtration system and filter media were forced to deal with it.
My water dosed with nutrafin shows 3.0 ammonia
My water dosed with SAFE and tested immediately shows 0!
Lesson learned here is to get PRIME or SAFE because it truly works.
Hey, thanks for sharing. I have to admit, I only ever you Seachem Prime (which from memory works the same as Safe). I don’t trust any other dechlorinator
How meny shrimp can I keep in a 2.5 gallon tank with heater and sponge filter I wanna do a selective breeding experiment
I would start with 10, but you could easily keep 100+ in 2 1/2 gallons
QUESTION :
Is it safe for the baby shrimps to be around cyclops ?
Because a cyclop bloom totally destroyed my daphnea colony with thousands of individuals in a matther of hours.
I'm worried about cyclops attacking shrimps too ... I've spotted them in my shrimp tank.
I’m from India. I have exams tomorrow morning and guess what… I’m watching shrimps 😂
😂. Good luck with the exams
Hi! I wonder if the Ammonia, nitrate and nitrite stay in the aquarium when the water evaporate or does it go away with the water that have evaporated?
Hi. Only pure water evaporates. Any ammonia, nitrite or nitrate will remain in the aquarium water. 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you!
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Time to move to the US. We need you here.
Would love to. Not sure the family would be up for that though 🤔
As a shrimp breeder does there come a point in time when you know that the odds of a generation of shrimp are going to make it to adulthood? Babies past 2 weeks or 60 days, for example?
I don't think 2 months was enough to determine their survivability because if the got stress or outcompete when search food they still prone to die.
Hi I am going to start keeping Neocaridina shrimp. I will be using rodi water and remineralise it. But do I still have to add a dechlorinator
Hi. If you use RODI you won’t need dechlorinator. My question would be, why are you going to the trouble of using RODI for Neocaridina shrimo?
Hi Richard could you please help me I'm setting up a super fish qubiq 30 ltrs with a filter and heater I've ordered a bloody Mary , blue bolt, blue dream and a crystal red what would be the temperature I need to have my water at to ensure they are all happy many thanks debby tate
Hi. Are you planning to keep all of them together? Unfortunately, the Bloody Mary and the Blue Dream want drastically different water parameters to the Crystal Red and the Blue Bolt.
If I has misunderstood, and you are keeping them separately, feel free to come back to me 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers you are right I was hoping to keep them altogether I live in a hard water area and just want some pretty looking shrimps in the tank so could you suggest any that would happily live together I'm getting stressed out with it thanks
So, I too live in a hard water area and as such I keep Neocaridina Shrimp. Neocaridina shrimp like Red Cherry Shrimp, Blue Dream Shrimp and Green Jade Shrimp love the dissolved minerals hard water has in it. You could go for Caridina Shrimp, but you would have to start using RO water and that’s brings another level of complexity to the hobby.
@@FishKeepingAnswers aw my god I never thought having a dozen shrimp would be so complex
Have you made this observation: In my Skittles tank, shrimps will herd with liked colors 🤔 It's a repeated observation with different colors.
Huh! Never heard of that before 🤔
@@FishKeepingAnswers I've never heard of it before either, but I've observed it multiple times... The blues with the blues, yellows with yellows (The reds and dark oranges intermingle most)... They still mix, but I often see groups of a particular color chillin together
Like with zebras and horses, blend in to survive/confuse the predators.
any ideas how to feed sinking food for shrimp, with community tank. my rummy nose, tetras, siamese algae eater will just grab food and run... Right now only food i can put is bacter AE
You could always try feeding after lights out, assuming the room is dark.
Personally, I just add the food to the tank, and by the natural action of the other fish eating the food, tiny particles break off and float around the tank where the shrimp will find them.
Question: have u had issues regarding your plastic breeding tubs warping?
Hi. I haven’t. These tubs have ribs to reinforce them 😎
Hi. First of all, I love you videos and love having shrimp.
I have a question though:
What’s you experience with keeping fish and pea puffers in the same tank? Rather small one too, about 5 gallons.
Keep up the good work and keep sharing your passion.
Hi. Thank you for your kind words. 🫶🏻
I currently keep 3 Pea Puffers in a 7 gallon. 7 gallon is a little small for 3, but I believe they get on fine thanks to the mass of live plants, meaning they can each pick out a territory and leave one another alone. Personally, I wouldn’t add another species with Pea Puffers in such a small tank.
@@FishKeepingAnswers
Thank you for your answer.
What about pea puffers and shrimp in the same tank?
I imagine that’s not a great idea but was wondering since I don’t have a lot of space for another dedicated species tank.
Do I need to add iodide and iron to my tank to help shrimps with molting?
Personally, I don’t add anything to my water, but it may depend on the structure of your water. Provided they have access to plenty of calcium they should be fine 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks. Do you use any fertilizer or root tab? I read that most on the market contain copper .
I do use fertiliser. The vast majority are fine for shrimp and snails.
Check out this video 👉🏻 Is Copper Toxic To Shirmp? - Surprising Facts About Copper and Shrimp
th-cam.com/video/UK1fFOesJCc/w-d-xo.html
I have a 250 litre tank with cherry shrimp and 6x danios, I've got to the point where I've given up on shrimp keeping, cost too much to buy, the plants die off quick because you can't use fertilisers in the tank due to copper in them, I find the slightest change in water. I change the foods everyday, only do 5 - 10% water changes every 2 weeks (which is hard water/tap water), keep checking my water parameters every other day, give them calcium blocks etc etc. I give up with shrimp now. I had a lot better luck and success with amano shrimp weirdly but shrimp over all are way overpriced in the uk!
Me with a fresh shipment of different shrimp parsed into Tupperware on my nightstand trying to figure out where to put them after they came two days early, wish me luck lol
🤞🏻
It's a calcium build up or mineral build up on the glass of the aquarium it only take 12hours to take over the glass and the only way for me to get rid of it is by using a blade and comes back
Wow! I’ve never heard of that. I have a high level of dissolved minerals in my water, but that takes days to develop as the water evaporates.
Take the octopus out )))
If I could show you a photo of the tank you would be surprised of what the tank looks like 😅
show us that goldfish tank in the back please :)
Would love to. Truth be told, goldfish videos perform TERRIBLY for me 🙁🙁🙁
@@FishKeepingAnswers make shorts😉you'll be surprised the # goldfish goes far lol
Also the # cuteanimals
11 minutes to listen the piano - I can't.
I can't !
I can't !!!
Feedback taken on board 👍🏻
I have read while doing reasearch that bee pollen & cinnamon are great for shrimp?
But I never really hear any one speak of it.
Do you have any experience ?
I have a video on bee pollen on its way. One of stinging nettles too. Haven’t tried cinnamon stick yet, but it’s on the list.
@@FishKeepingAnswers awesome! I'm looking forward to it!
Hi again I'm setting a shrimp tank and my tank has that white thing building up I think it's calcium or mineral build up every time I clean it Ang change the water it's getting worse. Any tips? By the way may water is deep well water
Hey. How do you mean white thing? Where is it building up?
@@FishKeepingAnswers it's building up on the glass
It's a water mark but the problem is it does not build up at the top it builds up on the whole glass leaving it covered and can't see anything inside the tank
Hey Rich, any thoughts on skittles tank vs single colored tank? I have started cycling a 2.5 gal and still torn between these two 😢
Hi. Skittles tanks look amazing when you first set them up, but the shrimp will crossbreed and eventually breed themselves back to just brown or clear shrimp.
They do look great at the start though 😎
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you for the input! I've been reading and watching about this. So does that mean if I want multiple colors to keep, I would definitely need multiple tanks? 😅
Unfortunately, yes! That’s how it starts, then before you know it you are dedicating an entire room in your house to them 🤣😂🤣
@@FishKeepingAnswers oh no, not sure I have enough space in our house lol maybe couple of 2 gals would work? 😂 Need to get wife's permission first though hahahah do you think if I start with skittles I can keep the colors by culling? I have a 29 gal and can put all odd colored offsprings on there as needed, I guess it will be an experiment. Have you tried that method or have experience on that before?
So essentially, if you cull any shrimp that do not show the desired colours, you can end up with an amazing skittles tank, and a tank of slightly less colourful, but still active and interesting shrimp. It just take effort and patience.
I still cringe slightly when I bring a new tank into the house as I can picture my wife’s face when she sees it 🤣🤣🤣
I find it hard to keep ghost shrimp alive ....I get so frustrated....
Sometimes, stores sell poor quality ‘feeder shrimp’ as ghost shrimp. They are typically very weak. Have you tried a small group of Red Cherry Shrimp? 🦐