We discovered marks aquatics couple weeks ago. We been binge watching ever since. We never wanted shrimps but deffo want to get some after watching you they are amazing little things. Thanks Mark. We also wanna have go at building a bench tank. You are an insperation and brilliant money saving tips. We also wanna make a living wall background. thanks Mark.
MARK'S AQUATICS I looks dead like the river Leven up here in Scotland Mark. It runs out from Loch Lomond and into the Clyde estuary. Not a bad little river. Really good for the sea trout as well. Thanks for the reply.👍
You inspired me i set up a tank once i started watch your videos just for shrimp today i got 3 yellows,2 cherry reds and 1 crystal red only have em in a 2.5 gallon for now may setup Bigger later or build my own
WOW that's awesome what a great job ! I have a river and a lake next to my house I never thought to get river rock's . That's an awesome idea 💡 🐓 🐔🐣🐣🐣🐤🐤🐤 👍
Had a bit of a scare yesterday with some rocks I was cleaning. I like to get all my scaping stuff from the river or the beach, I then test them with vinegar and descaler, rinse them thoroughly and boil them before adding them to my aquarium. While I was boiling some little rocks from the beach yesterday I noticed a funky smell, went in to check and immediately started feeling dizzy. One of the rocks from the beach contained tar... I immediately put the pot out and emptied it and opened all the windows but it took me a good hour to stop feeling kinda drugged. It's all good now but it's a pity I cannot use all the rocks I had in that pot as some of them I really liked. I think I will stick to the ones from the river from now on like you do :)
Has anyone seen any videos about how vampire/ giant African shrimp breed? I'm curious because I only recently learned about the caridina/ neocaridina life cycle and now I'm looking at my giant shrimp thinking how did you guys get here? (In the world I mean, they got to me via pets at home 👍)
Awesome tank! My tank is still cloudy 1 week after introducing guppies and my shrimp, do I need to use something to clear it up or will it go away on it’s own? Ive been testing the water religiously and it’d at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate.
It looks cool sir give me an idea but my tank but my 20 gallon tank I’ve got ghost shrimp in it and plan on getting me more. Do you have any advice for me about ghost shrimp?
Yes!!! that is a fabulous job you gave me some good ideas because I have those washed river rocks for years in my backyard now I know what to do with him thanks looks real good! 💙👍🏽
I'm very impressed by the hydroelectric dam and would love to fish that river for the barbel! Vlad's tank looks much better now! I had to laugh at the speeded up bit, where everything in the tank was going mad... but Vlad just sat in the corner and never moved... lol
Hi Mark. Some help if you have time. I got 2 bamboo shrimp which went in with cherries. One died after a week and the other today. I moved the second one to a faster flowing tank with rabbit and trumpet snails because I thought maybe he wasn't getting enough food. What am I doing wrong. Have also ended up putting 2 neons in with cherries due to worms for the second time even though I feed them very little. Don't seem to be having much luck. Help.
Hi Debra. Bamboo shrimp need frequent feeding as their food is very small . they need high flow areas to go to to feed. I feed Vlad a mix of crushed fish flake and spirulina and put it in the flow so it despersis around the tank so he can strain in out of the water. Make sure the worms are not planaria ok.
Awesome as always Mark. Would have loved to see the Salmon and tagging traps.... but I bet they were shut down this time of year. [**sigh**] Maybe next year.
Mark, it looks perfect for Vlad and his gripping claws, it will be so much easier for him to get around his tank now. I'm sure he will forgive soon, for invading his palace. :) I would kill for this in my living room! lol! Thank you for showing us the river, quite beautiful.
Ohh really ive been to the store located at Dartford, but it was quite empty in term of fish but they had great food special packs x 5 for all types of fish
Tank looks great mark,Vlad is a legend,i think that's the river Taff if I'm correct,since the pits are closed my local river,Ebbw is pristine clear and healthy,great video mark,my fav channel 👍🏽
I love what your doing, and especially your creativity, I am wondering if you could help me with some ideas, what can be done with a collection of wine corks that was given to me, I have two shopping bags full. I am excited to hear from you, what you can come up with. Thanks. R.B.
I can’t believe I paused the PS4 to watch this... looks like this takes the top spot for entertainment for me !! Love the tank. Don’t you vinegar test stones to see if they are alkaline? And you didn’t sterilise
A good old scrub in tank water is all I do, and in all my years of fish keeping never had a problem. And the stone we get in the river here is a mixture of granite, pennant sand stone which are all ok. But that's a good thing you bought up about vinegar testing stone's in your area.👍😀
Incredible Tank!
Love that river, cool place to gather pebbles from. My Gastromyzon would love that set up!
That looks cool! I want a Vlad now!
Another great video thanks Mark
That's a good looking tank. The wavemaker is pretty cool, as well.
Great content!
BillMc89 Thank you 😀🖒
Lemon is so cute inspecting the fish tank
Looks really good. Love the natural look.
What a great tank Vlad has now, 🌱it looks very good just like a river bed🌱🌿
Cheers Paul :)
We discovered marks aquatics couple weeks ago. We been binge watching ever since. We never wanted shrimps but deffo want to get some after watching you they are amazing little things. Thanks Mark. We also wanna have go at building a bench tank. You are an insperation and brilliant money saving tips. We also wanna make a living wall background. thanks Mark.
Hi David. Thanks for watching. :)
God how I love nature!
Looks like the local salmon river I fish Mark. I doubt it is right enough lol. Good video btw!👍
Rab Anderson It's the river Taff .
MARK'S AQUATICS I looks dead like the river Leven up here in Scotland Mark. It runs out from Loch Lomond and into the Clyde estuary. Not a bad little river. Really good for the sea trout as well.
Thanks for the reply.👍
Me and the wife love it up there. Next time we're up your neck of the woods we should hook up for a bit of fishing. 😀🎣
MARK'S AQUATICS Sounds like a good plan to me Mark.👍 nearly Salmon season again up here. Never done much last season. So have to make up for it.
The tank looks really good, I love those rocks!👍
Vlad is awesome! I like to collect rocks from our area to use in our tanks. It's a lot of fun.
You inspired me i set up a tank once i started watch your videos just for shrimp today i got 3 yellows,2 cherry reds and 1 crystal red only have em in a 2.5 gallon for now may setup Bigger later or build my own
Excellent stuff. 👍😀
WOW that's awesome what a great job !
I have a river and a lake next to my house I never thought to get river rock's .
That's an awesome idea 💡 🐓 🐔🐣🐣🐣🐤🐤🐤 👍
Had a bit of a scare yesterday with some rocks I was cleaning. I like to get all my scaping stuff from the river or the beach, I then test them with vinegar and descaler, rinse them thoroughly and boil them before adding them to my aquarium. While I was boiling some little rocks from the beach yesterday I noticed a funky smell, went in to check and immediately started feeling dizzy. One of the rocks from the beach contained tar... I immediately put the pot out and emptied it and opened all the windows but it took me a good hour to stop feeling kinda drugged. It's all good now but it's a pity I cannot use all the rocks I had in that pot as some of them I really liked. I think I will stick to the ones from the river from now on like you do :)
Glad your ok. Beach stones can contain diesel and oil also.
Noted I think I have learned my lesson :)
Has anyone seen any videos about how vampire/ giant African shrimp breed? I'm curious because I only recently learned about the caridina/ neocaridina life cycle and now I'm looking at my giant shrimp thinking how did you guys get here? (In the world I mean, they got to me via pets at home 👍)
Awesome tank! My tank is still cloudy 1 week after introducing guppies and my shrimp, do I need to use something to clear it up or will it go away on it’s own? Ive been testing the water religiously and it’d at 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 10 nitrate.
It looks cool sir give me an idea but my tank but my 20 gallon tank I’ve got ghost shrimp in it and plan on getting me more. Do you have any advice for me about ghost shrimp?
thanks Mark
Yes!!! that is a fabulous job you gave me some good ideas because I have those washed river rocks for years in my backyard now I know what to do with him thanks looks real good! 💙👍🏽
I'm very impressed by the hydroelectric dam and would love to fish that river for the barbel!
Vlad's tank looks much better now! I had to laugh at the speeded up bit, where everything in the tank was going mad... but Vlad just sat in the corner and never moved... lol
That's beautiful :)
great job mark vlad is so cool bet he loves his new home
He sure does. :)
Hi Mark. Some help if you have time. I got 2 bamboo shrimp which went in with cherries. One died after a week and the other today. I moved the second one to a faster flowing tank with rabbit and trumpet snails because I thought maybe he wasn't getting enough food. What am I doing wrong. Have also ended up putting 2 neons in with cherries due to worms for the second time even though I feed them very little. Don't seem to be having much luck. Help.
Hi Debra. Bamboo shrimp need frequent feeding as their food is very small . they need high flow areas to go to to feed. I feed Vlad a mix of crushed fish flake and spirulina and put it in the flow so it despersis around the tank so he can strain in out of the water. Make sure the worms are not planaria ok.
Thank you and whatever the worms were they neons have eaten them.
Good old Neon's . :)
just a quick question Mark, what do you use to remineralise your shrimp tanks?GH/KH or just GH? Thanks in advance
:)
Hi . I use salty shrimp bee GH+ 👍😀
MARK'S AQUATICS thanks so much for getting back. Do You use that for your neos aswell?
How big will Vlad get? Or is he full grown?
maybe another inch.
Do you feed your shrimp something extra? It is massive.
Gamma radiation. Only joking! Just crushed fish food and spirulina :)
Thnx going to try that
Awesome as always Mark. Would have loved to see the Salmon and tagging traps.... but I bet they were shut down this time of year. [**sigh**] Maybe next year.
Cheers John. Sadly the salmon trap is closed to the public, but if I'm down there and the guys are doing a tag I'll try and get in and show you.
I'd love to see a large branching driftwood running from the upper back left corner down to a thinner end at the front right.
Mark, it looks perfect for Vlad and his gripping claws, it will be so much easier for him to get around his tank now. I'm sure he will forgive soon, for invading his palace. :) I would kill for this in my living room! lol! Thank you for showing us the river, quite beautiful.
+Hilblue Thank you . He's been out for a walk this morning 😀
Very nice Vlad is lovely and I like the Endlers Mark were they all females??. And Lemon has grown up so so much I liked seeing him as well. 👍🏻👍🏻⭐️⭐️
Yes lots of females. Vlad's clean up crew. Lemon has shot up over the last few weeks. moody teenager :)
Is Vlad a big shrimp cud u do a video of a close up of him plz thanks
Yes he is. he's a giant african fan shrimp.
I'll do a update on him soon ok.
Vlad some cool pet :D, where did you acquire it from ?
From Maidenhead aquatics. 👍😀
Ohh really ive been to the store located at Dartford, but it was quite empty in term of fish but they had great food special packs x 5 for all types of fish
Tank looks great mark,Vlad is a legend,i think that's the river Taff if I'm correct,since the pits are closed my local river,Ebbw is pristine clear and healthy,great video mark,my fav channel 👍🏽
You are right sir! The water is very clean now. :)
LEMMMOOOOON😸
I love what your doing, and especially your creativity, I am wondering if you could help me with some ideas, what can be done with a collection of wine corks that was given to me, I have two shopping bags full.
I am excited to hear from you, what you can come up with.
Thanks. R.B.
+Rivka Buchinger Hi Rivka. You could make make some cool floating avatar rocks covered in plants and moss. 😉🖒
The wife and I think Castle Vania is perfect for Vlad.
+Professor Aquaria Thank you. 😀🖒
I can’t believe I paused the PS4 to watch this... looks like this takes the top spot for entertainment for me !! Love the tank. Don’t you vinegar test stones to see if they are alkaline? And you didn’t sterilise
A good old scrub in tank water is all I do, and in all my years of fish keeping never had a problem. And the stone we get in the river here is a mixture of granite, pennant sand stone which are all ok. But that's a good thing you bought up about vinegar testing stone's in your area.👍😀