I never did lose all of them, but was beyond frustrated with my lack of success. Been keeping hard water tanks my whole life, soft water is a big adjustment of you have 35 years experience working with liquid rock aquariums lol.
Yep, new rack is in the works when I get all the neo work caught up. Would like to have 2 or 3 10s for breeders, then a 20g for growout with each line. And gotta set up a cull tank too. Thanks 👍
@@MarkShellyAquatics can't wait too see the rack, yo! Remember, continually learning new things helps keep you young. It's better to Overstand than to understand.
Just like you, I decided to try Caridina after much success with Neo's. I killed multiple tanks of shrimp by overfeeding. Since that day i have never fed my Caridina and I haven't lost one since. Starting a shrimp tank with a 40 breeder sounds good, but they never find the food. Unless of course you start with a ton.
When I first got them I would have 4 or 5 berried females at all times for months, ended up with like 3 or 4 babies make it. Started with 15. Ended up having bacterial issues and was able to save them before they all died. Had 7 or 8 left. Got 10 more, those did pretty good, but still not many babies living. Started getting dead ones again, just quit feeding all together and they did pretty good, just not any getting berried because I quit feeding all together and had 100s of snails. Needed that 40 I started out with for neos, had almost 30 fancy tigers, and started this new 10 full out Asian style, with help I managed to finally have a fully successful setup. Sure is awesome to see these babies. Hard water vs soft water is a completely different ballgame. 35 years of keeping liquid rock tanks, old habits are hard to shake lol.
such a great video with lots of great tips. The overfeeding one hit me hard as that happened to me when I first got into caridina shrimp. I wish there's a safe way to lower the pH without using buffering soil as that can get expensive with multiple tanks. thanks for sharing with us they look great with all those babies in your tank
Thanks man. I never did kill them off and did manage to keep them going with just a stray baby here and there surviving. First time ever having lots and lots of them. Makes me happy to finally see them thriving.
I been keeping Caridina for a long time there a love and hate relationship with care and success but I learned with patience and great mentors it greatly helps out and it seems your taking the right steps to succeed
First🎉😊full comment at the end🙂👍🏻 great video and information on feeding and water quality.. an RO unit im definitely getting, great for apisto and wild type bettas too, and of course caradina. Your fancy red tigers look magnificent mark!😮👍🏻⭐️
Can be intimidating. Crystal reds would probably be an easier one to start with than the fancy tigers. Some of the tiger caidina (not fancy) are more forgiving too.
Will temperature effect the caridina shrimp health? I live in tropical country and my neo tank is constantly 30 degrees celcius. Would like to have an opinion on this before i start keeping crystal shrimp. Great video as always mark. Keep making these video. Helpful tip i get from your videos is feeding powder food, my neos have breeding like theres no tomorrow 😂
Caridina are much more sensitive to temp, you really don't want really high temps. I would say 19C to 24C is the range you want to be in. My tanks are 21 to 22C because that's what I keep my house, so I honestly don't worry too much about temp, guess I forgot to mention temp. Thanks you 👍
Awesome video, so happy you have figured them out.. this video is getting added to my favorites!!👍
@@MarksShrimpTanks thank you Mark, appreciate all the help you gave given to me 👍
Great tips you shared here, Mark! I'm glad you're having success with your gorgeous fancy tigers! Thanks for the shout out, buddy!
Thank you Leon, appreciate all your help 👍
Glad you stuck with it. Caridina are extremely rewarding once you figure it out.
I never did lose all of them, but was beyond frustrated with my lack of success. Been keeping hard water tanks my whole life, soft water is a big adjustment of you have 35 years experience working with liquid rock aquariums lol.
@@MarkShellyAquatics We have all been there. I made every mistake at the start.
Looking good bud, glad you didn't give up. Time too set up a grow out tank for the shrimplets!
Yep, new rack is in the works when I get all the neo work caught up. Would like to have 2 or 3 10s for breeders, then a 20g for growout with each line. And gotta set up a cull tank too.
Thanks 👍
@@MarkShellyAquatics can't wait too see the rack, yo!
Remember, continually learning new things helps keep you young. It's better to Overstand than to understand.
Just like you, I decided to try Caridina after much success with Neo's. I killed multiple tanks of shrimp by overfeeding. Since that day i have never fed my Caridina and I haven't lost one since. Starting a shrimp tank with a 40 breeder sounds good, but they never find the food. Unless of course you start with a ton.
When I first got them I would have 4 or 5 berried females at all times for months, ended up with like 3 or 4 babies make it. Started with 15. Ended up having bacterial issues and was able to save them before they all died. Had 7 or 8 left. Got 10 more, those did pretty good, but still not many babies living. Started getting dead ones again, just quit feeding all together and they did pretty good, just not any getting berried because I quit feeding all together and had 100s of snails. Needed that 40 I started out with for neos, had almost 30 fancy tigers, and started this new 10 full out Asian style, with help I managed to finally have a fully successful setup. Sure is awesome to see these babies. Hard water vs soft water is a completely different ballgame. 35 years of keeping liquid rock tanks, old habits are hard to shake lol.
such a great video with lots of great tips. The overfeeding one hit me hard as that happened to me when I first got into caridina shrimp. I wish there's a safe way to lower the pH without using buffering soil as that can get expensive with multiple tanks. thanks for sharing with us they look great with all those babies in your tank
Thanks man. I never did kill them off and did manage to keep them going with just a stray baby here and there surviving. First time ever having lots and lots of them. Makes me happy to finally see them thriving.
I been keeping Caridina for a long time there a love and hate relationship with care and success but I learned with patience and great mentors it greatly helps out and it seems your taking the right steps to succeed
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Heading to the city to grab some Crystal blacks . My test subjects I put in the neo tank seem ok after 10 days
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Good info thanks.
@@thecallofshrimp 😎👍
Thanks for this video with very good information!👍
My pleasure!
First🎉😊full comment at the end🙂👍🏻 great video and information on feeding and water quality.. an RO unit im definitely getting, great for apisto and wild type bettas too, and of course caradina. Your fancy red tigers look magnificent mark!😮👍🏻⭐️
Thank you Jeff
@@MarkShellyAquatics very welcome mark!
Great tips thank you so much! I’m wanting to do caridinas soon! I’ve mastered neocaridinas, but I want to see if I can do caridinas just as easy.
Well I can tell ya it's not just as easy lol. But finding a method and a soil that works is the hard part, then it's just replicating it.
Thanks 👍
I would LOVE to try Caridina Shrimp! My neos are breeding like crazy but the water is easier to keep right than with caridina so I'm scared!
Can be intimidating. Crystal reds would probably be an easier one to start with than the fancy tigers. Some of the tiger caidina (not fancy) are more forgiving too.
Will temperature effect the caridina shrimp health? I live in tropical country and my neo tank is constantly 30 degrees celcius. Would like to have an opinion on this before i start keeping crystal shrimp. Great video as always mark. Keep making these video. Helpful tip i get from your videos is feeding powder food, my neos have breeding like theres no tomorrow 😂
Caridina are much more sensitive to temp, you really don't want really high temps. I would say 19C to 24C is the range you want to be in. My tanks are 21 to 22C because that's what I keep my house, so I honestly don't worry too much about temp, guess I forgot to mention temp.
Thanks you 👍
Could you use distilled water instead of RO for caridina?
Yep, distilled is good too. You just measure tds to make sure it's almost 0.
Oh man. That has got to be so difficult not to feed them.
Very hard lol