Do the shrimp eat the fry because I have a 10 gallon fish tank for my guppie fry and it is Dirty and I can not clean the tank. Because I'm scared that I will leave them in the tank when I am cleaning the tank. Please let me now
Hey Cory, now that this video is two years old, could we get an update on this setup please? Are you still doing mixed tanks for your shrimp breeding? Have a couple tanks I'd like to set up for shrimp breeding and would love to do mixed but unsure.
I just bought a filter and will be buying more. the whole experience from searching product on your website to buying and delivery was just great. You guys know what makes a customer come back for more unlike the locate fish store near me where I bought some gravel just to see what kind of experience I would get with them and the people there have as much personality as maybe a snail which I hate to say because it feels like an insult to snails. Love your Videos and your website.
When the females are saddled and ready to mate they release hormones in the water and the males fly around the tank tryin to find the female. Very funny watching them frantically search! good video cory
I didn't know that until a month ago and thought something was wrong and like week ago I see pregnant blue velvet shrimp now. They're in with a Betta and celestial pearl danios so idk how many will survive but there's tons of plants and moss, like lots lol I wasn't trying to breed but now I hoping some survive and keep going.
@Le Baguette look up serpadesign, he does exactly that in a couple of his videos, just not with an aquarium, it think it's a riparium or paladarium or one of the ones without fish, land animals.
I introduced five red cherry shrimp to my tank, and they're breeding like rabbits, young shrimp literally everywhere. Wasn't intending to breed them, but I can see why you state they're fairly easy to breed! The Platys and Guppies are also breeding like rabbits, which will be a problem later as the tank will be way too crowded when they get bigger. At present though, it's awesome watching such a busy tank!
Love your channel dude. I’m new to the hobby, but I take my ecosystem super serious and I appreciate the knowledge I get from you. No point doing it, if you’re not going to do it the right way!!
thI just got into aquariums and now shrimp and you have provided me a great deal of info. Thank you. I also find that you appear to have great business ethics which means a great deal to me, far too often "business ethics" is an oxymoron so it is nice to see someone succeed doing it the right way and treating their employees well. As an accountant who loves animals you are living my dream to own a fish/pet store, I think I should have been a biology major...
Looking great Cory. Love the Ecosystems. Technically your blue shrimp is a blue dream line. Blue velvets are actually a whole different line. Many people have been calling blue dreams blue velvets lately which this is a misconception. If you ever want to see sometime I can show you the difference or mayb I should make a video on it...
+L.R.Bretz's Aquatics I should just call them blue shrimp and red shrimp. I don't believe in the conventional naming system for shrimp as there is so much variation and all names are made up.
There are legit name classification its just sellers often mislabel them even alot of wholesalers which in turn causes confusion but there are legit classification. I have Blue Velvet lines that breed true no blue dreams or anything else thrown unlike blue dreams which can throw a blue velvet time to time amongst a few other types. Theres also a blue pearl line which the blue velvets are actually more similiar too. I could expand on this with many others and where the future of the shrimp market is going... Just trying to help share what I know with you.
@@LRBaquatics I realize this is a 3 year old comment but something to notice is that all Neocaridina davidi ( come in brown, red, blue, green, etc) are all the same species. The “common names “ cherry shrimp, blue velvet etc. are made up to attribute to density of color. All the blue shrimp or red shrimp you see in this video are exactly the same species of animal. Just check out Latin nomenclature. And that is what Cory is referencing when he says he’s not going to get crazy with the common names.
@@rurutuM they’re the same animal. Just varying degrees of colors. That’s the only difference. Just like greyhounds can have any color fur, even spotted etc but they’re all still greyhounds.
Got an absolute wealth of info from substrate to lighting from you Cory.. Many thanks... There used to be an old film character who... From my limited memory used to say things like "that's my boy".. So when you speak out the side of your mouth as a greeting it reminds me of him.. Can't remember his name.. Regardless, many thanks our Cory... Cheers
good to see a video with a full ecosystem and not just shrimp It shows how well it can work.i was a bit worried about mixing fish with shrimp especially because how dear some can be but definetly gunna give it a try now
Just did a bulk order of 100 red culls with an acceptable colour and I’m excited to introduce them to the small 10 shrimp colony already existing in the tank. The price was pretty prohibitive with my first 10 because they are almost top grade reds but I got an insane deal on these little guys and decided I’d rather a stable ok looking population then a weak amazing one. Hopefully over time I’ll be able to pick out the best of their fry and separate them into a tank for selling and try to stabilise a good red.
I love your stuff man! Your videos are what inspire me to have all the tanks that I do today. My mum wasn't so keen at first but as soon as she realised how big the hobby actually is she loves it just as much as I do
I put 5 cherries in my tank last December and left them alone only feeding bottom feeder pellets.. Now I have over 100 easy in my 40 gallon. They are super easy to take care of and breed
Aww , I like that way of thinking . They are definitely your friends when you can hand feed them! Wait? Didn't they turn on you and try to eat you?!?! Jk mark love your shrimp videos!!!!
Hmm that interests me! To feed them by poop? Or are you yanking our chains some more ? I have been setting up a bunch of tanks for neo thinking lots of moss plants and rock piles would house the shrimp , while also breeding guppies endlers and similar fish. With some blue and red rams horns in there as a working ecosystem .?? What do you guys think?? Cory does it but he has casualties, do you think casualties could be minimized to very few and even a natural kull by doin this??
Great video man! I have been doing the same thing so this is reassuring that my ecosystem approach is not only achievable, but beneficial for the criers too! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you. I was wondering if my cherry shrimp was carrying eggs. I have 3 shrimp in a 1-gallon planted fishbowl. They have plenty of mulm, 3 marimo balls, dwarf sag, crypts, and frogbit. I keep the bowl in a southeast window where the plants get natural light. It’s a little ecosystem and they like the stability. No water changes. After watching your video I added some moss. Thanks for the informative videos!
Hi! I have been following you since I started keeping fish a few years ago. Thanks for all the helpful information. Here, today, I have a question about keeping Cherry shrimp. I bought ten, online, and drip acclimated them. That was about a week ago. I have seen only three at best. I know they hide but am wondering if my nitrate is affecting them? My tap water is 40 and I can't seem to get it down from about 70 even with plants although I have run out of API tests and the NT labs mini kit doesn't have that test so am unsure of nitrate levels at present. My fish seem ok and my Amano are doing OK. I am also concerned about my filter. I have an internal AquaEL which will suck up babies should the cherries ever breed. My tank is 105 litre long. Any advice you can give me will be most appreciated. Also, in this video you say that the shrimp eat fish poop. I always believed shrimp and snails will not! You read so much conflicting information on the web! Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy questionnaire LOL! Lynne x
I am planning on putting 40 red cherry shrimp on my community tank (guppies, neon tetras, rummy nose, and a pleco) Day 2 of quarantine, they hatched 10 babies more or less and i think i need to change my plan a little bit
I have learned so much from all of your videos!! I love you guys! Thank you for all of them! I have a 60 gallon, and just started my first cherry shrimp tank - so excited! I've read a lot on it, but this helps keep it simple and follows how I set up my 60.
Great video Cory! I *love* the new intro! I have Sherry shrimp too! I had 12 but 7 died! I will buy some new ones soon! How are the Turtle eggs doing? *Thumbs up!*
I started a five gallon tank on my desk two months ago. Started with six neon tetras, live plants, and two cherry shrimp. Now I have six neon tetras, 100 snails, and probably 20 baby cherry shrimp.
Awesome video co-op I’m starting up a channel at the moment that will have all sorts of aquarium content on it at the moment I’m documenting my experience with breeding crystal red shrimp, So far it has been awesome and a lot of fun. I have a lot more content coming keep up the good vids !!!
what do you recommend for temperature, and do you worry about pH? How about adding catawpa leaves and alder cones? Love your sponge filters by the way, converting my whole fish room to them with the ziss airstones gradually.
Hey Corey:) I have been a long time subscriber and it’s awesome to see you &your channel explode. I know this video was a while ago and you don’t have this tank but I am wondering what you used to run PH and TDS wise in your shrimp tanks. Thank you for the years of info and entertainment, lol I’d love to buy you a taco some time, keep on keepin on👍
I had Ramshorn snails in a planted pond in Thailand- and they bred like crazy but if I reduced the feeding they ate all the plants!! They were savages!!
I have a 100g tank with a couple 'Leuciscus idus'. The tank has very basic DIY filtration (sponge and lava rock), the only waterchange I do is 20% every 3 months. There are no plants in the tank right now. However, even with my 'bad' setup, I can't get any algea to grow. Any tips? (0:37)
Corey appreciate all your videos! They have been more then helpful. I'm out in Cleveland but I hope in the near future I can come out and see your store. Thanks again for the pro tips and can't wait to see what's coming up next.
Absolutely extremely educational simplify. thank you Cory you’re the guy.Also aren’t all of his friends blue velvet cherry and orange the same just a different color variation that’s what I would think but then I’m not an expert
Glad to hear you can safely breed with a community tank, I watched another video saying you should just keep the shrimp in their own tank but where's the fun in that?
Hi Cory, it'll be the platies cleaning the algae off the glass....the shrimp do love to eat it, but in my experience (about 10yrs I've been breeding these guys), they never graze it all the way back. You can check it out on the Ep I did on Cherry Shrimp breeding, I do a few things I haven't seen done before that work exceptionally for me, and there is even some legit prawnography as I caught a couple in the act :) Anyways, keep up the good work mate.
I have a very well established 30 gallon tank with a small bristle nose and about 13 adult shrimp I'm trying to breed. It's a no water change tank just top ups once a week. Full of live plants so much vegetation you can't see the back of the tank. But I'm having no luck breeding these shrimp. I'm Startin to think I have all of 1 sex or something. I do check water parameters every few days and nothing really changes. Gonna try adding another 10 this weekend see what happens. Would you recommend also buying some small fish? I do feed the tank (for the pleco mostly) there was a ton of algae in the tank a month ago but since I added floating plants the amount of algae went from 100 to 0 pretty much. Should I maybe add more light to grow some algae back?
I love this video! And I have a 3 gallon with cherry shrimp. And it did have amono shrimp at the start. But then I found out amono shrimp need much more room, so I moved the amonos to my 29 gallon, and in my 3 gallon, I have I think 5 cherry shrimp left. And I want more, and I don’t know if I should wait for them to breed, or just buy more. What would you do?
Hi Cory, here’s what I would like to do... 29g, UG filter with crushed coral, sponge filter, Java Moss, Cherry Shrimp, and Malaysian trumpet snails. I plan on setting up the tank with the Java Moss and waiting about six months before adding the shrimp and snails. My main question is this: Would the crushed coral be appropriate as far as the trumpet snails being able to burrow under the substrate? I would eventually add a trio of guppies to the tank as well.
So as long as you have: 68-78F Plants (preferably moss) decent surface area and thats it? Confirm this, it seems too easy! Will endler livebearers eat fry? If I try to breed them too?
Good advice, have been thinking about keeping some of those shrimp. Have a sponge filter in the back and I know there is a good amount of algae on that. Did not know they prefer to have lots of algae and moss too.
By far my favorite video so far Cory! I have a ten gallon with about 10 cherries, with two or three berried females. So happy😄 I also love those platies. Could you possibly tell me what they are called and where you got them?
Hi Corey, Greetings from Australia! Just wondering, is it still as effective to have sponge filters without the lift tubes, as I noticed some of the sponge filters in your tanks didn't have lift tubes in them. Just wanted to know if I should bother with lift tubes with my sponge filter setups Thank you and keep up the great content brother!
i am working on a shrimp aquarium atm, i was wondering how do you keep up with the shrimp that unfortunately dont make it in an aquarium that has a lot of moss?and other then water changes do you need to vacuum the tank? also Thanks really enjoyed the video a lot, very helpful.
How frequently do you feed your shrimps when you're breeding them? I have some baby shrimps in my 10 gallon tank with some pest snails. No fish. I feed them twice or sometimes thrice a week.
Great video, I've a 5 gallon fluval spec with 5 endlers in. Added 2 nerite snails to deal with my algae on my plants but find they spend more time on my bogwood. Could i add more snails to help or would it overload the system. Also what kind of snails do you recommend, thx
Well wood is rotting so they are choosing to eat that debris over the algae currently, adding more may help, also they may move on after a while to the algae as well. I'd say focus on balancing the system to not grow algae.
Aquarium Co-Op cheers Cory, yeah I'm having a bit of a game trying to hit on a good regime. I've added a second standard light to my Fluval Spec v as Just one was quite poor. I'm now getting good pearling which I've never seen before. I dose excel daily and flourish twice a week, and maybe iron and potassium once a week. my substrate is normal gravel so got 3 root tabs in there. got anubias,java fern, crypt, Amazon sword, dwarf sag and S Repens in there so fairly full.
Do you think water sprite would work ok to? I've got a bunch of water sprite, and water Wisteria in my tank. Do you think this would provide enough cover for shrimp?
Nice one Cory. My biggest regret with my red cherry shrimp is that I put them in too many different tanks initially. Now that I'd like to try to keep some other neocaridina species I'm struggling to find a tank that doesn't already have cherry shrimp in there and dont want them to inter-breed!
Corey, you are my go to for everything fish related. Definitely the GOAT, but I don't believe that shrimp eat poop. Shrimp and snails are definitely scavengers but I don't believe from my research anything actually eats fish poop.
Hi Cory, I would like your opinion on how to deal with vorticella on my planted tank. I have been cutting off the part of the plants with vorticella clusters but the critters grow back faster than I can remove them. I don’t see any vorticella on my shrimps yet but the vorticella growth rate is concerning. The plants are 2 month old, I have had red cherry shrimps and neon tetras in for a month. It’s a 12 gal long tank with sponge filter, water is clear but a bit dull. I suspect I have too much bacteria in there feeding the vorticella? My air pump is old, so maybe not enough aeration. I stopped feeding the fish the last 2 days.
me and my mom got a batch of random shrimp. she got a few more at petsmart. ive had the same tank running for 2 or 3 years now. she has a new tank set up and running. we started with 30 each and 4 of her females are already carrying eggs. none of mine are. i can see males and females in my tank and nothing yet lol. we got them in november so im hoping soon some of my females will be berring eggs!
I have a heavily planted 30gallon with breeder guppies and 2 bettas. I am gonna order some shrimp and moss from you. should I put the shrimp in my ten gallon grow tank or should I put them in my 30?
Zom Bee Nature which shrimp did you start with and did you make enough research? I think the easiest for start is Cherry. I have mine for over a month and they are doing very well. Just shrimp and snail tank.
@@BRUH-xz1zp I have tried Cherry Shrimp, Neocaridina, red ones, blue ones, orange ones, and yellow with a white stripe down the back. The ones that don't die immediately might last a couple weeks and then disappear. The water here is very hard, 350 to 450 officially by the water company, too hard for a color kit to work since the level is above the highest level of the kit. Even pet shops have told me not to bother testing hardness, it's very hard. And to not ever try the other kind of shrimp, Caridina or the other kind, they refuse to even special order them for anybody because they are impossible to keep.
do you quarantine your shrimp and snails when you get you receive them from wholesaler? if so, do you use your triple threat treatment? the erythromycin worked for the columnaris on the tetra and rasbora
I know this is very late. Do the Neocaridina davidi breed true, or do you have to always cull the say blue/yellow/Fire? In different tanks of course :)
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Do the shrimp eat the fry because I have a 10 gallon fish tank for my guppie fry and it is Dirty and I can not clean the tank. Because I'm scared that I will leave them in the tank when I am cleaning the tank. Please let me now
Hey Cory, now that this video is two years old, could we get an update on this setup please? Are you still doing mixed tanks for your shrimp breeding? Have a couple tanks I'd like to set up for shrimp breeding and would love to do mixed but unsure.
@@bobs5596 thank you
I just bought a filter and will be buying more. the whole experience from searching product on your website to buying and delivery was just great. You guys know what makes a customer come back for more unlike the locate fish store near me where I bought some gravel just to see what kind of experience I would get with them and the people there have as much personality as maybe a snail which I hate to say because it feels like an insult to snails. Love your Videos and your website.
When the females are saddled and ready to mate they release hormones in the water and the males fly around the tank tryin to find the female. Very funny watching them frantically search! good video cory
They want that
I didn't know that until a month ago and thought something was wrong and like week ago I see pregnant blue velvet shrimp now. They're in with a Betta and celestial pearl danios so idk how many will survive but there's tons of plants and moss, like lots lol I wasn't trying to breed but now I hoping some survive and keep going.
I like the fact that the aquarium can be a fully functional microenviroment, wth the creatures living symbiotically.
Me too, it's awesome!
@Le Baguette look up serpadesign, he does exactly that in a couple of his videos, just not with an aquarium, it think it's a riparium or paladarium or one of the ones without fish, land animals.
As nature intended.
That's what I live for! Big fish in big tanks are so overrated and sad..
I introduced five red cherry shrimp to my tank, and they're breeding like rabbits, young shrimp literally everywhere. Wasn't intending to breed them, but I can see why you state they're fairly easy to breed! The Platys and Guppies are also breeding like rabbits, which will be a problem later as the tank will be way too crowded when they get bigger. At present though, it's awesome watching such a busy tank!
How fast before you had babies?
Hey, did your shrimp breed in the same tank with guppies? I’ve got 7 guppies and 6 shrimp, did your guppies ever try to eat the fry?
Here is some further reading on Cherry shrimp over on our blog. www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/13023481-red-cherry-shrimp
Aquarium Co-Op can you breed them together like orange and red and blue all cross breeding
Christian Swogger No, for those two will cross breed, and the crossed shrimp tend to come out brown in color.
Love your channel dude. I’m new to the hobby, but I take my ecosystem super serious and I appreciate the knowledge I get from you. No point doing it, if you’re not going to do it the right way!!
thI just got into aquariums and now shrimp and you have provided me a great deal of info. Thank you. I also find that you appear to have great business ethics which means a great deal to me, far too often "business ethics" is an oxymoron so it is nice to see someone succeed doing it the right way and treating their employees well. As an accountant who loves animals you are living my dream to own a fish/pet store, I think I should have been a biology major...
Looking great Cory. Love the Ecosystems. Technically your blue shrimp is a blue dream line. Blue velvets are actually a whole different line. Many people have been calling blue dreams blue velvets lately which this is a misconception. If you ever want to see sometime I can show you the difference or mayb I should make a video on it...
+L.R.Bretz's Aquatics I should just call them blue shrimp and red shrimp. I don't believe in the conventional naming system for shrimp as there is so much variation and all names are made up.
There are legit name classification its just sellers often mislabel them even alot of wholesalers which in turn causes confusion but there are legit classification. I have Blue Velvet lines that breed true no blue dreams or anything else thrown unlike blue dreams which can throw a blue velvet time to time amongst a few other types. Theres also a blue pearl line which the blue velvets are actually more similiar too. I could expand on this with many others and where the future of the shrimp market is going... Just trying to help share what I know with you.
LR bretz should do a video on all the different lines/names of cherry shrimp and what differentiate them
@@LRBaquatics I realize this is a 3 year old comment but something to notice is that all Neocaridina davidi ( come in brown, red, blue, green, etc) are all the same species. The “common names “ cherry shrimp, blue velvet etc. are made up to attribute to density of color. All the blue shrimp or red shrimp you see in this video are exactly the same species of animal. Just check out Latin nomenclature. And that is what Cory is referencing when he says he’s not going to get crazy with the common names.
@@rurutuM they’re the same animal. Just varying degrees of colors. That’s the only difference. Just like greyhounds can have any color fur, even spotted etc but they’re all still greyhounds.
How to breed cherry shrimp - My personal experience.
Put two cherry shrimp in a tank,
Drink beer,
Done.
Ok thanks for saving my time though i would be drinking water
😂😂
Thanks for the helpful tip! I’ve not had much success with breeding cherry shrimp. I see now that I’ve been skipping Step 1.
Yeah they are like unwelcome roaches, get real. I’m sure they could survive a nuclear event.
@@jusbeaming cherry shrimp? alot more pleasing than roaches
what I love about this video is, I got a lot more out of it then just how to breed shrimp. Tunes of great information. thank you
I can’t believe aquarium co-op doesn’t have wayyy more subscribers
We put 2 cherry shrimp in the community tank a few days ago and so far so good
Just watched your cherry shrimp vid from a couple years back last night. Great update on all the shrimp!!!
Got an absolute wealth of info from substrate to lighting from you Cory.. Many thanks... There used to be an old film character who... From my limited memory used to say things like "that's my boy".. So when you speak out the side of your mouth as a greeting it reminds me of him.. Can't remember his name.. Regardless, many thanks our Cory... Cheers
I'm starting my cherry shrimp breeding tank today! Thank you for the advice!
How is your aquarium going now? I'm starting mine soon!
good to see a video with a full ecosystem and not just shrimp It shows how well it can work.i was a bit worried about mixing fish with shrimp especially because how dear some can be but definetly gunna give it a try now
Just did a bulk order of 100 red culls with an acceptable colour and I’m excited to introduce them to the small 10 shrimp colony already existing in the tank. The price was pretty prohibitive with my first 10 because they are almost top grade reds but I got an insane deal on these little guys and decided I’d rather a stable ok looking population then a weak amazing one. Hopefully over time I’ll be able to pick out the best of their fry and separate them into a tank for selling and try to stabilise a good red.
This is a proper presentation for cherry. Good job man. Balance and consistency is key.
I love your stuff man! Your videos are what inspire me to have all the tanks that I do today. My mum wasn't so keen at first but as soon as she realised how big the hobby actually is she loves it just as much as I do
+Ciaran Chaplin awesome when the whole family gets involved.
I put 5 cherries in my tank last December and left them alone only feeding bottom feeder pellets.. Now I have over 100 easy in my 40 gallon. They are super easy to take care of and breed
Man, you are just the best. I love your approach and point of view about the fish tanks as full eco systems
I know this video is 3 years old but there is a ton of useful information here and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this :)
Shrimp are our friends not just for profit and food, good video Cory :)
Aww , I like that way of thinking . They are definitely your friends when you can hand feed them! Wait? Didn't they turn on you and try to eat you?!?! Jk mark love your shrimp videos!!!!
yes, shrimp are delicious
You know I was thinking about breeding guppys/goldfish/discus ect as food for my Shrimp ..what do ya think?
Hmm that interests me! To feed them by poop? Or are you yanking our chains some more ? I have been setting up a bunch of tanks for neo thinking lots of moss plants and rock piles would house the shrimp , while also breeding guppies endlers and similar fish. With some blue and red rams horns in there as a working ecosystem .?? What do you guys think?? Cory does it but he has casualties, do you think casualties could be minimized to very few and even a natural kull by doin this??
@@MarksShrimpTanks Discus as food for your shrimp? I think you're going to go broke quick! BTW, love your videos Mark.
i searched "how to stop cherry shrimps from breeding out of control in my tank" and this came up... very helpful youtube
I absolutely love the blue velvet and blue dream shrimp
they love u2
2:00 I think that substrate is like 50% snail
SpottedTiger that's actually almost an accurate percentage too.😂 I hadn't noticed earlier.
Kind of proves that food competition doesn't cause lack of breeding.
True dat.
I noticed that too, and I'm wondering what type of snail that is. Any ideas?
@@buckstarchaser2376 some trumpet snail I guess (funny that Trumpet snail is also called Melania :))) )
I'd love to see more shrimp videos.!
this is great, I was in last night and bought some blue shrimp. thanks for the info!
Corey! Legend bro! Your channel is just excellent, always providing great information.
I have a pregnant neocaridina this has been great help!
Great video man! I have been doing the same thing so this is reassuring that my ecosystem approach is not only achievable, but beneficial for the criers too! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you. I was wondering if my cherry shrimp was carrying eggs. I have 3 shrimp in a 1-gallon planted fishbowl. They have plenty of mulm, 3 marimo balls, dwarf sag, crypts, and frogbit. I keep the bowl in a southeast window where the plants get natural light. It’s a little ecosystem and they like the stability. No water changes.
After watching your video I added some moss. Thanks for the informative videos!
Hi! I have been following you since I started keeping fish a few years ago. Thanks for all the helpful information. Here, today, I have a question about keeping Cherry shrimp. I bought ten, online, and drip acclimated them. That was about a week ago. I have seen only three at best. I know they hide but am wondering if my nitrate is affecting them? My tap water is 40 and I can't seem to get it down from about 70 even with plants although I have run out of API tests and the NT labs mini kit doesn't have that test so am unsure of nitrate levels at present. My fish seem ok and my Amano are doing OK. I am also concerned about my filter. I have an internal AquaEL which will suck up babies should the cherries ever breed. My tank is 105 litre long. Any advice you can give me will be most appreciated. Also, in this video you say that the shrimp eat fish poop. I always believed shrimp and snails will not! You read so much conflicting information on the web! Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy questionnaire LOL! Lynne x
just picked up some cherry shrimp. cant wait to have cherry babies.
Thanks Cory! I was trying to find something on this just before I saw the upload. Very useful, as usual!
I am planning on putting 40 red cherry shrimp on my community tank (guppies, neon tetras, rummy nose, and a pleco)
Day 2 of quarantine, they hatched 10 babies more or less and i think i need to change my plan a little bit
Interesting, all the symbiotic relationships going on there. Gives me ideas for a new tank. Thanks.
We are going to try the cherry shrimp 🍤. Good advice for netting them!
I think you deserve more subs than you have. All of your videos are informal entertaining and quality
I have learned so much from all of your videos!! I love you guys! Thank you for all of them! I have a 60 gallon, and just started my first cherry shrimp tank - so excited! I've read a lot on it, but this helps keep it simple and follows how I set up my 60.
Great timing! I’m obsessing of my shrimp. They may be my favorites!
i like how there are a bunch of snails. Gives me more confidence in my own tank.
Great video Cory!
I *love* the new intro!
I have Sherry shrimp too!
I had 12 but 7 died! I will buy some new ones soon!
How are the Turtle eggs doing?
*Thumbs up!*
Danny's Aquariums Appearently the turtle eggs werent fertilized
I was just about to set up a shrimp breeding tank! Great timing for this video :D
I started a five gallon tank on my desk two months ago. Started with six neon tetras, live plants, and two cherry shrimp.
Now I have six neon tetras, 100 snails, and probably 20 baby cherry shrimp.
Ahaha. The joy of snails. Have you tried Seachem Flourish? It dealt with my pest snails and didn't harm my mystery snail or RCS.
I love your videos!They have helped me buy my fish & shrimp Thanks 🦐🐠
That new guppy strain at 11:19 is beautiful
Im also very curious as to what this guppy strand is?
Awesome video co-op I’m starting up a channel at the moment that will have all sorts of aquarium content on it at the moment I’m documenting my experience with breeding crystal red shrimp, So far it has been awesome and a lot of fun. I have a lot more content coming keep up the good vids !!!
Great set up! Picked up some good tips, thanks man =)
what do you recommend for temperature, and do you worry about pH? How about adding catawpa leaves and alder cones? Love your sponge filters by the way, converting my whole fish room to them with the ziss airstones gradually.
Cory I love your channel soooo much, I'm setting up my first shrimp tank, thanks for the informational videos
I love your vidéos, my breeding tanks going beter and beter by watching your videos. Ty so much
Love this video❤️thanks Cory you are a fantastic teacher!
Hey Corey:) I have been a long time subscriber and it’s awesome to see you &your channel explode. I know this video was a while ago and you don’t have this tank but I am wondering what you used to run PH and TDS wise in your shrimp tanks. Thank you for the years of info and entertainment, lol I’d love to buy you a taco some time, keep on keepin on👍
I had Ramshorn snails in a planted pond in Thailand- and they bred like crazy but if I reduced the feeding they ate all the plants!! They were savages!!
I have a 100g tank with a couple 'Leuciscus idus'. The tank has very basic DIY filtration (sponge and lava rock), the only waterchange I do is 20% every 3 months. There are no plants in the tank right now. However, even with my 'bad' setup, I can't get any algea to grow. Any tips? (0:37)
@@jorinator123 hey hey idk if u got it right but what u can do is keep the tank near an open window with sunlight
this was realy cool and taught me a lot more then just how to breed shrimp.Keep up the good work .👍
Corey appreciate all your videos! They have been more then helpful. I'm out in Cleveland but I hope in the near future I can come out and see your store. Thanks again for the pro tips and can't wait to see what's coming up next.
Absolutely extremely educational simplify. thank you Cory you’re the guy.Also aren’t all of his friends blue velvet cherry and orange the same just a different color variation that’s what I would think but then I’m not an expert
Glad to hear you can safely breed with a community tank, I watched another video saying you should just keep the shrimp in their own tank but where's the fun in that?
Fun video! I would love to know more about specific water parameters as well... ph, temp, etc... Thanks a ton!!
Absolutely loving this channel, immediately subbed and turned on notifications. Thanks so much for sharing all this awesome information!
I'm glad you appreciate my content. Thanks for subscribing!
Continues to give me ideas....thanks man!
Hi Cory, it'll be the platies cleaning the algae off the glass....the shrimp do love to eat it, but in my experience (about 10yrs I've been breeding these guys), they never graze it all the way back. You can check it out on the Ep I did on Cherry Shrimp breeding, I do a few things I haven't seen done before that work exceptionally for me, and there is even some legit prawnography as I caught a couple in the act :) Anyways, keep up the good work mate.
I have a very well established 30 gallon tank with a small bristle nose and about 13 adult shrimp I'm trying to breed. It's a no water change tank just top ups once a week. Full of live plants so much vegetation you can't see the back of the tank. But I'm having no luck breeding these shrimp. I'm Startin to think I have all of 1 sex or something. I do check water parameters every few days and nothing really changes. Gonna try adding another 10 this weekend see what happens. Would you recommend also buying some small fish? I do feed the tank (for the pleco mostly) there was a ton of algae in the tank a month ago but since I added floating plants the amount of algae went from 100 to 0 pretty much. Should I maybe add more light to grow some algae back?
Thank you Corey been waiting for this video!!
Nice video as always Cory!
Always learn so much from your videos!!! Thank you!
I love this video! And I have a 3 gallon with cherry shrimp. And it did have amono shrimp at the start. But then I found out amono shrimp need much more room, so I moved the amonos to my 29 gallon, and in my 3 gallon, I have I think 5 cherry shrimp left. And I want more, and I don’t know if I should wait for them to breed, or just buy more. What would you do?
how often and how much do you do water change in shrimp tanks
Hi Cory, here’s what I would like to do... 29g, UG filter with crushed coral, sponge filter, Java Moss, Cherry Shrimp, and
Malaysian trumpet snails. I plan on setting up the tank with the Java Moss and waiting about six months before adding the shrimp and snails. My main question is this: Would the crushed coral be appropriate as far as the trumpet snails being able to burrow under the substrate? I would eventually add a trio of guppies to the tank as well.
So as long as you have:
68-78F
Plants (preferably moss)
decent surface area
and thats it? Confirm this, it seems too easy!
Will endler livebearers eat fry? If I try to breed them too?
Love!! Question....what larger fish do well with cherry shrimp, nerite, guppy/endler and plecos?
Good advice, have been thinking about keeping some of those shrimp. Have a sponge filter in the back and I know there is a good amount of algae on that. Did not know they prefer to have lots of algae and moss too.
How many gallons is your tank?
Daily Dose! Daily Dose! Daily Dose! It was my crack before Christmas. I need it!
By far my favorite video so far Cory! I have a ten gallon with about 10 cherries, with two or three berried females. So happy😄 I also love those platies. Could you possibly tell me what they are called and where you got them?
+Neon Tetra Aquarist fireball players and Igor them on aquabid
How long after adding dirty sponge into tank should you wait before adding fish?
Hi Corey,
Greetings from Australia!
Just wondering, is it still as effective to have sponge filters without the lift tubes, as I noticed some of the sponge filters in your tanks didn't have lift tubes in them. Just wanted to know if I should bother with lift tubes with my sponge filter setups
Thank you and keep up the great content brother!
how do you maintain-clean each aquarium without damage the eggs-small shrimps ? do you use vacuum pump on cleaning?
i am working on a shrimp aquarium atm, i was wondering how do you keep up with the shrimp that unfortunately dont make it in an aquarium that has a lot of moss?and other then water changes do you need to vacuum the tank? also Thanks really enjoyed the video a lot, very helpful.
My tank has rotala indica and Monte Carlo. Is that good for them for breeding or should I add java moss?
Do you vacuum the gravel in your breeder tanks? I don't know how you would go about vacuuming the gravel with that many fry and shrimplets!
How frequently do you feed your shrimps when you're breeding them?
I have some baby shrimps in my 10 gallon tank with some pest snails. No fish. I feed them twice or sometimes thrice a week.
Great video, I've a 5 gallon fluval spec with 5 endlers in. Added 2 nerite snails to deal with my algae on my plants but find they spend more time on my bogwood. Could i add more snails to help or would it overload the system. Also what kind of snails do you recommend, thx
Well wood is rotting so they are choosing to eat that debris over the algae currently, adding more may help, also they may move on after a while to the algae as well. I'd say focus on balancing the system to not grow algae.
Aquarium Co-Op cheers Cory, yeah I'm having a bit of a game trying to hit on a good regime. I've added a second standard light to my Fluval Spec v as Just one was quite poor. I'm now getting good pearling which I've never seen before. I dose excel daily and flourish twice a week, and maybe iron and potassium once a week. my substrate is normal gravel so got 3 root tabs in there. got anubias,java fern, crypt, Amazon sword, dwarf sag and S Repens in there so fairly full.
Do you think water sprite would work ok to? I've got a bunch of water sprite, and water Wisteria in my tank. Do you think this would provide enough cover for shrimp?
Nice one Cory. My biggest regret with my red cherry shrimp is that I put them in too many different tanks initially. Now that I'd like to try to keep some other neocaridina species I'm struggling to find a tank that doesn't already have cherry shrimp in there and dont want them to inter-breed!
Your amazing. I love listening to your golden valuable advice. Thank you so much
Always enjoy your vids!
Corey, you are my go to for everything fish related. Definitely the GOAT, but I don't believe that shrimp eat poop. Shrimp and snails are definitely scavengers but I don't believe from my research anything actually eats fish poop.
Hi Cory, I would like your opinion on how to deal with vorticella on my planted tank. I have been cutting off the part of the plants with vorticella clusters but the critters grow back faster than I can remove them. I don’t see any vorticella on my shrimps yet but the vorticella growth rate is concerning. The plants are 2 month old, I have had red cherry shrimps and neon tetras in for a month. It’s a 12 gal long tank with sponge filter, water is clear but a bit dull. I suspect I have too much bacteria in there feeding the vorticella? My air pump is old, so maybe not enough aeration. I stopped feeding the fish the last 2 days.
Hey Cory, what do you feed your shrimp? Just algae wafers? I tried giving mine wafers, but they don’t touch them. Do they eat hair algae?
Just Julie mine went crazy for algae wafers
me and my mom got a batch of random shrimp. she got a few more at petsmart. ive had the same tank running for 2 or 3 years now. she has a new tank set up and running. we started with 30 each and 4 of her females are already carrying eggs. none of mine are. i can see males and females in my tank and nothing yet lol. we got them in november so im hoping soon some of my females will be berring eggs!
Thanks Corey! Do you use a heater?
I have a heavily planted 30gallon with breeder guppies and 2 bettas. I am gonna order some shrimp and moss from you. should I put the shrimp in my ten gallon grow tank or should I put them in my 30?
We don't sell moss or shrimp online currently only in our retail store. I would start a shrimp colony as just shrimp if you haven't bred them before.
What kind of light you use?? Also, how do you grow algae?? I never had that “problem” in my tanks.
This is day one of reading about pet shrimp
Well? Its been 11 months. You start yet?
I have tried a few times but they don't live. I would love to have a tank with only snails and shrimp, but the shrimp won't cooperate.
Zom Bee Nature which shrimp did you start with and did you make enough research? I think the easiest for start is Cherry. I have mine for over a month and they are doing very well. Just shrimp and snail tank.
@@BRUH-xz1zp I have tried Cherry Shrimp, Neocaridina, red ones, blue ones, orange ones, and yellow with a white stripe down the back. The ones that don't die immediately might last a couple weeks and then disappear. The water here is very hard, 350 to 450 officially by the water company, too hard for a color kit to work since the level is above the highest level of the kit. Even pet shops have told me not to bother testing hardness, it's very hard. And to not ever try the other kind of shrimp, Caridina or the other kind, they refuse to even special order them for anybody because they are impossible to keep.
@@ZomBeeNature try seachem water regulator
I wish I could like this video twice.
do you quarantine your shrimp and snails when you get you receive them from wholesaler? if so, do you use your triple threat treatment? the erythromycin worked for the columnaris on the tetra and rasbora
We don't specifically quarantine our shrimp. Only the general cure is effective iwth them and we do dose that when they come in.
Will they feed on snail poop as well?
I know this is very late. Do the Neocaridina davidi breed true, or do you have to always cull the say blue/yellow/Fire? In different tanks of course :)