Natural Rock Hides - For Breeding Neocaridina Shrimp, Endlers & Guppies in the Same Tank!
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This is a video discussing how should I raise Guppies, endlers, red cherry shrimp, and blue velvet, or blue dream neocaridina shrimp all in the same small tanks. Even if you have a 5 or 10 gallon nano tank and it's possible to do some small-scale breeding and upkeep in the same tank this is a brief intro on how to do that. Also we will be going over some of the new plants and upkeep of these tanks to help ensure shrimp reproducing. And also we will be discussing maintenance and best practices for allowing your shrimp 2 reproduce at their full potential.
Featured plants include Monte Carlo, java moss susswassertang as well as slow and low growing plants for the rock hide. To double our efforts we will then be also using surface cover now you can use things like water lettuce or duckweed but I prefer to use Monte Carlo or Java moss wrapped around a stick, or Wisteria or Java ferns in a dense population to hide guppy and endler fry that like to live near the top of the water column.
Get ready for 2018! Thanks for your support. We will be talking details, history and science about all the plants, invertebrates, and fish in this video. The ones that you know and love, and some new ones you may have no idea about.
Cheers guys, Alex Williamson.
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And now i find this video, again. Thanks! Building a PVC hide that I'll cover and surround with plants and will work on rock hides.
I love rocks and rock hunting always have
I keep Panda Cory, Rainbow Tiger Endlers, and Cherry Shrimp all in a 55 that are all breeding quite nicely. My Dad had Oscars growing up and wouldn't let me have a tank so now that I'm 37yo I have 10 tanks...lol. That's too funny. Great video and thanks for sharing. Keep doing what you do if it works for you.
I just found your channel about a week ago and I'm really impressed brother. Great information as always. Thanks for sharing and keep doing what you do if it works for you.
Those topaz are gorgeous.
I deliberately let hair algae grow here and there in my 20L Endler/guppy/fry/shrimp tank.I also built a mattenfilter on one end a couple years ago- I'll always be happy about that. I think I will build a bit of a corner bunker with some river stones- just for a little added security. Your 40 bow is gorgeous. I can tell you have access to quality fish.
why thank you! yes. most my fish are ordered and traded online now- aquatic arts.com. lrb Aquatics, flip aquatics, & h20plants..but mostly Seattle's fish club auctions
Love finding your older videos. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Great video, my community tank is heavily planted with a variety of 3" rainbows around half dozen panda cory's n peppers ones with a huge rock pile n a bunch of cull shrimp n I do notice a baby Cory or shrimp pop up from time to time, it works as long as your not looking for yield to try n sell, it keeps itself in check.
+Dave Giles yeah, the cory and shrimp dont mix too well haha, I moved them out of the blue dream shrimp tank and into my big community tank with my painted fire reds. They dont bug adults at all, so essentially, with guppies, tetra, and cory julii/habrosus in one tank, im not thinking ill get many new shrimp. However my endlers and and shrimp (2 tanks) with hides, those im hoping to get producing more and more, and my 40 gallon can always use clean up crew hehe
I missed this one somehow in my going through your vids. It was great and excellent info. Thanks again.
oh thanks man. Yeah I have some pretty in depth earlier videos but since I had like 40 followers or 300 views, then TH-cam never suggests them really
1:30 is it possible to grow biofilm on stones artificially ?
It sure is! The leading product is called "bacter AE"
Yahh mon
cool tank, wished the coop would ship fish
Check out Aquatic Arts or "the wet spot tropical fish" they both ship and have some amazing oddballs, inverts and of course plants also
@@Fishtory yes have ordered from A. arts and have heard of wetspot never ordered there yet
Did the rock formation pan out for you? I ’ve got a 75 gal with fish that will def eat shrimp so I’m wanting to make a safe haven for shrimp within the tank. The rock formation sounds ideal
Works amazingly well!
What HOB are you using and they won’t suck up the shrimplets or fry?
I use a fine spongue pre-filter or panty hoes over the entire intake grate. I also check the filter for fry and move them back if I see them at the bottom
@@Fishtory With the grate I am not sure how to add a prefilter sponge or pantyhose. I got a Seachem Tidal Power Aquarium Filter - 35 Gallon Large Fish Tank Filter to help me purify my 10 gallon tanks even though I know it's more than it needs but it isn't in there all the time. I just don't know how to make sure that fish and shrimp don't get sucked up but the water still gets filtered.
Thanks Alex
@@KevinsCaninesAndAquatics yeah, if you want to "polish" the water and get rid of tiny stuff, you kind of have to decide "okay baby shrimp of size 'x' or size 'y' will get sucked up if they happen to swim by that intake. So usually I just try and scare everyone away from siphon hoses when I'm using them....and then sort of keep an eye in the bucket for any medium sized critters...but im sure I do end up losing a few fry or baby shrimp sometimes.
I find aquarium co-op's pre-filter sponges to be the best you can buy...however if you want you can find a coarse sponge for scrubbing dishes and then rubber band that around the intake too... but you may find that it clogs up faster, the smart the mesh weave is
Do you need to have java moss in the rock pile for it to work?
Nope. It helps, since they graze on it, but the size of the gaps in the pile-being large enough for the shrimp to hide in, is the key. :)
I'm fascinated by the types of rocks you use in your tanks. Always look very natural. Do you make an effort to get mostly inert stuff, or are you not too concerned with that?
Totally, i have a few videos on using safe stones
You made me piss myself laughing @1:44. It reminded me of Paul Rudd in 'I love you man' when he says "slapping the bass". Anyway I have what is probably a silly question but I'm new to shrimp. I have built a rock hide that pretty much covers a third of my tank. I have an old betta fish that still lives in the tank and he was chasing the smaller shrimp so I wanted to give them some more cover. Obviously now I won't be able to vacuum that part of the tank. Is this a problem? Does it not get full of alsorts of crud under and around the rocks and substrate?
What size is that tank with the endless and neos?
20
@@Fishtory 20 long?
OUI!
Cool thanks. Looks like we're getting a 20 long as our next tank for a colony of neos and various nano fish - possibly including Endlers, but we'll see. Lots of rocks, guppy grass, wood etc. Thanks for the vids, we watch them all. -Matt
What’s the ph and hardness of your acuarium? I love the green neon tetras, great video, glad I came across your videos.
Ph 6.0 to 6.5 and hardness is usually 220 or less (ideally its 100-150 for spawning)
I think that snail might be a rabbit snail. Along with bladder snails.
Lol
Take all the fish
And put pigmi coridoras
Awe, so the Petco surprises are going from a horrible home to a beautiful well maintained home back into the torture petco house, awe so sad . Especially the babies who were born and n your aquarium.
+BrutalRiotGirl01 what now? I sell to hobbyist or trade. I have 1 critter from petco, that place is horrible, and shes a metalic tailed guppy. If I sell fish to a store its strictly mom and pop fish shops.
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium cool! I like the way you decorate your aquariums, keep up the good work
Sorry but tiny is tiny not pronounced as teny! Whats the point of isolating the pregnant female? Protecting it from the fish?
What’s the ph and hardness of your acuarium? I love the green neon tetras, great video, glad I came across your videos.
What’s the ph and hardness of your acuarium? I love the green neon tetras, great video, glad I came across your videos.
Most of my tanks run around 6.5 with 200TDS . Thank you for watching
What does hardness mean when referring to the aquarium?
@@foamrigged2182 basically the harder your water is the higher your pH is. soft water is lower pH and different fish like different pH's 🙂