Red Cherry Shrimp and Nitrates: Best Practices for a Thriving Shrimp Colony 🦐
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It’s been proven in studies most fish don’t start showing stress/death until insanely high nitrates few hundred ppm and some even in the thousands! I learned essentially in planted tank I could care less about nitrates because I’ve check hundreds n hundreds of times before theyer never ever that high at all. Esp if your doing reg maintenance or heavy with plants! Love the vid pal ❤💯🤙🏼
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to comment and share your feedback. It’s appreciated 🫶🏻
I’ve had happy discus in a tank at 40
Nice video mate thank you for all these cherry shrimp videos, they've helped me a lot. This one was especially helpful to me as I also live in the UK and have been fretting over my 30-40ppm nitrate tap water and waiting desperately for my plants to grow in and reduce it to less than 20 before I got my shrimp. It sounds like maybe I should worry less!
Hi. Thanks for the feedback.
My tap water comes out around 40ppm. I definitely would not worry about it for Red Cherry Shrimp (or any Neocaridina shrimp).
THANK YOU! I thought I was NUTS, because my shrimp are doing great but both my nitrites and nitrates are a bit up, at about 40ppm, but..everyone's doing fantastic. Colors great, active, eating, stealing each others wafers.. But every video I watched pretty much said they should all just.. be dead o.o I've not had them THAT long, a few months, but uh.. I've only had 2 deaths, and each was from a new batch of shrimp, one of which was in the mail longer than they should have been.. in Texas, this last week. I was surprised they were all alive on arrival to begin with on that one, not gonna lie XD
Hey. Glad to hear your shrimp are doing well. My water comes out the tap at 40ppm nitrates 🤷🏻♂️.
My tanks are heavily planted. I run around 10 ppm of nitrates in all of them
Floating plants work for me on reducing nitrates
I know it’s harder to do in a small tank, but I have a deep sand/dirted substrate in my bigger tanks and I constantly have gas bubbles releasing from the sand.
Edit. The bubbles are nitrogen gas from the completed cycle
Personally, if wouldn’t worry about it unless your fish or shrimp are showing signs of distress. Adding sone Malaysian Trumpet Snails may help as they burrow through the substrate during the day 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers I’m not worried about it, it was the desired goal. The anaerobic microbes in the deep sand bed complete the nitrogen cycle. It is nitrogen gassing off and my nitrate levels are always under 10 😀
I love your videos, short and simple 😊
Oh, I misunderstood 🤦🏻♂️. Thanks for the feedback 👍🏻
22 my tanks been going for about a month and the levels are all within what I would say are Ok.. when can I start adding shrimp and how many would you say I would add as these will be the first inhabitants of the tank. Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?. Its a 260 ltr tank with lots of plants ..
My fish aren't actively complaining on high nitrates 🤣🤣
There is nothing worse than your fish writing to you formally to complain about living standards 😞
My nitrites are high.. is it safe to do partial water change everyday to lower it? I did 20% today but still at 5ppm
Should be fine 👍🏻
I talked to a worker at local fish store and was told that i overfeed my shrimp. I feed them a small portion every other day, with a colony of 10. He said to just leave an indian almond leaf and then feed once a month with any other food. Would this be true? He also stated that he made weekly water changes to provide the shrimp with needed minerals
Hi. If you want your colony to grow and breed strongly, I would certainly feed them more than once a month! Whilst they are Detritivores and can ‘survive’ just scavenging what they find in the aquarium, who wants their shrimp to simply survive. Surely we want them to thrive?
Also, water changes do bring in minerals 👍🏻
give us somethink or anythink that makes shrimp keeping easier . i mean without water change.... what ever i have to do i do, But no water change plzzz....
Sadly, water changes are so frequently the key to success 🤷🏻♂️
Heavily plant your tank. End of water changes. I've got tanks with shrimp thriving (a couple have exploding populations since I changed my feeding regimen), but no water changes. They're all planted with both submerged and emergent plants. They do a wonderful job of removing the nitrates.
Great advice 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers Thanks. Other than nature's way with lots of plants and/or deep substrate, the only way to get nitrates out is via water changes. I've gone the heavy plants method. My next tank will be deep substrate AND heavy plants with shrimp, of course.
I've got shrimp everywhere! I can't convince myself to do a setup without shrimp. Even planning to put some in the pond I'm putting in my greenhouse. Hey, overflow from the house has to go somewhere. 😁
@@dawnt6791I've heard the plants are able to suck up the ammonia pretty well to so you just skip having some of the nitrates all together.