Last night I found tiny rcs in my tank, I've only had them eight weeks and cycled for six weeks before putting the shrimp in, this is the second time I've kept them. Watching your video gave me the chance to see what happened in my tank last night. Thank you so much for such a valued and intelligent insight of the rcs, I wish everyone would watch this video before keeping them, it is very educational.
Hi Mark! Stopped watching a few months ago because school got so busy for me, but I'm glad to have returned and saw you've gone from 7k to 15k subs. You have really great content
Happy New Years Mark! I just started shrimp keeping in November and you have helped me so much! This might not sound like an achievement but these shrimp are my first ones ever and I got one to berry!! I have some big plans for my shrimp journey which includes upgrading their 5g to a 15-20g and buying/ordering some more shrimp to really start a colony- and maybe even make some profit. :)
smashing video bud feel like this vids setting me on the right track to owning shrimp as wont to learn the right ways befor getting anythink so thanks u mark
Thank you for good video. What are the white dot like flying around in the tank bottom that you showed? My blue dream tank bottom has the same white dot creature flying around..Are they good thing to have or bad thing to have?Thank you.
Good info as always Mark, your army seems healthy and booming! I would like to add one of your tricks to the list, because of how miraculously effective it was! A have to have is those Mironekuton and Montmorillonite stones! Seriously, they are what we all need! It will save you a tonne of heartache and could save your favorite breeding homie *sad face* also hopefully not lose babies (I had a pathetic survival rate first try). Anywho, I recently added them after months of slowly losing buddies, and they made an instant difference in shrimp energy and health! Quite literally instantly. It's invigorating! I'm really hoping to see a sharp decrease in deaths too (one a week previous) it's taxing dealing with deaths... that and now I am down to 1 female... Fingers always crossed. Mironekuton and Montmorillonite for the win! Shrimp On! J
Great video. Where would be the best place to ask a detailed question about the mineral balls you utilize? I have been following your advice and having excellent luck so far.
Marks Shrimp Tanks thanks Mark, my main question is I have been having great success with local tap water and your maintenance tips. I raise neo's only have have been fortunate to get great lines. I am intreged by the round mineral balls you utilize but don't want to upset my current success. Should I use them with neo's if I am not having any problems? Thanks
Hi, I had some of your biofilm and morillonite clay. I had so many seed shrimp(ostracods) not even netting them out was 3g at a time was keeping on top of it, and I was not overfeeding. I found they are a predatory/meat eating variety of ostracod, lost ottos, cory hastatus and hundrds of shrimplets to them. Had to strip down my shrimp tank and kill with vinegar(to dissolve the molluscs shells). They had been getting into the gills of my fish and eating them from the inside out. I now have a vendetta for ostracods! lol . How do you cope with seed shrimp in your tanks?
Mark, do you find snails are competiting for same food sources with shrimp? I am wondering if I should remove some of them. It looks like I have a small bloom of ramshorn that had popped up. I have about 15 Cherry Shrimp, in a communal tank. Thanks.
Hey Mark I’m going through your videos and I know this one was sever years ago so I understand if this doesn’t get answered. But I was wondering what are the white and gray balls that are at the bottom of the tank?
Just mineral balls that are meant to have an ionic charge but I am not sure they do, I stopped using them because the seller was tripling the supply price and my shrimp are still fine without them.
Mark I have read that copper and copper sulfate is fatal to shrimp. Flourish brand plant fertilizer by Seachem claims it is safe for inverts including shrimp but on the ingredient list, it lists Copper Sulfate but in small quantities. My question is , is it safe to use in my planted red cherry shrimp tank?
Awesome video, I really enjoyed the tips. I’ve been using your powdered flake food, now I’m going to try using some of the orchid fertilizer. I do have quite a bit of alga growth.but I’d like to try a little bit more with The plant fertilizer
Hi Mark, Is it just too old video? because in the newest ones you recommend to change 10% of watter every week. besides all your aquarium setups, you showed a cycle of 4-5 weeks, not two month. so what should we do?
all different tank types and shrimp types are different and this is an old video... thie is what I do now. neocaridina 6 weeks cycle and 20%waterchange. Caridina shrimp 10% water changes and a 2 month cycle :)
Happy New Year, As always a very good and informative video, thanks for that Mark. All 4 tips are noted :-) (1 tip from me for 2018: For all aquarians who have the broblem with planarians, you get a greater survival rate of your shrimps if you use floating plants in the auqarium where your shrim can cling to)
Very good my friend, you know how it works. Hope all your followers can use many tips as much as possible to keep their shrimp happy longer. Thanks for another, great video mark very good work please keep it up 👍
Hi Mark, I want to try the orchid ferts in my shrimp tank but the brand you are using is not available in our country. I saw a lot of orchid ferts here but they all contain copper which I read is deadly to inverts in large doses. What do you think would be the tolerable copper content in ferts that I can use? Do the orchid ferts that you use contain copper and if yes how much does it contain? Thanks in advance.
I have a tank of cherry shrimps, and right now I am going to upgrade them into a bigger tank....so I was cycling the new tank now....so after a month of cycling, can I immediately transfer the shrimps over? or do i have to put them in a bag or container and put abit of new tank water in first like how we got from shops?
Hey there, Great video! Thank you! I had one question about your lighting. How many hours do you generally do for that kind of growth? 6 to 8 hours a day?
Always great and informative information, keep up the amazing work and thanks for the info. Which of the products to you prefer for producing the bio film? I have heard of Bacterae
Lemme start by saying....well....I adore you and your tanks. You've inspired me to try a shrimp tank for myself. I have a 20 gallon cube I'm conditioning to be my shrimp tank. I've added beneficial bacteria, plant food and currently have some plants growing. It's sat running now for about 1 week. I put 1 black molly in there to 'seed' the tank. He looks healthy enough but I'm sure he's a psychotic mess by now, they like lot's of company. My question is how long should I wait before ordering my shrimp?
I use Bactor AE, a small amount each day since my tank is relatively new. I let it cycle for about 2 1/2 months with only some mystery snails and nerites. With consistent 0/0/>5 of ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and my kh/gh/tds at decent readings, Ive added a dozen RCS. Ive only had them a couple weeks and have had 2 losses. They were sent young, as easier to adapt to new water conditions. Still waiting on my first batch of babies! Idk what kind of fertilizer that is. Do you know a US brand equivalent? I leave two sides of my tank uncleaned to allow algae to grow. I have plenty of java moss, anubias, anucris, java fern, african fern, amazon fern and water lily. Excellent tips! Thanks!
The one you show you just drip in. I use Seachum Flourish for the plants but for algae growth, I’m at a loss. I was also adding Flourish Excel but its also been called an algaecide. Should I stop using that? The optimum health of the shrimp are more important then plant growth.
@@Cory_Dora ah ok I used orchid ferts I think, they are just like normal ferts but really watered down, I dont use them anymore though because I use a buffer that is meant to have some ferts in it called Salty Bee Shrimp GH Premium .
Do you use CO2 (DIY OR Pressurised) in your shrimp tanks? Also, do you add bacteria powder in the substrate while setting up the tank? I read somwhere that we can use mulm from the filter a cycled tank in the substrate as well to provide good bacteria for tank cycling.
I dont use CO2 just because I am to lazy to keep it at the correct dosing thats required all the time, you can add bacteria to the substrate but its important that you know that the bacteria I mention in this video do different jobs, some are for under the substrate and for after water changes and some are for dietary bacteria and biofilm
Hey Mark when setting up a brand new tank for shrimp do you think by adding some aquarium benifical bacteria in a 10 gallon tank would be safe for the shrimp and how much of it would I need to use for the shrimp and what do you recommend for a successful tank and how many water changes and thanks for being my number 1 goto guy on shrimp it helps and later down the road can you do a new layout on a tank setup like some cool slope on a shallow tank and one day when I get a chance I would love to come meet you my daught loves to talk about your shrimp everytime im on UA-cam she calls you shrimp uncle lol 🤣
SHRIMP UNCLE !! hahahaha LOVE IT !!, Best thing to do in regards to starting the tank is add the water and filter and then bacteria and wait for 2 months this is the safest way, also do water changes like normal in the tank 25% a week every week :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks awesome I already have a tank set up with shrimp in it but my friend was asking cus he had seen a photo my wife showed him and he love the idea of shrimp I told him to look you up and fallow you and I was telling how yo set it up with the water but now since you have given me the tip I will msg him right now and I will tel him. But can i use it for my tank the benifical bacteria when I do water changes even tho I have a tank set up for a while now with shrimp in it will it harm the shrimp and I have a few guppy fry in the tank
Hi Mark, I live in hot place. and I have never success in breeding the shrimp. they keep dying. Some of them still alive but never berried. my worst water parameter is the temperature and TDS. it's 30 C, and my tap water is around 200. I do have a peltier chiller in 1 of my tank, and it can keep the tank around 26 C. Do shrimp affected by high TDS? or it's just the temperature? and Thank you for the tips! I will try adding bactery every water changes.
Your tds isnt that high but shrimp will be affected my the temperature, have you tried a fan blowing across the surface of the water ? that should help
Thank you for the reply. Yes I have tried with a fan, but it just lower the temperature by 1-2C. and I do need to top up the water more often. I will try again with a fan in my shrimp room. Do the shrimp breeding fine with 200 TDS? or should I buy a RO water purifier? It's expensive for me xD
Flourish excel yes. Either under dose or exact dosage. Its not necessary to dose fertilizer if you keep only low light tanks but for those who do , you dont really need to worry if you follow instructions. I does both flourish fertilizer and flourish excel. Non of my snails or 400+ red sakura shrimp died. Either under dose it or follow exact dosage. The flourish fertilizer have really low copper content 0.0005 % copper , not much but too much will kill all the invertebrates. I have a lot of plants so i need to dose fertilizer and excel, but I always under dose it and from time to time i follow instructions.
Well before I met the the King of shrimp (Mark)....... I purchased 10 blue Dreams and put them into a 70 gal tank. Im two weeks in now ph is staying at 8.2 but shrimp are doing well.
I like low light low maintenance stuff because its just easier with shrimp ,I think baby tears really need higher light to do well with ferts and CO2 or they start to float
Hi, I've got a 10gallon heavily planted cycled tank. I've added 12 red cherry shrimps. It was going good till the next week i tried a water change with gravel vaccum and a 50% water change. From then shrimps became very sluggish and I've lost many of them. One got its tail and legs turned out black when died. And others just dead. Now i got three left and they are in critical stage as one is swimming in a very uncommon manner. Like three of them lost their balance. I've seen its a bacterial infection on internet, so added oxytetracycline injection to tank as per recommended dosage. And along with it added IAL extract also. Please help with the reason and tips for rescue. Thanks
Hello Mohammad sorry to hear you are losing shrimp, I can see straight away what your issue is from your comment, your water changes are far to big for a shrimp tank, try going down to just 10% a week and see how you get on ..you might still lose the other shrimp but dont give up :)
I think I get bogged down on water quality, it occurred to me that as dead snail shells break down, they must leach Ca and other minerals into the water. Is this an issue. Perhaps you would do a video, in depth on water quality. My secondary school Chemistry knowledge is contradicting a lot of what I read online. Cheers
I does and you are correct snails produce loads of waste and the minerals to get leeched back into the tank ,I will do a water change video in a week or two :)
I found that string algae kills my shrimps. How?? I've found 2 in pass 2months they get stuck and tangled in the hair algae and trapped in there.. That's what I found so I'm trying to remove these strings preventing next deaths..
Good Things xD, How Long Cycling will be Done? Assume we don't have Any Test Kit? btw, i have tested waiting and waiting about 1month exactly and put about 60++ RCS then they are die in around 3 days.
Happy new year to you too, Mark. I'm a big fan of biofilm so you got my attention! So I looked up the fertilizer at my local plant store. These are it's ingredients and volume: Maybe you could tell me how they compare to yours? So that everybody knows what to look for and how it compares to their local store products? I bought a brand named Pokon: 5-4-7 NPK with Humic acids, plantextracts and trace elements. 2,5% nitrogen (N) 0,9% nitrate nitrogen 0,9% ammoniacal nitrogen 0,7% urea nitrogen 2% phosphoric anhydride (P2O5) 3,5% potassium oxide (K2O) 1% magnesium oxide (MgO) micronutrients: 0,02% Boron(B) 0,004% Copper(Cu) 0,03% Iron(Fe) 0,02% manganese(Mn) 0,002% molybdenum(Mo) 0,004% Zinc(Zn)
Is 25% water change not to much ? Also i have been trolling through your videos to understand about a piece you have in the tank. It is a brown ceramic dish with a glass bell on top ! What is it ?
Hello John, the answer to the water change thing is just do do with how competent you are at making water ,if you use tapwater the variations from the tank can be to much thats why we recommend smaller water changes ..If you make your own water and can dial in everything like tds, ph ,gh etc you can do a much higher percentage, I regularly do 50% water changes in some tanks.
I use a RO water with SaltyShrimp GH+ For my 3 tanks, i have spotted head pints, blue bolts and then Black Panda shrimp all in thier own aquarium. I have been trying to breed them for some time now with little success will big regular water changes as you have done promote more breeding ? Great work on you videos by the way ! one more question, i summise you are scottish from your accent but where are you based ? Also thank you for the quick reply
Thank you so much for this. I've been searching for a fertilizer that's safe for shrimp & doesn't contain copper. Going to do some reading on the fertilizer you recommended. THANK YOU!
In the US you can use the Easy Green from Aquarium Coop, they don't have copper. Keep in mind that adding this will also increase your GH and TDS. Dosing also depends on your lighting and plant volume, so now you are fine tuning stuff so that algae does not get out of control. I found it easier to just not dose ferts and the plants are still growing like crazy and are algae free. My red plants even have a nice metallic reddish to them. I have used cutting from my one tank to set up a second tank and it also cut down the cycle time in half. Most rooted plants will get what they need from the substrate itself, but if you have a lot of moss or anubius that rely on the water column then ferts might help but are still not necessary.
After spending one year and many dollars keeping shrimp I have decided to throw in the towel and give up. I have bought literally hundreds of shrimp and placed them in my tanks but within a week or a bit more most or all are gone. No trace of them. My tanks are liberally planted and perhaps I just do not see the bodies but they are not there when I feed or any other time. C'est la vie but I give up. Mark, many thanks for your patience and assistance. I really do appreciate your time.
hi mark, I want to ask you something. after my shrimp dead, it release some small living organisms inside it dead body and my questions, what animal is that?
You say let the tank cycle for 2 months, what happens if you don't wait that long? We talking stone dead shrimp the next morning or just slower growth and breeding? Also ive never had stuff crawling around in my tanks like that....fish health and longevity is fine so water cant be that bad. What does this mean?
the longer the cycle the more the proper bacterial colonies that do different things will be established, I was just saying in my stream that I dont think 2 months is enough because none of my tanks really start to thrive until the 4-6 month mark. In a shrimp tank its different regarding seeing microfauna the more you see the higher the survival rate will be of baby shrimp :)
Like your Norway and Scotland flags i had same in old house family from Norway but live in Scotland are you Norwegian or your family? Lol might have same name
No I am Scottish, I moved here about a decade ago for love but it didnt work out so I moved back home to Scotland ..and then I moved here myself permanently because I loved the place ...and because I was offered a job hahaha
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Thank you sir :D
Last night I found tiny rcs in my tank, I've only had them eight weeks and cycled for six weeks before putting the shrimp in, this is the second time I've kept them. Watching your video gave me the chance to see what happened in my tank last night. Thank you so much for such a valued and intelligent insight of the rcs, I wish everyone would watch this video before keeping them, it is very educational.
Hi Mark! Stopped watching a few months ago because school got so busy for me, but I'm glad to have returned and saw you've gone from 7k to 15k subs. You have really great content
Thank you Makeilas Aqua welcome back :)
Happy Newyear Every One !!!! Do you have any shrimp tips for 2018 to share let me know in the comments 👍
awesome footage shrimps almost out of the water in the algae!
can you make a video explaining the use of orchid fertilizer please, thank you very much
Thank you for the organic fertilizer tip...I will be looking for something similar at the garden store
Well said...our tank(s) are living organism's...so very true, isn't it. There's a lot of life in there, that deserves our care...
Happy New Years Mark! I just started shrimp keeping in November and you have helped me so much! This might not sound like an achievement but these shrimp are my first ones ever and I got one to berry!! I have some big plans for my shrimp journey which includes upgrading their 5g to a 15-20g and buying/ordering some more shrimp to really start a colony- and maybe even make some profit. :)
Sounds like you have a great plan and Happy New year to you also :)👊
smashing video bud feel like this vids setting me on the right track to owning shrimp as wont to learn the right ways befor getting anythink so thanks u mark
Another great and helpful informative videos for shrimp keepers !
Agree with the tank cycle
Great tips Mark mine in no order are, water quality, diet variety, bio film, and perhaps most important stability.
My own personal shrimp tip for 2018 is try my hardest not to kill any! 😂
Sonic Ninja lol
I'd like to hear more about he "micro fauna".... details....please!
Always a joy to watch .
Thank you Michael :)
Love this guy! He rox! So much info packed into every video! THANK YOU!🐠🐟❤
Your shirmps always make me smile :)
You have some of the most beautiful shrimp tanks, love what you do to the mosses, I’m slowly descending into moss madness myself lol
Thank you for good video. What are the white dot like flying around in the tank bottom that you showed? My blue dream tank bottom has the same white dot creature flying around..Are they good thing to have or bad thing to have?Thank you.
i like to see all microphana in the tank if you have none at all thats a problem
Hi youre using co2 in caridina tank?? How can you make the nice moss on youre tank? Thanks
No co2, I only dose Iron into mt tanks and now all my houseplants and they are all thriving :)
Good info as always Mark, your army seems healthy and booming!
I would like to add one of your tricks to the list, because of how miraculously effective it was!
A have to have is those Mironekuton and Montmorillonite stones! Seriously, they are what we all need! It will save you a tonne of heartache and could save your favorite breeding homie *sad face* also hopefully not lose babies (I had a pathetic survival rate first try). Anywho, I recently added them after months of slowly losing buddies, and they made an instant difference in shrimp energy and health! Quite literally instantly. It's invigorating! I'm really hoping to see a sharp decrease in deaths too (one a week previous) it's taxing dealing with deaths... that and now I am down to 1 female... Fingers always crossed. Mironekuton and Montmorillonite for the win! Shrimp On!
J
Very good info Justin !!:)
Thanks for the videos, as always very informative. 👍
Great tips as always brother. Thanks for doing what you do.
Can you use any orchid plant food?
Will the algae kill the moss? What about your subwassertang? Is it ok for them to get algae too?
Nice Video and Nice Tank 😀😀😀
Great video. Where would be the best place to ask a detailed question about the mineral balls you utilize? I have been following your advice and having excellent luck so far.
You can ask me anywhere and I can ask the manufactures directly :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks thanks Mark, my main question is I have been having great success with local tap water and your maintenance tips. I raise neo's only have have been fortunate to get great lines. I am intreged by the round mineral balls you utilize but don't want to upset my current success. Should I use them with neo's if I am not having any problems? Thanks
Sounds like some great tips Mark. :)
Hi, I had some of your biofilm and morillonite clay. I had so many seed shrimp(ostracods) not even netting them out was 3g at a time was keeping on top of it, and I was not overfeeding. I found they are a predatory/meat eating variety of ostracod, lost ottos, cory hastatus and hundrds of shrimplets to them. Had to strip down my shrimp tank and kill with vinegar(to dissolve the molluscs shells). They had been getting into the gills of my fish and eating them from the inside out. I now have a vendetta for ostracods! lol . How do you cope with seed shrimp in your tanks?
hey can i use the skimmer with baby shrimp in the tank, my skimmer doesnt really suck much is a cheap one atached to the hang on ?
no skimmers will kill shrimp
Mark, do you find snails are competiting for same food sources with shrimp? I am wondering if I should remove some of them. It looks like I have a small bloom of ramshorn that had popped up. I have about 15 Cherry Shrimp, in a communal tank. Thanks.
no mine are to slow, shrimp always get most of the foods
Do you also put micro fertilizer into your shrimp tank? Since plants need both macro and micro fert?
I dont anymore, there is meant to be ferts in the buffer I use I also use Mont clay
Hey Mark I’m going through your videos and I know this one was sever years ago so I understand if this doesn’t get answered. But I was wondering what are the white and gray balls that are at the bottom of the tank?
Just mineral balls that are meant to have an ionic charge but I am not sure they do, I stopped using them because the seller was tripling the supply price and my shrimp are still fine without them.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Thanks Mark. Everything is going up at an alarming rate here in the US! It’s so frustrating.
Bacter AE for the win!
Mark I have read that copper and copper sulfate is fatal to shrimp. Flourish brand plant fertilizer by Seachem claims it is safe for inverts including shrimp but on the ingredient list, it lists Copper Sulfate but in small quantities. My question is , is it safe to use in my planted red cherry shrimp tank?
Hello Mark!! Thanks 👍✔
Is the orchid fert that you use organic?
not sure actually, I dont use anything anymore though.
Thank you for the tips, very helpful!
Hey Mark..can i use a macro fertilizer for planted tank to promote the algae??
oh yes for sure
Thanks Mark..i'm gonna try it for my new Sulawesi shrimp tank 😁
Awesome video, I really enjoyed the tips. I’ve been using your powdered flake food, now I’m going to try using some of the orchid fertilizer. I do have quite a bit of alga growth.but I’d like to try a little bit more with The plant fertilizer
Hi Mark, Is it just too old video? because in the newest ones you recommend to change 10% of watter every week. besides all your aquarium setups, you showed a cycle of 4-5 weeks, not two month. so what should we do?
all different tank types and shrimp types are different and this is an old video... thie is what I do now. neocaridina 6 weeks cycle and 20%waterchange. Caridina shrimp 10% water changes and a 2 month cycle :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks Thanks :)
Great tips mark!
Are mineral stones essential? Do they not increase tds/ ph?
Second question, do commercially available airstones add minerals to the water over time?
Yes they do raise tds but its by a tiny amount , airstones I dont know about but I dont really use them because mines always block up.
Great video as always. Happy New Year
Hello Shrimp and Snails Happy NewYear my friend :)
Happy New Year, As always a very good and informative video, thanks for that Mark. All 4 tips are noted :-) (1 tip from me for 2018: For all aquarians who have the broblem with planarians, you get a greater survival rate of your shrimps if you use floating plants in the auqarium where your shrim can cling to)
ah you know my plan then ,I have just put horwart in every tank :)
Very good my friend, you know how it works. Hope all your followers can use many tips as much as possible to keep their shrimp happy longer. Thanks for another, great video mark very good work please keep it up 👍
Hi Mark, I want to try the orchid ferts in my shrimp tank but the brand you are using is not available in our country. I saw a lot of orchid ferts here but they all contain copper which I read is deadly to inverts in large doses. What do you think would be the tolerable copper content in ferts that I can use? Do the orchid ferts that you use contain copper and if yes how much does it contain? Thanks in advance.
Mines says 0.002% which is lower than the Flourish Trace stuff which has 0.0032% in it
Marks Shrimp Tanks Thank you for the reply, I'll look for the same copper content in the orchid ferts that is available here.
what do you use to add minerals back to the RO water
Salty Bee gh+ premium you can find them on facebook :)
thanks
Grate tips for us new to the hobby guys! Can you use any orkidé fertilizer... such as mirical grow?
Yes the only think you have to look out for is ammonia make sure the level is super low like on mines its 0.0028 something
Thanks again 🍻 cheers!
Yay new video!
Hey mark, do you have access to SL aqua products?
I do I have some of the stuff , what do you want to know ?
Marks Shrimp Tanks the SL aqua method of cycling has been very successful for me. If you haven’t already you should give it a try
I have a tank of cherry shrimps, and right now I am going to upgrade them into a bigger tank....so I was cycling the new tank now....so after a month of cycling, can I immediately transfer the shrimps over? or do i have to put them in a bag or container and put abit of new tank water in first like how we got from shops?
Yes you have to re drip acclimate them
Very cool tanks and super nice job at your channel. Great Mark. Thanks.
Thank you very much !!
Hey there, Great video! Thank you! I had one question about your lighting. How many hours do you generally do for that kind of growth? 6 to 8 hours a day?
I am on 8 hours of light :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks thank you!
Always great and informative information, keep up the amazing work and thanks for the info. Which of the products to you prefer for producing the bio film? I have heard of Bacterae
PureNodics Nutridust and BacterAE are what I use most of the time
Marks Shrimp Tanks thanks for the reply and I'll look into purchasing some!
Hi, sorry for my ignorance, but can someone tell me what are those white and blue balls in most of the tanks?
They are just mineral balls :)
Where can I buy the mineral balls? Are here the ones you make? I need some. (I’m in the USA).
Hello , I have the plain grey type marksshrimptanks.ecwid.com/Mineral-ball-20mm-long-lasting-mineral-release-p92224041
All the best for 2018!
Mark are you realy using reguler orchid plant food for jour tanks?
Can i use every orchid plant food for my tanks?
Yes they all should be safe but I would say use at your own risk. try really low dosing first and see how you get on :)
Lemme start by saying....well....I adore you and your tanks. You've inspired me to try a shrimp tank for myself. I have a 20 gallon cube I'm conditioning to be my shrimp tank. I've added beneficial bacteria, plant food and currently have some plants growing. It's sat running now for about 1 week. I put 1 black molly in there to 'seed' the tank. He looks healthy enough but I'm sure he's a psychotic mess by now, they like lot's of company. My question is how long should I wait before ordering my shrimp?
Hello Bebe, Normally I cycle my tanks for 2 months before adding shrimp.
I use Bactor AE, a small amount each day since my tank is relatively new. I let it cycle for about 2 1/2 months with only some mystery snails and nerites. With consistent 0/0/>5 of ammonia/nitrites/nitrates and my kh/gh/tds at decent readings, Ive added a dozen RCS. Ive only had them a couple weeks and have had 2 losses. They were sent young, as easier to adapt to new water conditions. Still waiting on my first batch of babies! Idk what kind of fertilizer that is. Do you know a US brand equivalent? I leave two sides of my tank uncleaned to allow algae to grow.
I have plenty of java moss, anubias, anucris, java fern, african fern, amazon fern and water lily. Excellent tips! Thanks!
what fertilizer ?
The one you show you just drip in. I use Seachum Flourish for the plants but for algae growth, I’m at a loss. I was also adding Flourish Excel but its also been called an algaecide. Should I stop using that? The optimum health of the shrimp are more important then plant growth.
@@Cory_Dora ah ok I used orchid ferts I think, they are just like normal ferts but really watered down, I dont use them anymore though because I use a buffer that is meant to have some ferts in it called Salty Bee Shrimp GH Premium .
Marks Shrimp Tanks ic. I use salty bee for my my gh but didnt know about the premium. Thanks.
Mark, how much per litre and how often (is it once a week) should nutra dust be used
i dose at least twice a week
How much cherry shrimp cam be kept in a 20 gallon tank?
Top Man Top Tips,, Keep um coming :)
Do you use CO2 (DIY OR Pressurised) in your shrimp tanks? Also, do you add bacteria powder in the substrate while setting up the tank? I read somwhere that we can use mulm from the filter a cycled tank in the substrate as well to provide good bacteria for tank cycling.
I dont use CO2 just because I am to lazy to keep it at the correct dosing thats required all the time, you can add bacteria to the substrate but its important that you know that the bacteria I mention in this video do different jobs, some are for under the substrate and for after water changes and some are for dietary bacteria and biofilm
Co2 kills shrimp
sorry but not in my tank it doesn't. Just have to be careful with it.
Angel Castaneda thanks. And seachem excel (
Glutaraldehyde)... Will liquid CO2 be safe for shrimps.
I have never had much luck with co2 so I would rather not take any chance and just forget about it
Hey Mark when setting up a brand new tank for shrimp do you think by adding some aquarium benifical bacteria in a 10 gallon tank would be safe for the shrimp and how much of it would I need to use for the shrimp and what do you recommend for a successful tank and how many water changes and thanks for being my number 1 goto guy on shrimp it helps and later down the road can you do a new layout on a tank setup like some cool slope on a shallow tank and one day when I get a chance I would love to come meet you my daught loves to talk about your shrimp everytime im on UA-cam she calls you shrimp uncle lol 🤣
SHRIMP UNCLE !! hahahaha LOVE IT !!, Best thing to do in regards to starting the tank is add the water and filter and then bacteria and wait for 2 months this is the safest way, also do water changes like normal in the tank 25% a week every week :)
Marks Shrimp Tanks awesome I already have a tank set up with shrimp in it but my friend was asking cus he had seen a photo my wife showed him and he love the idea of shrimp I told him to look you up and fallow you and I was telling how yo set it up with the water but now since you have given me the tip I will msg him right now and I will tel him. But can i use it for my tank the benifical bacteria when I do water changes even tho I have a tank set up for a while now with shrimp in it will it harm the shrimp and I have a few guppy fry in the tank
What about those mineral stones??? Any added benefits?????
The most imporatnt thing is understanding whats actually in your water over everything else.
@@MarksShrimpTanks I have 7.2 PH, no Nitrates or nitrites, but I do have hard water at around 200
Hi Mark, I live in hot place. and I have never success in breeding the shrimp. they keep dying. Some of them still alive but never berried.
my worst water parameter is the temperature and TDS. it's 30 C, and my tap water is around 200.
I do have a peltier chiller in 1 of my tank, and it can keep the tank around 26 C.
Do shrimp affected by high TDS? or it's just the temperature?
and Thank you for the tips! I will try adding bactery every water changes.
Your tds isnt that high but shrimp will be affected my the temperature, have you tried a fan blowing across the surface of the water ? that should help
Thank you for the reply. Yes I have tried with a fan, but it just lower the temperature by 1-2C. and I do need to top up the water more often.
I will try again with a fan in my shrimp room.
Do the shrimp breeding fine with 200 TDS? or should I buy a RO water purifier? It's expensive for me xD
I know people that have breed crystals at 300tds so your water isnt an issue :)
whoaa.. okay! Thank you so much Mark!
Can I still use liquid co2 in my shrimp tank? Thanks.
If you use a regulator then yes, if you mean diy stuff then no its too unpredictable.
Flourish excel yes. Either under dose or exact dosage. Its not necessary to dose fertilizer if you keep only low light tanks but for those who do , you dont really need to worry if you follow instructions. I does both flourish fertilizer and flourish excel. Non of my snails or 400+ red sakura shrimp died. Either under dose it or follow exact dosage. The flourish fertilizer have really low copper content 0.0005 % copper , not much but too much will kill all the invertebrates. I have a lot of plants so i need to dose fertilizer and excel, but I always under dose it and from time to time i follow instructions.
Great tips Mark,tanks look lush.Blwyddyn newydd dda(happy new year)glad i found your channel mate.👍🏽
So all those little bugs zooming around in and near the substrate you consider a good thing?
Oh yes , because if they can live so can baby shrimp ..you should be worried if you dont see alot of life in the substrate.
Good to hear, a lot of things iv read seemed to lead me to believe it was a sign of a dirty tank or bad cleaning practices.
You need to come to Virginia and get some tanks set up for me. My blue dreams are still alive........ Holding my breath.
I might do a blue dream tank, what specific problems are you having ?
Well before I met the the King of shrimp (Mark)....... I purchased 10 blue Dreams and put them into a 70 gal tank. Im two weeks in now ph is staying at 8.2 but shrimp are doing well.
BTW I'm the Deputy from Virginia.
How to make your glass tank always clear sir?
I clean the glass every week with a scotch bright type pad you know the green ones used for cleaning dishes
Thank you ^^.i like your channel!
Does the algae that you clean up stay in the tank or does the sponge bring it out? the more algae in the tank the better?
What shrimp is the most wanted or popular out of caridina
Some type of galaxy pinto I would imagine , I really like the red ones :)
Same I actually have a pinto tank and was looking into some more pintos looks like them then thankyou
How often do you do water change
10% once a week or once a fortnight :)
Thanks a lot, quite useful.
Is it essential to have much more plants in a tank, like some baby tears or so?
Wish you the best and success for 2018!
I like low light low maintenance stuff because its just easier with shrimp ,I think baby tears really need higher light to do well with ferts and CO2 or they start to float
So just regular Orchid fert will be good for your plants? And string algae is ok also?
yes I know it sounds mad but watch the other video from the world best shrimp breeder ua-cam.com/video/uTPx8k-uX4o/v-deo.html
Thank you Mark
Hi, I've got a 10gallon heavily planted cycled tank. I've added 12 red cherry shrimps. It was going good till the next week i tried a water change with gravel vaccum and a 50% water change. From then shrimps became very sluggish and I've lost many of them. One got its tail and legs turned out black when died. And others just dead. Now i got three left and they are in critical stage as one is swimming in a very uncommon manner. Like three of them lost their balance. I've seen its a bacterial infection on internet, so added oxytetracycline injection to tank as per recommended dosage. And along with it added IAL extract also.
Please help with the reason and tips for rescue.
Thanks
Hello Mohammad sorry to hear you are losing shrimp, I can see straight away what your issue is from your comment, your water changes are far to big for a shrimp tank, try going down to just 10% a week and see how you get on ..you might still lose the other shrimp but dont give up :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks thanks for the response and support.
@@MarksShrimpTanks and one more question, how frequent should i perform gravel vaccume...?
Thanks
I think I get bogged down on water quality, it occurred to me that as dead snail shells break down, they must leach Ca and other minerals into the water. Is this an issue. Perhaps you would do a video, in depth on water quality. My secondary school Chemistry knowledge is contradicting a lot of what I read online. Cheers
I does and you are correct snails produce loads of waste and the minerals to get leeched back into the tank ,I will do a water change video in a week or two :)
New sub. Good info for newbies.
Welcome Jen :)
What about temperature?
golden temps for neocaradina is 24c and 22c for caraidnia species like crystal red shrimp. Richard.
I found that string algae kills my shrimps.
How??
I've found 2 in pass 2months they get stuck and tangled in the hair algae and trapped in there..
That's what I found so I'm trying to remove these strings preventing next deaths..
I have never seen mine get stuck and I have never found a dead shrimp in it BUT i could see how it could happen.
Wow, that's odd. My shrimp breed like crazy in hair algae
it might be cyanobacteria, not algae.
Good Things xD, How Long Cycling will be Done? Assume we don't have Any Test Kit? btw, i have tested waiting and waiting about 1month exactly and put about 60++ RCS then they are die in around 3 days.
yeah unfortunately thats not long enough , a good cycle without testing is 2 months better luck next time my friends :)
Does Bacteria Starter help reduce waiting time for Nitrogen Cycling? xD
it does but its best not to rush it because you want the entire inside of the tank to be covered in biofilm
Thank you sir.
Can all leaf produce biofilm
Everything thing in the tank will naturally have a biofilm layers
Marks Shrimp Tanks oh thx i was panic because i have a lot of them
Happy new year to you too, Mark.
I'm a big fan of biofilm so you got my attention!
So I looked up the fertilizer at my local plant store. These are it's ingredients and volume:
Maybe you could tell me how they compare to yours?
So that everybody knows what to look for and how it compares to their local store products?
I bought a brand named Pokon:
5-4-7 NPK with Humic acids, plantextracts and trace elements.
2,5% nitrogen (N)
0,9% nitrate nitrogen
0,9% ammoniacal nitrogen
0,7% urea nitrogen
2% phosphoric anhydride (P2O5)
3,5% potassium oxide (K2O)
1% magnesium oxide (MgO)
micronutrients:
0,02% Boron(B) 0,004% Copper(Cu) 0,03% Iron(Fe) 0,02% manganese(Mn) 0,002% molybdenum(Mo)
0,004% Zinc(Zn)
Happy new year!! I will write down the ingredients in mine and post them when I have time to :)
Is 25% water change not to much ? Also i have been trolling through your videos to understand about a piece you have in the tank. It is a brown ceramic dish with a glass bell on top ! What is it ?
Hello John, the answer to the water change thing is just do do with how competent you are at making water ,if you use tapwater the variations from the tank can be to much thats why we recommend smaller water changes ..If you make your own water and can dial in everything like tds, ph ,gh etc you can do a much higher percentage, I regularly do 50% water changes in some tanks.
I use a RO water with SaltyShrimp GH+ For my 3 tanks, i have spotted head pints, blue bolts and then Black Panda shrimp all in thier own aquarium. I have been trying to breed them for some time now with little success will big regular water changes as you have done promote more breeding ? Great work on you videos by the way ! one more question, i summise you are scottish from your accent but where are you based ?
Also thank you for the quick reply
i just buy the bacteria need, note the key is dosage every week and alot on first time cycling it also the bateria will need food
Thank you so much for this. I've been searching for a fertilizer that's safe for shrimp & doesn't contain copper. Going to do some reading on the fertilizer you recommended. THANK YOU!
In the US you can use the Easy Green from Aquarium Coop, they don't have copper. Keep in mind that adding this will also increase your GH and TDS. Dosing also depends on your lighting and plant volume, so now you are fine tuning stuff so that algae does not get out of control. I found it easier to just not dose ferts and the plants are still growing like crazy and are algae free. My red plants even have a nice metallic reddish to them. I have used cutting from my one tank to set up a second tank and it also cut down the cycle time in half. Most rooted plants will get what they need from the substrate itself, but if you have a lot of moss or anubius that rely on the water column then ferts might help but are still not necessary.
Trunks 😊
Anyone in US know what fertilizer I can buy and how to dilute it!
Florida Guppy Mama i had the same question
I didn’t know I was subed to you
Thx
After spending one year and many dollars keeping shrimp I have decided to throw in the towel and give up. I have bought literally hundreds of shrimp and placed them in my tanks but within a week or a bit more most or all are gone. No trace of them. My tanks are liberally planted and perhaps I just do not see the bodies but they are not there when I feed or any other time. C'est la vie but I give up. Mark, many thanks for your patience and assistance. I really do appreciate your time.
I have a feeling you will dabble in shrimp again :)
May I ask how you determine how much fertilizer to add into the tank?
I dont use it anymore, the buffer I use now has trace amounts of ferts in it
...actually mine would be slow drip water changes. Think you did a video on that and it’s really helped the survival rate in my tank.
hi mark, I want to ask you something.
after my shrimp dead, it release some small living organisms inside it dead body
and my questions, what animal is that?
that could be anything,Its one of those things where I would need to see it
it look like this, and move like an ant but more faster
bit.ly/2DcVU37
So you eat these shrimp?
No I dont
Hi
You say let the tank cycle for 2 months, what happens if you don't wait that long? We talking stone dead shrimp the next morning or just slower growth and breeding? Also ive never had stuff crawling around in my tanks like that....fish health and longevity is fine so water cant be that bad. What does this mean?
the longer the cycle the more the proper bacterial colonies that do different things will be established, I was just saying in my stream that I dont think 2 months is enough because none of my tanks really start to thrive until the 4-6 month mark. In a shrimp tank its different regarding seeing microfauna the more you see the higher the survival rate will be of baby shrimp :)
Like your Norway and Scotland flags i had same in old house family from Norway but live in Scotland are you Norwegian or your family? Lol might have same name
No I am Scottish, I moved here about a decade ago for love but it didnt work out so I moved back home to Scotland ..and then I moved here myself permanently because I loved the place ...and because I was offered a job hahaha
I'm not using RO so for me it's slooooowwww water changes.
1st!!
Free Scotland !