The Smallest Red Cherry Shrimp Tank I Ever Made - 1/2 GALLON (2 LITER) SHRIMP TANK
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Thanks my friend,now i have the confidence
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you gave me confidence for the 6 cherry shrimps in my 1 gallon I intend to breed!
Nice. Would love to hear how it goes 🤞🏻
Definitely! Any recommendation as to the max quantity of RCS I can have in this tank? 😁
people need to understand how tiny cherry shrimps' bio load is. they don't need to swim all day in mid water like fish, so they use very little enegy traversing, therefore ingesting less energy comparing to fish their size. their diet consists of mostly plant matter or algae which makes their poop rich in fibre/cellulose rather than rich in raw ammonia like hte poop of most similar size fish. that plus their bomb proofness in general, you can pretty much keep them anywhere in anything. the only thing preventing you from doing that should be ethics around living space, not whether or not they can survive (trust me, they can).
Great feedback. Thank you 🙏🏻
I'd also argue there is some intelligence argument in play. Fish, while they look dumb, are actually highly developed animals so it's cruel to give them such small places. However, shrimp are invertebrates which basically have a brain that runs on programming like a robot. There is no happiness, just a set command telling them if they're good or bad. As long as you have the correct conditions for them and you're experienced then their attitude will be no different than it they were in a 1000 gallon tank.
Thanks my friend. This is very reassuring. The internet if filled with people telling that shrimps are very hardest to keep. They need to be cared so much… but you comment gave me the confidence to get shrimps.
I wouldn't do this again, but when I was a kid I gave my mom a cherry shrimp in a normal sized lighbulb that I emptied the innards of, it just had a little sand from my aquarium java moss and a shrimp. She had it for over a year.
It’s funny how we can sometimes succeed even when conventional wisdom says you will fail 🥳
That’s brilliant. Im gonna be looking at glass vases in a different way now
Thanks mate. I have to be honest, I have really enjoyed watching the shrimp in this tiny tank. 🦐
Very cool indeed! A couple of years ago I filled a heavy duty glass vase that holds just over half a gallon which I set up with substrate, subwassertang and a few minuture ramshorn snails. For the most part all if have done with that container is a couple of water changes, everything is doing great. Was hesitant to add shrimp but always wanted to. I'm going to put a few culls in there and see what happens.
I say go for it! Let us know how you get on 🤞🏻
I have kept many nano tanks with shrimp. The smallest I have done successfully is 1.1 gallon containers with almost a third of that tank taken by deep fine gravel substrate (with crushed seashells sold as a dietary calcium supplement for chickens mixed in) for the plants, so they are in less than a gallon of water. I plant densely and encourage many forms of life in the tanks, there are several species of snails, detritus worms, copepods, and daphnia. I do not do water changes I just top off evaporation, I do not remove anything other than excess snails, the odd pipet of copepods for my fish in other tanks and trimmed plants. No heat, no filters, just an air stone and lots of live plants.
Nano tanks are definitely the way forward 😎
@@FishKeepingAnswers I am not very good at posting to TH-cam but I think I managed to upload a short video of one of my nano tanks if it interests you😆
What do you do with the excess snails?
@@BigNoe-u7u I feed them to my flock of chickens
I just recently scaped a 10l cylindrical tank which will be for some cherry shrimp its almost 2 weeks old and I plan to add shrimp in about 2 weeks, they will be my first shrimp.
I also just scored a second hand Ciano 15l cube with light filter and heater for £20 almost a £40 saving and also plan to use it fir another shrimp scape.
Really looking forward to having them bustling around looking cute and busy 😅
Sounds great. Would love to hear how you get on with them 👍🏻
So to check I've understood: Do you keep that air linenin there almost all the time?
Yep 👍🏻
Ppl are always gonna hate dude, esp on social media!plus u always have dbags that know everything or only there way can work. THEYER THE PPL SCARING OTHER PPL AWAY FROM THIS HOBBIE! Always do you bro! This was def cool! 💯
Thank you for your kind words 👍🏻
Cute!!😀
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Great video. Although it's not too ideal, I've kept shrimp in a 2.5 gallon tank and they bred to about 150 in there loving happily and healthy
Not everyone has space or momey for a larger 10g 20g or 40g tank. Can't wait till the next one
Thanks as always for the great feedback. It’s appreciated 👍🏻
I have definitely had a thriving colony of at least 100 in 2.5 gallons densely planted.
@@alexs4446 awesome
Same experience at first try setup it for aquascape then put 7 shrimp they breeding like hell which make concerns about space so setting another similar tank it did well, unfortunately something happens and made them died simultaneously on all tank.
Right now I try setting new one and hopping success on it.
@@alexs4446 did you have a filter or not...?
*Crap Game* 🎉
What air pump do you use that is so slow? I am trying to find one but it is quite hard. Help is greatly appreciated!
Great idea I love it 🎉 , I just did a video on how to do a $5 shrimp tank set up , I love watching your videos they are always inspiring
Thank you so much for your kind feedback. I will check out your $5 shrimp tank video 👍🏻
Thank you for the video! I’m inspired now. I think I will try this too but pick out only males for this set up.
An all male setup would certainly prevent numbers spiralling out of control.
you already know somebody wanna toss a betta in there😭
I bought a 5 litre cylindrical glass vase from Sainsbury's (£7). Added local river sand (washed and boiled), a few stones, and six different plants. Filled it up with canal water as I live afloat. I made a very tiny sponge filter with air line, and even a USB powered heater. Currently waiting for it to cycle and establish... I bet the shrimps will still die when I add them?
Sounds like an amazing project. Would love to hear how you get on. 🤞🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you. If it's successful I'll make a video about it...
I have a half gallon square tank I haven't found anything I can put in it. Do you think it would work? Or does the shape of the bowl allow it to hold more water than my shorter tank?
The shape doesn’t matter 👍🏻
Hi mark,
Recently joined your channel. I learned a lot about shrimp from your videos.
Hopefully you will have an experiment of a vase full of shrimp!
With love from the netherlands 🙏
Glad you are finding them helpful 👍🏻
i myself got 5ltr walstad jar..with 5 fire red shrimps 3fem and 2 male and 1 fem is already berried..no filter or airtstone..just 20% water change weekly
Hi Richard. What would your Tds. Ph,gh and kh be around.? I have a 2 gallon kit with hob filter. Been cycling for about 6 weeks. Lots of Java moss and decaying almond leaves.
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to comment. My pH is around 7.6. I have never bothered to measure TDS as I believe it can be a bit of a red herring. I find TDS measures EVERYTHING that is dissolved in your water.
I suspect after 6 weeks your new tank will be absolutely spot on for your shrimp 🦐 🙏🏻
Great. Just off topic - do neocardina eat anything live ( apart from bacteria, algae) ? I have an explosion of water mites in a tank and wonder if neocardina would eat them. Cheers
I am not sure. I have daphnia in almost all my non-fish tanks and I don’t think the shrimp are eating them. I suspect they would, if the water mites died first.
Hello! I would like to ask your opinion about my future setup. :)
I would like to dedicate on shelf from my aquarium rack to shrimps. After your videos i fell in love with shrimp keeping. I got a great oportunity to get 4 small tanks for a really good price. Each tanks can hold around 10-11l of water. I would like to keep different colours in each tank. Could this be a long term solution for a shrimp shelf? Are the tanks too small? For the filtration I'm thingking to get 4 small hang on the back filters or 4 sponge filters hooked to an air pump. Price wise i think the sponge filter could be better but the HOB filters are less noisy. I would like to scape all the tanks with wood, rocks and plants.
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to get in touch. 10 liters of water is small. Can it work? Yes, anything can work. If it were me I’d go sponge filter and lots of plants. Sounds like it could be a great collection of shrimp tanks. Would love to hear how it goes 🤞🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you for your quick answer. I'm worried about the tank stability since the water volume is so small. It will be heavily planted, I'm even thinking about addig 1 pothos plant for each tank to help with the stability. I could go with 2 20l tanks but that means less shrimp variety. I will come back with an update if it works out.
Been looking forward to this video! Although I have 2 questions. What will you do once the baby shrimp are born as you can't exactly take them out due to them being super small. Also, is there any way to do a similar setup without the air pump? Maybe more frequent water changes? Floaters?
Truth be told, I will remove the 4 shrimp before the babies are born.
You probably could add more live plants and a few floaters instead of the air pump, but in my experience you will end up with a kind of oil slick scum on the surface which can reduce the gas exchange at the surface.
However, anything is possible if you are prepared to put the work in 🤔
@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks for this, im still working on the permission to get the shrimp but want to know what my plan is first, most likely scenario for me is I start off with 2 female reds, yellows and blues. Assuming the breeder can sex them, then at some point get some 3l tanks and use the bigger 7-8l tank to breed a set of reds and see how they sell. If they sell well I'll do some more breeds
After years of messing around with this, the only way I've managed this kind of setup successfully without forced aeration was to remove the biofilm that accumulated on the surface of the water with clean dry paper towels daily or by meticulously scooping it out bit by bit with a spoon. If you can afford an air pump it's worth the investment to just not have that issue at all😅😂
Nice
Can you go over the water change part please.
Do you change all of it...part of it?
Also, what did you use to treat the new water?
Thanks
You could do a tour to show all of your fish tanks
It’s on the ‘to do’ list 👍🏻
How on earth did get them out? Didn’t the gravel and rocks crush them?
Yeah, that turned out to be a bit of a challenge 😔
I would have submerged the entire jar into a bigger tank. They'll wander out, remove jar, deconstruct. @@FishKeepingAnswers
How...do you get the shrimp back out 😮
Yes, that did prove a challenge 😂
So like can i breed 3 shrimps in 5 litter bucket?
What If I add two small fish with 2 shrimps in a 4,5 L tank, 30 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm
Internal filter, grass, twig and toys
Anything is possible if you’re prepared to put the work in, and it would depend which small fish. With that said, keeping 4 1/2 litres of water stable is going to be a challenge 🤞🏻
What's your ebay? After some shrimp!
Hi. I haven’t shared that info yet, but I probably will towards the end of March when it is warm enough to start posting shrimp again 👍🏻