So glad the Planaria was the first thing you talked about. Literally putting you on hold to go look at my tank again. What I came to see if you talked about. I had a planarian trap, went to empty it yesterday and found 20-30 dead tiny baby shrimps in it. 😭
Avoiding 'Unstable environment' - I once heard this explained as 'mindful neglect'. When I first got my shrimp tank 3 years ago I was constantly tinkering about with it and my shrimp weren't doing so well. Then I heard this phrase and it really stuck with me, and ever since my shrimp tank has thrived. I had heard about them preferring cooler temps but mine are at 23-24c and it's never seemed to be a problem. They've bred so successfully (from a starting 10 shrimp to over 300) that I would actually quite like them to stop 😆
Colder temperature..? That’s strange the person I got my pumpkin orange shrimp Sunkist are thriving in 80 kind of warm she has hundreds in her tank. She said the secret is warm water.. Very interested you said colder water.
@@hhinojosareef1 most cold blooded invertebrates thrive in warmer temps. Generally warmer temps will speed up their metabolism and shorten their life span though.
This is so helpful. I'm not proud of my mistake, but I lost my new shrimp because I tried to acclimate them like I did for fish, and just like you said, two out of four of them molted a few days after introduction and died. I would have loved if they told me this at the pet store...
Been keeping fish for over 30 years and tried shrimp found them to be both the hardest and easiest to do. Till you workout how to keep them they just die, one day you just work it out and then they are easy as. These 10 reasons are from my experience spot on, if fact make them your 10 rules for keeping shrimp and you will be successful without doubt. Really excellent video that’s going to help a lot of people succeed with shrimp.
Great video! I'd just like to add that too many snails in the tank can also decrease your shrimp population. They reproduce quickly and compete for food with the shrimp. This happened with my ramshorns and neocaridina.
FYI - No planaria is only safe for Rams horn snails. Great to use for hydra and to kill bladder snails. You can use shrimp soil or Amazonia, but use seiryu stone. It will add to the kh and gh you need with Neo's. Use dragon stone or any stone that is inert for caridina. If you suspect copper, get a copper test kit. Copper pipes do not do anything. Trace copper doesn't hurt them, like most ferts have in them. Yes,make sure meds are shrimp safe. Neo's can handle it up to 29 for short periods of time. Shrimp need small water changes if the tank is sparcley planted, but in a highly planted tank, water changes are not always necessary. The main thing I would stress as my number one reason shrimp die is not letting your tank fully cycle and age to grow a good amount of biolfilm for them. I have blue diamonds in a filter less, highly planted 15 liter vase. The substrate takes up 1/3 of the bottom. Layered from course scoria to sand at the top with shrimp sand sandwiched inbetween. It was going for 6 months before I added the shrimp. Like you said stability counts, but the older the setup, filtered or not filtered, the more stable it is.
Great timing! Last week I set up a shrimp only tank to breed yellow cherrys after having lots of success with red cherrys in a community tank. Turns out I misunderstood their temperature requirements and will be fixing the species only tank quick smart, dropping it down a few degrees.
My question from the last couple of days, you read my mind. I got like 30 shrimps a couple of weeks ago and now there are only 4 left. Thank you for letting me understand
I have lost a lot of shrimp in a previous tank. They would just completely vanish. I assumed the crawfish was hunting them. Which is possible, but I never witnessed it happen. Maybe it was that conditions were bad, and the bodies were just being rapidly eating by the crawfish and snails. I now significantly upgraded to a larger aquarium with more areas for a shrimp to hide out of reach of the crawfish and the water itself is in much better condition, and so far so good.
Your plecos are the prettiest plecos I've ever seen. And I've been seeing them a lot as I'm looking at stock options. The white just on the tips of the fins is perfection.
Not new to fish keeping and now want to try shrimp after downsizing to a nano tank and can't thank you enough for this comprehensive video. Excited to keep trying if necessary to keep neocardina.
Just came across this and I'm really thankful for it, we have had 4 Amano shrimp in our community tank for the past 2 months and have recently introduced 5 cherry shrimp! Absolutely love keeping shrimp now and I genuinely feel like they are overlooked in the hobby!
when i got my shrimp i 1 didnt acclimate them, 2 cycled my tank with a lot of fish food with copper, 3 didn’t have my ac on for when it was 85-90 degrees outside. and that’s my experience with shrimp and how i killed all my shrimp.
I really appreciate these videos, I plan on getting some cherry shrimp for the first time. I've had a 30 gallon goldfish aquarium for about a month now with two tiny goldfish, and there is plenty of algae and biofilm on the tank walls, plants, and a couple decorations. the water parameters are stable and ideal. I love the clip of the shrimp riding the snail at the end of the video
Not sure if you added shrimp yet, but I wouldn’t add cherry shrimp to anything with goldfish. You’re feeding them an expensive snack if they can’t hide.
Hi great list. One of the reason maybe we just bought shrimps that were raised in outdoor condition and put in an indoor aquarium. In that case, they might not adapt to indoor environment and start to die off, but the babies from those shrimps will adapt to the indoor aquarium as they grow without any problems and won't die so easily.
instead of corals you can use poultry grit made of crushed coral and oystershell and limestone, or you can add crushed eggshel which adds trace minerals for shrimp. a few grains of epsom salts also add trave elements, but use them sparingly.
Cuttle bone is also good, but I just use seiryu stone now. Looks good and things like buce, anubias and mosses attach so easily to it with some gel super glue.
Great list! I would add that neocaradinas can handle warmer water, but the tradeoff is a shorter lifespan. The warmer it is, the higher their metabolism is, so they breed faster, eat more, etc. and essentially "wear out" sooner. Mine took off in a very small tank better than my larger ones, but it's very difficult to maintain temp at a lower level because even the lowest wattage heaters still raise it to about 78-80f. No heater, the tank will go from 60-80 depending on time of day and season, so I've opted to keep a steady 78. Mine oldest are about 9 months old and I've lost a couple likely to old age (they live about a year from everything I have read).
Well, hey. Thanks for posting! I'm happy I stumbled upon your video. I had 2 colonies of neocaridinas, they were doing so well until about 2 months ago or so. Then they all died off. I think it's because I introduced new shrimp to the tanks. I was trying to introduce genetic variants, but instead I killed them all :(
Nice video! You really get deep into the shrimps, now it's time for the proper ones. I hope to see some Taiwans and Pintos in your tanks in future. Keep it growing!
Thanks for the info, your channel has been good. I am going to Neocaradina's in the coming days once my tank is properly sorted. I live in the tropics and it's still 30C (86F) here in winter so i am unsure how they will go temp wise but i do aircon the house to 25C most the time.
i think it was the summer temps that all but wiped out my ghost shrimp i still see one every once in a while but i had twenty + healthy adults at the end of spring. now that winter is rolling in i might try again.
Heyy, I'm new to shrimp keeping, but after doing some research, I found that adding a pinch of crushed eggshells help snails and shrimp with growth and molting. And with planaria I don't know how far this is true, but guppies help with getting rid of it. Hope this helps ; )
Thanks for the video! About two weeks ago I found planaria in my shrimp tanks. I’d been slacking on the maintenance because noticed my female was berried and didn’t want to disturb the substrate… yeah bad idea. Did a lot of vacuuming, then got a different med rec’ed by my LFS, which seemed to work and not affect the shrimp or snail. I’m happy to see more tiny shrimp this week!
Thanks for the informative video. What city do you live in? I am wondering because you sound Australian and I live in Melbourne and the water here is also fairly soft. So I am wondering how appropriate you think Melbourne water is for Crystal Red shrimp? Do you think it needs any treatment besides dechlorinating?
I set up a tank to go through it's adjustment phase, once matured with adding things like briny shrimp for fish or so, the general tank water has enough conditioning of it's own, such as plants and the coral skeleton... I don't dechlorinate, but I only change about 2lt out of a 30 litre so far... And have not put in shrimp. I go by semi-old fashioned methods instead of trying to keep up with products.
So like, the general hardness chart. My water comes out of the tap at around 220 ppm (fairly hard), I think my ro filters "waste water" is somewhere between 300-400 (hard). So could I use the "waste water" for my shrimp since they like hard water?
Thank you, ive got two tanks with armanos. in the smaller one they die after weeks and the big one is fine. i think ill check the copper otherwise i cant explain this
Question 1. Just had a planeria outbreak. The newest addition was cholla wood however I boiled it for 5 hours and simmered for 18 more. It’s been 2 weeks since the addition and 5 weeks since I bought the red panda shrimp and it was half inch at TOD. Could it be the cholla? ?2 Should I change water while dosing with No Planeria? ?3 how to measure No Planeria for 1gallon tank?
No change the water then do the 3 day treatment as the directions say. Then the day after the 3rd treatment do a 25 to 30 percent water change. Prior to treatment take out any snails you have that are not rams horns. It will kill every other type of snail except ram horns.
Almost at 100K!!!!!!!!! great video. Never had shrimp, maybe in the far future. great video. good to see ur shrimpy success. ur vids are very pro now. keep it up mate!
I suffer from the opposite problem. Where I live, the climate is too hot in summer (over 40ºC) and idk how to solve it! Is there any water "cooler" or water temperature stabilizer out there?
My water is super soft and im trying to add crushed oyster shell to slowly bring up the hardness/ calcium in the water. How long should this process take you think? I.e if 3 days go by without any changes to the Ph should I add more into the water? I only have a 3 gallon tank so am adding in 5g at a time. So far it has been two days so i added in 10g total now
Today at noon my neocaridina shrimps were gathering on sponge filter and media bag of aquarium started dying, shrimps legs and moth become white, water parameter and temperature was ideal. I have no clue. Please suggest what to do.
I ordered online from a nearby aquatics store, they're 3 hours away so no point trying to buy in person anyway, so other nearby stores sell these shrimp, only a chain store selling Amanos full size. I ordered blue, and cherry. My first time trying to have shrimp, I only have 2 amanos in my tropical tank (nobody told me at the store they like cool water, altho they're doing fine in there) today the 5 blue shrimp arrived, they were very small, I thought they'd be full-sized, blue, beautiful, 5 of them. I acclimated them about over an hour, same way I do with fish. I had a small filter in there, no gaps or large intake, within 30 mins of putting them in, I went to check up on them, two of them were stuck inside the outlet tube... which was clear so I could see.. I was horrified... I released them, and they seemed fine... But I did panic that now they'd be veryyy stressed and likely might die :///, about 30 mins later, I found one dead floating... :( That awful feeling of having live creatures and killing one instantly :( I did do fair research before getting them, I can only imagine that, shipping is not a great idea. When they first were in my tank, they were super active, my girlfriend thought its cause they're happy, but I thought they must be super stressed from delivery, being knocked around.. but were all alive when arrived. The only other thing I can think of, is being stuck in the filter although I don't even know how the heck they got in as there's no inlet open... no holes wide enough, I removed that filter and have a small sponge filter coming tomorrow, but I have not seen any of them since this afternoon, they've either settled under something, or are hiding due to stress or for all I know, are all dead :( But I don't want to disturb the tank incase they're recovering, so I'll have to check. The other thing is I'd not seen anything about light, but after checking today, something online said they do not like bright light.. I was planning to grow moss in there, so I had a bright lamp, I'm now ordering a low light clip on light for nano tank, but Id' love them to have lots of plants to hide in... just feel like such an amateur and that's not the best feeling, starting new, since I'd gotten to a fair level with tropical fish. So much to learn. I'm not sure if this is bad karma or good karma, but I did feed the dead one to my goldfish instead of throwing him in the bin or burying him, not a great feeling for the shrimp, but kinda good karma for my goldfish getting absolutely top nutrition from a fresh shrimp?! Sorry folks. :( seemed a better idea than the bin.
Dont worry I’m sure with enough experience you will get it right. I know that feeling, I recently purchased crystal red shrimp to try to breed them but they died a day after acclimating them, worst feeling ever. But I learned there were some mistakes I made and I am soon going to try again with all the research I’ve done, hope you do too and good luck with your shrimp!
If you acclimatise your shrimp over a couple of hours, drip methed in a container under the tank, how do you keep the temp right ? If your room is not heated ?
A few of my shrimp were infected with horse hair worms. They are white and look like spagetti. I had ghost shrimp and you can see them clearly through the shell.
Is there any way to remove insecticides like buprafezin from driftwood? I don't plan to add shrimps any time soon, but if i do, will new scape need to be ordered?
Thank you for this video. My neocaradina shrimps in my tank have been dying after having them for 3yrs. I tested the water and notice my kh is at 2 and gh is at 19. So I'm gonna get some coral to raise the kh, but does anyone know how to lower gh?
It goes without saying....whenever you do a water change, no matter the species, always take the time to get the EXACT temperature of your tank, and know the parameters of tap water and those of the tank......makes life alot easier and tells you how much of a water change you should actually do.
i keep crystals and cherries together and they just breed so much so i added predators feel bad but now i at least have a controlled population where only like 5 babies become adult shrimps and its a mini cycle now.
I recently got a few cherry and blue dreams but out of the 4 only 2 survived. I think my problem is the acclimation. I was doing them like I did fish, just an hour or two and toss them in. I also did not realize that changing the water conditions quickly can kill them too. I have a solution that’s safe for shrimp that gets rid of nitrates and nitrites, could this stress them as well??
Don’t confuse snail leaches vs planaria. I got them infected plants. I was so pissed. Had to take down my snail tank, and found on a couple in the shrimp. Those one hanging on the bottom stretching look like snail leaches. They don’t have eyes, and are smaller then planaria. They are tear drop shape when stretching out to a long tube, but can curl up to a blob. .
I'm doing research waay before even getting a shrimp. I do have one question though. Does a loud home stress them? I have a toddler, so the house can get busy sometimes.
i dont think it does. despite not knowing too much about their anatomy (do they have ears??), think about how noise translates into the water when you go swimming - exactly, its really quiet because the soundwaves dont carry through water as they would through air :) but i would watch out for the toddler playing with the aquarium glass
My cardinals ate my shrimp. it was quite brutal actually. I think you should maybe add that rouge community fish can and will eat live shrimp. I'm now breeding artemia shrimp to feed them live food now as they are looking sad now they are lacking a live food source.
Oh, shoot! So I had a couple pass over the weekend both white bands likely to molting problems, so i decided I'd check and appriopriately treat the ph and nitrates and give it a very minor water change, I've since had another 2 pass. So, damn, I've triggered two of these. I over stressed the water and the shrimp! I will definitely try harder to not stress the little ones. I will not just try and fix the water all at once every single time a change occurs and I'll try and take a more monitoring approach to this and like one day maybe adjust the PH then a day or two later the Nitrates and after few more days to a week later do the water change, ect. Just take it more so step by step instead of just seeing the changes and panicing to put them all right, because as i've found out it helped nothing but the water itself and it's really sad but I've lost most of my first colony now... I'm going to definitely keep trying and be more careful and this video has helped my learn from my mistakes and shown me others to look out for.
justs started a cherry shrimp colony in an established tank, medium to heavy planted, in general how long before i can expect to see breeding and is there anything i can do to stimulate breeding? thanks!
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Hey mate, I'd love to buy some blue dream shrimp next time you have them hatching. I'm just in Kedron
Hey, what type of fish do you keep with neocardina’s?
So glad the Planaria was the first thing you talked about. Literally putting you on hold to go look at my tank again. What I came to see if you talked about. I had a planarian trap, went to empty it yesterday and found 20-30 dead tiny baby shrimps in it. 😭
Get some No Planaria.
Demn... what brutality 😭😭😭
☠️.. i was about to asf for what trap you used but nevermind..
Can turtles eat planaria?
More likely planaria traps kill shrimp, not planaria. They are really slow.
Avoiding 'Unstable environment' - I once heard this explained as 'mindful neglect'. When I first got my shrimp tank 3 years ago I was constantly tinkering about with it and my shrimp weren't doing so well. Then I heard this phrase and it really stuck with me, and ever since my shrimp tank has thrived.
I had heard about them preferring cooler temps but mine are at 23-24c and it's never seemed to be a problem. They've bred so successfully (from a starting 10 shrimp to over 300) that I would actually quite like them to stop 😆
Bruh like...gimme some shrimp 😆😆😆
Colder temperature..? That’s strange the person I got my pumpkin orange shrimp Sunkist are thriving in 80 kind of warm she has hundreds in her tank. She said the secret is warm water.. Very interested you said colder water.
@@hhinojosareef1 most cold blooded invertebrates thrive in warmer temps. Generally warmer temps will speed up their metabolism and shorten their life span though.
@@keeganlangford5580 Oh man need to make it colder than I’m getting lots of Baby shrimp with 80F hmmm need to keep it colder then.
Will they do good at 18ºC? Cold water tank.
This is so helpful. I'm not proud of my mistake, but I lost my new shrimp because I tried to acclimate them like I did for fish, and just like you said, two out of four of them molted a few days after introduction and died. I would have loved if they told me this at the pet store...
I do appreciate you keeping it shrimple, thank you.
Shrimply a one in a krillion video
@@Xxluna_werewolfxXthat’s a krillarious word play
Been keeping fish for over 30 years and tried shrimp found them to be both the hardest and easiest to do. Till you workout how to keep them they just die, one day you just work it out and then they are easy as. These 10 reasons are from my experience spot on, if fact make them your 10 rules for keeping shrimp and you will be successful without doubt. Really excellent video that’s going to help a lot of people succeed with shrimp.
Great video! I'd just like to add that too many snails in the tank can also decrease your shrimp population. They reproduce quickly and compete for food with the shrimp. This happened with my ramshorns and neocaridina.
This happened with a current small tank ! Rams horn snails started taking over
FYI - No planaria is only safe for Rams horn snails. Great to use for hydra and to kill bladder snails. You can use shrimp soil or Amazonia, but use seiryu stone. It will add to the kh and gh you need with Neo's. Use dragon stone or any stone that is inert for caridina. If you suspect copper, get a copper test kit. Copper pipes do not do anything. Trace copper doesn't hurt them, like most ferts have in them. Yes,make sure meds are shrimp safe. Neo's can handle it up to 29 for short periods of time. Shrimp need small water changes if the tank is sparcley planted, but in a highly planted tank, water changes are not always necessary. The main thing I would stress as my number one reason shrimp die is not letting your tank fully cycle and age to grow a good amount of biolfilm for them. I have blue diamonds in a filter less, highly planted 15 liter vase. The substrate takes up 1/3 of the bottom. Layered from course scoria to sand at the top with shrimp sand sandwiched inbetween. It was going for 6 months before I added the shrimp. Like you said stability counts, but the older the setup, filtered or not filtered, the more stable it is.
thats so much information! ive been dying to have shrimp but i know i dont know enough to start. thanks for sharing all that!
So does it kill mystery snails too?
Great timing! Last week I set up a shrimp only tank to breed yellow cherrys after having lots of success with red cherrys in a community tank. Turns out I misunderstood their temperature requirements and will be fixing the species only tank quick smart, dropping it down a few degrees.
Great list with some very very good points to look out for. Every new to intermediate shrimp keeper should watch this.
My question from the last couple of days, you read my mind. I got like 30 shrimps a couple of weeks ago and now there are only 4 left. Thank you for letting me understand
Stop snacking then! Sheesh!
I have lost a lot of shrimp in a previous tank. They would just completely vanish. I assumed the crawfish was hunting them. Which is possible, but I never witnessed it happen. Maybe it was that conditions were bad, and the bodies were just being rapidly eating by the crawfish and snails.
I now significantly upgraded to a larger aquarium with more areas for a shrimp to hide out of reach of the crawfish and the water itself is in much better condition, and so far so good.
I followed everything you said with a grain of salt and now my aquarium is brackish.
Hahahahaha 😅
Your plecos are the prettiest plecos I've ever seen. And I've been seeing them a lot as I'm looking at stock options. The white just on the tips of the fins is perfection.
Not new to fish keeping and now want to try shrimp after downsizing to a nano tank and can't thank you enough for this comprehensive video. Excited to keep trying if necessary to keep neocardina.
Just came across this and I'm really thankful for it, we have had 4 Amano shrimp in our community tank for the past 2 months and have recently introduced 5 cherry shrimp! Absolutely love keeping shrimp now and I genuinely feel like they are overlooked in the hobby!
How are they doing?
when i got my shrimp i 1 didnt acclimate them, 2 cycled my tank with a lot of fish food with copper, 3 didn’t have my ac on for when it was 85-90 degrees outside. and that’s my experience with shrimp and how i killed all my shrimp.
I don't have a shrimp or even a tank. I just like your narration & honesty!
I really appreciate these videos, I plan on getting some cherry shrimp for the first time. I've had a 30 gallon goldfish aquarium for about a month now with two tiny goldfish, and there is plenty of algae and biofilm on the tank walls, plants, and a couple decorations. the water parameters are stable and ideal.
I love the clip of the shrimp riding the snail at the end of the video
Not sure if you added shrimp yet, but I wouldn’t add cherry shrimp to anything with goldfish. You’re feeding them an expensive snack if they can’t hide.
Hi great list. One of the reason maybe we just bought shrimps that were raised in outdoor condition and put in an indoor aquarium. In that case, they might not adapt to indoor environment and start to die off, but the babies from those shrimps will adapt to the indoor aquarium as they grow without any problems and won't die so easily.
I just got my first shrimp and lost almost all of them to planaria. I’m so sad! I just ordered no-planaria - hopefully I can get the issue resolved.
instead of corals you can use poultry grit made of crushed coral and oystershell and limestone, or you can add crushed eggshel which adds trace minerals for shrimp. a few grains of epsom salts also add trave elements, but use them sparingly.
Cuttle bone is also good, but I just use seiryu stone now. Looks good and things like buce, anubias and mosses attach so easily to it with some gel super glue.
I saw a video somewhere, where someone crushed egg shells and put them in a filter?
Are there any supplements you're aware that I could purchase to use? Thank you for any help!
Thanks for the info, i have chickens so this has 2 uses now.
Thank you, I'm completely new to the shrimp hobby and appreciate videos like this!
...really helpful video. I just love that i watched it... after a massive water change in panic
Great list! I would add that neocaradinas can handle warmer water, but the tradeoff is a shorter lifespan. The warmer it is, the higher their metabolism is, so they breed faster, eat more, etc. and essentially "wear out" sooner.
Mine took off in a very small tank better than my larger ones, but it's very difficult to maintain temp at a lower level because even the lowest wattage heaters still raise it to about 78-80f. No heater, the tank will go from 60-80 depending on time of day and season, so I've opted to keep a steady 78. Mine oldest are about 9 months old and I've lost a couple likely to old age (they live about a year from everything I have read).
Can they handle an unheated setup?
@@ChrisJohnsonCJs-Kitchen yes, they live longer in colder water, they just breed slower.
@@-.RuhRoh Thank you so much!
So much good info, Nick! This was a great, informative video, and I appreciate the time it took to make it, along with all of your other videos!
Well, hey. Thanks for posting! I'm happy I stumbled upon your video. I had 2 colonies of neocaridinas, they were doing so well until about 2 months ago or so. Then they all died off. I think it's because I introduced new shrimp to the tanks. I was trying to introduce genetic variants, but instead I killed them all :(
I used No Planaria to get rid of hydra and it worked like a charm.
Nice video! You really get deep into the shrimps, now it's time for the proper ones. I hope to see some Taiwans and Pintos in your tanks in future. Keep it growing!
I love watching shrimp but I can’t seem to keep them…good to know what you have found..good info..🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽
Many thx for this Upload, very informative informative, especially because of the planarians.
Thanks for the info, your channel has been good. I am going to Neocaradina's in the coming days once my tank is properly sorted.
I live in the tropics and it's still 30C (86F) here in winter so i am unsure how they will go temp wise but i do aircon the house to 25C most the time.
Just getting back into the hobby and this video appears on my list. Wonderful information! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your videos.
Very interesting. I am thinking of setting up a tank for shrimp as they are so beautiful. I don't want them to die, obvs. Thanks for your hard work.
What was the shrimp food you used that was shaped like a disc and had a reddish center? Your shrimp seems to love it.
Useful for aquatic invert and vertebrate hobbyists. Keep up the great videos!
I learned a lot from this, had no idea some ferts have copper
Great video, I learned a lot. What type of algae eaters are in the video?
Thanks for your time making this video. Definitely helps me to step up my shrimp game.
i think it was the summer temps that all but wiped out my ghost shrimp i still see one every once in a while but i had twenty + healthy adults at the end of spring. now that winter is rolling in i might try again.
Heyy, I'm new to shrimp keeping, but after doing some research, I found that adding a pinch of crushed eggshells help snails and shrimp with growth and molting. And with planaria I don't know how far this is true, but guppies help with getting rid of it. Hope this helps ;
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I love the shrimp in my aquarium, trial and error is what’s going to help me keep them alive🤞…lol Thank You for sharing🌻
Really good before buying any shrimp, to check how we manage a tank beforehand.
Perfect timing, starting my shrimp tank tomorrow.
Great Video Nick.
so close to 100k!
This video was extremely helpful. Thank you! I'm waiting on my first shrimp to arrive.
Reason 8 can also be applied to plants. I tinkered a lot to destress my plants, but they became more stressed, and they died as a result
Thanks for the video! About two weeks ago I found planaria in my shrimp tanks. I’d been slacking on the maintenance because noticed my female was berried and didn’t want to disturb the substrate… yeah bad idea. Did a lot of vacuuming, then got a different med rec’ed by my LFS, which seemed to work and not affect the shrimp or snail. I’m happy to see more tiny shrimp this week!
add anatome helena snails they eat planaria
Thanks for the informative video. What city do you live in? I am wondering because you sound Australian and I live in Melbourne and the water here is also fairly soft. So I am wondering how appropriate you think Melbourne water is for Crystal Red shrimp? Do you think it needs any treatment besides dechlorinating?
I set up a tank to go through it's adjustment phase, once matured with adding things like briny shrimp for fish or so, the general tank water has enough conditioning of it's own, such as plants and the coral skeleton... I don't dechlorinate, but I only change about 2lt out of a 30 litre so far... And have not put in shrimp. I go by semi-old fashioned methods instead of trying to keep up with products.
Great Video, I have been losing some crs, thanks for the video 👌👌👌your videos are top quality!
So like, the general hardness chart. My water comes out of the tap at around 220 ppm (fairly hard), I think my ro filters "waste water" is somewhere between 300-400 (hard). So could I use the "waste water" for my shrimp since they like hard water?
Whats the fish cleaning the soil at 3:00? Does it grow or stay shrimp size?
Im getting crystal red shrimp in a week, and these videos are very helpful! Thank you!
What plants do you suggest for my betta fish please
Thank you, ive got two tanks with armanos. in the smaller one they die after weeks and the big one is fine. i think ill check the copper otherwise i cant explain this
sweet mate. Very informative. I've just started with shrimp, so your advise has been timely and bonza.
Question 1. Just had a planeria outbreak. The newest addition was cholla wood however I boiled it for 5 hours and simmered for 18 more. It’s been 2 weeks since the addition and 5 weeks since I bought the red panda shrimp and it was half inch at TOD. Could it be the cholla?
?2 Should I change water while dosing with No Planeria?
?3 how to measure No Planeria for 1gallon tank?
No change the water then do the 3 day treatment as the directions say. Then the day after the 3rd treatment do a 25 to 30 percent water change. Prior to treatment take out any snails you have that are not rams horns. It will kill every other type of snail except ram horns.
Thank u so much for all the information. Its really helpful. 😍😍😍
Couldn't have come at a better time. I just put shrimp in my tank about 3 days ago.
What the little black/brown ball things on the bottom of the tank called?
Please tell me if I have copper pipes installed at home, will this be a problem for the shrimp if I want to grow them in tap water?
Almost at 100K!!!!!!!!! great video. Never had shrimp, maybe in the far future. great video. good to see ur shrimpy success. ur vids are very pro now. keep it up mate!
Great info - as I'm new to Shrimp I really appreciate it- Thank you !
My water here in California is right in the middle in terms of hardness. Should I add crushed coral for neocardina?
Awesome video Nick, I have just ordered my first shrimp and this video was excellent!
That snail 🐌🐌🐌 elevator 😂😂😂
I suffer from the opposite problem. Where I live, the climate is too hot in summer (over 40ºC) and idk how to solve it! Is there any water "cooler" or water temperature stabilizer out there?
Just getting back into shrimp myself this was deffinately a helpful vid thank you 🐠😊
What is best food for shrimp?
My water is super soft and im trying to add crushed oyster shell to slowly bring up the hardness/ calcium in the water. How long should this process take you think? I.e if 3 days go by without any changes to the Ph should I add more into the water? I only have a 3 gallon tank so am adding in 5g at a time. So far it has been two days so i added in 10g total now
Thank you for the great information!
Today at noon my neocaridina shrimps were gathering on sponge filter and media bag of aquarium started dying, shrimps legs and moth become white, water parameter and temperature was ideal. I have no clue. Please suggest what to do.
I ordered online from a nearby aquatics store, they're 3 hours away so no point trying to buy in person anyway, so other nearby stores sell these shrimp, only a chain store selling Amanos full size. I ordered blue, and cherry. My first time trying to have shrimp, I only have 2 amanos in my tropical tank (nobody told me at the store they like cool water, altho they're doing fine in there) today the 5 blue shrimp arrived, they were very small, I thought they'd be full-sized, blue, beautiful, 5 of them. I acclimated them about over an hour, same way I do with fish. I had a small filter in there, no gaps or large intake, within 30 mins of putting them in, I went to check up on them, two of them were stuck inside the outlet tube... which was clear so I could see.. I was horrified... I released them, and they seemed fine... But I did panic that now they'd be veryyy stressed and likely might die :///, about 30 mins later, I found one dead floating... :( That awful feeling of having live creatures and killing one instantly :( I did do fair research before getting them, I can only imagine that, shipping is not a great idea. When they first were in my tank, they were super active, my girlfriend thought its cause they're happy, but I thought they must be super stressed from delivery, being knocked around.. but were all alive when arrived. The only other thing I can think of, is being stuck in the filter although I don't even know how the heck they got in as there's no inlet open... no holes wide enough, I removed that filter and have a small sponge filter coming tomorrow, but I have not seen any of them since this afternoon, they've either settled under something, or are hiding due to stress or for all I know, are all dead :( But I don't want to disturb the tank incase they're recovering, so I'll have to check. The other thing is I'd not seen anything about light, but after checking today, something online said they do not like bright light.. I was planning to grow moss in there, so I had a bright lamp, I'm now ordering a low light clip on light for nano tank, but Id' love them to have lots of plants to hide in... just feel like such an amateur and that's not the best feeling, starting new, since I'd gotten to a fair level with tropical fish. So much to learn. I'm not sure if this is bad karma or good karma, but I did feed the dead one to my goldfish instead of throwing him in the bin or burying him, not a great feeling for the shrimp, but kinda good karma for my goldfish getting absolutely top nutrition from a fresh shrimp?! Sorry folks. :( seemed a better idea than the bin.
Dont worry I’m sure with enough experience you will get it right. I know that feeling, I recently purchased crystal red shrimp to try to breed them but they died a day after acclimating them, worst feeling ever. But I learned there were some mistakes I made and I am soon going to try again with all the research I’ve done, hope you do too and good luck with your shrimp!
If you acclimatise your shrimp over a couple of hours, drip methed in a container under the tank, how do you keep the temp right ? If your room is not heated ?
Im setting up my tank
Its all custom for blue dreams
Should i add the planiara treatment as part of tge set up to prevent ?
I did not know shrimp molt their skin! I was thinking my shrimp is dying everyday!
A few of my shrimp were infected with horse hair worms. They are white and look like spagetti. I had ghost shrimp and you can see them clearly through the shell.
How do they exist in accurium?
Is there any way to remove insecticides like buprafezin from driftwood? I don't plan to add shrimps any time soon, but if i do, will new scape need to be ordered?
Thanks for the info !!!
Hello. How many salt for Monodactylus with neons? What plants with Myleus Metynnis mettenis?
Thank you for this video. My neocaradina shrimps in my tank have been dying after having them for 3yrs. I tested the water and notice my kh is at 2 and gh is at 19. So I'm gonna get some coral to raise the kh, but does anyone know how to lower gh?
It goes without saying....whenever you do a water change, no matter the species, always take the time to get the EXACT temperature of your tank, and know the parameters of tap water and those of the tank......makes life alot easier and tells you how much of a water change you should actually do.
Are there any supplements I can add instead of the crushed coral for neocaridina?
Cheers buddy. I have my shrimp 🦐 coming tomorrow.. I’ll turn my heat down 👍
i keep crystals and cherries together and they just breed so much so i added predators
feel bad but now i at least have a controlled population where only like 5 babies become adult shrimps and its a mini cycle now.
The no plantaría product kills like every type of snail besides rams horns, killed my mystery, trumpet horn, pond snails and assassin snails
I recently got a few cherry and blue dreams but out of the 4 only 2 survived.
I think my problem is the acclimation. I was doing them like I did fish, just an hour or two and toss them in.
I also did not realize that changing the water conditions quickly can kill them too. I have a solution that’s safe for shrimp that gets rid of nitrates and nitrites, could this stress them as well??
would you say that shrimp will kill snails? or vice versa?
how do you film your videos? they are so clear
Much needed video.
My cause was my TDH was way to high
What the fuck is TDH???
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@@spooky3669 i think they meant TDS total dissolved solids I believe lol 😆 But don't take my word for it!
So all types of eucalyptus leaves alrite to use?
Very informative, thanks.
Don’t confuse snail leaches vs planaria. I got them infected plants. I was so pissed. Had to take down my snail tank, and found on a couple in the shrimp. Those one hanging on the bottom stretching look like snail leaches. They don’t have eyes, and are smaller then planaria. They are tear drop shape when stretching out to a long tube, but can curl up to a blob. .
I'm doing research waay before even getting a shrimp. I do have one question though. Does a loud home stress them? I have a toddler, so the house can get busy sometimes.
i dont think it does. despite not knowing too much about their anatomy (do they have ears??), think about how noise translates into the water when you go swimming - exactly, its really quiet because the soundwaves dont carry through water as they would through air :) but i would watch out for the toddler playing with the aquarium glass
My cardinals ate my shrimp. it was quite brutal actually. I think you should maybe add that rouge community fish can and will eat live shrimp. I'm now breeding artemia shrimp to feed them live food now as they are looking sad now they are lacking a live food source.
Big love from Serbia.😇
Oh, shoot! So I had a couple pass over the weekend both white bands likely to molting problems, so i decided I'd check and appriopriately treat the ph and nitrates and give it a very minor water change, I've since had another 2 pass. So, damn, I've triggered two of these.
I over stressed the water and the shrimp! I will definitely try harder to not stress the little ones. I will not just try and fix the water all at once every single time a change occurs and I'll try and take a more monitoring approach to this and like one day maybe adjust the PH then a day or two later the Nitrates and after few more days to a week later do the water change, ect. Just take it more so step by step instead of just seeing the changes and panicing to put them all right, because as i've found out it helped nothing but the water itself and it's really sad but I've lost most of my first colony now...
I'm going to definitely keep trying and be more careful and this video has helped my learn from my mistakes and shown me others to look out for.
justs started a cherry shrimp colony in an established tank, medium to heavy planted, in general how long before i can expect to see breeding and is there anything i can do to stimulate breeding? thanks!
Thank you for the post.
I have a TDS of 900 in my 10 gallon tank .. But the shrump seem fine .. although i did notice some dying recently... might be over crowded in the tank
How do you acclimatize them