recently I had a lot of success feeding with uncooked pure oatmeal flakes. Shrimp seem to go absolutely nuts for it, and it seems to greatly promote microfauna as well.
I use a mortar and pestle to grind up algae wafers and crustacean pellets into a fine powder and put it into the water flow and around the filters. Have had very good results in feeding larger tanks of bristle noses this way as in encourages natural foraging
My powder, my tetra, flake food in my blender, put it back in the container. It came in and take my smallest bottle of tetra food. That’s empty and fill it up halfway because keeping it the rest of it in the freezer really helps for it to not go bad.
Mark, great to see you again after a hiatus of several years. Have been binging your vids this morning in prep for setting up some tanks. Do you still have your gaming channel?
Its hard to say without knowing how copentant you are at making water, in general in a neo tank 10 -20% in normal, if you really know what your doing it can go upto like 50%
I crush up algae tablets since the cherries and amanos like it (even the babies) though that food is mainly for my vampire shrimp.. As for the main food I just give them shrimp food which is absolutely miniscule, just picking up one piece is almost impossible but theyre also quite squishy and the baby shrimp seem to nibble on the pieces since they're not too difficult to break.
Good morning Mark! Awesome video great content. So do the Taiwan bees and the crystal shrimp eat less. Is that way it can be dangerous to use this in those tanks.
I never breed shrimp but I've had shrimp in my aquariums. I recently just cleaned out a 100 liters I got. Found way above 100+ cherries and they were all beautiful. They come from a group of 10 I bought 3 years ago. They look real high quality now. I don't really feed them specifically. However I have a group of Corydoras in the tanks so they usually eat that. And bloodworms.
@@Shleeeemp Oh ikr I have a Siamese fighting fish in my tank which got put in after the shrimp and they just absolutely love bloodworms when the fish gets given the treat, even the babies!
Thanks for the vid really appreciated! i actually just found one of my cherry shrimp had given brith other day! quite nerve racking stuff :) i simply just took my old shrimp food and uses a rolling pin and crushed into powder! worked well enough!
@@MarksShrimpTanks haha thanks have to be honest i have been counting so many and now i have seen another shrimp pregnant - nervous tbh 😂 any tips on water change? super scared to do it as there literally everywhere and scared i will suck one of them up!
yeah age the water, let it sit in a container like a bucket in the same room as the tank for like a day before you use it, I do this and I do big neo water changes sometimes like 50% and I have thousands of them just in one tank.
How about yeast? I feed daphnia with yeast, then add the daphnia (in their water) to a fish and shrimp tank. Everything seems fine, water is clear, shrimps and plants are growing well, but currently I'm very sparing with this feed. Would you expect fry and adult shrimps to be efficient at filtering out yeast?
They used to be in my store but were a little too expensive to make; I couldn't sell a product for nearly 10 bucks that cost less than 1 to buy, so I scrapped their production.
Try Tima Basic pasta. It is great for all shrimps. Put a bit as big as a pea off this paste on the front window and see the effect on all shrimps. They all will run to the food.
Ahhh...that dreaded "tickle" in the throat. My mom would get them...A LOT ! She found the cure though. Every time she got a tickle, she'd pour a shot of Sambuca 🍹{ Amazing how "home remedies" work.} On that shrimp food for babies, I do the same thing with flakes and pollen....but also add in Astaxanthin powder. Another good food source i tried out is powdered eggs....that was given once a week. Every now and then i switched out with powdered beet, zucchini, and carrots. I figured, since i can't see if they like it or not, i'll just put in a variety of sources, just in small amounts to keep the water clean. This type of feeding though must be done in an aquarium that is full with a variety of bio activity. As in nature, we all need help for digestion from our micro breateren 😀
I started with 5 cherry shrimp my brother in law gave me.I feed my fish blood worms and brine shrimp.I have guppy grass and now over 60 shrimp Im my aquarium.I put pieces of blanched cucumber zucchini.They feed off the brine shrimp that are left over.Never fed them something else. Multiply like crazy.
I would have thought all the biofilm from algae on glass and all other surfaces would have been more than enough as a food source for baby shrimp in addition to feeding extra shrimp food about every 3-4 days?
recently I had a lot of success feeding with uncooked pure oatmeal flakes. Shrimp seem to go absolutely nuts for it, and it seems to greatly promote microfauna as well.
Do they float? I must try this
@@PureAndShrimple they sink immediately.
@@Pumpnineteen excellent, thank you. I'll try this tonight!
Do you grind it first?
@@EyezLikaFox̌ no
Thanks for the video Mark glad your getting settled in the new house back in the swing of things 🤘🏼
Thank you Cary :)
Thanks for the mention Mark. I have found I have the best luck with higher protein foods and an even mix of animal and plant proteins.
Its always nice to mention where you get good information from. :)
Thank you for the ideas sir, just started breeding cherry shrimp.. i have lots of baby shrimp now.. thanks to the ideas 😊
Very welcome. :)
I love the videos and with us just really getting into shrimp the information is priceless to have thank you
1 st comment and I got a new shrimp tank yesterday 😊
Oh that is awesome, what shrimp will you be getting?
Welcome to the shrimp family
Nice video, powered food is really good. I like to use a long paintbrush to dip in the food and tap off, it really helps with portion control.
That's a great idea!
I used to use a length of acrylic rod like that to measure out granules for my marine tank.
Excellent way of doing it…
Many tips you give make my shrimp happyer Mark for real 🤣
Thank you Enzo :)
I use a mortar and pestle to grind up algae wafers and crustacean pellets into a fine powder and put it into the water flow and around the filters. Have had very good results in feeding larger tanks of bristle noses this way as in encourages natural foraging
That's a great idea!
My powder, my tetra, flake food in my blender, put it back in the container. It came in and take my smallest bottle of tetra food. That’s empty and fill it up halfway because keeping it the rest of it in the freezer really helps for it to not go bad.
How much should i put in a nano tank ?
Thanks for the tutorial 👍
Very Welcome Mr Black .
Mark, great to see you again after a hiatus of several years. Have been binging your vids this morning in prep for setting up some tanks.
Do you still have your gaming channel?
You know I am not sure I will have to check 😂
Great video! I have a tank that has new babies and I will try the flakes grinded up. How often should I be changing the water and how much?
Its hard to say without knowing how copentant you are at making water, in general in a neo tank 10 -20% in normal, if you really know what your doing it can go upto like 50%
I crush up algae tablets since the cherries and amanos like it (even the babies) though that food is mainly for my vampire shrimp.. As for the main food I just give them shrimp food which is absolutely miniscule, just picking up one piece is almost impossible but theyre also quite squishy and the baby shrimp seem to nibble on the pieces since they're not too difficult to break.
Good morning Mark! Awesome video great content. So do the Taiwan bees and the crystal shrimp eat less. Is that way it can be dangerous to use this in those tanks.
I think they eat less because they are always grazing on the substrates which is a soil so.
I never breed shrimp but I've had shrimp in my aquariums. I recently just cleaned out a 100 liters I got. Found way above 100+ cherries and they were all beautiful. They come from a group of 10 I bought 3 years ago. They look real high quality now.
I don't really feed them specifically. However I have a group of Corydoras in the tanks so they usually eat that. And bloodworms.
That is awesome!
They do seem to love bloodworms…
@@Shleeeemp Oh ikr I have a Siamese fighting fish in my tank which got put in after the shrimp and they just absolutely love bloodworms when the fish gets given the treat, even the babies!
Thanks for the vid really appreciated! i actually just found one of my cherry shrimp had given brith other day! quite nerve racking stuff :)
i simply just took my old shrimp food and uses a rolling pin and crushed into powder! worked well enough!
I hope you get lots of shrimplets 👍
@@MarksShrimpTanks haha thanks have to be honest i have been counting so many and now i have seen another shrimp pregnant - nervous tbh 😂 any tips on water change? super scared to do it as there literally everywhere and scared i will suck one of them up!
yeah age the water, let it sit in a container like a bucket in the same room as the tank for like a day before you use it, I do this and I do big neo water changes sometimes like 50% and I have thousands of them just in one tank.
How about yeast? I feed daphnia with yeast, then add the daphnia (in their water) to a fish and shrimp tank. Everything seems fine, water is clear, shrimps and plants are growing well, but currently I'm very sparing with this feed. Would you expect fry and adult shrimps to be efficient at filtering out yeast?
yes yeast is good, its in a lot of powdered shrimp foods.
Possibly the most important aquarium video on UA-cam.
I notice that your glass feeding bowl have your logo on them. Are they part of some merch store?
They used to be in my store but were a little too expensive to make; I couldn't sell a product for nearly 10 bucks that cost less than 1 to buy, so I scrapped their production.
Try Tima Basic pasta.
It is great for all shrimps.
Put a bit as big as a pea off this paste on the front window and see the effect on all shrimps.
They all will run to the food.
The problem with most paste foods is they are made with grease, which I dont think is a good thing to add to a tank.
Processed foods couldn't be good for them long term
How many times in a week can i give them powder food? My fear is ammonia spike.
depends on the amount of shrimp you have and you have to gauge this for yourself.
Ahhh...that dreaded "tickle" in the throat. My mom would get them...A LOT ! She found the cure though. Every time she got a tickle, she'd pour a shot of Sambuca 🍹{ Amazing how "home remedies" work.} On that shrimp food for babies, I do the same thing with flakes and pollen....but also add in Astaxanthin powder. Another good food source i tried out is powdered eggs....that was given once a week. Every now and then i switched out with powdered beet, zucchini, and carrots. I figured, since i can't see if they like it or not, i'll just put in a variety of sources, just in small amounts to keep the water clean. This type of feeding though must be done in an aquarium that is full with a variety of bio activity. As in nature, we all need help for digestion from our micro breateren 😀
I got my blue dreams as small fry when I bought them and I powdered the shrimp food powdered tropical flake and some days powdered algae wafers
I have an undergravel filter and so the powder gets sucked under the gravel :(
the shrimp will find it.
Are shrimp lollies good for babies??
I dont like them unless you have hundreds of shrimp in a tank because its too much food.
I've done this with the pond flakes since the price match was insane think it was 5bucks
Oh that is a good tip, nice one.
I started with 5 cherry shrimp my brother in law gave me.I feed my fish blood worms and brine shrimp.I have guppy grass and now over 60 shrimp Im my aquarium.I put pieces of blanched cucumber zucchini.They feed off the brine shrimp that are left over.Never fed them something else. Multiply like crazy.
I would have thought all the biofilm from algae on glass and all other surfaces would have been more than enough as a food source for baby shrimp in addition to feeding extra shrimp food about every 3-4 days?
Normally it would be but if you want to breed more of them on mass then you have to feed more.
I've added spirulina to powder..
On the advice of a good friend who actually made me want shrimp ...
My shrimps go mad for hikari algae wafers :)
Neos love it. All tanks get it for the babies and Hikari Usa Inc AHK21328 tropical Algae Wafer for the adults.