How Often You Should Feed Your Shrimp - Feeding Tips from the 480 Gallon
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- A common problem with keeping and breeding shrimp is feeding the proper amount and know how to feed, what to feed and when to feed. I want to show you a few tips that I've used to increase my success rate with breeding shrimp. We cover everything from when you should feed, what you should feed and how often you should feed
The 480 gallon is an example of how proper planning and execution can lead to successful shrimp breeding. Simple things like rocks, driftwood and plant can help you immensely when it comes to feeding. Shrimp keeping and breeding really comes down to just following some simple rules and know what to look for.
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Really nicely presented Rob. Great job.
Well there you have it. This last week I decided I’m going to put together a shrimp tank. Iv never done that before. As I’m doing my planning and costing it out everything was going good till I watched your video. No doubt I’ll spend a grand so that I can watch them eat those lollipop things. Omg. I going to have so much fun. Lol thank you. Wonderful video.
by using a good microphone on the videos would make these more attractive & enjoyable to hear. how ever, you are still one of the the best shrimp related youtuber on youtube. keep going on. :)
I make my own foods and feed twice a day. In the morning I use a powdered food and in the evening I feel the pellets I make. Also always keep leaf litter in the tank for them to graze on.
For my powdered food I bloom some snowflake food(Soy bean hulls) and then let them dry back out. once dry run them through a cheap coffee grinder or like a magic bullet. After its turned into a powder I mix in spirulina powder, moringa powder, bee pollen, a bit of calcium powder and some tropical fish flakes. Blend it all together to mix and turn to powder and its done. I do 1/8th teaspoon of it per 10 gallons every morning.
For the pellets I make I use pumpkin as a base. In the fall I buy a couple locally grown pumpkins, cut them into quarters, remove seeds and crap from inside and then freeze. After its frozen when it thaws its basically mush. I will then let it thaw completely and blend it up to get it into a nice puree. into the puree I mix in spirulina powder, moringa powder, calcium powder, bee pollen, powdered soy hulls and some tropical flakes. I mix it undil its a dough like consistency similar to what homemade pasta would be like.
I then take that dough and put it through a clay extruder to form like spaghetti but thinner. dry it in my dehydrator for a couple hours then break it up and it breaks into perfect sized pellets.
That tank is looking amazing!!
Lots of great info Rob as usual, thanks for going through it with us and all the different aspects.
Great tank, love the aquascaping and very good info as well. Thank you!
Very good video Rob. Thanks again!
Love your tank and vids. Only get positive vibes
Tank is looking good man! Thanks for the feeding info!!!
great info for sure!
I love blue bolts! Awesome tank and shrimp! Thanks for the tips. 👌
This video helped me with my new pet shrimp.
Woohoo! I love hearing this. We are here to help.
Great job!!! I am looking forward to my shipment of cherry shrimp from you!!! Keep up the great work and dedicated service to your followers!
My Amano shrimps would yank the stick out of the dirt and run off with it 😆
First time keeping shrimp in a heavily planted tank. They are breeding well, but seeing lots of aggression during feeding. This video gave some great advice!
Great video 👍 thanks for sharing!
That is an awesome tank brother!
the shrimp painting above the tank is cool where did you get it
Great video, thank you
Love that tank, with that current some fan or vampire shrimp would look sweet in there!
Is hard to attach moss to anything long term.
The moss on the top shades out the moss on the bottom. The moss on the bottom starts dying from lack of light.
So cute the little ones!
Shrimp are so fun. It's always a joy to see them breeding and doing well!
Cool video. Shrimp are scarce here in South Africa which kind of sucks.
Good video. Maybe clarify to folks that diversity of food is different than switching food. Less is more but make sure the animals in your care are getting the balanced nutrition they require to thrive. For instance I have a weekly pill container and I separate one type of food for that day and it stays consistent.
I added one of the algae shrimp lollies to my tank that has about 40-50 RCS along with my fish. The dwarf pencilfish and a couple of the habrosus cories also picked at this right alongside the shrimp for quite some time which surprised me. Haven't tried the other "flavors" yet, but will be interested to see if these fish continue to enjoy this treat. WCMM in the tank showed no interest. But it was fun to watch the shrimp going at it.
I feed once a day. Baby food (powder) and add another food for the adults that I switch up (Bacter AE, Beta Glucan, Shrimp King complete, Wafers, Shrimp dinner, Mineral Pearls). I also only clean the front panel of glass and leave the back and sides alone for grazing. My Taiwan Bee's (I adopted your shrimp children!!!) are doing super awesome and are breeding non-stop!
maybe i should get shrimp!
@@ARTOFDUNKS I find myself watching my shrimp tanks more than I do my fish tanks. Got multi tank syndrome really quickly and it all started with one betta fish! I knew nothing about shrimp keeping but Rob answered every question I had. Super nice and helpful bunch at Flip Aquatics!
@@jengsaquatics689 lol I used to just watch youtube vid of planted tanks, then i started to make my own planted tanks, NOW I AM POSTING VLOGS about my hobby lol.
@@ARTOFDUNKS Sounds just like what happened to me LOL! It's a great hobby to have (but pricey!) and I never stop learning something new, which I love! I'm not brave enough to post vids though...love your koi pond btw :)
@@jengsaquatics689 thank you buddy! i just wanted to share my hobbies haha.
Thanks! Just set up a blue velvet tank :D
Great video, envy on your beautiful tank..
Thanks so much for the comment and watching. I'm excited to get this tank set back up :)
Great video. Thank you. I love your approach in doing what works. Especially coming from an expert like you. BTW, EBI means “shrimp” in Japanese, pronounced with short “e”. And Tengu is a mythical Japanese character that has a long nose...kind of like their demon. (Maybe you already knew that) just FYI😉. Thanks again for sharing your expertise.
thanks for the great video. I have a nano shrimp tank that came with 5 shrimp and 5 fish, rocks and plants and that dirt. We live in Okinawa, Japan and we don't speak/read the language so I am just flying by the seat of my pants with my tank. We have been salt tank people for more than 30 years and I just wanted the shrimp tank. The fish are all gone now, save a Pleco to keep the glass clean. I think I have about a million shrimp in my tank. I generally feed them once or twice a week and they seem to just flourish. I am sure I am breaking all the rules but I sure do love my little tank.
I scrape the front and side glass and let the back glass grow wild with algae. It’s a natural backdrop, it’s usually very green and not really that ugly. If I’m gone for the weekend it’s a snack source for the fish and shrimp til I come home.
Great video. I will have to get some lollies for my lil cherry shrimp. They go nuts for hard pellets, i think they will love them too.
I get worried about skipping feeds as I have some galaxy and mosquito rasboras in my tank, but I think I might let them graze on algae for a day or two.
Your baby white shrimp are so freaking cute!
Do you have a video about bamboo shrimp birthing? My fellas tank has 2 heavily pregnant bamboo shrimp .... but we hear setting up a brackish tank for the fry is tricky :(
Hey Robert, Nice tank! quick question, what do you think about a blue plecostomus and what's your favorite fish?
Thanks for all the dedication Rob! ;)
aw they are so cute
The moss is growing really good btw :)
Thanks for the Infos 👍 was helpful
I notice you have a decent current in the tank, do shrimp enjoy that? Also what to feed Bamboo shrimp?
Hey buddy! Hope you're doing well! See you at Aquashella
I got one tank that I never touch the algea and it’s one of my best looking tanks let the algea grow it’s awesome once it self balances
Awesome. I keep crystals and neo together. So far so good but how do I get into specific tanks. I have RO water coming
Does keeping a small feeding tray/bowl helpful in reducing the chance of planaria appearance since shrimps are messy eaters such that no food pieces get into the substrate?
I am doing a back yard system here on Kaua’i, using invasive shrimps and prawns cleaning up the eco system for our natural aquatic farming resources and management for the invasive species for control What is good feed?
Cool
Hi!!! I have blue dream shrimp in my community tank and in the last week I’ve noticed my females have all turned brown and even gotten a harsh line down the back. My males on the other hand are still a beautiful deep blue. Do you know why this might be happening? Thanks in advance!!
hi.. good evening sir, i have a 60 gallon tank only for shrimp with java moss and drift wood, no co2 only normal sponge filter. my question is how often should i change the water, i have caridina and neocaridina shrimps, caridina shrimps dies quickly, what should be the reason
I like your shirt 😄
Back when I had an aquarium. I had shrimp in my aquarium along with serveral basic aquarium fish like neon tetras. And with other causcasians like Mexican red dwarf crayfish, and later I also had a Red claw crab. There were lots of plants and things in the aquarium. I never dead the shrimp, they just mostly ate the algea and the left over fish and crab foods. The shrimp lived the longest of all the animals ij the aquarium, until they got killed by an old bottom dwelling fish that is not supposed to be aggressive at all. But I've seen someone on facebook feeding their shrimp spinach leafs and their shrimp really started to swarm the leaf and loved it, soI'll try that if I'll have an aquarium again in the future
Ooo this guys a lushie leme sub!
I make my own spirulina sticks, but they disintegrate as soon as the shrimp start feeding on it. It's all good as fine particles spread through the tank, and nothing is wasted, but wanted to know how to make them last longer like the ones you buy.
I live in New Zealand and we don't have tropical shrimp here so we don't really have these food types available in the hobby, but we have glass shrimp in cold fresh water in the wild and I have a native tank with about 20 that I have just been using fish food and algae to feed. Do you have any common fish food suggestions that are good for feedingI might be able to get in nz?
Where is all the Dennerle food you so highly appreciated?
The shrimp in the sump made me think of flushed away. Where they’re in the sewers of the upper class shrimp.
I got brown algue i want the green.... anny tips?
Aren't there too much flow in this tank? The shrimps just "flying" around in the tank.
What’s ur opinion on making a rock pile for them to breed ?
Do you feed them if they’re in a tank with fish
Please open a flip aquatics in Australia 🇦🇺💖💖💖💖
I have a 5 gallon tank with ghost shrimps, cherry shrimps, and Amano shrimps, and they're all alive and well in one tank. It's been about 5 months since they've been coexisting and I haven't fed them since. I'm experimenting with an ecosystem setup.
you might want to youtube why your Amano shrimp wont produce babies. I am pretty sure your experiment did not have a good amount of research on Amano shrimp.
@@Rotary650 I already know that Amano shrimps will not successfully breed in freshwater aquariums, because the water is not brackish. But I’m just surprise they are still alive.
Do you have a heater for that tank? Some say no some.say yes. I've seen planted tanks without anything where shrimp thrive. Do.youbhavr a suggestion as to what type of.filter for shrimp
In the shot at 14:24 what is the plant that is in the top left corner of the frame?
Robert Dykes I think it is some kind of moss, maybe Christmas moss.
What is the name of the moss? It’s incredible
Did u say u have shrimp in the subtank?
I’m new to the hobby and I have a teeny 3 gallon neocaridina shrimp tank that has 10 shrimp in it. I haven’t yet tried powdered food yet because I’m nervous about over feeding and I typically use a feeding dish, but never realized about the aggression as you mentioned. I have a ton of plants, rock, driftwood, and botanicals & my tank was seasoned for 2 months before adding any shrimp. I have 2 berried females & will need to start feeding something powdered soon. Any suggestion on how to figure out serving size for such a small tank to avoid over feeding?
YOUR TANK IS SO SICK BRO! IF I EVER MAKE A ILL BE SURE TO POST A VID!
What kind of moss was that. I would really like to purchase some for my crystal reds and red king kongs
Hey Robert at 330 in the video you have A moss. What is the name of that particular moss. Thank you
It's called sußwassertang
in my current tank i have 1 ghost shrimp (that has been alive for 3 years!) and 3 recently added snails. earlier today i ordered 6 new shrimp that wil be arriving in a few days and im not sure im the food im feeding the ghost shrimp will sustain all of them. ive been feeding the ghost shrimp fish flakes, and it also grazes but since im tranfering it to a new tank it wont have much. ive hearded that snowflake food and power food is good, should i invest?
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I noticed there is a lot of current in your tank and the shrimp are fighting against it. I read online that lots of current is not good for shrimp. Is this the case? Do your shrimp get affected by this?
Do they eat/like diatoms algae?
Okay I have a planted 5 gallon tank with a drift wood centerpiece with one male betta and snails. I get a lot of algae on the sides of my tank so I was thinking about getting shrimp. and I was wondering what kind I should get, how many I should get, and what I should be feeling them. Please help me out!!! (Oh also I have two Moss balls)
Fare enough
I don't feed my shrimp at all... I get algae on the back glass and one of the side glass plus plants.. they do great, even spawn
99 gallon and about 300 shrimp
Also boiled carrot ,parsley,cucumber and so on are all good natural foods.
Cheers
What else can i use? I'd love to go natural for them
Don't let him know think bactor ae is what they must have..
@@peelarat9578 Gl breeding caridinas with that attitude
God Bless :)
I noticed that they seem to have a hard time holding on to surfaces because of the flow in there. I don't know anything about shrimp, so I could just be talking crap lol. But, do those type of shrimp like that extra flow?
LOL I crush up goldfish flakes, they go nuts for it. Oh and Repashy grub pie.
Mmmm yummy!
What's the best size tank to start with? I've been told 10Gal and other say 20 long
Definitely a 20 long. 10 gallon tanks are smaller so water parameters can change quicker. Also a 20 gallon can hold around 300 shrimp before problems start so you can keep a breeding colony going better.
Hey rob, it looks like some of the shrimp are sparring? Do they fight over food? Thanks🙂👍🏻
Oh absolutely they do. It's always good to feed a food that breaks down into smaller pieces fast to prevent the fighting.
If I kept shrimp in the same room that I play drums in will that be bad for the shrimp?
I think it could stress them out but I could be wrong 😊
Do you have CO2 in this tank?
I want to feed hikari sinking excel chichild food to my cherry shrimps.This food contains copper sulfate. Hikari added copper sulfate in their shrimp food.My question is can there be more copper in hikari chichild food?and this food is safe for neocardina Sir? Help me sir..
Yes safe as long as you're not overfeed them
Hi rob I’m just getting into Shrimp keeping and I really hope you could answer my question is it safe to keep dragon stone with Crystal Red shrimp Or will it in any way affect their health and or breeding.
Its safe
The best feed for shrimp is algae glass
Isn’t the filter going to absorbe all of that powder food?
If its a sponge filter it'll make algae for the shrimp to eat
my shrimp population is out of control, what do I do?
What about seed shrimp? They grow in numbers like crazy. I fear them overpopulating the tank and killing my colony.
A lot of shrimp in the tank
Im tired of posting my 20 gallons swarming in shrimp and people yelling at me my tanks are dirty because of all the algae...
It's because those people don't understand the benefits of algae. Don't worry about those people. Some have never seen nature before...and just don't get it. You do you GRoW :)
@@jengsaquatics689 lol love that you added the initials, I always planned on naming my rescue this so I could make my logo G.R.O.W!! 3000 gallons later lol I grow a lot of green
"The very very first thing i want every one to know is that " this guy needs a Mic asap!
Definitely a lot of shrimp in the tank. It appears to be infested. That sounds a little negative but not all infestations are bad.
Wheeeeeeeeee
hehe shrimp Lollies from germany?
if you had to guess how much is the tank is worth with all the shrimp? lol
Not as much as youd think...if sold as a single unit...maybe 2k or with the tank and gear being 700 to 900 i bet...the shrimp wholesale would be 2 dollars or less, usually 1 dollar ... so reselling all of them ...youd likely get even less than that.
Now if you sold everything retail....hmm 5 to $6,000 id guess
Ok he kinda cute
Fish tube? How about shrimp tube! 😆
Keep em hungry . they won't die if you don't feed them often. They always have hidden snacks. At least my tank does
can you send me message looking at buying shrimp from you
came here for one question got a 15 min video
nvm i just saw the whole video and thank you
If they dont come , something is wrong? Mine dont really come for food. I dont know what is wrong. I keep getting babies. I have algae and biofilm, I use Bacter AE, my tank is full planted (no place for more). I dont find dead shrimp. No ammonia, no nitrite, and nitrates are low because of the plants, and tropicals one, over the tank. 7 driftwood, many rocks and hiding spot. I dont know. Nothing interest them. I bought all 😂
Lol looks like scuffed baked alaska