I have become obsessed with your videos. Your passion and dedication is apparent and fun to watch! Thank you for letting us novices peer into the experienced hobbyist world. Keep em coming!
I'm currently getting a planted fish tank underway just getting all my supplies first I'm super excited. Thanks for the tip today I'll be implementing it when I clean the tank the first time.
I'm so glad I watched your video! I am setting up my first ever tank on a tight budget and was about to buy a 15 dollar gravel vac, but I now I know I can do the job with some 2 dollar airline tubing while keeping my future shrimpies safe. Thank you :)
I just did my first successful water change (with new shrimp in the tank) thanks to this video!! I was getting a little stressed out I was going to suck all the little shramps up! Thank you thank you!!
OMG I feel so stupid. I've been thinking of how I could stiffen up the syphon to get at the bottom of my shrimp tank better, and all I could think of was a ruler. And I've heard you say something about chopsticks in other videos. I just didn't realize what you were using it for until now. What a fab idea thank you so much!
This is an older video but it is EXACTLY the video I needed to see today! I've bern struggling trying to figure out how to do a water change and get out the mulm without sucking out all my tiny Shrimplets. 😊💖
I love your Channel you're one of three people that always pop up whenever I have a question about anything fish related and you always have very intelligent answers, that are innovative thank you big fan here
I enjoy watching your tutorials on a whole range of subjects, although this vid is over two years old it’s still reverent. I subscribed and put notifications on, so I’m looking forward to more vids. Thank you for sharing!
Great tips, thanks! A cheap colander, who knew?! Going to pick up one today! I also love the smaller drain tube tip with the chopstick, brilliant! Enjoying your well explained videos, thank you for making them!
This chopstick trick with small airline tubing is genius!! Thank you for sharing!! I have several nano Betta tanks and I'll be using this trick from now on!! 👍
awesome! thanks for the chop stick trick! have been trying to figure out a non destructive way to clean substrate in my planted shrimp tank for a while now
Rachael thanks so much! I've been looking at all this extra wildlife in my shrimp tank for 2 weeks now wondering how I could siphon my tank without disturbing the shrimp. I first added three tiny guppy fry to go after the daphnia, copepods, and other things I have no idea what they are. Now I have eight micro pleco bristlenose fry in there tackling the algae. Now I know these guys can't all stay but right now they are tiny. But yesterday I saw a red worm in my filter sponge like you see in wild fish!!! How did THAT nasty thing get there?? The dried leaves I've been feeding them?? Anyway I'm going to try this. Wish me luck! Also I would like to order some Indian almond leaves from you and a few shrimp as well. Right now I have juvenile red cherry shrimp. The females starting moving eggs up into the saddle area over the last week or so. It won't be long now. Can I mix the crystal reds with them or would it be better to get yellow?
Valerie Storm crystal reds would keep a very bright red shrimp colony but the yellow would interbreed. either way you’ll get some wild type shrimp, but it is all preference
I just revamped my planted shrimp tank, great ideas! I'm stealing that chopstick idea. I notice little unwanteds from time to time, I try to nab them with a turkey baster :) Does the trick if you are in between water changes
Thank you for great video. I notice you use chopstick and airline tube for siphon but how do you get the sucking water going? I do not think just sticking into the substrate would not do.Please advise. Thank you.
Hi, As always great videos. When you do a species Sunday it would be awesome if you could include the lifespan of the species. Thanks, and keep the videos coming. I really enjoy watching them.
+Dontdalla ah, good call. That is not really easy to know, unfortunately. I do when I know through experience what they are. Many of the species I spotlight, I still have, and for many years. I will try and make a point to include that more. Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks so much for this video. I'm in the shrimp part of this amazing hobby and I've learned so much from your videos! Woild you ever consider speaking at our fish club? The Delaware County Aquarium Society would be honored to have you if you can find the time! You can find this on Facebook and Google. Thanks again!!!
wow amazing tank there my friend. could you let us know what are the plants that are currently living in there. cos would love to get a low tech tank with those low light plants. awesome scape
Rachel, what percentage (and how often) would you change a tank with Caridina, chili rasboras (so more bioload, I have a dozen right now), that's heavily planted and being dosed ferts (thrive S). I want to make sure nutrients don't build up with too small water changes but don't want them to be too big and affect the shrimp. I'm not sure where the happy medium lies.
+Rachel O'leary That's a beautiful little tank. I'm honestly a bit heartbroken right now though, Rachel. I live in OH now and I'm setting up my first tank here. I'd intended to do a shrimp (2-3 species that won't hybridize) and nano fish tank with this Oceanic 33g Hex I picked up second hand. Unfortunately the local water is horrible with a high PH of 8.2, a KH of only 3.5-4 degrees, and a GH around 7 degrees. Other than the GH the rest is just not going to work but for an extremely narrow selection of animals. I really want to do the tank as I intended but the only solution I can see is getting an RO unit, remineralizing and buffering manually. Am I wrong here? What would you suggest? Maybe you could work this into a video for your channel to help other keepers in a similar situation. Keep up the good work, your videos are getting better and better! :)
+Sarkazmo Loafy You could use aquasoil, or one of the substrates that pulls out hardness, but you would want to do small, frequent water changes rather than larger ones to prevent shifts in parameters. RO is another good choice, or rainwater if you are not in a particularly industrial area.
Unfortunately, Rachel, I am in a small apartment and an industrial area so rainwater is right out. Being a Hex tank the area of the bottom is so small compared to rectangular tank of the same gallonage. I think that would limit Aquasoil's absorption and buffering ability. It still looks like I'm going to have to go RO. At least it's a lot cheaper to do now than it used to be. Thanks for your input, Rachel, I appreciate and value your input and experience.
That colander tip is marvelous; I'm shocked I never thought of it! In an earlier video, you mentioned using the plop and drop method for fish: match temp, then pour them into a net to add to the tank -- no drip. Is this what you do for your shrimp, too?
hi love your videos I have a question and thought you might be able to answer for me can you tell me if API general cure is safe to use on snails and shrimp the ingredients in it are metronidazole and praziquantel i have apple snails and ghost shrimp thanks
+Mark Scott The ghost shrimp for sure would be fine, I would be tempted to move the apple snails for treatment. Nerites do fine, but apples tend to be a bit more sensitive to medications in general.
Thanks for this video, I'm agree mulm and debris favors planaria, hydra and generaly the micro animals but it's good for the plants with nails in association. Have you got nails in shrimps tanks ? Or in your fishtanks ? Thanks for your answer.
Love the vacuum idea. My one problem is adding water back in. The shrimp seem to be very sensitive to water changes, and I occasionally still get a death after a water change. I use RO water and remineralize it the same way each time, add a few drops of prime, and even warm it up to the tank's parameters before adding it in. Does anyone else still see this from time to time? Are some shrimp just that sensitive?
Alright I will keep this one short. I would love to try shrimp keeping along side my main tank. It would be simply a small 2.5-gallon tank to keep on my desk. I would use artificial plants and simple aquarium gravel. I would first cycle it with Neon Tetras and then introduce shrimp when I have a fully nitrogen cycled tank as I am aware they are delicate. I would not use live plants. Would this setup work?? and how often would it need cleaning??
Poke Munitty yea a mossball is great but you need at least 3 things they can eat from, the floor a mossball and some plant would do. I dont know what a anubis is tho my english aint 100%
+1deaver I literally had 30 minutes of solid footage I shot, BUT using a mic with a dead battery. I will redo it at some point. My youtube game was weak that day ;)
Do u condition the water before topping off? What's your water setup? And when I put treatment products in, do I measure per the 15% I'm changing or dose for the amount of the total water volume of the tank? I've been doing the former to prevent overdosing.
o,Rachael last Monday I woke and my shrimp thank was empty , very sad day I've worked very hard and was finally seeing some results now I'm back to square one I did manage to save some and most the plants.The tank is over 40 years old. any way do you think seachem ferts are safe for shrimp ? I'm definitely leaning away from excel because it kills algee and possibly my little shrimp
+Damion Markham afaik, they are safe, but dosing ferts always relies heavily on a good water change routine so that you don't have those tds climbing through the roof, which can be pretty deadly to shrimp.
I know you're tapwater is good , you have mentioned that in past videos , did you add Prine behind the scenes? Do you add fertilizer to the tank for the plants
Are detritus worms really a bad thing? I've been told not to siphon out the detritus, as it can be a source of food for the shrimps since they constantly graze. I'm going to be setting up a Walstad planted shrimp tank for my Carbon Rili and PFR shrimps I bought recently, so this tip couldn't have come at a better time :)
+Jacob “GreenGo” Green they are not problematic to shrimp but are unsightly. I prefer them not to be there in my tanks as the shrimp have plenty of plants to graze on.
@@RachelOLeary how many shrimps are in that tank? I want to create a heavily planted shrimp tank but I'm not sure if they provide enough bioload to support the plants
What water parameters should I shoot for when trying to breed reds, blues, and black shrimp ? My current stats are 79deg F, 7.4ph, hard water.., not sure of hardness..
+BigBaller ur lucky i dont test my water n mine all dies eventually before my fire red shrimps breed. And when i do try to check my param it'll be too late, all dies. Dnt knw how many shrimp batches ive lost in past yr..
thi le dam, well be Sure to do a water change every 2 weeks and dont poor your New water in Just try drip it in with a tube and use some de chloranator ( idk how u spel that) and have loads off hiding spots some Moss and good water flow and u must be fine
I've even seen the most high tech carpenting plants like HC Cuba and glosso make a lovely thick carpet in a low tech (dirt) tank. You can't have any fast growing stem plants sucking up all the CO2 at the same time though as these plants are very picky about CO2 and you need to keep your eyes on the tank constantly and make adjustment to avoid algae. It's also best to dry start such a tank. Search on google for "Small Planted Tanks for Pet Shrimp - Bookmasters" for an example. Not for beginners. For beginners is species like E tenellus, Sagittaria subulata and C Parva better choices.
Hi Rachel, my shrimps body is cloudy and i dont know how to help the shrimp by clearing it up. Every single batch i buy the shrimp either dies or if i do take notice i can see that the shrimps body goes cloudy. What should i do? What did you do? You did say you experienced shrimps cloudy body and successful clearing it.. I have IAL leaf and mulberry leaves, banana leaves. PLEASE HELP ASAP i am wanting to buy BLOODY MARYS this time maybe my luck would be better. Ive heard as long as i can get 1 berried female that 1batch and onwards thats born in my tank will be the survivor. Is that true?
depends on who you talk to. Personally,, I cannot stand planaria, detritus worms, or excess bladder snails- all of which are common in a shrimp tank because they eat so inefficiently and make a bit of a mess.
+Dee From Brooklyn I don't use heaters except for on Hypancistrus, Discus, or Cardinal tetras. I use soil that softens my water in this tank to make it very soft, though I have not actually measured the pH. If I had to guess based on the hardness, I would say its around 6ish. The shrimp in there prefer soft, cool water: ua-cam.com/video/MJ-Iz3_JB38/v-deo.html
+Rachel O'leary wow! I add seachem iron, flourish and falurish excel. yet my plants are covered with brown algae and new leafes which grow are not green. I run 8 hours led lights during day. anything I'm missing or doing wrong?
Not if you are dosing fertilizer, as it will remove them. I tend to keep things VERY simple in my fish room and use almost exclusively various sponge filtration types.
Great vid. I defiantly need to get myself some of those tweezers! I think I've been too rough with mine and uprooted most of my plants. Do you dose the tank with co2? X
+Guilherme Carvalho I rarely supplement the shrimp in this tank, but when I do I generally use pellets. I will have to measure the tank, for the life of me I cannot recall even how many gallons it holds. It sat around for years before I did something with it.
I have become obsessed with your videos. Your passion and dedication is apparent and fun to watch! Thank you for letting us novices peer into the experienced hobbyist world. Keep em coming!
+Matt Cali aw thanks!
So many small but useful tips here, not just for shrimps but for any tank! Thank you Rachel! You do a fantastic job sharing your huge knowledge! :)
+Almarma thanks!
I'm currently getting a planted fish tank underway just getting all my supplies first I'm super excited. Thanks for the tip today I'll be implementing it when I clean the tank the first time.
How did it go? We're about to set up ours. Super excited as well!! :)
Chopstick and cheap plastic colander on the list of supplies to pick up this week...great tip...thanks.
That chopstick idea is brilliant! I'm definitely going to use that from now on.
I'm so glad I watched your video! I am setting up my first ever tank on a tight budget and was about to buy a 15 dollar gravel vac, but I now I know I can do the job with some 2 dollar airline tubing while keeping my future shrimpies safe. Thank you :)
Thanks for the idea to use a colander to fill! I will grab one for my next water change!!
I just did my first successful water change (with new shrimp in the tank) thanks to this video!! I was getting a little stressed out I was going to suck all the little shramps up! Thank you thank you!!
congrats!
OMG I feel so stupid. I've been thinking of how I could stiffen up the syphon to get at the bottom of my shrimp tank better, and all I could think of was a ruler. And I've heard you say something about chopsticks in other videos. I just didn't realize what you were using it for until now. What a fab idea thank you so much!
Carla Pappalardo I used the twist handle from mini-blinds on window. Cable tied together.
This is an older video but it is EXACTLY the video I needed to see today! I've bern struggling trying to figure out how to do a water change and get out the mulm without sucking out all my tiny Shrimplets. 😊💖
I love your Channel you're one of three people that always pop up whenever I have a question about anything fish related and you always have very intelligent answers, that are innovative thank you big fan here
I enjoy watching your tutorials on a whole range of subjects, although this vid is over two years old it’s still reverent. I subscribed and put notifications on, so I’m looking forward to more vids. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Jose
I have learned more from your videos that a whole library full of books!
+Billy Hall thank you!
Great tips, thanks! A cheap colander, who knew?! Going to pick up one today! I also love the smaller drain tube tip with the chopstick, brilliant! Enjoying your well explained videos, thank you for making them!
This chopstick trick with small airline tubing is genius!! Thank you for sharing!! I have several nano Betta tanks and I'll be using this trick from now on!! 👍
awesome! thanks for the chop stick trick!
have been trying to figure out a non destructive way to clean substrate in my planted shrimp tank for a while now
Great videos Rachel! Look forward to watching and learning more.
Great video Rachel with a host of useful tips.
Your videos are getting so much better awesome!!
I do have aquarium all my life but good tips from you just got! Thanks for video and share ...
P.s. Very beautiful and healthy aquarium !
Thank you for all your great advices. I learn à lot by watching your videos !
Thank you very much Rachel. Love the way you explain everything.
Nice tip with the Chop Stick. Defiantly got to try that. Thanks
Rachael thanks so much! I've been looking at all this extra wildlife in my shrimp tank for 2 weeks now wondering how I could siphon my tank without disturbing the shrimp. I first added three tiny guppy fry to go after the daphnia, copepods, and other things I have no idea what they are. Now I have eight micro pleco bristlenose fry in there tackling the algae. Now I know these guys can't all stay but right now they are tiny. But yesterday I saw a red worm in my filter sponge like you see in wild fish!!! How did THAT nasty thing get there?? The dried leaves I've been feeding them?? Anyway I'm going to try this. Wish me luck! Also I would like to order some Indian almond leaves from you and a few shrimp as well. Right now I have juvenile red cherry shrimp. The females starting moving eggs up into the saddle area over the last week or so. It won't be long now. Can I mix the crystal reds with them or would it be better to get yellow?
Valerie Storm crystal reds would keep a very bright red shrimp colony but the yellow would interbreed. either way you’ll get some wild type shrimp, but it is all preference
I just revamped my planted shrimp tank, great ideas! I'm stealing that chopstick idea. I notice little unwanteds from time to time, I try to nab them with a turkey baster :) Does the trick if you are in between water changes
Thank you for great video. I notice you use chopstick and airline tube for siphon but how do you get the sucking water going? I do not think just sticking into the substrate would not do.Please advise. Thank you.
This is awesome because I have been considering starting one once I am done moving.
Hi, As always great videos. When you do a species Sunday it would be awesome if you could include the lifespan of the species. Thanks, and keep the videos coming. I really enjoy watching them.
+Dontdalla ah, good call. That is not really easy to know, unfortunately. I do when I know through experience what they are. Many of the species I spotlight, I still have, and for many years. I will try and make a point to include that more. Thanks for the feedback.
Do you have a suggestion or a video on getting rid of planaria.
I personally recommend planaria zero. Gets rid of planaria and Hydra. Shimp safe but will kill snails.
Whoever disliked this video is just a hater. Good vid Rachael!
Haters are how you know you have it made, lol, or at least that is what I am telling myself!
I put Kuhli loaches in my shrimp tank, they keep planarian at bay, and don't harm shrimp
what a beautiful tank! do you have any close up shots of it? also what's your plant list for the tank?
Great vid, got a similar tank , will use this technique to siphon the substrate. cheers.
Your videos are awesome always love them. Still waiting for your video on shellies!!
+Joseph Pinkston waiting for the fry money shot
+Rachel O'leary You know they say the best things are worth waiting for LOL and thanks for all the hard work
great job! got a few tips I wasn't aware of!
thanks for your videos I would love a spot light on yoyo loach / Pakistani Loach and how thay are in a planted tank expecially in HC carpeted tanks
Great video and BEAUTIFUL tank!
+Andrew Gaines thanks!
Thanks so much for this video. I'm in the shrimp part of this amazing hobby and I've learned so much from your videos! Woild you ever consider speaking at our fish club? The Delaware County Aquarium Society would be honored to have you if you can find the time! You can find this on Facebook and Google. Thanks again!!!
wow amazing tank there my friend. could you let us know what are the plants that are currently living in there. cos would love to get a low tech tank with those low light plants. awesome scape
+Liv in Crypt parva, small form Bolbitis, narrow leaf java fern, spikey moss, bucephelandra, anubias nana petite.
I wish we could have seen a good, long closeup of that tank :D
Wow, I really love how your tanks look! Keep up the good work
So glad my husband is Chinese... we have a plethora of chopsticks. :-)
Wow, just came across this video. Genius!!!!
Do you think that smaller and more regular water changes would be better for keeping shrimp in a smaller tank?
yes
Rachel, what percentage (and how often) would you change a tank with Caridina, chili rasboras (so more bioload, I have a dozen right now), that's heavily planted and being dosed ferts (thrive S). I want to make sure nutrients don't build up with too small water changes but don't want them to be too big and affect the shrimp. I'm not sure where the happy medium lies.
+Rachel O'leary That's a beautiful little tank. I'm honestly a bit heartbroken right now though, Rachel. I live in OH now and I'm setting up my first tank here. I'd intended to do a shrimp (2-3 species that won't hybridize) and nano fish tank with this Oceanic 33g Hex I picked up second hand. Unfortunately the local water is horrible with a high PH of 8.2, a KH of only 3.5-4 degrees, and a GH around 7 degrees. Other than the GH the rest is just not going to work but for an extremely narrow selection of animals. I really want to do the tank as I intended but the only solution I can see is getting an RO unit, remineralizing and buffering manually. Am I wrong here? What would you suggest? Maybe you could work this into a video for your channel to help other keepers in a similar situation.
Keep up the good work, your videos are getting better and better! :)
+Sarkazmo Loafy You could use aquasoil, or one of the substrates that pulls out hardness, but you would want to do small, frequent water changes rather than larger ones to prevent shifts in parameters. RO is another good choice, or rainwater if you are not in a particularly industrial area.
Unfortunately, Rachel, I am in a small apartment and an industrial area so rainwater is right out. Being a Hex tank the area of the bottom is so small compared to rectangular tank of the same gallonage. I think that would limit Aquasoil's absorption and buffering ability. It still looks like I'm going to have to go RO. At least it's a lot cheaper to do now than it used to be. Thanks for your input, Rachel, I appreciate and value your input and experience.
That colander tip is marvelous; I'm shocked I never thought of it! In an earlier video, you mentioned using the plop and drop method for fish: match temp, then pour them into a net to add to the tank -- no drip. Is this what you do for your shrimp, too?
+Anthony Ragan yes, almost exclusively
+Rachel O'leary you did it
Thanks for sharing. I will be using those techniques in my nano now. :)
hi love your videos I have a question and thought you might be able to answer for me can you tell me if API general cure is safe to use on snails and shrimp the ingredients in it are metronidazole and praziquantel i have apple snails and ghost shrimp thanks
+Mark Scott The ghost shrimp for sure would be fine, I would be tempted to move the apple snails for treatment. Nerites do fine, but apples tend to be a bit more sensitive to medications in general.
thanks for the info
Hi Rachel, do you know what brand that tank is, and how many gallons? Thanks for the great videos!!
+Gavin S It is a Truaqua low iron tank. I think its roughly 7g.
Thanks for this video, I'm agree mulm and debris favors planaria, hydra and generaly the micro animals but it's good for the plants with nails in association.
Have you got nails in shrimps tanks ? Or in your fishtanks ?
Thanks for your answer.
Snails? Yes. I like snails as I find them to be a good indicator of water quality and maintenance.
Yes Snails, my English is not perfect.
thanks for your answer :) and thanks for all your video sharing :)
+Mik Moravel no problem, just wanted to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding!
Love the vacuum idea. My one problem is adding water back in. The shrimp seem to be very sensitive to water changes, and I occasionally still get a death after a water change. I use RO water and remineralize it the same way each time, add a few drops of prime, and even warm it up to the tank's parameters before adding it in. Does anyone else still see this from time to time? Are some shrimp just that sensitive?
Alright I will keep this one short. I would love to try shrimp keeping along side my main tank. It would be simply a small 2.5-gallon tank to keep on my desk. I would use artificial plants and simple aquarium gravel. I would first cycle it with Neon Tetras and then introduce shrimp when I have a fully nitrogen cycled tank as I am aware they are delicate. I would not use live plants. Would this setup work?? and how often would it need cleaning??
Poke Munitty shrimp and no live plants doesnt make sence if u want then to thrive, some Moss would do great in it and live plants
BigBaller Ok. for moss do you mean the moss balls you can purchase? i was also i could try adding an anubius
Poke Munitty yea a mossball is great but you need at least 3 things they can eat from, the floor a mossball and some plant would do.
I dont know what a anubis is tho my english aint 100%
It's a type of aquatic plant
I'd like to a fish room tour, but more detail then the ted judy tour would be awesome
+1deaver I literally had 30 minutes of solid footage I shot, BUT using a mic with a dead battery. I will redo it at some point. My youtube game was weak that day ;)
Do u condition the water before topping off? What's your water setup? And when I put treatment products in, do I measure per the 15% I'm changing or dose for the amount of the total water volume of the tank? I've been doing the former to prevent overdosing.
+Rachel Kruse I have a well so don't need to use chemicals. If adding untreated water into the aquarium you dose for total volume of the tank
o,Rachael last Monday I woke and my shrimp thank was empty , very sad day
I've worked very hard and was finally seeing some results now I'm back to square one
I did manage to save some and most the plants.The tank is over 40 years old.
any way do you think seachem ferts are safe for shrimp ? I'm definitely leaning away from excel
because it kills algee and possibly my little shrimp
+Damion Markham afaik, they are safe, but dosing ferts always relies heavily on a good water change routine so that you don't have those tds climbing through the roof, which can be pretty deadly to shrimp.
Thanks for another great video.
Hi Rachel, Quick question do you use minerals for the shrimp or is your well water the right parameters for BCS?
+Uriel Ramirez I do not. I think that is more necessary when using ro, which strip the mineral content out of the source water
I know you're tapwater is good , you have mentioned that in past videos , did you add Prine behind the scenes? Do you add fertilizer to the tank for the plants
+Eugenio Vazquez No prime, I have a well so nothing to dechlorinate (or remove chloramines). No fertilizers or co2 in this tank.
I get mosquito larvae in my shrimp tanks, the tanks are just jungles, so what are some “shrimp-safe” fish I could add to my aquariums.
Rachael O’Leary. I thinking of setting up for RCS, first time. I have nano python but it has a pre-sponge at the end, is this okay
Could you post a video of the shrimp I gave you
Do you use any fertilizer in your crs tanks?
Are detritus worms really a bad thing? I've been told not to siphon out the detritus, as it can be a source of food for the shrimps since they constantly graze. I'm going to be setting up a Walstad planted shrimp tank for my Carbon Rili and PFR shrimps I bought recently, so this tip couldn't have come at a better time :)
+Jacob “GreenGo” Green they are not problematic to shrimp but are unsightly. I prefer them not to be there in my tanks as the shrimp have plenty of plants to graze on.
Hi, are you using co2 injection in this tank? to keep it green and nice like that.
+Cesar Muniz no, no fert and no co2
Rachael, 720p doesn't do justice to your tanks. I suggest 1080p at 60 frames/second. 4K (UHD) would be even better, but it's unweildy.
what do you dose to keep all your plants in that tank healthy? or does your shrimp provide all the nutrients?
I dont dose
@@RachelOLeary how many shrimps are in that tank? I want to create a heavily planted shrimp tank but I'm not sure if they provide enough bioload to support the plants
awesome idea with the chop stick!
+Matt Whitmire Do you have CO2 on this tank??????
+Matt Whitmire nope. no co2, no ferts
+Rachel O'leary AWESOME! Just the way I like it ;) low maint!
Hi, Is it safe to use iron, potassium fertilizers in a planted shrimp tank??
What water parameters should I shoot for when trying to breed reds, blues, and black shrimp ?
My current stats are 79deg F, 7.4ph, hard water.., not sure of hardness..
TechGuru4U I never checked my water ever and I always have at least 3 shrimps pregnant and never seen a dead one ..
+BigBaller ur lucky i dont test my water n mine all dies eventually before my fire red shrimps breed. And when i do try to check my param it'll be too late, all dies. Dnt knw how many shrimp batches ive lost in past yr..
thi le dam, well be Sure to do a water change every 2 weeks and dont poor your New water in Just try drip it in with a tube and use some de chloranator ( idk how u spel that) and have loads off hiding spots some Moss and good water flow and u must be fine
Now you've given me something else to worry about...hydra and planaria. From what source would these pests evolve?
+stormet54 sometimes I think outerspace
they evolve from pikachu
Do you have fish website? If you do .Do you ship to Canada?
what low light carpeting plants are in your tank? was it the crypt? I'm still learning about what's low tech and high tech
+🐟💦Siren_SeaReviews&Aquariums(Gabbi) Yes, crypt parva. Grows SUUUUUUUUUPER slow, but once it fills in is lovely.
I've even seen the most high tech carpenting plants like HC Cuba and glosso make a lovely thick carpet in a low tech (dirt) tank. You can't have any fast growing stem plants sucking up all the CO2 at the same time though as these plants are very picky about CO2 and you need to keep your eyes on the tank constantly and make adjustment to avoid algae.
It's also best to dry start such a tank.
Search on google for "Small Planted Tanks for Pet Shrimp - Bookmasters" for an example. Not for beginners.
For beginners is species like E tenellus, Sagittaria subulata and C Parva better choices.
Hi Rachel, my shrimps body is cloudy and i dont know how to help the shrimp by clearing it up. Every single batch i buy the shrimp either dies or if i do take notice i can see that the shrimps body goes cloudy.
What should i do? What did you do?
You did say you experienced shrimps cloudy body and successful clearing it..
I have IAL leaf and mulberry leaves, banana leaves.
PLEASE HELP ASAP i am wanting to buy BLOODY MARYS this time maybe my luck would be better.
Ive heard as long as i can get 1 berried female that 1batch and onwards thats born in my tank will be the survivor. Is that true?
+thi le water changes, keep things pristine. Also, buy from a source that breeds their shrimp in house
Just one question..
Can I keep a betta fish with some shrimps like red cheery or amano shrimp? thanks.
+bader almajed Amano for sure, cherry sometimes-depends on the betta
+Rachel O'leary Thank you.
What algae eaters would you suggest for my dirt and sand planted tank for shrimp?
+Omar K Johnson Possiblly a nerite snail, if iti s flat type algae you are dealing with. If its filamentous algae, probably amano shrimp.
+Rachel O'leary ok thanks
What were the water parameters for this tank? like ph. gh.
anyone know what that plant in front corner is kinda looks like a grass?
if your routine is like 15% to 20% every weekend, would you need to worry about it? the holes is a harder tube that can get into the subtrate
depends on who you talk to. Personally,, I cannot stand planaria, detritus worms, or excess bladder snails- all of which are common in a shrimp tank because they eat so inefficiently and make a bit of a mess.
Is there anything that can help with that in a community tank ? That could possibly keep up after the shrimp to reduce the chances ?
There is not really any reliable replacement for good husbandry- its an age old fishkeeper dilemma
I see
Hello Rachel, I want to know more about how the secondary pest form into your tank
Do you ever lose shrimp from jumping out of that open top tank?
+Matt Wavering nope
and what kind of driftwood
what are all the plants in the tank in this video
no heater in there. ? is there a preferred ph level. ?
+Dee From Brooklyn I don't use heaters except for on Hypancistrus, Discus, or Cardinal tetras. I use soil that softens my water in this tank to make it very soft, though I have not actually measured the pH. If I had to guess based on the hardness, I would say its around 6ish. The shrimp in there prefer soft, cool water: ua-cam.com/video/MJ-Iz3_JB38/v-deo.html
Great video. Thanks.
Hey I wish I could send u a pic of my nano tank as I want to breed my red cherry shrimp any help
Where can I get that super thin siphon? What brand/model is it?
+Carlos Varela I have no idea honestly. I buy tubing from the hardware store
Ask hardware people for the 4-5mm air tubes/hose they are normally ranges from $50c- $1.50/metre (depends) ebay you can chck also for good price.
what do u dose in ur tank for plants? IE. iron, seachem flourish. what u recommend?
+Anupam Anu I don't dose anything
+Rachel O'leary wow! I add seachem iron, flourish and falurish excel. yet my plants are covered with brown algae and new leafes which grow are not green. I run 8 hours led lights during day. anything I'm missing or doing wrong?
@@AnupamOO Brown Algae can be caused by excess Sillicates in the tap water
1 Male Honey Gourami, 4 Tail Spot Pygmy Cory, 4 Male Endler's Livebearers could i still add shrimp?i have 12gallon(45liter) tank
What sort of filter do you use for that tank? I'm starting up a new shrimp tank but i'd rather not spend another $100+ on a filter.
+Cam Wong Dual bio-logic sponge filter made by Aqua-Pharm
Oh, okay! I've also read that carbon media isn't recommended for a planted tank, is that true?
Not if you are dosing fertilizer, as it will remove them. I tend to keep things VERY simple in my fish room and use almost exclusively various sponge filtration types.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!! I only recently discovered you through Joey's video. Love your channel!
thanks!
What light is that?
Great vid. I defiantly need to get myself some of those tweezers! I think I've been too rough with mine and uprooted most of my plants. Do you dose the tank with co2? X
+Rachel Porter This tank gets no co2 and no fertilizers. All low light, easy plants (that are pretty slow growing)
What are the measurements of this tank? And what do you feed them?
+Guilherme Carvalho I rarely supplement the shrimp in this tank, but when I do I generally use pellets. I will have to measure the tank, for the life of me I cannot recall even how many gallons it holds. It sat around for years before I did something with it.
I looked this up because i didnt know how to clean your shrimp tank without sucking the shrimp up lol
That was the point! I hope it helped
How do you control the population explosion of red cherry shrimp?
+stormet54 I sell them!
Why my fish always mess with my plants I always find my plants floating it seems it doesn’t like plants on the bottom or it just nipping on it
Unknown User certain fish will do that, i would do research on the specific species of fish you have
great vid
WOW thanks 💝🦐🌱😇😊💞
Thanks for The tip
good tips ty
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