This is such a great video. Now that I have a ph meter on my tank full time, I see the ph drops to 7.6 7.7 a little bit low for my taste. Just ordered the seachem tang buffer and will add it to my top up water and I think this will help boost the ph better. Great video!
I've been researching these shrimp for the last couple weeks and this is by far the most thorough and helpful video I've found. Thanks so much for the info and explanations!
enjoyed your video and found the information very helpful in my effort to gain more knowledge for successful cardinal shrimp keeping. i have a tank of 30+ adults with some new babies and larger youngsters. thanks for your help.
Really an awesome video. Thanks for the tips of Tanganyika buffer. But the issue I faced, it's difficult to understand the dose for the buffer according to the top up water volume and even after adding the water with pH 8 after two days it got dropped to 7.4 in the main tank, not sure why this fluctuation happened.
World Of Aquariums your other video on setup is great too! I like your clear and logical approach. So much of information on the Internet does not explain rationale, and largely offers incomplete information. Yours is probably the most complete and sound ones I have seen in English.
Hi, i m new, i just bought this without stdying it haha.. what happened if i use neutral 7 pH? Is it okay? And what is the safest way to increase the pH?
Hey, im planning to get these. I have a 30 liter aquarium and i use RODI water. How much mineralizer (7,5) do i have to add to my tank (my aquarium has normal water as i keep neocaridina shrimp) to get the ph to around 8? Can neocaridina handle the sulawesi shrimp water parameters? Is 10 sulawesi shrimp enough?
just an update on the cardinal shrimps..... started with about 30 and now numbers have grown to 130+. however, i do not notice any new babies or berried females. perhaps i need to split the colony. they are housed in a 10 gallon tank with plenty of algae and biofilm on larger lava rocks with pumice substrate. tds 215. any comment or suggestions regarding this?
@@didnthurt4077 biofilm grows on the surface of algae. They don't really "eat" the algae, but the biofilm on it. You see people talk about green algae walls as beneficial and that is because it has more surface area for algae to grow on
@@worldofaquariums5534 thanks for the clarification! The storeguy told me they eat mainly algae not biofilm so thats why im wondering. Currently im in week 2 cycling my sula tank and i have a lot of biofilm already and very little algae. I added a full scoop of bacter ae so this works pretty well for establishing biofilm. Will reduce the dosage from now on not to create any inbalances. Going to add some neos in 2 weeks to clean up the tank and wait another month for the tank to be fully cycled. Very excited to keep sulas :)
Definetly not! Sulas are probably from all freshwater shrimps the hardest to keep. Neos are best for beginners. Once you gain knowledge and kept neos sucessfully the next level are caradina and after that sulas. Each species needs specific water parameters that get stricter moving up each level.
i noticed there are tiny water bugs in your tanks, what are they ? are they harmful ? If we find them a hindrance, what could we do to remove them. As I know only smaller fishes eats them, shrimps do not.
Hi...normal i topup with my ro water tds was 7..so need use the ph buffer brand seachem right..last time i have keep this sulawesi untill beeried..but no time take care all gone..now need buy back for proper keep..sometimes during topp off water my shrimp was dies tomorrow..maybe my ph in ro water is low..do you add ro water with mineralized it
World Of Aquariums thanks for reply..my sulawesi tank i fix one bottle of auto topup water...in that auto topup bottle i already put some ph buffer that you recomend that is tanganyika buffer...the ph buffer was tds 84..and if the water topup frequently but less water..is that ok..let say my tank tds total was 191...after topup is 185..is that ok...
@@mohdimtiyaz7749 I'm not sure how come your tds of top up water is so high, what is it without ph buffer? Generslly your tds will go up as tank water evaporates. When u top it up, it should reduce it back down to recommended/original levels
@@worldofaquariums5534 hi..can you recomend me the dosage of tanganyika buffer..i see your video just put a bit amount and only tds around 20....my topup water is in 1.5 liter bottle...and topup only a less everyday..my topup water i put the buffer around tds 84
Hey, this is a very good question, which I figured out later on. Cyanobacteria will be caused by bad flow/ waste build up combined with higher nutrients. I find having lots of airflow and minimal substrate helps a lot. Also not to add too much nutrients generally during initial cycling
last week i put into sulawesi shrimps(tgti and heleaquin) at my tank and they almost dead. some people said Ph and temperature, and algae is most important thing in sulawesi shrimps. so i adjust only that.. and result wasn't good. i will take more sulawei(wellow cheek and tgri) at may first. i don't want to kill them. so, i will do like this video... and i wondering about why my shrimps dead. i use volcanic mineral stone and soil. and aquarium plants(buceparandra) are they hates plants?
How long have u cycled tank for? And what are your water parameters. Sulawesi shrimp are one of the hardest shrimps to keep, comparing to caridina shrimp and neocaridina.
ive had my yellow cheek sulawesi for roughly a week , what i find key is stability and that they are mildly adaptable but its always best to match your water to the sellers setup , if you have imported the harlequins theyll have a higher chance of death throughout shipping and even after theyve been put in the tank
@@AVIKO607 yea thats true, imported wild sulas will have a very high chance to die even with optimal water parameters. Best to find a local breeder not only to avoid the shipping process, but those shrimps are already acustomed to living in an aquarium and so will not die as fast.
hello, man do you have whatsapp or another chanel ? i have one story about pH, I Lost more than 50 sulawese in this month :( i from Brazil. Today i have only 4. terrible ....
Nice, informative video. But be carefull, i see you have a lot of scuds living with your shrimp. They form no problem for the adults, but are known to prey on baby shrimp.
Substrate is utterly meaningless to what it can do to the tank compared to a good-sized lava rock with the right or wrong bacteria colonies living in it. I think it's best to colonize porous rocks with beneficial bacteria for about a week in a filtered tank before building up the main tank with substrate & porous rocks. It'll make water changes easier or even render them unnecessary.
These shrimp are perfect for my water straight out of the tap. Glad i found these.
My water is between 8-8.2 pH and around 180 ppm of hardness. How does this compare to your water?
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 8.2-8.3ph and if I remember correctly it’s a little lower than 180ppm but not by much.
@@Game_Hobo holy cow, mine is exactly the same. Sw Iowa here. A lot of the Midwest is similar with super hard water
Me too!! I got so excited from seeing the parameters
This is such a great video. Now that I have a ph meter on my tank full time, I see the ph drops to 7.6 7.7 a little bit low for my taste. Just ordered the seachem tang buffer and will add it to my top up water and I think this will help boost the ph better. Great video!
I've been researching these shrimp for the last couple weeks and this is by far the most thorough and helpful video I've found. Thanks so much for the info and explanations!
Your sulawesi shrimp tank looks awesome. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for the details. Can you plz give infirmation about the filter and water flow rate of your tank
enjoyed your video and found the information very helpful in my effort to gain more knowledge for successful cardinal shrimp keeping. i have a tank of 30+ adults with some new babies and larger youngsters. thanks for your help.
Solid video. Thanks!
They look like marine shrimp, truly phenomenal.
Really an awesome video. Thanks for the tips of Tanganyika buffer. But the issue I faced, it's difficult to understand the dose for the buffer according to the top up water volume and even after adding the water with pH 8 after two days it got dropped to 7.4 in the main tank, not sure why this fluctuation happened.
ths for sharing !
your scape is good at 7:23 :)
Great video . What size is your tank? How many gallons (litters)?
Your tip on topping up with RO water that has been treated is interesting. I did not realise that it affects the ph so much.
Yea I found out from my marine coworkers as salt water tanks are also at a high pH and I just applied same concept onto these shrimp
World Of Aquariums your other video on setup is great too!
I like your clear and logical approach. So much of information on the Internet does not explain rationale, and largely offers incomplete information. Yours is probably the most complete and sound ones I have seen in English.
@@ycpoh6678 thank you so much, It probably helps that I have a background in genetics and biology
Is sera gh/kh plus safe for sulawesi shrimp?
Any fish you can keep with these guys?
Seems like I need a bunch of homework and extra work...I’ll stick with caradina/neocaridina
🤣🤣
Hi can you tell me how much of a buffer i need to add for top up . Can i do 1/8tsp of buffer + 4L r.o?
They're called SU-LA-WAY-SEE. Thanks for the video. Its helpful.
Haha I pronounced it differently
I'm setting up a 20 gallon tall im debating on either 2 double sponge filters or a hamberg matten filter.
My water parameters are gH: 8, pH, 7.8, kH: 6, TDS: 185, and temperature: 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Are these okay for the sulawesi shrimp?
This video is a sales pitch
I make no money on sharing info lol
Hi, i m new, i just bought this without stdying it haha.. what happened if i use neutral 7 pH? Is it okay? And what is the safest way to increase the pH?
Can we add plants in this tank? If yes what plants would be ideal?
Could we add the seachem pH buffer directly to the tank to maintain pH if we do not use srhimp salt?
Hey, im planning to get these. I have a 30 liter aquarium and i use RODI water. How much mineralizer (7,5) do i have to add to my tank (my aquarium has normal water as i keep neocaridina shrimp) to get the ph to around 8? Can neocaridina handle the sulawesi shrimp water parameters? Is 10 sulawesi shrimp enough?
Some my shrimp colony thrive around ph 8.2 and already breeding so is possible.
just an update on the cardinal shrimps..... started with about 30 and now numbers have grown to 130+. however, i do not notice any new babies or berried females. perhaps i need to split the colony. they are housed in a 10 gallon tank with plenty of algae and biofilm on larger lava rocks with pumice substrate. tds 215. any comment or suggestions regarding this?
is the substrate clean? Do you feed a protein food once a week?
Do you feed minerals?
Where do you get your shrimps from?
Im a breeder
How easy does the seachem tanganyaki dissolve in water? Does it dissolve instantly or does it take time and effort like the salty shrimp 8.5 minerals?
instant
@@worldofaquariums5534 do cardinals feed on biofilm before algae or other way round?
@@didnthurt4077 biofilm grows on the surface of algae. They don't really "eat" the algae, but the biofilm on it. You see people talk about green algae walls as beneficial and that is because it has more surface area for algae to grow on
@@worldofaquariums5534 thanks for the clarification! The storeguy told me they eat mainly algae not biofilm so thats why im wondering. Currently im in week 2 cycling my sula tank and i have a lot of biofilm already and very little algae. I added a full scoop of bacter ae so this works pretty well for establishing biofilm. Will reduce the dosage from now on not to create any inbalances. Going to add some neos in 2 weeks to clean up the tank and wait another month for the tank to be fully cycled. Very excited to keep sulas :)
Are there Sulawesi shrimp alternatives for beginners?
Definetly not! Sulas are probably from all freshwater shrimps the hardest to keep. Neos are best for beginners. Once you gain knowledge and kept neos sucessfully the next level are caradina and after that sulas. Each species needs specific water parameters that get stricter moving up each level.
@@didnthurt4077 I was asking for an beginner alternatives not the care of the Sulawesi shrimp
Hmm so in other words they seem to be live like a warm water loving neocaridina shrimp but in the caridina genus.
i noticed there are tiny water bugs in your tanks, what are they ? are they harmful ? If we find them a hindrance, what could we do to remove them. As I know only smaller fishes eats them, shrimps do not.
Seed shrimp
they are not harmful, they thrive on food leftovers. You could suck them out with a Mulm Device but you might loose some baby shrimp in the process 😱
Hi...normal i topup with my ro water tds was 7..so need use the ph buffer brand seachem right..last time i have keep this sulawesi untill beeried..but no time take care all gone..now need buy back for proper keep..sometimes during topp off water my shrimp was dies tomorrow..maybe my ph in ro water is low..do you add ro water with mineralized it
Hey, so I TOP UP with ro water (plus a tiny amount of ph buffer, little impact on tds), but WATERCHANGE with mineralized ro water (100-150tds eg)
World Of Aquariums thanks for reply..my sulawesi tank i fix one bottle of auto topup water...in that auto topup bottle i already put some ph buffer that you recomend that is tanganyika buffer...the ph buffer was tds 84..and if the water topup frequently but less water..is that ok..let say my tank tds total was 191...after topup is 185..is that ok...
@@mohdimtiyaz7749 I'm not sure how come your tds of top up water is so high, what is it without ph buffer? Generslly your tds will go up as tank water evaporates. When u top it up, it should reduce it back down to recommended/original levels
@@worldofaquariums5534 hi..can you recomend me the dosage of tanganyika buffer..i see your video just put a bit amount and only tds around 20....my topup water is in 1.5 liter bottle...and topup only a less everyday..my topup water i put the buffer around tds 84
How do you prevent the growth of 'blue-green algae' (cyanobacteria) when you grow 'green algae' (chlorophyta?) and diatoms?
Hey, this is a very good question, which I figured out later on. Cyanobacteria will be caused by bad flow/ waste build up combined with higher nutrients. I find having lots of airflow and minimal substrate helps a lot.
Also not to add too much nutrients generally during initial cycling
Idk indonesia have this shrimp 😅 i live in indonesia
last week i put into sulawesi shrimps(tgti and heleaquin) at my tank and they almost dead. some people said Ph and temperature, and algae is most important thing in sulawesi shrimps. so i adjust only that.. and result wasn't good. i will take more sulawei(wellow cheek and tgri) at may first. i don't want to kill them. so, i will do like this video... and i wondering about why my shrimps dead. i use volcanic mineral stone and soil. and aquarium plants(buceparandra) are they hates plants?
How long have u cycled tank for? And what are your water parameters. Sulawesi shrimp are one of the hardest shrimps to keep, comparing to caridina shrimp and neocaridina.
ive had my yellow cheek sulawesi for roughly a week , what i find key is stability and that they are mildly adaptable but its always best to match your water to the sellers setup , if you have imported the harlequins theyll have a higher chance of death throughout shipping and even after theyve been put in the tank
@@AVIKO607 yea thats true, imported wild sulas will have a very high chance to die even with optimal water parameters. Best to find a local breeder not only to avoid the shipping process, but those shrimps are already acustomed to living in an aquarium and so will not die as fast.
hello, man do you have whatsapp or another chanel ? i have one story about pH, I Lost more than 50 sulawese in this month :( i from Brazil. Today i have only 4. terrible ....
The shrimp really expensive. It's like 10x higher than cherry shrimp
Yea, pairs are around 400$ from where I'm from
@@worldofaquariums5534 omg, Where u from?
@@Wong_wong565 Australia
how can you compare a Harlequin shrimp with a Sulawesi schrimp ? you talk about marine water or freshwater ! both are totally different
I compare in the way buffers work for rodi water top off. Harlequins are a type of sulawesi shrimp
Nice, informative video. But be carefull, i see you have a lot of scuds living with your shrimp. They form no problem for the adults, but are known to prey on baby shrimp.
What is your NITRATE level?
Should be as low as possible. Mine is at 0-5, as it's stored by the algae
What in the absolute hell are you doing mixing tons of high range ph solution into that big cup with your pH meter?!! Are you insane?
Its an example to show changes in pH? Your not adding any into your tank.
looks like a nice vid, but honestly ur accent makes it too hard for me to understand...
drums drums drums
absolutly annoying !
Substrate is utterly meaningless to what it can do to the tank compared to a good-sized lava rock with the right or wrong bacteria colonies living in it.
I think it's best to colonize porous rocks with beneficial bacteria for about a week in a filtered tank before building up the main tank with substrate & porous rocks.
It'll make water changes easier or even render them unnecessary.