How to Acclimate Freshwater Shrimp [Beginner Shrimp Keeping]
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2019
- Acclimating shrimp is one of the most crucial aspects to making sure shrimp survive in your aquariums. When you receive shrimp in the mail or from the fish store, there a 6 steps to make sure that those shrimp live in your aquarium and do not die during the transition period (30 days). It is very important to acclimate shrimp correctly or the stress can easily induce molting which could lead to death.
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Hey Rob great video. At the end of a acclimation would it be necessary to add some stress coat plus to the tank and turn the lights off for stress? Also I sent you some emails with questions Thank you so much Rob!
This is a huge help! Thank you!!!
thank you, subbed
Thank u for the vid just got into shrimp and I'm moving from ten g to 29g and needed to know how I could minimize losses
Hi!
Can you do a video on treating planaria with panacur c the dog dewormer please?
Good info, Bag in water for half hour, release into tank, never had a problem but I'm sure the real way as you demostrate is 100% foolproof
That's how I do
Yeah I had two black rili I did this with die 2 and 4 days later after I did this but I think they were sick at petsmart already. I just got 7 amanos and I did the half hour in the bag thing and now I’m scared I did it wrong 😅 I’m about to run to the store and get kits to test my water hardness and all that and I’m hoping my shrimp will stay healthy
@@ava_radio988 tbf it’s neocaridina that need harder water, not caridina
When your shrimp cost $25 per shrimp, you don’t want to take that risk.
Thank you so much!!! This is so helpful for a beginner!!😄
I love how detailed this video was. I just placed an order through you guys and I’m excited to receive my shrimp and snails! 😃
I’m excited to get my first shrimp!! This video was super informative and helpful content. Thank you!!!
Just ordered dip and pour and 3D net. Im a long time fish keeper so the acclimation part i knew but definitely found some new items to assist the job. Thank you, keep up the GREAT WORK!
Great Video, my shrimp andMerrah's show up today, I can not wait!!! thanks for the video!
Thanks for the great video!
I'm so glad I found this video and your channel! I've been planning on buying shrimp from Flip Aquatics for a while now, but my tank is still doing a fishless ammonia cycle, so I'm trying to research how to set up for my shrimp while I wait. Getting resources and tips directly from the source of my future shrimp is exactly what I need! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video. I am now on round 2 of trying to care for shrimp, (the first time I made a lot of ignorant mistakes) and I am just now finding out about the 4 degree rule. I hope my 5 Neocaridina shrimp acclimated well and will begin to thrive in their new home, a fully natural planted tank!!
Getting a dropper and better net seems to be a move.
watching in prep for my cherry shrimp coming this week!
amazing video. tysm 🥰
That's a really good point about the hang on tank bin and the siphon. That would definitely simplify things in a busy situation!
Missed the opportunity to say "shrimplify" things😂🤣😂🤣
See dead shrimp: add water conditioner immediately, then remove dead shrimp.
Fast temperature changes causes shrimp molt: always acclimate.
Got it.
Literally
Cool video. I dripped the shrimp i got from you for about 2 hours at 1 drop a second and all my shrimp survived and are still doing good 👍 thanks Flip
Thank you for this video! I just got my neos in. They are so cute. I’ll have to just get one more tank for only shrimp. Last tank...I swear.
Great job
Sweet info.
As an option, we use an aeon forehead laser thermometer that has a surface setting to test tank temps.
I watched all 3 of the beginner videos very informative I love the way you made all easier to understand thank you 🙏
Awesomeness. I've been wanting to branch out to shrimp keeping. Thanks so much for the advice.
Really, been at this for 40 yrs. This video is for O.C.D. aquariest, I float for 1/2 hr., add 1 tablespoon of tank water, when you 1st float, then every 10 minutes, total
Is your method effective for cherry shrimp?
@@DalalGaming 50/50, I'm new with Ghost Shrimp, but I'm on my 3rd litter and it's gets easier and more healthy. But I still need more tips on these Ghost Shrimps, before I even think about Cherry Shrimp. As far as tropical fish, both fresh and salt, 95% success and I'm being modest, for I too have a few tricks and tips to share, including how to bring back to life, freshly died off fish, haven't seen anyone talk about this subject yet. But 40+ years as an Aquariest, I've been through almost all worst case scenarios, but I love watching this channel, because John is honest and speaks the truth. This is a full time job, not just a hobby. I have 4 tanks and a 23.5" pleco in a 20 gallon tank, I'm bummed about it, but it wasn't my fault and he's 4yrs old. I'll be making my channel public in June. Please advise me on not to overfeed my Shrimp, they seem picky more than they are scavengers.? ✌
@@nbdsafetysolutions.7892 Is your fish channel up?
Hello from Chicago Illinois 💚 💛 💙
I just done this with a bunch of river glass shrimp I bought for my turtle. Now I have a shrimp tank because I can bring myself to feed them. I’m amazed I bought them in salt water and managed to acclimate 18 out of 20
That’s nice
Nice
Thanks for knowledge, bought some shrimp (so excited) and could not quite get/understand how the drip acclamation principle worked. Bought shrimp (some months ago), but was ignorant about them (they looked cool in the store) and just floated them in bag for 1 hour - and they died within a week. Thanks for knowledge.
Thanx bro ,I m planning to make my 55 gallon tank into shrimp tank
Thank you for all of your instructional videos. I have learned everything I know shrimp from you. I have a question. Can you put cherry shrimp with tiger shrimp without them cross breeding? I would love to have multiple colored shrimp in the same tank. I am in the process of setting up a 20 gal just for shrimp. Thank you. John
Love this video thankyou, Can you keep shrimp with angel fish?
Thank you for that video it's good to know these details.. May I just ask why you don't put plants in the shrimp's tank? Thanks
Its funny, I just take 50/50 water from the other fish tank, wait an hour and chet the ph level, once everything is looking good I’ll just let them swim out if the bag themself… not lost a singel shrimp yet.. and that’s after a bumpy ride for a few hours from Sweden and across the border
Bro.... neck strap monopod.... trust me. If you're shooting your own videos, it will free up your hands. You're pretty resourceful, so I'm sure if you can't find one, you could make one. That way you won't have to put down your camera when you, say, cut open your bag.
Rhanks for sharing the knowledge btw. Still waiting for the turn of the year to start my build for my plywood & you will be my main source for inverts. Love this channel. Quality content brother, as always....✊🏾
Very clear, concise information. Thank you so much!
Just got my order thanks so much everyone is alive .. the 2 bamboo are still hiding but hope to see them soon. The blue shrimp are beautiful thanks so much
Great guide except for the whole temperature thing. A lot of us have tropical aquariums where the water is significantly warmer than room temperature. So the whole leave the bag out to reach the temperature you want doesn’t work for many of us. But you also said don’t float the container in the water so how the hell would I raise the temperature then? I just bought shrimp online from flip aquatics so I am trying to learn the best way to acclimate but that seems like a pretty big thing to just not mention.
I used a under tank reptile heat pad to heat the shrimp container.
Hello, do i need to put shrimp bacteria powder before i can put in the shrimp?
Your water temperature was very similar between the tank and bag. How do you acclimate if you're going to room tempersture of about 65 and tank temperature of 77? I would think the catch cup on the outside of the tank would and the slow drip would not warm the water to the tank temperature.
Can we use seachem amguard in shrimp bag to detoxify ammonia
The "always reach out to the company" works a lot of the time however i recently had a horrible time with one company. Fedex ran 48 hours late. Once my shrimp got here they were all dead. Took pictures and sent them to the company. They have a 7 day money back thing. This company waited till 11pm on day 6 to tell us we needed different pictures because "The pictures you took still had water meaning our customer service cant verify completely". Needless to say that was a lot of money spent on dead shrimp. Purchased from a different company and they showed up live and healthy. Just had my first babies start popping out of the tank. Currently setting up a new tank so in a month or so imma give flip a try. Anything is better than the first company.
Can you say which company so I can avoid them?
@@FilmDragons live aquaria.
@@InfuriousCoffee oh yea those guys are bad. Sorry for your loss man
@@FilmDragons learned my lesson thats for sure. Havent ordered anything from them since. Not even frozen foods
What brand of breather bags do you recommend for transport?
I added bamboo and ghost shrimp in the tank 4 days ago. While the ghost shrimp are active and normal, the bamboo shrimp are just hanging by the filter but I don't see them eating. At least one molted at the bottom but came back up. Should I be concerned?
Well I bought your acclimation kit. And I bought the dipping pool (same one you link to). It just doesn't work with the dipping pool hanging on the side like that. You kind of completely skip over the part where you set it up and get it hanging just right, but I'm guessing it has to be oh-so-perfect, or the water levels become too close, and suction won't occur. Whatever. I put the dipping pool on a stand next to the tank, about a foot below the tank's water level, and now it's working, sort of.
Good thing I was testing it with snails, first. I'm a ways away from adding shrimp yet.
Whats the difference between your fish aquriums and the tubs u keep?
Very useful tips.... noob here. 🙂
What to do when my ambient/room temp is 65 but my aquarium is 78-80?
Do you recommend quarantining the shrimp?
So I live in a temperate climate and have to heat my tanks, so I temp acclimate by floating the bag. My question is how do I then drip acclimate while maintaining the temperature as my room is cooler than the tank?
What if my room temperature is colder than the tank? My room temp is about 63, while the tank is 75. Right now the water the shrimp are in in their transition bowls are 79. So wouldn't leaving them out 4 hours make them cold, and further from the temperature we need?
Hi guys, I just placed my shrimp order through your company! :) I'm looking forward to my first Flip Aquatics delivery! Do you consider Amano Shrimp to be nocturnal? Do they do better in darkened tanks? I have a drip acclimation system for new fish and shrimp. Excellent presentation and thumbs up of course!
Just curious, can Amano shrimp be kept in cold water?
@@seanflynn8467 nope... they need 64 to 80 deg. F with optimal temp being 76 deg. F.
@@FrederickDunn okay thankyou very much, do you recommend any cold water algae eaters
@@seanflynn8467 Definitely Hillstream Loaches
I had no idea that shrimp were that sensitive to the slightest changes. It's not as complicated, I'm sure. But I bought 10 shrimp and just did the first couple of steps then put them straight into tank... they still look alive, but they just seem to be hiding out in the grass... I how they're ok😮😊
Where have you buy your fish net:)?
Such a coincidence, I just received blue dreams!
Thank you so much for this! Even while drip-acclimating for 30 mins, the first three months of trying to introduce shrimp to my tank I’d lose them within 3 days due to molting failures and never understood what was wrong. Never thought about the temperature being an issue!
I do live in a cold climate where my fish room ambient temperature will never get close to the temperature inside my tank. Is there another way to slowly warm the bag up than just leaving it out and hoping it gets close?
I'd imagine 30 minutes might be a little too quick. try to slow the drip so that it's ready in 3-6 hours instead?
Excellent video and service. Good bless you all.
love ya rob, keep on shrimpin'
Question 😬... I know you don't recommend using the same water the shrimp came in but what if a female shrimp you received had baby shrimp in transport 👀😬 i saw a few but they're really hard to see
Just me, sitting here, waiting for my shrimpies to drip acclimate in their gallon bucket. :P
can i float the shrimps in my aquarium to adjust the temperature slowly? Because most aquarium stores in my country always come with a normal plastic bag with oxygen inside
Same with my country (Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹) getting certain things can be expensive 😅
Same in Canada.
Yes you can float the bag so it slowly adjusts to the tank temperature.
I now use an empty 2L container, dump the bag with shrimp in, drain some water so there’s about only 150-250ml of the original shrimp water. Then drip acclimate them in the 2L container until it’s almost full. Now you can dump it all into the tank.
If you don’t have an airline valve tie a knot in airline tubing or punch the tubing with a small clamp until you get about 3 drops/second.
@@ruidadgmailcanada8508 I think floating the bag is only an issue if it's one of those silky-feeling air-breathing bags. Floating one of those cuts off the shrimp's O2 source. I don't see an issue with floating a regular plastic bag or just pour them into one of those dip things and hang it on the inside water side of the aquarium instead of the outside. With a rock in it if it wants to float.
@@claudeclawsonne4510update: I’m now just netting my shrimp from 1 tank into another with 0-acclimation.
Didn’t check any parameters and put 2 blue neos in with my reds.
I didn’t see the 2 test blues for a few days, but no corpses. A week later there they were munching away so now I’m catching the rest of my blues and putting them together.
I had a 3rd tank of yellow neos but they weren’t as hardy and died off…I think that tank went acidic from over feeding. 😢
I’m thinking the general shock of being caught, transported and dumped into new surroundings is the worst part for them. Less is more with shrimp.
@@ruidadgmailcanada8508 Well it is quite a different thing moving fish or shrimp or anything else from a tank in your own home to another tank in your own home. Unless you've done something to deliberately make the tans differ from one another, creating water that's harder or softer than normal, all the tans in your home should all be the same water parameters, temperature etc. and shrimp will only need acclimatizing if the temperatures differ from one tank to another. At most you might want to float them a bit but generally I lun mine in and out of different tanks in my house no problem. But if I travel an hour from home and pick them up at a swap meet r something then I definitely do a drip for an hour or so.
I ordered some cherry shrimp and I have water conditioner for fish will that work in place of what you put in the acclamation kit?
Yes it will.
What is the hardest shrimp to get
Japonica in my opinion (Amano)
Thanks for the info. Waiting for my first shrimp from you guys. Can't wait.
Thank you for all your help!!!
They are so cute, Great video Rob! 🦐
can river shrimp breed in aquarium???
He I guess bro if it’s like natural environment
Keep it up !! Nice job !!
So, even if I see dead shrimp in the bag, last step of acclimation is by drip acclimation?Not plop and drop?
That part was so he could sell you something. Just remove the live ones and you’ll be okay. A little ammonia on a shrimp will wash right off when you put him in the tank.
Anyone know the survival % of mailed live shrimp?
Our survival rate is close to 100%. We send one extra for every ten shrimp bought just in case though.
Great vid Rob, thanks for the info!
Just ordered some shrimp from you guys, this video was so helpful, so excited for my shrimp!
Perfect timing! I just ordered my first shrimp from you last week. Very excited for my Fantasy Blue shrimp to arrive!
I don't have a thermometer ☹️
great video did you no that shrimp dinner contains copper in it ??
Great info. We used this video to acclimate 4 shrimp 2 yellow and 2 cherry shrimp. They were put into a tank with Guppies, neon tetras, 2 otocinclus and 2 snails. They all died out within a month. The water was within parameters heavily planted and multiple driftwood and caves for them to hide. They were bigger shrimp and were not afraid of the fish. We would drop algea wafers and almond leaves for them. We love these shrimps but scared to buy more because they end up dying. Any idea what could cause them to die?
Current readings
Temp 79°
Iron 0
Copper 0.5
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
GH 50
Chlorine 0
Alkalinity 80
Carbonate (kh) 80
Ph 6.8
TDS 100
Sorry for your loss by the looks of this comment section he's not going to answer u I don keep shrimp so can't help sadly but u should search marks shrimp tanks and ask him I'm sure he'll help you
Thanks
Hi there from Germany, they might have died because they are from different tribes. When shrimps are in an Aquarium, they develop certain bacteria depending on the individual bacteria in this aquarium. So one tribe of Cherry shrimp for example in one Aquarium might therefore be able to tolerance bacteria A, but another tribe of blue shrimp are in a different aquarium and therefore they have a tolerance for bacteria B.
If you now put shrimps from these two tribes together in one aquarium, the cherry shrimp will now be confronted with the bacteria from the blue shrimp and vise versa. Now unfortunately in the worst case, all of them will die, because their immune system does not know the bacteria from the other tribe. That is one of the reasons why you only put one tribe into the aquarium.
You can however try to prevent the deaths if you want different tribes:
- huge waterchange (80%) in the aquarium where they should get in before you put them in (its about lowering the germ density)
- humic substances in the water (lowerinf germ density)
- really slowly acclimation with the aquarium water, best over hours
One note: if they die because of the bacteria from other tribes, they do not need to die on an instance - it can take some weeks. Also there can only be one tribe dieing and one survivng.
In Germany ist called "Bakterielle Unverträglichkeit (BU)" or "Kreuzverkeimung" but I couldn't find the English term 😊
@EKGsandPianoKeys I'm glad you liked the word and found the comment useful! 😊
Shrimp can't have copper
I do this to acclimate all my fish.
The temperature method won't work if your tank and room temperature are way too much different, example tank with chiller in a hot countries. Drip acclimate wise is good.
Agreed! there are plenty of exception. Now for the every day shrimp hobbyist that has never had shrimp, they need a starting place and this is as easy as it comes. I'll be doing another video on it to talk about issues addressed here.
Thanks, as a novice, I appreciate the information.
Jim
It's important to read and understand the terms of "DOA" (Dead On Arrival) which your chosen distributor honors for your order because you will often be required to photograph any deceased livestock while they are still in the sealed bag/container they arrived in and may also be expected in some cases to pay for additional shipping/handling on replacement orders. This is also the first time I've seen a "breather bag" (I'm new to the hobby) so with such an opaque surface it could be key to also have access to a camera which can capture detail in good quality pictures in the event that some of your new shrimp don't make it.
Great video flip team. Nice to see you go back to your roots with an updated version. If I get another little fluval tank for Christmas I'm getting some crystal reds from you. I've only ever kept neocaridina.
Awesome!
I was on the fence about who to order my shrimp from. Not any longer, your video was so Informative and on point every step of the way. I will be ordering very soon. Thank you for the great content and Inspiration you give. God Bless you and Flip Aquatics.
Thank you!
This question is not about acclimating but I wanted to ask you if you think that Scuds can be harmful to shrimp?
I got some flame and christmas moss for my shrimp and now my aquarium is full of scuds :(
why such a deep tank for shrimp??
They like to climb out of the tank and will escape if there is a hole that they can fit through.
Thank you Rob. This does answer my questions for shrimp. I am hoping one day to dip my toe into shrimp keeping.
yall ever have to siphon the water on top of a pool cover, not fun business, we had a tube that was about 3 inches in diameter, and dear god it would take about an hour of the hardest suck a man can deliver. usually resulting in me almost dying on swamp pool water inhalation followed by me spewing out my daily nutrition. well good to say this year we finally found a better system
There's definitely dead shrimp in both bags 😂
Thanks
I do a lot of these acclimation methods myself, great info Rob! I need some of those black 🌹 shrimp and give mine a boost.
Thanks for the tips what kind of food would you recommend for your shrimp
i used boiled egg.plant and or other veggies
Would Prime or more common "newbie" detoxifiers/ dechlorinators neutralize ammonia at a comparable level to ACCR?
Let them wiggle their way out after temperature and no dumplings
I want to try shrimp but I don’t want hurt or kill them so I don’t even try right now hopefully I will i the future.when I learn more about them
There a lot of good resources out there for basic shrimp care, but from my understanding, two of the most important things to know about starting shrimp are: water quality and water temperature. If you decide to order shrimp online, read everything about the handling process for the distributor you'd like to purchase from and find any reviews you can for them through Google or ask in a Facebook group for recommendations. Some Petco stores will get new orders of shrimp weekly and may also take order requests, so if you live near one, I recommend calling their aquatics department or asking in person.
I'm sure I'll get hate for this but I've always just dumped them in and I've never had a shrimp die. I mean I have had random shrimp deaths every now and then but only like one at a time and never due to them not acclimating. I'm not saying you don't need to acclimate that I'm just saying I've been lucky.
mmm tasty aquarium water
Lol yep, I've done it sucking on the end of that darn tube. Nasty. Thought I was going to flip out! Get it, flip aquatics? Ok bad joke.
you gotta be fast
Hella dope! Question, is there any type of nano fish that is safe to keep with shrimp
Jr Flores yes tetra and danios
The only fish I don't see eating baby shrimp are otocinclus. I've seen tetras and danios eat them. And guppies.
August Vukosovich Yes but all you need is plants and hiding places for them to molt.
faster!
That was great and very informative! I have some shrimp arriving tomorrow and wanted to refresh my approach to a proper acclimating process! I will order from you guys next for sure!
That was hands down the best acclimation video I've seen. Step by step. Most people skip steps and just tell you what to do but I'm new so I don't know what they are talking about! Thanks so much for this amount of detail.
Great job guys! 🙌
Awesome. Really thorough description. My future shrimps say thank you.
When you have a normal bag of shrimp with no deaths, should you still leave the shrimp in a separate container for hours? Or does it depend on the temperature more?
Dead or not. Drip acclimation and temperature acclimation are important