Thanks Mark, this is what I noticed as well the simple setup always works better for breeding shrimp. Congrats on the new house and the new shrimp rooms btw, lots of potential!
This is definitely a shrimp setup I want to try out. Loved the video. I’m pretty sure you’re the one who inspired me years ago with the fancy shrimp. Happy I found the TH-cam channel all over again definitely hitting the sub button
Now I have to say I miss seeing you and your shrimp room ! Time flies , I guess but hopefully you will be back because you have one of the best channels going and I believe it's your attitude and the enjoyment you always share !!! So that's what I wanted to say and I now have been enjoying my 1st time which has been a huge sucess , now I have to start the separation process and...
Thank you for your kind words! I'll be back soon with a fresh video. It's just harder this day since we had a baby to find time to create new content for you guys, but I do my best, promise!
Hello I did the same, ordered products from shrimps affair. Cycled my thank in 5 days for my fancy black tiger shrimp. It worked perfectly no shrimp loss, easy maintenance it is just perfect
Great Channel. I'm enjoying your setups. I do have to say that these long cycle periods seem a little crazy to me though. I've kept shrimp on and off for the past 17 years. Over that time period I guess I've set up at least 7 shrimp tanks without any problems. In the past I have generally set up new tanks with an inch or so of Fluval Stratum (sometimes with layer of beach sand on top). I have only used the beach sand with Neos. All of my shrimp tanks have been set up with sponge filters. My Neos have had either well water or remineralized RO. My Caridina have always received remineralized RO. I insta cycle my tanks by taking a mature dirty sponge filter from one of my fish aquariums, and squeezing it out into the new tank. This has always worked for me without any problems. Most of my tanks have been relatively short lived because they have been set up in my classroom or at my summer house, but I have not had lots of shrimp deaths and I have had lots of baby production. I'm preparing to set up three 9 gallon cubes in my classroom. This time I'm going to use a thin layer of lava gravel for a Neo tank and a Sulawesi tank and a thin layer of Fluval Stratum for a Caridina tank. Each tank will also have an UGF filled with 1/8th inch lava pebbles for the Neos and the Sulawesi, and with Fluval Stratum for the Caridina. These will all be insta cycled with the shrimp being added within a week of setting up the tank. I don't expect problems but I'll let you know if I do. Cheers, Chris
We just did a 7 day shrimp setup. It was only possible because we had a filter sponge with a great biome to start. Our levels spiked and receded quickly
Hello my beautiful friend, thank you for your beautiful videos. I am glad I found your channel. I needed someone like you. Regards, you are a beautiful person, I am from Turkey.
People make keeping shrimp SO complicated. I breed shrimp that i sell to the trade, mostly crystals and galaxies, and you can have a tank set up and running perfectly well in 48hrs. Ph 5.4 is so unnecessary, 6.5 - 6.8 is optimal, UGF filters, tried them exactly the same as yours and they dont have any advantages over sponge filters. Bacterial powders? Again, innecessary. Powdered tetramin bioactive grows biofilm much faster.
Of course, if you are fine with keeping your shrimp in a higher pH you don't need to use ugf filter and aqua soil at all because their main purpose is to lower your pH. From my experience caridina shrimp don't do well in the high pH that's why I like to use a combination of ugf with ada Amazonia to lower my pH below 6. Bacterial powder is optional but I noticed a huge boost of biofilm and dust algae growth in my tanks when I use it.
@@ShrimpMania Thats great, but you should never keep caridina below PH 6.2. Optimal is 6.5 - 6.8. Shrimp shell is made of Calcium Carbonate which reacts to acid, it makes their shell soft which leads to moulting problems and is a sure fire way of opening up your shrimp to potential disease. It also causes infertility problems and lower hatch rates and low reproduction. Keeping Caridina in water lower than PH 6 also decreases their lifespan by up to 50%. I don't know where this worrying trend of trying to keep shrimp in highly acidic water has come from, but NO invertibrates in the wild come from highly acidic water regions because they require calcuim to build their shell.
Hey Leon, such a great video! 7 days is amazing! thanks for pointing out that ammonia is less toxic in lower ph, i've heard it a few times but first time seeing it. I'm a little bit weary about 7 days, but i might give it a try as i need to reset a bunch of tanks soon. Did 4 already. Happy to see the golden galaxy/yellow pintos doing well for you, over 50 that's amazing, I had 6 berried in the summer but only 1 baby survived, kinda (later found out the pH was too high) now I have 6 left and moved them to a new tank and hope they'll breed for me. Keep up the great owrk and can't wait till the next update!
Hey Ray, definitely try it, just use a cheap shrimp in the beginning and then you can replace them in a few weeks, that's how I do it now. Good luck with yellow galaxies I hope they'll breed soon.
great video as always! 7 days cycle is crazy haha i also tried to put my shrimps in a tank with 3ppm amonia from ADA gold label, mostly juvenile n babies they are fine, no casualties. but i monitor my nitrate level since rico nico said 25ppm is the maximum level baby shrimp can take. cant wait for another shrimp room tour video from you !
Glad to hear you also have a good experience putting shrimp into not fully cycled tank. I’m surprised to see that many people do that with a good result. Planning to do a full shrimp room upgrade in January. Thanks
I’ve accidentally had little hitch hikers a few times in brand new setups when using established plants and rocks, I was to scared to remove them and put them through more parameter swings! They always made it some how, maybe youth or the fact there was only 1 but I agree with using inexpensive shrimp or culls initially, better safe than sorry! Look forward to seeing your results, the tanks look great. I can’t believe how many different ways there is to set up a shrimp tank… size, soils, bacterias,filters, boxes, built in, ph, gh, lights, times, feeds, fertz! There’s prob 10 choices of each item and every combination 😂
hi, are you by chance dosing any prime or anything else to mitigate the chance of ph swings and affects of the ammonia from leeching and nitrite from cycling process?
This may be a stupid question but are you using just regular RO water with no additives when you initially fill up the tank and for every waterchange after?
I'v been doing this method for years. I cycled my tanks never before adding shrimp. And always goes well. I always use PH-lowering soil and also add bacteria.
Just done 2 like this and ive got another in the process also have a ugf box cycling, managed to source shrimps affair powder in the uk its taken me months to find and outlet! I got a lot from your 2 shrimp affair videos 😊
Another question that comes to my mind is that you use tai cheng dead shrimp vitamins (dsv) whats the use of it how does it benefit and is there a alternative brand same like dsv in your knowledge. Thanks fan from Dubai
So because the box style UGFs seem to work so well for shrimp, wouldn’t a different style filter (HOB, canister) with Aquasoil as media work nearly or just as well?
@16:46 "potato powder"? That were news to me. Could we feed with potato powder? What kind of powder? That powder that is in the food store that we use for doing making Mashed potatoes?
Yes using this powder for a few years and very happy how it works, it helps to grow green walls in my tanks its good food for microflora and fauna. It's nothing like that on the market
Hi Shrimp Mania. Great informative videos. I have been watching your video on ugfs. What do you recommend the flow to be on the ugfs? As my new setup with ugfs with tanks cycling seem to be a little cloudy? I was thinking the flow was to high? Any help is appreciated Thanks
I would say as max as long as your water stays clear but not too strong, something like you see in this video. Sometimes my water is a bit cloudy for the first month or two in new setups which is quite normal and now once the tank entered matured mode after 3 months the water is crystal clear!
Thanks for the reply. In one of your vids you say the ugfs can get clogged? How long are you getting out of them before they get clogged? Your help is greatly appreciated
Hello Sir, Shrimp Bacterial Powder in not available in India so can i Use - Aquatic Remedies Shrimp Re Minerelle, for fomation of Algae and biofilm. Please can you try this product once as Demo.
Hi informative post on shrimp affairs soil. Do you do daily top offs for evaporation. If so do you mineralise the ro for tops offs? Any help is appreciated by everyone thanks shrimp mania
Hi Leon thanks for the video. I've been using shrimp affair's methods since last time. Works every time. However, I really truly wish there is a way to decorate the tank to look slightly more aesthetically pleasing like your old tanks. Maybe you could find a way to do so? With clear bottom but with your soil steps?
I know what you mean it doesn't look pleasant but it works great for breeding shrimp. I tried to create soil steps before but it didn't work well in this setup.
Could you provide a link to the box filter thing that seems so good please? Thank you so much for the entertaining and extremely useful content! Keep up the good work friend! 👏🏼🙏🏼
Nice video! Regarding the green water soup issue "that you normally never have". And you needed to use uv-sterilisering to get rid with the green floating alge. Could this be one possible drawback with setting up the tank like this. You mentioned throughout the video that you had all along amonia. Maybe amonia is one of the preconditions to be able to get green floating water? I suspect that is one of the contributing factors.. Thanks for the video. 👍
@@ShrimpMania ... instead of building a custom box with UGF, I am using filter boxes modified by removing the sponges supplied and replacing with active substrate. So far so good and no issues with ammonia and/or extended cycle time.
@@PapaShrimpTX interesting, I just saw it in your video. Looking good but you need some space at the bottom for the soil powder to sink otherwise your filter might clog very fast and you going to get a lot of soil powder dust in your tank in a little while
@ShrimpMania thanks for the tip! I've been paying close attention to that. That's the reason for one that has inlets on the bottom and the small one with inlets on top. The powdered dust on the initial tank setup definitely came out but it's easy to siphon. 2 and a half months so far on the first tank ... I'll keep checking it
I find your channel recently, and i find a lot of interesting thinks, and get some new ideas for future projects. But i have a question, i don't find in your aquarium any heaters. Who you control the water temperature? By the way i'm starting a neocaridina green projet in the last days Thankes and great work.
i hope you filtered your water that you sucked out of your tank, i once did that and thought to check the water and was lots of babies, they are so tiny they were just a black dot moving in the water
@@harveygronwald1699 You can only buy this soil from Shrimps affair directly and shipping would be very expensive to the US. You can get a price from Darick by contacting him on Shrims affair facebook page. I would also recommend to use ADA Amazonia gold or version 2. For gold version it's better to cycle your tank for at least 5-6 weeks.
i need good substrate but in europe is hard to buy good substrate for shrimps :-/ benibachi was best shrimp substrate but now i cant buy benibachi in EU ... out of stock everywhere in EU...
Bro i bought some moss it was green at start , this is my first time with moss it's being brown day by day what's wrong? , other plants doing great but not the moss i set my tank temperature to 26 ° celcius is that what is wrong
Moss needs some nutrients and normally aqua soil should have plenty of nutrients for the moss to grow green and healthy. Try to dose a little bit of micro fertilisers it should help.
@@ShrimpMania i don't have any fertilizer and i can't buy and at this time i spent all my pocket money in buying shrimp moss plants tank and heater rod
Hello there First of all I enjoy your vidéos very much. Keep up the good work. May I ask what is the bactéries powder you use ? Greetings from France 🇫🇷
é mais a questao do coco dos camaroes é que deveria ser fertilizante e comida das bacterias, nesse caso eu uso ostracodes e tambem ocean blend, que dai eu nem me preocupo mais em aspirar o fundo dos meus neocaridinas, porque sempre ta limpo... amonia zerada nitrito e nitrato tbm zerados isso em 4 meses
Thank you man for your support! The light I'm using are DIY light I made out of aluminium profile and bright LED strip. This is how I made them - th-cam.com/video/OJ48e6KM6mM/w-d-xo.html. The light itself is not super important for the green walls. The bacterial powder is the key, its nutrient source for the green dust algae. The one I'm using is dead shrimp powder from Tai Cheng. The link should be in description.
If you only had one tank, which shrimp would you breed? Not looking to make a lot of money, but I dont want to be stuck with shrimp that nobody, including my LFS, wants. Thanks!
I would pick galaxy tigers, they are just my favorite but they are not easy ones. If I want to see larger numbers than crystal reds, they are very prolific.
@@ShrimpMania Can i breed difference colors of galaxy tigers or do u recommend keeping the same color? If i do get a bunch of black and red galaxies, what color do the shrimplets look like? Thanks!
I am from Singapore and yes i keep Shrimps, no need for any shrimp affairs products, they are just expensive and overated. You will do just fine with other setup and general products that can be found in fish shops.
I do soil changes once a year. Catch all shrimps, empty aquarium, keep 1/3 water, keep filter. Clean tank, add new soil, add old water and filter, add new water, then add shrimps, al on same day, and never have any issues. And yes, also running Ph- soil. And no, I don’t do a 90% water change after a week. I rarely take out water out of my tanks.
I dont see the point if u have to add shrimps bit a bit. I'd better wait untill it's stable and add all the shrimps at once. I only forsee people failing with these professional methods. Only if you have experience can try these way to do it. Otherwise better to be prudent and get stable parameters before adding shrimps.
I hear a lot of things and I really don't know if these informations are true or just a bunch of coincidences/skills. Last one I heard: Adding shrimps, not bit a bit and since day 0. All new... Substrat, water and filter. Only adjusting temperature of waters and shrimps inside. He affirmed that there were no problems. I prefer to go slowly and if I would have some audience, even being very small, I would show this as a professional method and I'll tell to begginers better to be patient. Breeders need to go to the limit but we don't need to go there. Great job bytheway. I'm new, just discovered the Channel since last visit to the breeder. 😉👍🏻
@@FlinJarri I know what said, it's always a bit of risk when you add shrimp earlier but what I noticed that with the shrimp the tank matures a bit quicker and better. In the future, I would just first use a cheap shrimp to cycle the tank and then replace them in a few weeks once the tank fully cycled.
Great video! Ive been doing it this way myself for a little while and its just so simple and easy to do. 👍
Thanks Mark, this is what I noticed as well the simple setup always works better for breeding shrimp. Congrats on the new house and the new shrimp rooms btw, lots of potential!
This is definitely a shrimp setup I want to try out. Loved the video. I’m pretty sure you’re the one who inspired me years ago with the fancy shrimp. Happy I found the TH-cam channel all over again definitely hitting the sub button
Thank you for your kind words. These sorts of comments keep me going and continue to make more videos for you guys. I'm glad you enjoyed
Now I have to say I miss seeing you and your shrimp room ! Time flies , I guess but hopefully you will be back because you have one of the best channels going and I believe it's your attitude and the enjoyment you always share !!! So that's what I wanted to say and I now have been enjoying my 1st time which has been a huge sucess , now I have to start the separation process and...
Thank you for your kind words! I'll be back soon with a fresh video. It's just harder this day since we had a baby to find time to create new content for you guys, but I do my best, promise!
Hello I did the same, ordered products from shrimps affair. Cycled my thank in 5 days for my fancy black tiger shrimp. It worked perfectly no shrimp loss, easy maintenance it is just perfect
Sounds great! Happy to hear it works for you.
I would be afraid to do that. I'm glad that everything turned out well for you!
Thank you, yes that was a bit scary
Great Channel. I'm enjoying your setups. I do have to say that these long cycle periods seem a little crazy to me though. I've kept shrimp on and off for the past 17 years. Over that time period I guess I've set up at least 7 shrimp tanks without any problems. In the past I have generally set up new tanks with an inch or so of Fluval Stratum (sometimes with layer of beach sand on top). I have only used the beach sand with Neos. All of my shrimp tanks have been set up with sponge filters. My Neos have had either well water or remineralized RO. My Caridina have always received remineralized RO. I insta cycle my tanks by taking a mature dirty sponge filter from one of my fish aquariums, and squeezing it out into the new tank. This has always worked for me without any problems. Most of my tanks have been relatively short lived because they have been set up in my classroom or at my summer house, but I have not had lots of shrimp deaths and I have had lots of baby production. I'm preparing to set up three 9 gallon cubes in my classroom. This time I'm going to use a thin layer of lava gravel for a Neo tank and a Sulawesi tank and a thin layer of Fluval Stratum for a Caridina tank. Each tank will also have an UGF filled with 1/8th inch lava pebbles for the Neos and the Sulawesi, and with Fluval Stratum for the Caridina. These will all be insta cycled with the shrimp being added within a week of setting up the tank. I don't expect problems but I'll let you know if I do.
Cheers,
Chris
We just did a 7 day shrimp setup. It was only possible because we had a filter sponge with a great biome to start. Our levels spiked and receded quickly
Hello my beautiful friend, thank you for your beautiful videos. I am glad I found your channel. I needed someone like you. Regards, you are a beautiful person, I am from Turkey.
Where do you get the dead shrimp powder please
People make keeping shrimp SO complicated. I breed shrimp that i sell to the trade, mostly crystals and galaxies, and you can have a tank set up and running perfectly well in 48hrs. Ph 5.4 is so unnecessary, 6.5 - 6.8 is optimal, UGF filters, tried them exactly the same as yours and they dont have any advantages over sponge filters. Bacterial powders? Again, innecessary. Powdered tetramin bioactive grows biofilm much faster.
money my friend ...... all of the time :)
People keep it difficult so people like us can still continue to be happy and successful . It weeds out a lot of jokers
I have been using wardly fish flake powered . I’m gonna try the tetra
Of course, if you are fine with keeping your shrimp in a higher pH you don't need to use ugf filter and aqua soil at all because their main purpose is to lower your pH. From my experience caridina shrimp don't do well in the high pH that's why I like to use a combination of ugf with ada Amazonia to lower my pH below 6. Bacterial powder is optional but I noticed a huge boost of biofilm and dust algae growth in my tanks when I use it.
@@ShrimpMania Thats great, but you should never keep caridina below PH 6.2. Optimal is 6.5 - 6.8. Shrimp shell is made of Calcium Carbonate which reacts to acid, it makes their shell soft which leads to moulting problems and is a sure fire way of opening up your shrimp to potential disease. It also causes infertility problems and lower hatch rates and low reproduction. Keeping Caridina in water lower than PH 6 also decreases their lifespan by up to 50%. I don't know where this worrying trend of trying to keep shrimp in highly acidic water has come from, but NO invertibrates in the wild come from highly acidic water regions because they require calcuim to build their shell.
Hey Leon, such a great video! 7 days is amazing! thanks for pointing out that ammonia is less toxic in lower ph, i've heard it a few times but first time seeing it. I'm a little bit weary about 7 days, but i might give it a try as i need to reset a bunch of tanks soon. Did 4 already. Happy to see the golden galaxy/yellow pintos doing well for you, over 50 that's amazing, I had 6 berried in the summer but only 1 baby survived, kinda (later found out the pH was too high) now I have 6 left and moved them to a new tank and hope they'll breed for me. Keep up the great owrk and can't wait till the next update!
Hey Ray, definitely try it, just use a cheap shrimp in the beginning and then you can replace them in a few weeks, that's how I do it now. Good luck with yellow galaxies I hope they'll breed soon.
great video as always! 7 days cycle is crazy haha i also tried to put my shrimps in a tank with 3ppm amonia from ADA gold label, mostly juvenile n babies they are fine, no casualties. but i monitor my nitrate level since rico nico said 25ppm is the maximum level baby shrimp can take. cant wait for another shrimp room tour video from you !
Glad to hear you also have a good experience putting shrimp into not fully cycled tank. I’m surprised to see that many people do that with a good result. Planning to do a full shrimp room upgrade in January. Thanks
@@ShrimpMania i did wait for 1,5 month before i put the shrimps into the tank. cant wait for the videos! good luck !
I’ve accidentally had little hitch hikers a few times in brand new setups when using established plants and rocks, I was to scared to remove them and put them through more parameter swings! They always made it some how, maybe youth or the fact there was only 1 but I agree with using inexpensive shrimp or culls initially, better safe than sorry! Look forward to seeing your results, the tanks look great. I can’t believe how many different ways there is to set up a shrimp tank… size, soils, bacterias,filters, boxes, built in, ph, gh, lights, times, feeds, fertz! There’s prob 10 choices of each item and every combination 😂
In my country, buying the glass to build an aquarium yourself is twice as expensive as buying the aquarium already assembled
Hello Shrimp Mania,
which Soil you are using generally= For Caridinas and Taiwans? When not using the one from Shrimp affair?
ADA amazonia gold version.
hi, are you by chance dosing any prime or anything else to mitigate the chance of ph swings and affects of the ammonia from leeching and nitrite from cycling process?
This may be a stupid question but are you using just regular RO water with no additives when you initially fill up the tank and for every waterchange after?
Yes I’m using ro water if no shrimp in the tank
I'v been doing this method for years. I cycled my tanks never before adding shrimp. And always goes well. I always use PH-lowering soil and also add bacteria.
Thanks for sharing! This is my fist time and I defiantly do it again.
Just done 2 like this and ive got another in the process also have a ugf box cycling, managed to source shrimps affair powder in the uk its taken me months to find and outlet! I got a lot from your 2 shrimp affair videos 😊
You are more than welcome mate. In case you need more powder, I've got some spare for sale, the link is in the description!
You have fun with weekly water changes ❤😂
Hello, why there was no NO2 in the tank? Does the bateria help dealing with NO2?
It was a nice sharing, my friend. Regards.
How long you put the light on to grow algae?
what kind of druppel test are u using?!
What is the water temperature of the tank and what is recommended?
Another question that comes to my mind is that you use tai cheng dead shrimp vitamins (dsv) whats the use of it how does it benefit and is there a alternative brand same like dsv in your knowledge. Thanks fan from Dubai
I wonder how you measure the PH level of your tanks, can you recommend a measuring tool
Hi shrimp mania, what's your GH and KH in these two new tanks?
GH 4-5; KH 0
@@ShrimpMania thanks 👍
Can your bacteria powder be using in with fish & where can I get it
Where to buy the ugf box?
Whats the smaller box in the aquairum called and what does it do? thank you
Its Undergravel Filter (UGF)
Great idea! Now I only have to travel to Singapore and to buy bag 1 and bag 2, meanwhile I order an RO installation :)
I think would be cheaper for you if you ask Darick to post the soil to you. But if you go there you should like it. It's a good place to visit.
What air pump are you using?
what water do you add back after you change the water? is it RO water? thank you
I don't remember, it doesn't matter really RO or with salts
Can you please show how to build your RO/DI water setup.
I do have a video on my channel how I built it
So because the box style UGFs seem to work so well for shrimp, wouldn’t a different style filter (HOB, canister) with Aquasoil as media work nearly or just as well?
this is your answer - th-cam.com/video/JObLAyBSdn4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DJn0bzqCrq0sCjQ8&t=2004
What soil can you recommend that is good for neocaridina shrimps?
You do not need a special soil for neocaridina. Ordinary gravel or sand will suffice.
@16:46 "potato powder"?
That were news to me.
Could we feed with potato powder?
What kind of powder?
That powder that is in the food store that we use for doing making Mashed potatoes?
Never tried potato powder, I've used dead shrimp powder for this setup
Haha, so it were a joke when you said potato powder? 😅
@ 16:52
Bought the powder from you ebay excited to try it
Nice one, thank you 👍😊
@@ShrimpMania I'd have got it ages ago if I'd known you had it 😀👍
Thanks for sharing. What light do you use for your set up?
It's my DIY light I just put an LED strip into aluminium housing. Very simple one
When you change water you add bacteria powder... Do you also add nitrifying bacteria powder? Or the bacteria powder you add also nitrifies?
I'm only adding powder, nothing else
@@ShrimpMania Thank you for your reply. The powder you use also works as a nitrifying bacteria?
@@rockdatock I don’t think so, it’s just nutrients for shrimp and dust algae also vitamins
Hi Shrimp mania just seeing how your tank with master aoil is going? How is the ph level etc?
Do you use special water to keep this shrimps?
yes
wow so beauitful and alot of kind of fish that i need to rare in my fish tanks also
What are you feeding them regularly
Tai Cheng food, Shrimps affair food, nettle sticks, shrimp king minerals and complete, Tai Cheng bacterial powder
anyway to fix limpets problem in shrimp tank?
Oh that's hard, only full reset mate. I tried to squash them but its like a second job, they always come back 😒
Do you use dsv from tai cheng that you gifted mark , does it work well what are the other alternatives to it if not from taicheng . Share your input
Yes using this powder for a few years and very happy how it works, it helps to grow green walls in my tanks its good food for microflora and fauna. It's nothing like that on the market
What light do you use?
DIY I made myself
You don't use sponge filter in tank?
Yes I do, I actually added one at the later stage
Which water test kit are you using?
API test kit
Hi Shrimp Mania. How long are you getting out of your ugfs with amazonia before they are getting clogged with dust on the bottom?
Hey, normally they last 1 year +
Is it okay to mix all different kind of colors in one tank?
The short answer - yes for caridina, no for neocaridina
Great channel
what lighting are you using? Great video!
thank you, it's diy light that i made
Hi Shrimp Mania. Great informative videos. I have been watching your video on ugfs. What do you recommend the flow to be on the ugfs? As my new setup with ugfs with tanks cycling seem to be a little cloudy? I was thinking the flow was to high? Any help is appreciated Thanks
I would say as max as long as your water stays clear but not too strong, something like you see in this video. Sometimes my water is a bit cloudy for the first month or two in new setups which is quite normal and now once the tank entered matured mode after 3 months the water is crystal clear!
Thanks for the reply. In one of your vids you say the ugfs can get clogged? How long are you getting out of them before they get clogged? Your help is greatly appreciated
Where can I get one of those filters ?
th-cam.com/video/xv3F0TcNqEY/w-d-xo.html
Nice vidéo ! 👍
How do you topoff this tank ? I see no float valve, are you doing manual topoff ?
I do have floating valve and it's connected to my auto topoff system
Hello Sir, Shrimp Bacterial Powder in not available in India so can i Use - Aquatic Remedies Shrimp Re Minerelle, for fomation of Algae and biofilm. Please can you try this product once as Demo.
What type of bacteria powder are you using?
link in description
Hi informative post on shrimp affairs soil. Do you do daily top offs for evaporation. If so do you mineralise the ro for tops offs? Any help is appreciated by everyone thanks shrimp mania
Yea you have to do topoffs with only RO water to keep you parameters stable otherwise your TDS will increase!
Can i use used aqua soil?
@@inactiveboy6473 yes
Great Vid!
Thanks mate
I've done it in 5, with each tank thriving, breeding, molting and no deaths
That's good to know! It's a great stuff!
With the same method or different substrate?
Hi Leon thanks for the video. I've been using shrimp affair's methods since last time. Works every time. However, I really truly wish there is a way to decorate the tank to look slightly more aesthetically pleasing like your old tanks. Maybe you could find a way to do so? With clear bottom but with your soil steps?
I know what you mean it doesn't look pleasant but it works great for breeding shrimp. I tried to create soil steps before but it didn't work well in this setup.
how do you have only dust algae? no hair algae, bba, diatoms, etc
i'm trying to look for that kind of filter you have in your tank how ever I think that's not available here in the Philippines 😢
you can make it yourself its not too hard
Could you provide a link to the box filter thing that seems so good please? Thank you so much for the entertaining and extremely useful content! Keep up the good work friend! 👏🏼🙏🏼
th-cam.com/video/xv3F0TcNqEY/w-d-xo.html
Nice video!
Regarding the green water soup issue "that you normally never have".
And you needed to use uv-sterilisering to get rid with the green floating alge.
Could this be one possible drawback with setting up the tank like this.
You mentioned throughout the video that you had all along amonia.
Maybe amonia is one of the preconditions to be able to get green floating water?
I suspect that is one of the contributing factors..
Thanks for the video. 👍
Yes I think it could happened because of the ammonia and excess light, the light was a bit too strong
Pretty cool concept ... thanks for the inspiration to try it a different way. #iloveshrimp
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoined it!
@@ShrimpMania ... instead of building a custom box with UGF, I am using filter boxes modified by removing the sponges supplied and replacing with active substrate. So far so good and no issues with ammonia and/or extended cycle time.
@@PapaShrimpTX interesting, I just saw it in your video. Looking good but you need some space at the bottom for the soil powder to sink otherwise your filter might clog very fast and you going to get a lot of soil powder dust in your tank in a little while
@ShrimpMania thanks for the tip! I've been paying close attention to that. That's the reason for one that has inlets on the bottom and the small one with inlets on top. The powdered dust on the initial tank setup definitely came out but it's easy to siphon. 2 and a half months so far on the first tank ... I'll keep checking it
why do you have to remove 90% of the water ? sorry for asking a silly question
To remove excess of ammonia and nitrate from the water
I find your channel recently, and i find a lot of interesting thinks, and get some new ideas for future projects.
But i have a question, i don't find in your aquarium any heaters. Who you control the water temperature?
By the way i'm starting a neocaridina green projet in the last days
Thankes and great work.
Hey I don't have heaters because I'm heating the room to the right temperature. It easier this way
@@ShrimpMania very nice ideia. I lilke your filter system, and i'm thinking to try build one to. any ideia of best soil for neocaridina? big thanks
i hope you filtered your water that you sucked out of your tank, i once did that and thought to check the water and was lots of babies, they are so tiny they were just a black dot moving in the water
Please make video of all of your aquarium in shrimp room🙏🙏
This metod is great for glasgarten soil!
i have also changed soil in my UG and with no cycle just get it back to tank, no problems ever, but with GG soil, never with ADA
and one more thing, he gave you old ada soil repackaged. So pack 1 is new ada. Pack 2 is old used ada ;) dont ask me how i know.....
Do you still use your DIY soybean and bacter AE powder that you did 2 years ago? and would you still recommend doing so>
I normally have access to more complex bacterial powders one of the bests on the market so no need for experimenting
@@ShrimpMania any recommendations for starting high quality bacteria? It’s hard to find one in Australia
How do you just casually make your own tank? I am also in the UK and wondered how you went about doing it. UK prices etc. Would love to see.
Hey, I've got a video on my channel on how I made it if you want to see that th-cam.com/video/INr06VB9hug/w-d-xo.html
Question can i do this 7 day method with Amazonia Gold?
no
It leaches too much of ammonia in the beginning so it wouldn’t work.
@@ShrimpMania thank you, im in USA is there a way for me to get that soil? I cant find it
@@harveygronwald1699 You can only buy this soil from Shrimps affair directly and shipping would be very expensive to the US. You can get a price from Darick by contacting him on Shrims affair facebook page. I would also recommend to use ADA Amazonia gold or version 2. For gold version it's better to cycle your tank for at least 5-6 weeks.
@@ShrimpMania thank you, you answered my question from another thread. I have ada version 2, Do I use the fertilizer that comes with it? Thank you!
i need good substrate but in europe is hard to buy good substrate for shrimps :-/ benibachi was best shrimp substrate but now i cant buy benibachi in EU ... out of stock everywhere in EU...
Bro i bought some moss it was green at start , this is my first time with moss it's being brown day by day what's wrong? , other plants doing great but not the moss i set my tank temperature to 26 ° celcius is that what is wrong
Moss needs some nutrients and normally aqua soil should have plenty of nutrients for the moss to grow green and healthy. Try to dose a little bit of micro fertilisers it should help.
@@ShrimpMania i don't have any fertilizer and i can't buy and at this time i spent all my pocket money in buying shrimp moss plants tank and heater rod
Hello there
First of all I enjoy your vidéos very much. Keep up the good work.
May I ask what is the bactéries powder you use ?
Greetings from France 🇫🇷
Its made by one Taiwanese breeder, I’ve got it from Shrimps Affair. The link in description. Thanks
Wat kind of shrimp are those
Yellow galaxies Caridina shrimp
A planted tank is what I’ll be making with no filter💯 🦐
é mais a questao do coco dos camaroes é que deveria ser fertilizante e comida das bacterias, nesse caso eu uso ostracodes e tambem ocean blend, que dai eu nem me preocupo mais em aspirar o fundo dos meus neocaridinas, porque sempre ta limpo... amonia zerada nitrito e nitrato tbm zerados isso em 4 meses
Wait, so why do you have to take down the tank after a year?
I cycled my 16 gallon tank in 1 day but washing 2 filter cartridges in the tank that i took out of my other cycled tanks.
а как же пересадка часами с капельницей? 😲😅 та так с кружки
Отличное видео, спасибо!
Can you please make a video how you make aquarium please please 🙏
I did it before its on my channel
Great video! I love all your content :) what light are you using? Im struggling with getting the beautiful green wall like you do. Many thanks!
Thank you man for your support! The light I'm using are DIY light I made out of aluminium profile and bright LED strip. This is how I made them - th-cam.com/video/OJ48e6KM6mM/w-d-xo.html. The light itself is not super important for the green walls. The bacterial powder is the key, its nutrient source for the green dust algae. The one I'm using is dead shrimp powder from Tai Cheng. The link should be in description.
@@ShrimpMania thank. you!!
If you only had one tank, which shrimp would you breed? Not looking to make a lot of money, but I dont want to be stuck with shrimp that nobody, including my LFS, wants. Thanks!
I would pick galaxy tigers, they are just my favorite but they are not easy ones. If I want to see larger numbers than crystal reds, they are very prolific.
@@ShrimpMania Can i breed difference colors of galaxy tigers or do u recommend keeping the same color? If i do get a bunch of black and red galaxies, what color do the shrimplets look like? Thanks!
@@grokker99 you can mix them, there will be either black or red no other option
@@ShrimpManiathanks for the info! Do u have an online store?
@@grokker99 I have an eBay store -www.ebay.co.uk/usr/shrimp_mania
Perfect 👍
I am from Singapore and yes i keep Shrimps, no need for any shrimp affairs products, they are just expensive and overated. You will do just fine with other setup and general products that can be found in fish shops.
Before I didn't use any of the products, still managed to breed some shrimp
Hello, Please add Turkish subtitle option to your videos.
you can use autotranslate option if you watch on desktop
I had to reduce the speed to 0.75x because I thought that the video was way too fast. 😊
I just cycle my tank 2 to 3 days only, i just add water from my other tank and rocks and some plants too
I do soil changes once a year. Catch all shrimps, empty aquarium, keep 1/3 water, keep filter.
Clean tank, add new soil, add old water and filter, add new water, then add shrimps, al on same day, and never have any issues.
And yes, also running Ph- soil.
And no, I don’t do a 90% water change after a week. I rarely take out water out of my tanks.
All my tanks cycled in 3-4 days. Never had to change water in the first time and none of the shrimp die. Ez Pz
I dont see the point if u have to add shrimps bit a bit. I'd better wait untill it's stable and add all the shrimps at once.
I only forsee people failing with these professional methods. Only if you have experience can try these way to do it. Otherwise better to be prudent and get stable parameters before adding shrimps.
Yes totally agreed with what you said
I hear a lot of things and I really don't know if these informations are true or just a bunch of coincidences/skills. Last one I heard:
Adding shrimps, not bit a bit and since day 0. All new... Substrat, water and filter. Only adjusting temperature of waters and shrimps inside. He affirmed that there were no problems.
I prefer to go slowly and if I would have some audience, even being very small, I would show this as a professional method and I'll tell to begginers better to be patient.
Breeders need to go to the limit but we don't need to go there.
Great job bytheway. I'm new, just discovered the Channel since last visit to the breeder. 😉👍🏻
@@FlinJarri I know what said, it's always a bit of risk when you add shrimp earlier but what I noticed that with the shrimp the tank matures a bit quicker and better. In the future, I would just first use a cheap shrimp to cycle the tank and then replace them in a few weeks once the tank fully cycled.
Setup: 7 days
Shipping time: 1 to 3 months
little babies