Good Morning. In the first picture in the breeding section you showed a pregnant female shrimp that very obviously had a LARGE horsehair worm inside her. I was rather surprised that you did not mention this or make any comments on how to prevent or remove this parasite. Sadly most medicinal remedies end up killing the shrimp anyway, so frankly it is probably best to euthanize the shrimp before it infects your other shrimp. When a horsehair worm is this large it is going to kill the shrimp anyway because it is eating it from the inside. I hope my comments help others that may see this parasite in their shrimp. Sincerely, Ogle's Fish Room
@@quki3 Supposedly the horsehair worm can be white or black, but I personally can only spot the white ones. They look like a white thread. When young they look like a horseshoe shape with both ends pointing towards the tail from back of head. As they grow they look like a figure eight. They will not survive this, so I recommend killing the shrimp or feeding it to your big fish. To clarify... This parasite can not infect or hurt your fish, but will infect other shrimp.
I caught them in a puddle that was actually a large pond with big predatory fish such as snakeheads, but it got dried up , turning into puddle. So i tried to scope them out but they are only 4, remaining are eaten by carbs, rasboras etc. Gratefully they are all healthy and playing around. They are naturally scavenge for dead bodies of animal rather than plant. Some of them grow upto 2 inches, and that's great.
Thanks for the info JR. You answered all questions I had in 5 minutes, and now I know why I failed in the past. My LFS sells them as feeders for twenty five cents. I think they are way cooler than that. Thanks for the excellent and informative video. I usually don’t subscribe to a channel after watching one video, but this earned my subscription. I’m looking forward to watching your library of video.
thanks for the info, and realy well done video ,i would like to add that i have sucksefully kept GS at tenpratures in the high 60,s... they seamed to be in great spirits
My Ghost shrimp shre a tank with my Black Orchid Half Moon Betta, ( Very docile/laid back attitude towards his roomies), and 3 African Dwarf Frogs. I feed them all live food & I have to say that my Ghost shrimp LOVE their meaty foods more than their veggies and are quite the bullies when it comes to the other tank mates...
I may have stumbled on the wrong video, but I learned a lot! I’m using ghost shrimp as feeders for an adolescent female crayfish… I just released about 20 into the freshwater tank and am awaiting the carnage.
The best fish to keep with shrimps are Neon Tettras, Cardinals, Harlequin Rassbora and Guppy. But I higly recommend if you just trying to breed, keep them by themself in a 10G tank. But if you just want to get rid of the planaria without worry about your adult shrimp get eaten guppies are the best to eat planaria and mosquuto larves. Keep us updated!
Personally tank mates only matter if you don't have enough hiding places. I have ghost shrimp in with a kribensis, 14 zebra danios, 3 powder blue gouramis, an 6 green corys. The shrimp hide in the plants cave an rocks an they still reproduce. Now I'm not saying everyone should do it but experiment with your own set ups. I have multiple tanks set up with fish that "shouldn't" be with each other but get along great. Along with tanks that have so many fish in it that i get told that shouldn't be possible an that they should all be dead. Which is a 65 with a bit over 120 fish not including snails. So just experiment with it yourself.
I can't find a single video that matches my situation, not a single one. I work with ghost shrimp shrimplets. We don't breed them. We keep them inside grave liners (we call them vats at work). With pvc on top that runs along the walls of the building that we keep the vats in. Each vat has adjustable valves for water pressure. Then, a single pvc pipe inside the vats for water circulation. The vats are plain with no rocks or anything fancy, just a single air stone in the vats. Now that you have an understanding of the setup. Every morning, we have deaths, so I was asked ChatGPT if it could explain to me what could be causing the deaths. One of the answers were that it may be because the water pressure is too high, creating too much water movement, stressing the shrimplets, causing them to die. This morning, I told my boss (my boss has been doing this type of work since he was 14 years old) That we may have the water pressure too high. He said that we don't want it low because the water needs to circulate. I tried to explain to him that there have been times when we loss water pressure, not completely but quite a bit from the typical amount of water pressure that we keep it at. I've noticed that the water doesn't look muggy and is still clear with very few amount of deaths or none at all. My boss says every time he sees that happen when we lose water pressure, the water is always muggy looking and more deaths than usual. Well, obviously, that's because it was probably too low, but I kept that to myself. He is the boss who says he has been doing this since he was 14. But I guess it doesn't truly matter if they are dying by morning time for as long as we siphon out the dead ones and they aren't dying by the time they reach their destination
hello, I had 4 ghost shrimp I my aquarium for a little over a month, however over the last week, 2 have suddenly died, the second to die had its body ripped in half from head to tail, the 2 survivors include 1 which is a healthy large female and one male who seems like it had its front legs ripped off and can barley move... the largest fish I have in my tank are 2 inch Congo tetras which have been very peaceful, I also have a cherry and blue shrimp who are both fine but i cant seem to understand why all of a sudden all of my ghost shrimp are dying or becoming ill, I really need help as I feel awful and I test my water parameters daily with liquid test kits its all good but my ghost shrimp keep suddenly dying, please help :(
Hi, first Im so sorry for the lost of your shrimp, If water its good, the next step is to check temperature they last longer in cold water in warmer water the die fast they dont last very long that is why you need to breed them. Also make sure you have live algae or wafers make sure that they are the algea one and lastly tetras like high protein diet they migth nip them. Please keep ups updated.
@@peebeme1506 I mean glofish the fish that glow. Although I do have goldfish they are big (not koi fish) so I don't want to risk getting them eaten. Thanks for the advice tho
Im trying to breed the ghost shrimp as feeders for my puffers. I had complete loss on 2 different batches. It came down to 3. They were thriving then suddenly died. Do you have any tips?
In Our experience they are very hardy ( can survive under most circuntance) but if you have CO2 I will assumed that you have live plants in that case they will be perfectly fine.
In Our expirence can be two things: 1. They are about to molt soon . 2. They are sick and end up dying in a few days, hopefully this is not your case. Make sure you have some source of calcium for them.
@@jraquariumpr Thanks! There is some calcium in the pellets that I use, but I don't know amounts. My aquarium dKH runs about 6-7. I've seen ppl on You Tube recommend Tums, but will shrimp eat that?
@@photonut63 sometimes the calcium on the food is not enough. We now have Our own product, but if you are using any other fish calcium source will work. Keep us updated💙
Sería bueno que pasaras todos tus videos a Español para que la información y todo tu conocimiento lo podamos entender con más claridad los que no somos bilingües.
A general betta heater keeps the water up to 79 not bad but if you want thriving shrim anything that can go from 78-82 mine are kept at 80 and been living for years and have tons of babies
how long does is take for them to get down to business if the temperature is at 82 degrees per say? trying to develop a project for them for biology class and looking to test separate tanks breeding with 82 degrees and then one at 65. I was told I could do the project if they would breed within 2-3 weeks
I can't give you a 100% accurate time on how many week they will breed, but I can give you tips for higher success and speed up the process ; first is to make sure you adult population if you see any female with eggs at the petshop request to get them, Get a high population if you get at least 30 of them or more will increase your chance but with that being said you need a bigger tank at least a 20 G , heavy decorated with rocks with places to hide, second factor is feeding if you have a really good algae source that will help, You can use algae wafers but nothing better than natural algae. But the best way to reproduce this guys are in ponds you can make a pond even with a small pool or storage container. If you do this you will have a high chance that they will breed. I hope this will help please keep Us updated and let Us know how everything went. You can send Us the picture or videos to Our email or Instagram and we will uploaded here if you want. Good Luck!
my exp with Ghosts is with plenty of food and tones of hiding spacees they will breed imeadiately after a molt regardless of temp i kept mine in the high 60,s ( 65/ 70 ) and they bred frequently
Yes you can but, Need to keep in mind a few factors. 1. Make sure you have plently of hidding places. The best are rocks and caves. 2. Make sure you have sinking food (pellets or any food that sinks) they will figth over food (red claws) also I have a red claw care video I will leave the link below. Please keek us updated on how they are doing. 💙 ua-cam.com/video/Vx9Lyn4X0Tk/v-deo.html
Hi! It can be but Im not sure, I need a picture or a video to be able to tell you, but In my expirience with gosth shrimp white spots means they are molting ( growing new shell) or they are sick and eventually they end up dieying. You can sen Us a picture at Our Facebook page ( JR Aquarium)
@@flourishingspirits3393 Hi, If you are talking about the white string looking like a worm that is her digestive system and on her belly those are eggs. Their clear body allow us to see their organs its pretty cool!
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Good Morning. In the first picture in the breeding section you showed a pregnant female shrimp that very obviously had a LARGE horsehair worm inside her. I was rather surprised that you did not mention this or make any comments on how to prevent or remove this parasite. Sadly most medicinal remedies end up killing the shrimp anyway, so frankly it is probably best to euthanize the shrimp before it infects your other shrimp. When a horsehair worm is this large it is going to kill the shrimp anyway because it is eating it from the inside. I hope my comments help others that may see this parasite in their shrimp. Sincerely, Ogle's Fish Room
Yes! 100 % agreed with you the best solution is to quarentine the one with parasites. 💙💙
Where was the parasite? What part of busy should I be looking at? I keep looking but I don’t see anything obviously standing out? Thank you
@@quki3 Supposedly the horsehair worm can be white or black, but I personally can only spot the white ones. They look like a white thread. When young they look like a horseshoe shape with both ends pointing towards the tail from back of head. As they grow they look like a figure eight. They will not survive this, so I recommend killing the shrimp or feeding it to your big fish.
To clarify... This parasite can not infect or hurt your fish, but will infect other shrimp.
Just started with breeding shrimp this is a rabbit hole for me 😂😮
@@missyflutter5562 Dont give up just keep trying 💙💙💙
I caught them in a puddle that was actually a large pond with big predatory fish such as snakeheads, but it got dried up , turning into puddle. So i tried to scope them out but they are only 4, remaining are eaten by carbs, rasboras etc. Gratefully they are all healthy and playing around. They are naturally scavenge for dead bodies of animal rather than plant. Some of them grow upto 2 inches, and that's great.
Yes that is why they are call the clean up crew 😅.
I watched one video and I learned more about any fish on UA-cam than any other videos thankyou sir. You don't stall
Thanks for the info JR. You answered all questions I had in 5 minutes, and now I know why I failed in the past. My LFS sells them as feeders for twenty five cents. I think they are way cooler than that. Thanks for the excellent and informative video. I usually don’t subscribe to a channel after watching one video, but this earned my subscription. I’m looking forward to watching your library of video.
Great to hear! Im very thankfull 💙💙💙 I hope to see you in other videos
thanks for the info, and realy well done video ,i would like to add that i have sucksefully kept GS at tenpratures in the high 60,s... they seamed to be in great spirits
Thank you! Yes Ghost Shrimps are very adaptable to temperature as long you do it slowly they will do fine.
My Ghost shrimp shre a tank with my Black Orchid Half Moon Betta, ( Very docile/laid back attitude towards his roomies), and 3 African Dwarf Frogs. I feed them all live food & I have to say that my Ghost shrimp LOVE their meaty foods more than their veggies and are quite the bullies when it comes to the other tank mates...
I may have stumbled on the wrong video, but I learned a lot!
I’m using ghost shrimp as feeders for an adolescent female crayfish… I just released about 20 into the freshwater tank and am awaiting the carnage.
I had got some of these and there all chilling in one corner
They will get more active once they feel more confortable 💙💙
Yo the quality of this video is awesome.
Thank You 💙 We do our best to have good quality in all of our videos. We hope tonsee you around in future videos. 💙
Thanks , liked and subscribed !
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Thank you JR excellant information ⭐️
Thank you! 💙
Nice video bro 🤘🏽
Thank You! Stay tune for more videos.
What fish is safest that won’t eat shrimp fry but will eat planaria? Pleco don’t eat my planaria
Almost everything will eat shrimp, especially the babies.
The better the hiding places, the better their chances.
The best fish to keep with shrimps are Neon Tettras, Cardinals, Harlequin Rassbora and Guppy. But I higly recommend if you just trying to breed, keep them by themself in a 10G tank. But if you just want to get rid of the planaria without worry about your adult shrimp get eaten guppies are the best to eat planaria and mosquuto larves. Keep us updated!
Personally tank mates only matter if you don't have enough hiding places. I have ghost shrimp in with a kribensis, 14 zebra danios, 3 powder blue gouramis, an 6 green corys. The shrimp hide in the plants cave an rocks an they still reproduce. Now I'm not saying everyone should do it but experiment with your own set ups. I have multiple tanks set up with fish that "shouldn't" be with each other but get along great. Along with tanks that have so many fish in it that i get told that shouldn't be possible an that they should all be dead. Which is a 65 with a bit over 120 fish not including snails. So just experiment with it yourself.
Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍
My pleasure 💙💙
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You are so welcome 💙💙
I can't find a single video that matches my situation, not a single one. I work with ghost shrimp shrimplets. We don't breed them. We keep them inside grave liners (we call them vats at work). With pvc on top that runs along the walls of the building that we keep the vats in. Each vat has adjustable valves for water pressure. Then, a single pvc pipe inside the vats for water circulation.
The vats are plain with no rocks or anything fancy, just a single air stone in the vats.
Now that you have an understanding of the setup.
Every morning, we have deaths, so I was asked ChatGPT if it could explain to me what could be causing the deaths. One of the answers were that it may be because the water pressure is too high, creating too much water movement, stressing the shrimplets, causing them to die.
This morning, I told my boss (my boss has been doing this type of work since he was 14 years old)
That we may have the water pressure too high. He said that we don't want it low because the water needs to circulate. I tried to explain to him that there have been times when we loss water pressure, not completely but quite a bit from the typical amount of water pressure that we keep it at. I've noticed that the water doesn't look muggy and is still clear with very few amount of deaths or none at all.
My boss says every time he sees that happen when we lose water pressure, the water is always muggy looking and more deaths than usual. Well, obviously, that's because it was probably too low, but I kept that to myself. He is the boss who says he has been doing this since he was 14. But I guess it doesn't truly matter if they are dying by morning time for as long as we siphon out the dead ones and they aren't dying by the time they reach their destination
I have a couple of them but they are always hiding for some reason
Yes, they like to hide, especially if you have decorations like caves or rocks they love it.
hello, I had 4 ghost shrimp I my aquarium for a little over a month, however over the last week, 2 have suddenly died, the second to die had its body ripped in half from head to tail, the 2 survivors include 1 which is a healthy large female and one male who seems like it had its front legs ripped off and can barley move... the largest fish I have in my tank are 2 inch Congo tetras which have been very peaceful, I also have a cherry and blue shrimp who are both fine but i cant seem to understand why all of a sudden all of my ghost shrimp are dying or becoming ill, I really need help as I feel awful and I test my water parameters daily with liquid test kits its all good but my ghost shrimp keep suddenly dying, please help :(
Hi, first Im so sorry for the lost of your shrimp, If water its good, the next step is to check temperature they last longer in cold water in warmer water the die fast they dont last very long that is why you need to breed them. Also make sure you have live algae or wafers make sure that they are the algea one and lastly tetras like high protein diet they migth nip them. Please keep ups updated.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
yeah I have a question I was wondering if you feed a Ghostride the glow food for glow fish will it make them glow???
They can eat it but will not make them glow
I have another question what would be another good shrimp the breed with a ghost shrimp I was thinking the snowball shrimpBut what’s your opinion
Can ghost shrimp live with glofish? I'm not sure on getting some.
My gold fish didn’t touch them. I guess- everybody eating good
@@peebeme1506 I mean glofish the fish that glow. Although I do have goldfish they are big (not koi fish) so I don't want to risk getting them eaten. Thanks for the advice tho
It depends on the type of glofish, they are just common species that have been genetically modified to glow. Some work with shrimp, others don't.
Im trying to breed the ghost shrimp as feeders for my puffers. I had complete loss on 2 different batches. It came down to 3. They were thriving then suddenly died. Do you have any tips?
They like rocks and hidding places also good oxigen
What kind of live plants are toxic or not good for ghost shrimps?
As far I know all fresh water acuatic plant are safe. 💙💙
Is brine water required to breed or will they breed in freshwater?
They only breed in freshwater
3:52 what’s a Whoopis?
😔 lol, its my accent I was trying to said Guppy 😅💙💙
@@jraquariumpr oh!! I read what you say.. so Im not criticizing your English. I have hearing loss and the cc’s translated it. I am EsL too ❤️
@@quki3 No worries hope l see u around in other videos I make every video in english and spanish as well 💙💙💙
can you have shrimp without live plants
Yes the only thing make sure you have some decorations or plastic plant where they can hide.
Any tips to help keep these guys healthy with pressurized CO2?
In Our experience they are very hardy ( can survive under most circuntance) but if you have CO2 I will assumed that you have live plants in that case they will be perfectly fine.
My older ghost shrimp now has a crusty carapace. What do you think might be happening?
In Our expirence can be two things: 1. They are about to molt soon . 2. They are sick and end up dying in a few days, hopefully this is not your case. Make sure you have some source of calcium for them.
@@jraquariumpr Thanks! There is some calcium in the pellets that I use, but I don't know amounts. My aquarium dKH runs about 6-7. I've seen ppl on You Tube recommend Tums, but will shrimp eat that?
@@photonut63 sometimes the calcium on the food is not enough. We now have Our own product, but if you are using any other fish calcium source will work. Keep us updated💙
Good video
Glad you enjoyed💙💙
I have 35 Molly fry which are 3 days aged. Can I put my ghost shrimp with them?
Hi, I will play safe and keep the fry alone until they grow a little more💙💙
Sería bueno que pasaras todos tus videos a Español para que la información y todo tu conocimiento lo podamos entender con más claridad los que no somos bilingües.
Saludos este video tambien esta en español. Todos los videos son grabados en ambos ideomas.💙💙💙
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@@jraquariumpr Excelente!!
What's the best plant to use. Also did you start the plants first
Yes and anything that has many hidding spots or tiny leaves mine love moss
My fav are Guppy Grass and Java moss💙💙
How many shrimp can I put in ten gallon ?
I will start with 10 and you can fit 20 if you only keep shrimp if you have fish I wont recomend more than 15
@@jraquariumpr i will probably not keep fish
@@Baneoffurries-ot8rz start with 20
what tank heaters do you recommend
A general betta heater keeps the water up to 79 not bad but if you want thriving shrim anything that can go from 78-82 mine are kept at 80 and been living for years and have tons of babies
Any works and also will depend on your tank size but I like top fin brand. 💙💙
what do you keep your GH and KH?
Water change but I dont mess with it if the fish are happy 💙💙
how long does is take for them to get down to business if the temperature is at 82 degrees per say? trying to develop a project for them for biology class and looking to test separate tanks breeding with 82 degrees and then one at 65. I was told I could do the project if they would breed within 2-3 weeks
I can't give you a 100% accurate time on how many week they will breed, but I can give you tips for higher success and speed up the process ; first is to make sure you adult population if you see any female with eggs at the petshop request to get them, Get a high population if you get at least 30 of them or more will increase your chance but with that being said you need a bigger tank at least a 20 G , heavy decorated with rocks with places to hide, second factor is feeding if you have a really good algae source that will help, You can use algae wafers but nothing better than natural algae. But the best way to reproduce this guys are in ponds you can make a pond even with a small pool or storage container. If you do this you will have a high chance that they will breed. I hope this will help please keep Us updated and let Us know how everything went. You can send Us the picture or videos to Our email or Instagram and we will uploaded here if you want. Good Luck!
my exp with Ghosts is with plenty of food and tones of hiding spacees they will breed imeadiately after a molt regardless of temp i kept mine in the high 60,s ( 65/ 70 ) and they bred frequently
my guy showed up in my tank out of no where
Whoow that is Amazing, did you got any new live plants or got a new fish?
@@jraquariumpr i got new fish and he was with them
@@realCluckinBell Oh nice that was a bonus
@@jraquariumpr i cant find him i think he died tho
@@realCluckinBell They like to hide, but if he died and you really enkoy it they very cheap some places they have them under a dolar.
Can you keep ghost shrimp and cherry shrimp together peacefully?
Hi Gary! Yes if you want only to keep them as pet not for breeding. But just cherry and Ghost dont mix them with other shrimp.
Can I keep ghost shrimp with my red clawed crabs?
Yes you can but, Need to keep in mind a few factors. 1. Make sure you have plently of hidding places. The best are rocks and caves. 2. Make sure you have sinking food (pellets or any food that sinks) they will figth over food (red claws) also I have a red claw care video I will leave the link below. Please keek us updated on how they are doing. 💙
ua-cam.com/video/Vx9Lyn4X0Tk/v-deo.html
How many ghost shrimps should I have with red clawed crabs?
@@NinjaPhoenix-se3vr how big its your fish tank?
10 gallons
@@NinjaPhoenix-se3vr I will start with 5 and if I dont see any problems and they are all healthy I will get more but not more than 10.
You forgot to say that ghost shrimps eat baby fish and baby shrimps.
yes, they are not thaaat peaceful
Thanks for sharing that infon💙💙
Really?! Hmmm I hace surplus guppy fry.. 🤔
I have one that has a long white stringy looking item inside its body. I searched and on reddit it says it's a parasite? Do you know if that's true?
Hi! It can be but Im not sure, I need a picture or a video to be able to tell you, but In my expirience with gosth shrimp white spots means they are molting ( growing new shell) or they are sick and eventually they end up dieying. You can sen Us a picture at Our Facebook page ( JR Aquarium)
@4:10 is a perfect example of a female with a parasite.
@@flourishingspirits3393 Hi, If you are talking about the white string looking like a worm that is her digestive system and on her belly those are eggs. Their clear body allow us to see their organs its pretty cool!
Look up Horsehair parasite.
@@flourishingspirits3393 I will thank you for the info.
My mollies ate them all :|
Oh no 😮
Great video
Thank you!