Thanks so much for watching all! Here is a complete guide to setting up an aquarium for Neocaridina Shrimp: Step #1 - 1:58 Step #2 - 8:45 Step #3 - 16:03 Step #4 - 24:04 Step #5 - 29:10 Step #6 - 30:10 Step #7 - 34:47 Don't forget to show Mike a little love and check out his channel: th-cam.com/channels/pUNfW0D7W_8YTQPXBNBSHQ.html
Most people don't realize .. Vinegar is also an amazing glass cleaner too. Anytime you get a film on the outside , oils and all.. I look through the tank to see the glass from the outside as I'm cleaning . You'll see all the oils and external films come off the glass easier. Once the glass becomes squeaky ,I know it's clean. It works better and is safer than anything else.
It's actually a base ingredient and many many cleaners companies have just started using lab made versions they own patents on. Windex smells like vinegar ffs lol. I agree tho plain white vinegar is in my top 3 household cleaning products.
thank you so much i have finally started a succesful tank without spending hundreds of dollars on stock... Always thought of Snails as nuisances and pests i was wrong i love my orange mystery snail
Rob. Your are truly gifted young man. Keep up with the videos. Very instructional. Looking forward to meeting up with you again at the next fish show. God bless young man
Thank you all for the great information! I especially love the save and slip before remineralizing the ro/di water. 😂 I'm going to be breaking down my 20 gallon long guppy tank to restart into a shrimp tank, what it was going to be originally. You both have given me great ideas for the future. Thank you all once again!
I always enjoy watching your videos, you are so positive and it is awesome to see how you've grown your business and continue to help the hobby grow. I just started making videos this past year and watching channels like yours with good content always encourages me to keep making videos.
I love these types of videos... really learning a lot and definitely going to get some of that salty shrimp minerals for sure ... thanks so much really help me out !
Thank you for the setup video, setting up a 10 gallon and i just need a snail before adding shrimp, hopefully I will be able to successfully keep shrimp! Definitely will share this video! God Bless & Happy Holidays 🙏✝️😊
Thanks Rob, love your videos!!! Your upbeat attitude is contagious and it’s amazing that you’re so knowledgeable and willing to share your knowledge!! I am curious on your choice of snail, do you prefer mystery snails over nerite or Malaysian trumpet snails? A detailed snail video might be cool when things slow down. Thanks again for all that you and the crew do!!!
Thanks for another great video. Your passion and enthusiasm is contagious. Blessings to you, your wife and the crew. I went and subbed to Mike's channel.
Ugga duggas are an official unit of measurement for tightening objects with an impact wrench. Bloops will become an official measurement for pouring liquids now.
Hi, thanks for your excellent and informative video, presented in an easy to watch style. The tip on vinegar cleaning was very helpful. Please allow me to make a comment, which is in no way whatsoever meant as criticism. Most of the videos I watch concerning fish keeping seem to be from America. There are 195 countries in the world and only three use the old Imperial system. Terms such as gallons, quarts, ounces, fahrenheit, inches etc are not used in the other 192 countries. Naturally we can always look up the conversion charts but it would be thoughtful to mention both measurement units - metric & Imperial. Keep up the good work. Regards from Cape Town
Should note: Mike can remove a little over half of the Swordplant's root's length. It doesn't hurt them at all and kind of kickstarts them started growing new roots. Red Flame Swordplants grow massive amounts of roots when fully established, and they look beautiful.
Gretat vlog, very informative, I am doing ghost shrimp right now, and I took my mystery snails from my other tank . I hope this works out for you and me.
Thank you for specifically expessing not to use buffering substrates for neocaridina shrimp, i'm currently planning a 20 gallon shrimp tank and this stratum i bought will now instead be used for a small south american cichlid breeding tank! 😁
the shrimp need the minerals in the water to survive, its definitely something that they require. Tap water may contain levels of KH and GH present but they might not be at the levels the shrimp need. He mineralized the RO water because RO water is super pure so he brought those levels from 0 to the amount that the shrimp would need
That's 5% vinegar. Then further diluted in that much water! Placebo comes to mind. Test the pH of that water and see if it made any difference. Use Chlorine. It will completely dissipate. Always works except for some cysts... not likely you will have those cysts in potable water.
When you clean the filter how do you prevent your substrate from shifting? Or do you not need to remove that kind of filter to clean it. Never used one?
Very similar to setting up hydroponic water.i use mycorrhizae in my soil for rapid root growth also strength. my plants tend to show better coloring with my flame swords
love your vids and thnx for sharing your knowledge, rob. i'm a beginner and trying to keep and breed cherries in a 3 gallon low-tech nano tank (marineland contour 3), with lots of plants and some drift wood and mineral rocks. it's taken me 2.5 months of learning, trial and error, and sadly killing a bunch of shrimps in the process. i finally have the water parameters within range, with ph @ 7.1, kh @ 4, and gh @ 7. however, the tds likes to stay around 250. i tried water changes and lowered it to 200; it eventually slowly creeps back up to 250. i don't know if tds will continue to rise; i guess time will tell. so my question is how accurately should i monitor the water parameters, esp. tds? i keep hearing to do less and keep it stable. at which point do i need to lower tds? and besides water changes, what else can i do to lower tds? 2nd question is my water temp fluctuates from 72 to 75 everyday, depending on day/night natural room temp. is that ok? last question, how many shrimp in a 3 gallon tank is too many for them to breed? many thnx, rob. your fan, david
To break down the powder faster you should throw in a wave 🌊 maker in the bottom! That’s how I mic stuff really fast and really well!! Give it a try it’s awesome!
Interesting. Never thought of doing this! My family runs a shelter/pitbull rescue and we are always buying expensive disinfects to scrub kennels and floors and crates. I’ll have to look into the vinegar method!!!
Would you always recommend snails in your breeder tanks? I’m doing two 3 gallon tanks and would I be able to substitute the snails with a good amount of plants instead?
Thanks for the video. I used salty shrimp gh/kh w/ distilled water. Got the TDS to 200, water temp 72, added some plants that feed off the water column and inert substrate... got the bio cycle going. My plants came with pond snails which are quite reproductive, but I’m leaving them for now as they’re ensuring the cycle stays alive. Anyway my main concern at the moment is the ph. The salty shrimp jumps the ph from neutral all the way up to almost 8. I do have some cholla wood in there. No leaves yet. But I keep reading RCS like it 7-7.2 or so. How can I lower it but also keep my TDS up?
Cherry shrimp always die on me in a week or two. Ghost shrimp live forever, but the cherries never seem to survive. I'll wake up one morning and they're just gone
I’m about to set up my first neo shrimp only tank. If you’re adding snails to a new tank, what do they feed on while the tank doesn’t yet have a bio film or algae?
Hi..I have some Amano shrimp in a 20 gal tank. From watching this vid in the past, I ordered a TDS monitor. just checked that tank and it's reading 569. wow...but the 2 shrimp I have in there seem to be doing ok. I want to get some cherry shrimp, but how do I bring this reading down? this is just my tap water with Prime.
Hey Rob. Thanks for the tip on putting the snails in a corner to see which arrived alive and which arrived . . . well . . . not 😟. I just finished acclimating dozens of Malaysian trumpets (another seller, sorry, I did not realize!) for my endler grow-out tanks and, since I ordered, it has been almost all negative feedback for the seller, yikes! Your "test" should reveal the truth; although I am happy to report that after just 15 minutes in the dark, two are starting to climb the wall! Maybe I'm the lucky one!!! Thinking of adding shrimp next (definitely yours), then some marketable plants (do you sell? Hang on, I'm off to your website again. Be right back . . .. ) Tell you what, to keep you from waiting around on me to return, I'll keep watching if you'll keep teaching. Coffee-on!
Thanks so much for watching all! Here is a complete guide to setting up an aquarium for Neocaridina Shrimp:
Step #1 - 1:58
Step #2 - 8:45
Step #3 - 16:03
Step #4 - 24:04
Step #5 - 29:10
Step #6 - 30:10
Step #7 - 34:47
Don't forget to show Mike a little love and check out his channel: th-cam.com/channels/pUNfW0D7W_8YTQPXBNBSHQ.html
Very helpful video. Can you make the same video for caridina shrimp?
Will the Snails eat the Sword plants?
if only other youtubers did this on their video guides
Pro tip for those without ro/di
Most ice filling kiosks sell ro/di water (for water cooler jugs) for average 1 dollar per 5 gallons.
So do you absolutely need a TDS as well as remineralization product or will the shrimp do fine with de chlorinated tap water and or distilled water?
This was a very good video I dont know how I missed it 👍
Thank you Mark! We appreciate the support. Glad you enjoyed it.
Susswassertang is a great alternative to moss. It’s a fern and stays in a ball/clump where you put it.
Most people don't realize .. Vinegar is also an amazing glass cleaner too. Anytime you get a film on the outside , oils and all.. I look through the tank to see the glass from the outside as I'm cleaning . You'll see all the oils and external films come off the glass easier. Once the glass becomes squeaky ,I know it's clean. It works better and is safer than anything else.
It's actually a base ingredient and many many cleaners companies have just started using lab made versions they own patents on. Windex smells like vinegar ffs lol. I agree tho plain white vinegar is in my top 3 household cleaning products.
If you forget to pull your wash out of the washing machine and it sits overnight pour a cup of vinegar and rewash it and the smell will be gone!
thank you so much i have finally started a succesful tank without spending hundreds of dollars on stock... Always thought of Snails as nuisances and pests i was wrong i love my orange mystery snail
I like that little "bloop" you added when dumping the vinegar in. Most effective.
Rob. Your are truly gifted young man. Keep up with the videos. Very instructional. Looking forward to meeting up with you again at the next fish show. God bless young man
Thank you all for the great information! I especially love the save and slip before remineralizing the ro/di water. 😂 I'm going to be breaking down my 20 gallon long guppy tank to restart into a shrimp tank, what it was going to be originally. You both have given me great ideas for the future. Thank you all once again!
I always enjoy watching your videos, you are so positive and it is awesome to see how you've grown your business and continue to help the hobby grow. I just started making videos this past year and watching channels like yours with good content always encourages me to keep making videos.
Lol dude I’ve been researching dart frogs and I really like your favorite dart frog video. It’s cool to see all these people in different places!
@@user-tb4sl4ex2q Thanks! Yeah it is nice to see the hobby growing, let me know if you ever have any questions.
TCS Dart Frogs thanks 🐸
I love these types of videos... really learning a lot and definitely going to get some of that salty shrimp minerals for sure ... thanks so much really help me out !
Thank you for the setup video, setting up a 10 gallon and i just need a snail before adding shrimp, hopefully I will be able to successfully keep shrimp! Definitely will share this video! God Bless & Happy Holidays 🙏✝️😊
I really feel like this guy is high as hell and its awesome
Its those blood shot eyes, and he's always so happy to see the shrimp lol
Its the smirk....
As a Kite!
He's stoned
So... am I 😁
“You will be doing this on a much smaller scale”
I think you underestimate my nonsense when it comes to the animals I house 🤣
Nice setup, I can feel the MTS creeping up on me! Lol Subscribed
This is a great video. Very informative. Can’t wait for the next video in this series
Rob mate that is one heck of a tank for shrimp
Thanks Rob, love your videos!!! Your upbeat attitude is contagious and it’s amazing that you’re so knowledgeable and willing to share your knowledge!!
I am curious on your choice of snail, do you prefer mystery snails over nerite or Malaysian trumpet snails? A detailed snail video might be cool when things slow down. Thanks again for all that you and the crew do!!!
For your analytics or whatever, this is the video that got my sub. Aquarium Co-op introduced me to you I believe. Thank you for sharing the knowledge!
Thanks for another great video. Your passion and enthusiasm is contagious. Blessings to you, your wife and the crew. I went and subbed to Mike's channel.
Do shrimps require, heating in the tank
With a love to see you acclimate, and put the shrimp in the tank. Other than that great and informative video
Ugga duggas are an official unit of measurement for tightening objects with an impact wrench.
Bloops will become an official measurement for pouring liquids now.
Great tips and tricks! Waiting for your next big restock....! I hope it’s soon!!
Came here for knowledge. Liked for the NF hoodie.
Thank you so much appreciate it. It was a Lotta good information.
Good to know about the Magnolia leaves.. very abundant around me :-)
Hi, thanks for your excellent and informative video, presented in an easy to watch style. The tip on vinegar cleaning was very helpful. Please allow me to make a comment, which is in no way whatsoever meant as criticism. Most of the videos I watch concerning fish keeping seem to be from America. There are 195 countries in the world and only three use the old Imperial system. Terms such as gallons, quarts, ounces, fahrenheit, inches etc are not used in the other 192 countries. Naturally we can always look up the conversion charts but it would be thoughtful to mention both measurement units - metric & Imperial. Keep up the good work. Regards from Cape Town
DJ Magic Mike... we like the cars that go boom or we like the keratina shrimp that go boom and our fish tanks...Tom from New Jersey ♡♡♡
Thanks for giving this advice. Have a good 2020!
Should note: Mike can remove a little over half of the Swordplant's root's length. It doesn't hurt them at all and kind of kickstarts them started growing new roots. Red Flame Swordplants grow massive amounts of roots when fully established, and they look beautiful.
Subed both channels. Yall rock. Im wanting to add cherry shrimp to my 55 gallon guppy grow out tank. Maybe one day.
That’s pretty cool I wanted to mix both of those as well for my new tank
Great video, thanks guys !!
Gretat vlog, very informative, I am doing ghost shrimp right now, and I took my mystery snails from my other tank . I hope this works out for you and me.
Yall the real deal.. Gonna start ordering from here👻
I am a new subscriber, just saw your video and you guys are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the beginner video! :)
Very good video brother can't wait to see how it all turns out
Thank you for specifically expessing not to use buffering substrates for neocaridina shrimp, i'm currently planning a 20 gallon shrimp tank and this stratum i bought will now instead be used for a small south american cichlid breeding tank! 😁
Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Very informative and great advice!
This was so so insanely helpful, thank you so much!!
So do you absolutely need a TDS as well as remineralization product or will the shrimp do fine with de chlorinated tap water and or distilled water?
the shrimp need the minerals in the water to survive, its definitely something that they require. Tap water may contain levels of KH and GH present but they might not be at the levels the shrimp need. He mineralized the RO water because RO water is super pure so he brought those levels from 0 to the amount that the shrimp would need
@@chidori5011 Ight thanks bro
To get start is a 10 gallon tank good
yes, mine is about ten gallons and it is a good beginner size
That's 5% vinegar. Then further diluted in that much water! Placebo comes to mind. Test the pH of that water and see if it made any difference. Use Chlorine. It will completely dissipate. Always works except for some cysts... not likely you will have those cysts in potable water.
Awesome! Can’t wait to get my cherry shrimp!
Thanks RLC :)
Great information looks great trying shrimp but having issues with worms
very helpful video. thank you
No drill and paint stirrer(er) 😂 perfect for mixing that batch of water
Also you should look into getting magenta mystery snails 🐌
When you clean the filter how do you prevent your substrate from shifting? Or do you not need to remove that kind of filter to clean it. Never used one?
This was really helpful !! I want to have a 10 gallon shrimp tank but I’m not sure what filter/heater to buy
I use oak leaves,which I add every 2-3 weeks,because they decompose quickly.The baby shrimp love them though.
the bottle wont add doses itself if you just throw it in! hahaha great video guys!
Very similar to setting up hydroponic water.i use mycorrhizae in my soil for rapid root growth also strength. my plants tend to show better coloring with my flame swords
Theres so little hiding spaces in that huge tank for shrimp.
love your vids and thnx for sharing your knowledge, rob. i'm a beginner and trying to keep and breed cherries in a 3 gallon low-tech nano tank (marineland contour 3), with lots of plants and some drift wood and mineral rocks. it's taken me 2.5 months of learning, trial and error, and sadly killing a bunch of shrimps in the process. i finally have the water parameters within range, with ph @ 7.1, kh @ 4, and gh @ 7. however, the tds likes to stay around 250. i tried water changes and lowered it to 200; it eventually slowly creeps back up to 250. i don't know if tds will continue to rise; i guess time will tell. so my question is how accurately should i monitor the water parameters, esp. tds? i keep hearing to do less and keep it stable. at which point do i need to lower tds? and besides water changes, what else can i do to lower tds? 2nd question is my water temp fluctuates from 72 to 75 everyday, depending on day/night natural room temp. is that ok? last question, how many shrimp in a 3 gallon tank is too many for them to breed? many thnx, rob. your fan, david
all great questions I would love an answer too
Audio is just right! :)
dude because of that bottle drop I ve screamed at work xD 17:00
Awesome very informative love it! 👏👊
Hi! So many products packed nice with also nice prices. :))) Use the damn sand from a river. Will work same and way more cheaper.
Flourite black raised my tds through the roof!!!!!
Are there a complete book for neocaridina shrimp beginners setup and care
Great tip about snails
Thank you 😊
To break down the powder faster you should throw in a wave 🌊 maker in the bottom! That’s how I mic stuff really fast and really well!! Give it a try it’s awesome!
Whats the best bacteria to use for Caridina shrimp?
I am 62 always white vinagur for aquariums even bird cages. Safe, and will kill germs. I used it also on dog crates to cat bedding rinse.
Interesting. Never thought of doing this! My family runs a shelter/pitbull rescue and we are always buying expensive disinfects to scrub kennels and floors and crates. I’ll have to look into the vinegar method!!!
I use it to clean the cat litter tray too and all of the hard surfaces in the house.
Watch out for corner silicone. I nicked it with those cause the leak in my silicone
Nice bro 😁
Would you always recommend snails in your breeder tanks? I’m doing two 3 gallon tanks and would I be able to substitute the snails with a good amount of plants instead?
To clean your nets, do you soak nets in a vinegar/water solution, soak for an hour, rinse then ket the nets dry out...?
Awesome dude grate info
3:43 (singing) Do a little bloop, bloop...little bleep bleep... LOL
Thanks for the video. I used salty shrimp gh/kh w/ distilled water. Got the TDS to 200, water temp 72, added some plants that feed off the water column and inert substrate... got the bio cycle going. My plants came with pond snails which are quite reproductive, but I’m leaving them for now as they’re ensuring the cycle stays alive.
Anyway my main concern at the moment is the ph. The salty shrimp jumps the ph from neutral all the way up to almost 8. I do have some cholla wood in there. No leaves yet. But I keep reading RCS like it 7-7.2 or so. How can I lower it but also keep my TDS up?
I'm curious as to why you dont use aragonite gravel. Neocaradina are a hard water species arent they?
Cherry shrimp always die on me in a week or two. Ghost shrimp live forever, but the cherries never seem to survive. I'll wake up one morning and they're just gone
No cleaning the florite ?
Prime Time aquatics sent me😂
I'm curious how it will turn out at the end 👍💚
I’m about to set up my first neo shrimp only tank. If you’re adding snails to a new tank, what do they feed on while the tank doesn’t yet have a bio film or algae?
Any food is fine. Standard fish food, unsalted green beans, potatoes, etc. They will eat it all :D
Is dirt an inert substrate? How long should you cycle if you don't have bacteria and just used aged water from old tank?
bacteria is mostly only on surfaces so probably just grab media from another tank or something
Look to google it will answer you
When yall dropped the bottle in the water i started dying hahaha
Which soil can i use for neocardina?
Hi..I have some Amano shrimp in a 20 gal tank. From watching this vid in the past, I ordered a TDS monitor. just checked that tank and it's reading 569. wow...but the 2 shrimp I have in there seem to be doing ok. I want to get some cherry shrimp, but how do I bring this reading down? this is just my tap water with Prime.
Do you have a link for the pump ? What make it is please
Hey Rob. Thanks for the tip on putting the snails in a corner to see which arrived alive and which arrived . . . well . . . not 😟. I just finished acclimating dozens of Malaysian trumpets (another seller, sorry, I did not realize!) for my endler grow-out tanks and, since I ordered, it has been almost all negative feedback for the seller, yikes! Your "test" should reveal the truth; although I am happy to report that after just 15 minutes in the dark, two are starting to climb the wall! Maybe I'm the lucky one!!! Thinking of adding shrimp next (definitely yours), then some marketable plants (do you sell? Hang on, I'm off to your website again. Be right back . . .. )
Tell you what, to keep you from waiting around on me to return, I'll keep watching if you'll keep teaching. Coffee-on!
I dont use a RO/DI. I am setting up a shrimp tank. My tap water reads 40 from my TDS meter. Should I use Shrimp Mineral?
Hi, thanks for the video! good job. you should ship outside the U.S also... how can I buy from you otherway?
What about Nerite snails?
Wait you said cardina shrimps in the start and now im in the midle and you say neocardina?
where do you get your Malaysian driftwood? I need some genuine large pieces for my tank.
What color light(s) is best for shrimps and a few low-maintenance plants? White, white & blue, or white, blue & red. Thanks.
what type of light du you sugesst for this
What is the foam and where did you get it
How much gh and kh do you get with the 200 tds ?
Where do you get the foam sheets?
How often do you feed your shrimp.????
How do you clean Matten filters?
that was a damn good video
Thanks so much Harold :)
can you do a caridina tank set up tank?