61k views and your just spitting knowledge and showing shrimp you really did something here bro I’ve learned a lot from you so I just wanted to take a second and show some appreciation man
I’ve heard of people successfully breeding neocaridina dwarf shrimp as low as 68 Fahrenheit buts that’s the lowest I’d ever go with them I’ve definitely noticed better success at lower temps like you mentioned with keeping their life cycle longer
Yes with enough hiding spots, 100% ...the fish may eat a few, but ive had it work out in 5 or 6 tanks over the years...if it's obviously a slaughter, move the betta to a bowl for a bit to cool off...or add a mirror to the side of the tank, so the betta flares at its self.
When you move them from tank to tank do you just met them out and put them into the next tank or temp acclamation or drip acclamation. Basically how do you move them?
i kept 4 black phantom tetra 3 albino cory 3 khuli loach 3 cpd 2 neon 4 rcs a bunch of bladder snails and 1 assasin snail (1month old in the tank) just for snail population control however this morning i found one dead shrimp beside a newly dead or killed snail my shrimps are 4months old and i believe its a male, do assasin snail kill shrimps as well? should i remove the assasin snail out?
@Fishstory Hello Alex, I assume you use buffers is because you have soft water? I noticed that most fishkeepers forget to mention their water type (might be because they have mentioned it so many times already in other videos) I assume that keeping neocaridinas in hardwater might be easier?
Yes definitely. Just needs to be well planted and the baby shrimp need ground level rock pile hides, or cholla wood etc. The baby shrimp will be edible for 2 weeks to 8 weeks depending on species and parameters, but usually ive seen half the babies or more survive a tank where I've planned for them both. Best or luck!
Do you get a little foggy look to your water from almond leaf in tank. I had a nice Amber look from my driftwood but now it got a little cloudy after almond leaf in tank! Thanks
Carefully. I think you'd be having to alter the sodium levels as they live their lives in brackish, salt, and "fresh". Which is actually just less brackish. I think our tanks are usually the most salt free water most fish would ever see.
@@Fishtory I have babaulti shrimp here and my ph is 7.6 and my GH is around the medium. My babaulti shrimp here are expensive so I think ill go with the blue rilis
Thank you for the information on shrimp. I'm new to shrimp and I can't about 5 of my shrimp were saddled about 3 weeks ago but I cannot tell if they are pregnant or not. I don't know why i can't tell! It's driving me nuts because i want to tank them out and out them in my one gallon to give birth. I have them in a 5 gallon with my guppy fry and I don't know if they will eat the babies and my guess is that they will.
What Shrimp can i keep with my Amano Shrimp?? PS Only fish with them are some Otos, but ill be removing them as with them all together they do too much of a good job lol
Ammano can be mean when fully grown and hungry. That being said, most other shrimp can live with them, as long as you make sure they're also getting food while the amano's are busy with their own food pile heh
I love the 1/2 inch sand 1/2 -1 inch tiny gravel then 2 inches of soil/substrate...depending on the look you want, then cap all those layers with half an inch to an inch of fine sand again... so 3 to 5 inches ....(you can do 3 inches of soil for 6 total if its a 125 gallon or something that will have deep rooted plants long term. But it's all depending on how big the tank is. A 10 gallon with good filtration may only need an inch of sand and or gravel and then an inch or two of nutrient rich substrate (but this leaves the water column exposed to the substrate leeching ammonia and nitrates....which is okay if your well cycled and not running tons of fish already.
Just wondering, if a guppy or a shrimp dies but you don't notice and you have a planted tank or it goes into a cave or under an ornament what do you do to discover it before the smell starts?
usually they float, but if a shrimp does, the other shrimp eat it within 12 hours and recycle all that calcium and protein (same with molts) Guppies also disappear within 24 hours....that being said, dead fish are not a good sign and may spike ammonia or spread whatever killed them in the first place. so it's best to try and scoop them out, but in a heavily planted tank with snails, shrimp, fish and bacteria colonies. usually there's no smell and I see them floating (often females die after giving birth from exhaustion or complications.) good question though!
Do a lot of breeders use nursery tanks when trying to lure up there lines? I've honestly never seen/ heard of doing this with shrimp. But I can see why you do it. I kinda want to try now.
I have a mixed aquarium with breeding cherry shrimp; Ranging from a solid red to almost no red at all. Here's my question. How did I end up with a red rilly and a blue In my last batch of babies?
Probably to late. But if you take a look on a neocaridina breeding chart. You will quickly understand, that the red ones have surpressed genes, which with a bit of luck will show off once in a while when breeding. It's just happening naturally.
The room is 72, and if I need it warmer in a tank, I'll just turn up an in tank heater. But if you live someplace warm, that's tricky... Its 50 degrees F. outside here most the year.
Besides using a chiller, you can use a small fan to create airflow across the surface of the water. The air will help the water molecules with the highest kinetic energy to escape and thus reduce the overall temp. The airflow will also increase the rate of gas exchange so if you’re injecting CO2 it might not be a good solution.
Are you still keeping Erythromicron with your CPDs? Several websites and forums say NOT to keep them together as they can interbreed/hybridize. If that's no issue to you, it's no issue to me- just curious.
there is concern in that. however nothing survives even being an egg in this tank of micro predators. all the places an egg can drop (not into the shrimp rock hides) gets eaten within minutes by one of the hungry fish. honestly if they did hybridize. I'd love to see it though
Which species? I can hook you up with a crazy deal on gold nebulas or malawa color changers for anywhere from 6 to 4 dollars most likely As for neocaridina, i have a few top of the line blues but they're 8 to 10 dollars each
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium did you get Sakura grade yellows? We need more people in the area with high quality yellows. I’ve noticed everyone has some nearly clear ones.
Ottocinclus and hillstream loaches/borneo suckers are pretty shrimp safe. ottos are 100% as they dont like proteins the hillstream/borneo loaches less so.
careful with killifish they love shrimp, had some in my tank and two of them pretty much wiped out my shrimp population in a 46g tank, i had to rehome them once they started feeding on my while cloud mountain minnows.
Plants need nutrients....lots of fish, some extra potassium, a bit of carbon, a bit of root tab or liquid fertilizer and that's it.... some of my tanks now have co2 but i use it sparingly unless it's a new aquascape im trying to turn bright colors... check out my video called "35 vividly colored red pink and purple plants" it'll show you the huuuge difference
clown killies have been known to eat both shrimplets and atack and eat parts of adult shrimp. clown killies have quite a big mouth in comparison to its body..
yes this is true, any fish technically will attack shrimp (even otos and plecos), however, in all my time keeping clown killies ive seen them eat one baby and never bug the adults. But yes, everyone is different and with dither species, feeding regiments and hiding spots, I think it would work just finely
If you have RO water like Seattle, you should...like brightwell or fluval stratum plant and shrimp, both will prevent the swing of ph and drop the ph from say 7.0 to 6.6-6.8 usually in my tanks it puts my gh at 6 or 7 and kh at 3 or 4.
Don’t give up- I know it can be frustrating and deaths can be dissuading but the accomplishment is much greater once you get things steady. Check water parameters often, test your tap water, use good dechlorinator, slowly acclimate the shrimp. Live plants and water changes are also big keys. Good luck!!
I'm not an expert, but I've found your best success, other than appropriate parameters, comes from that biofilm and lots of it. Mine happily graze through bba. Set up a tank for like a month or three with the plant light running 24 hours a day. Test water, maybe you have copper to deal with. Err on the side of cold. Don't use carbon in the tank/filter. Ok to use carbon to strip your refill water and then rebuild it. but you probably don't want any type of chemical filtration in for the tank. And drip your refill water in, no dumping of buckets. I use an airline tube like a syphon to refill. Even that's kind of fast. Oh, and make sure your refill water isn't a lot different than the tank. If it is maybe you need to do smaller water changes.
61k views and your just spitting knowledge and showing shrimp you really did something here bro I’ve learned a lot from you so I just wanted to take a second and show some appreciation man
I love your videos! So helpful, i love your vibe and you make me excited to set up new tanks
So Glad to hear it! Welcome friend 🙏
Just rewatched this 3 times to get all the great info
Glad to hear
Love your channel dude!! Only found your videos about 2 months ago but slowly going through them all
I truly appreciate that. Thank you kindly! If you have any questions or want to share any info, this community is always open to you. Cheers! -Alex.
I'm always amazed that your shrimp live and thrive with all the fish they live with.
careful selection of terrain and fish
I like the looks of your tanks.
Thank you. Nature is always the most influential factor in them :)
Great info Alex. Hope you're coming along well
I am!
This was a really useful video thank you. Allot of information I’ve not heard before.
No problem. Thank YOU for tuning in and dropping your thoughts in the comments
Alright brother another super helpful video thanks 🤙
Glad to hear it! Thank YOU
Oh and that gonzo shrimp made me lol! Very cute shrimp.
LRBRETZ has alot of success with them rock piles. I wanna start a cherry shrimp tank and do that too
I started with 20 cherrys and that was like 8 months ago and now it looks like I have 500!
Wishing those Lemons would spawn ... haha ... Hope the shrimp arrive soon! Thanks for sharing!
project for this coming week, me thinks
I’ve heard of people successfully breeding neocaridina dwarf shrimp as low as 68 Fahrenheit buts that’s the lowest I’d ever go with them I’ve definitely noticed better success at lower temps like you mentioned with keeping their life cycle longer
Nice
Cool!! The killyfish are cute!
Do you think I could have a betta in my 30 gal with lots of plants, driftwood, and rocks without suffering too many losses?
Yes with enough hiding spots, 100% ...the fish may eat a few, but ive had it work out in 5 or 6 tanks over the years...if it's obviously a slaughter, move the betta to a bowl for a bit to cool off...or add a mirror to the side of the tank, so the betta flares at its self.
I can't put it into words how much I envy you have tap water at 17 TDS 😂😂
I though my water was soft, it comes out of the tap at 97 TDS.
I have 300
rad! that's awesome
Isn't around 100 ok for neocaridina
@@rabidrabbitsmokingneonlights yes but I think people like it really low to start with so you can add minerals that benefit the shrimps
Very informative, thank-you so much.
When you move them from tank to tank do you just met them out and put them into the next tank or temp acclamation or drip acclamation. Basically how do you move them?
I just move em as long as the water is roughly the same... usually I just test tds and ph
i kept 4 black phantom tetra 3 albino cory 3 khuli loach 3 cpd 2 neon 4 rcs a bunch of bladder snails and 1 assasin snail (1month old in the tank) just for snail population control however this morning i found one dead shrimp beside a newly dead or killed snail my shrimps are 4months old and i believe its a male, do assasin snail kill shrimps as well? should i remove the assasin snail out?
@Fishstory
Hello Alex, I assume you use buffers is because you have soft water?
I noticed that most fishkeepers forget to mention their water type (might be because they have mentioned it so many times already in other videos)
I assume that keeping neocaridinas in hardwater might be easier?
Hi Alex what do you think about keeping chilli rasboras with shrimps can this be done do you think as the rasboras are very small
Yes definitely. Just needs to be well planted and the baby shrimp need ground level rock pile hides, or cholla wood etc. The baby shrimp will be edible for 2 weeks to 8 weeks depending on species and parameters, but usually ive seen half the babies or more survive a tank where I've planned for them both.
Best or luck!
@@Fishtory thanks! 🙂
Do you get a little foggy look to your water from almond leaf in tank. I had a nice Amber look from my driftwood but now it got a little cloudy after almond leaf in tank! Thanks
yes totally normal and good enzymes, bacteria and fungi/ tannins that are all good for their slime coating
how can run breeder box and two tanks off an air pump, does anyone know what size I will need?
Get a 2 or 4 line air compressor
Dude you really know your stuff!
How do you breed brackish shrimp? Like Amano shrimp and purple zebra shrimp?
Carefully. I think you'd be having to alter the sodium levels as they live their lives in brackish, salt, and "fresh". Which is actually just less brackish. I think our tanks are usually the most salt free water most fish would ever see.
Where did you get your malawa shrimp?
A local friend about 6 years ago now they are kind of hard to find
@@Fishtory I have babaulti shrimp here and my ph is 7.6 and my GH is around the medium. My babaulti shrimp here are expensive so I think ill go with the blue rilis
@@Fishtory Tanks for the advice. get it
What is the shrimp specie in the thumbnail ?
Thank you for the information on shrimp. I'm new to shrimp and I can't about 5 of my shrimp were saddled about 3 weeks ago but I cannot tell if they are pregnant or not. I don't know why i can't tell! It's driving me nuts because i want to tank them out and out them in my one gallon to give birth. I have them in a 5 gallon with my guppy fry and I don't know if they will eat the babies and my guess is that they will.
Ubaci mahovinu i ništa ne brini dobra je i za velike i male 😉 Just put some Java moss for baby shrimps
What Shrimp can i keep with my Amano Shrimp??
PS Only fish with them are some Otos, but ill be removing them as with them all together they do too much of a good job lol
Ammano can be mean when fully grown and hungry. That being said, most other shrimp can live with them, as long as you make sure they're also getting food while the amano's are busy with their own food pile heh
@@Fishtory I got Amanos and Cherrys together, i hope i did ok with that
How many inches of soil
I love the 1/2 inch sand 1/2 -1 inch tiny gravel then 2 inches of soil/substrate...depending on the look you want, then cap all those layers with half an inch to an inch of fine sand again... so 3 to 5 inches ....(you can do 3 inches of soil for 6 total if its a 125 gallon or something that will have deep rooted plants long term. But it's all depending on how big the tank is.
A 10 gallon with good filtration may only need an inch of sand and or gravel and then an inch or two of nutrient rich substrate (but this leaves the water column exposed to the substrate leeching ammonia and nitrates....which is okay if your well cycled and not running tons of fish already.
Is it possible to have shrimp in a patio pond with temperatures ranging from about 70-80° throughout the day ?
100% do ittt!
Just wondering, if a guppy or a shrimp dies but you don't notice and you have a planted tank or it goes into a cave or under an ornament what do you do to discover it before the smell starts?
usually they float, but if a shrimp does, the other shrimp eat it within 12 hours and recycle all that calcium and protein (same with molts) Guppies also disappear within 24 hours....that being said, dead fish are not a good sign and may spike ammonia or spread whatever killed them in the first place. so it's best to try and scoop them out, but in a heavily planted tank with snails, shrimp, fish and bacteria colonies. usually there's no smell and I see them floating (often females die after giving birth from exhaustion or complications.)
good question though!
What smell? Shrimp leave no trace. I had a totally different shrimp, a few grass shrimp. Platies and otos would just vanish.
@@-8_8- possibly you have ghost or vampire shrimp🧐🧐🧐
What kind of shrimp do you have in the thumb nail of this video? Its very colourful and id love to know the name of them.
they are pink caridina zebras for Suliwassi and have a saddle for color inside ad well ss algae type food inside which produces that
thanks for the reply and id love to see them in your tank. would be great to breed such colourful shrimp. :)
Bloodshot Gamer unfortunately they are larvae breeders who need brackish water i believe
15 is super low. I thought I was living the high life when I moved from 460 to 218
Hehe yeah almost RO
Do a lot of breeders use nursery tanks when trying to lure up there lines? I've honestly never seen/ heard of doing this with shrimp. But I can see why you do it. I kinda want to try now.
Whats the shrimp in the thumbnail?
I have a mixed aquarium with breeding cherry shrimp; Ranging from a solid red to almost no red at all. Here's my question. How did I end up with a red rilly and a blue In my last batch of babies?
Probably to late. But if you take a look on a neocaridina breeding chart. You will quickly understand, that the red ones have surpressed genes, which with a bit of luck will show off once in a while when breeding. It's just happening naturally.
How do y'all keep your tanks at 72?
Note the y'all. For me this seems like I need to refrigerate water a few degrees.
The room is 72, and if I need it warmer in a tank, I'll just turn up an in tank heater. But if you live someplace warm, that's tricky... Its 50 degrees F. outside here most the year.
Besides using a chiller, you can use a small fan to create airflow across the surface of the water. The air will help the water molecules with the highest kinetic energy to escape and thus reduce the overall temp. The airflow will also increase the rate of gas exchange so if you’re injecting CO2 it might not be a good solution.
Are you still keeping Erythromicron with your CPDs? Several websites and forums say NOT to keep them together as they can interbreed/hybridize.
If that's no issue to you, it's no issue to me- just curious.
there is concern in that. however nothing survives even being an egg in this tank of micro predators. all the places an egg can drop (not into the shrimp rock hides) gets eaten within minutes by one of the hungry fish.
honestly if they did hybridize. I'd love to see it though
Hey, I saw you're local (Seattle)... How much would you sell some small shrimp for? I can't find local people who sell!
Which species? I can hook you up with a crazy deal on gold nebulas or malawa color changers for anywhere from 6 to 4 dollars most likely
As for neocaridina, i have a few top of the line blues but they're 8 to 10 dollars each
Ideally for caradinas I'd like crystal reds and for neos I'd like bloody marys! Can't seem to get my hands on either
What kind of shrimp did you order?
oh boy... 5. amono. then neo blue. jade. yellow. and red should all arrive this week or weekend Haha
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium did you get Sakura grade yellows? We need more people in the area with high quality yellows. I’ve noticed everyone has some nearly clear ones.
hopefully. I requested the most opaque yellow as possible
Ottocinclus and hillstream loaches/borneo suckers are pretty shrimp safe. ottos are 100% as they dont like proteins the hillstream/borneo loaches less so.
careful with killifish they love shrimp, had some in my tank and two of them pretty much wiped out my shrimp population in a 46g tank, i had to rehome them once they started feeding on my while cloud mountain minnows.
not clown killi right? they're not even an inch long...I know many other killifish are quite the hunters though
no not clown, i wanna say golden wonder killiwish is what i had. cool fish but just did not fit well in my community tank.
Just keep swimming swimming swimming.
totally
How come you don’t have any CO2 any your plants are alive
Plants need nutrients....lots of fish, some extra potassium, a bit of carbon, a bit of root tab or liquid fertilizer and that's it.... some of my tanks now have co2 but i use it sparingly unless it's a new aquascape im trying to turn bright colors... check out my video called "35 vividly colored red pink and purple plants" it'll show you the huuuge difference
Hi !
See my neicaridina shrimp tank set up !!!!!!! Wwooww
Im breeding Neocaridina:)
Always rewarding!
Paradise fish hunted and killed my 6 asst’d neocardina
Yikes
hehe. i liked it and now the likes are 669. nice
clown killies have been known to eat both shrimplets and atack and eat parts of adult shrimp. clown killies have quite a big mouth in comparison to its body..
yes this is true, any fish technically will attack shrimp (even otos and plecos), however, in all my time keeping clown killies ive seen them eat one baby and never bug the adults. But yes, everyone is different and with dither species, feeding regiments and hiding spots, I think it would work just finely
😅time to start all over from scratch
check out my 10 gallon i will put more videos up
my molly eat the shrimp HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah Molly and most livebearers are general shrimpy snack lovers
Id say about half of the info given is useful..the other half was misleading.
Misleading? Examples, please? I wouldn't want to be misleading people
So it's misleading but you don't cite examples of what's incorrect, or why. Man, you really are a downer.
some of them get eaten by your fish like in nature
definitely, they need to have lots of hiding spots and fish need to be well fed ...not trained to go for moving live food
my female shrimp went into hiding and had baby
Shouldn't use a buffering substrate for Neocaridina.
If you have RO water like Seattle, you should...like brightwell or fluval stratum plant and shrimp, both will prevent the swing of ph and drop the ph from say 7.0 to 6.6-6.8 usually in my tanks it puts my gh at 6 or 7 and kh at 3 or 4.
That thumbnail was not real. You trolled. 🙂
its actually a real babaulti shrimp with saddle. some are insand looking
@@Fishtory oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo u just owned him .........
I can't keep shrimp alive no matter what I do. I've done hours and hours of research and spent lots of money, so I'm about ready to quit.
Don’t give up- I know it can be frustrating and deaths can be dissuading but the accomplishment is much greater once you get things steady. Check water parameters often, test your tap water, use good dechlorinator, slowly acclimate the shrimp. Live plants and water changes are also big keys. Good luck!!
I'm not an expert, but I've found your best success, other than appropriate parameters, comes from that biofilm and lots of it. Mine happily graze through bba. Set up a tank for like a month or three with the plant light running 24 hours a day. Test water, maybe you have copper to deal with. Err on the side of cold. Don't use carbon in the tank/filter. Ok to use carbon to strip your refill water and then rebuild it. but you probably don't want any type of chemical filtration in for the tank. And drip your refill water in, no dumping of buckets. I use an airline tube like a syphon to refill. Even that's kind of fast. Oh, and make sure your refill water isn't a lot different than the tank. If it is maybe you need to do smaller water changes.
Thanks! I finally had success. Started with 20 cherries and now have over 100 and some interesting variations.
😂
🤣🤣 every baby shrimp counts
Amen