*_Thank you all for watching!_* Everything we talked about in the video you can find a link to it in the description of this video. If I missed anything, drop a comment below and I'm happy to help! Check out all of our [Beginner Shrimp Keeping] guides and more here: ua-cam.com/play/PLkj2jEAp8whm7j0-vd13y1iv2SrE-Z8zI.html
Thank you!!! Had a beautiful colony of carbon rili.... until I got covid. I wasn't able to do a water change for almost 2 months the first time I got covid a year ago, and luckily I had a very stable aquarium and plenty of plants, so everyone did well. This past episode with covid also included a 26 hour power outage. I don't know if there was a temp change, or if it was low oxygen levels in the tank. I lost the whole colony😔
Seriously the cutest little ball of yellow shrimpers I've seen!! I'm on my journey back into fish keeping and am psyched about these interesting little creatures!
I wonder sometimes if we treat them too pristine. They never get an immune and environmental workout to become more robust. Thank you by the way. This is one of the most thorough informational.
They have very primitive Immune system that means their bodies never “learn” to fight diseases and they can get sick back to back. The best thing is just to not make big changes in any parameters.
@@saharamoon. I tried keeping red cherries on my tap water but they werent thriving and just slowly dieing. I recenty bought an ro filter and started using re mineralised water and have not had any deaths for now but its been a week so it may be to soon to say anything for sure. I use denerle shrimp king salt.
Wow, I learnt something alright. Shrimp/prawns are high maintenance! I will never take it for granted the next time I see another shrimp how much effort it took to grow that shrimp.😊
Super grateful for this video because I'm planning on getting my very first ever neocarina shrimp within the next month or two and I'm soaking up all the info I can well in advance. In fact, I found your UA-cam channel via your website because I actually plan to get shrimp from y'all! The Fantasy Blue Dream shrimp are calling my name!! ;)
My public water supply story: I have a betta fish that once jumped out of his tank, and fortunately I found him in time to save him and he's still alive here a year later, but at the time I wasn't regularly testing water from the tap when I did water changes - I did that the first few times, found my tap water was consistently a pH of 7.0 and figured that was good and didn't test again. Until my betta's land expedition. Testing the water in the tank immediately afterwards saw a very high pH, so I went to the tap and saw the water from the tap was also well above 7.0, so culprit found, lesson learned. I never did figure out why the country was sending out high pH water (obviously still within safe parameters for humans, but not so good for bettas...), but it can and will happen.
100%! This happens more than most think. We have a video going out Thursday talking about this exact issue. Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you were able to save your fishy friend!
Glad to see you making videos again Rob! I learned almost everything about shrimp keeping from your channel and now I have 15+ shrimp only tanks. Keep it up and looking forward to what's to come!
Thank you so much. I have wanted to add shrimp to my 75 gallon tank but I don't think it would be advisable after watching this video. I do have lots of plants but I do water changes that may be too much after what you said in the video. I am thinking about doing planted nano tank and would love to add shrimp. I might try after it is up and running for awhile. I thank you for all of this information and hope customer service will be able to direct me with the best shrimp to go with when the tank is ready. And I did take notes
Wish I would have watched this before I bought a bunch of cardenia shrimp. Needless to say I no longer have any cardenia shrimp. In the process of getting the right stuff for shrimp. Not like keeping fish. A little more complex. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Extremely helpful. Learned a few more things I wasn't aware of.
I wish I saw this video first 😭 I had gravel and had my tank fully cycled and GH AND KH under controll but was told I needed shrimp soil for my cherries. Thank you sir I'm going back to gravel
Great video! I have learned so much from all of your videos and streams (some day will catch it live). My happy lil shrimp guys that I got from you guys are doing well. Getting ready to start another tank. MTS is real.🐠🐌🦐
MTS is 100% real haha! It happens fast too. Thanks so much for your support and comment! I really appreciate it and hope to see you on a livestream soon!
All products mentioned is only available in the US. Would be nice to hear options for international products aswell. Seachem products for example is available everywhere.
Great information, definitely some issues raised that I could have done better. I have Amanos, they live for a good long time and I have no issues. They live in my Endler tanks at 25C at PH 7.6 GH 14.8. I did try to keep Cherry shrimp and they all died failing to successfully molt. I’ve been thinking GH too high, TDS over 350 not great although not sure TDS is much value if you don’t know what it is made up of and I won’t bore you! I do want to try again, but need to find a hobbyist that is keeping and breeding them in similar water parameters locally here in UK. Still can’t really see why Amanos do so very well but Cherries don’t make it past a first molt. They all molt so 🤔
I set up a planted 55g, sand over soil substrate and used it as a quarantine tank for my Discus and Angel tanks After all the fish were gone from the 55, I decided shrimp would be cool, got 10 Orange Pumpkins, had them for about 6 months, they were healthy but didn't reproduce, so I added 10 Carbon Rili, 10 more Orange Pumpkins and 10 Cherries (all shrimp from Flip) Now I have 10,000 shrimp of every color and pattern, I have to cull weekly, good thing my Angels and Discus love shrimp. And the added bonus now I have thriving shrimp colonies in all my tanks.
I learned a lot from this video I always wanted to get shrimp but been Cautious due to lack of knowledge of shrimp this was a very good video thank you for sharing God bless
I liked how you ended with the reality that everything dies. I laughed and thought maybe you should make some videos for children about topic. Thank you for the video because my order will be coming soon. My plan is to start a colony and then sprinkle them throughout my aquariums. It will be like sprinkling red pepper flakes on a pizza.
Great to hear it! Absolutely. I plan to shift to more videos like this as it helps hobbyists, my team, our customers and so on. Plus, it's great to share what I've learned to help the hobby I love.
Hello. I have fish tanks for over 10 years now, but I've never had a shrimp tank... Last year I decided to build one... I put neocaridinas in the tank, but the original ones are pretty much all gone... just one left... the substrate is the one on the video, I used some seeds that I bought to grow plants in aquariums.. the parameters are ok, except the Ph, which is always below 7, approximately 6,8... I want to remove the plants because I have been noticing that they are "polluting" the tank.. I already bought some varieties of moss to put instead of the plants... But how can I do this change and avoid losing all my shrimps? There are 12 now in the tank.. Thank you, great video..
Good stuff!!! Thank you for this, started up a new shrimp tank last week & just waiting, waiting, waiting til I think it's hit that 'sweet spot' to add the Blues!! :)
Great information! Although now I have a visual of a bunch of shrimp strutting around with hoodies on because they’re cold and I can’t lose it LOL. Thanks bud 👊🏼
Fantastic video, Rob!! Loved it and loved all the footage🤩. The footage of all these beauties worth the price of admission right there! 🥳. P.s. hi Amanda! 👋
Chiclids for decades... but new to shrimp... and new to you. This was an excellent video. I have subscribed and hit the bell. Will be placing an order from you too.
In my experience of keeping ornamental shrimp in an aquarium, unnatural water still has a lot of ammonia, if the water is not natural, if there is dirt it cannot be decomposed by bacteria.
From my experience shrimp are pretty tolerant of most water parameters, they just need a completely cycled aquarium, lots of plants, low copper in the water, and very stable water parameters. When you add chemicals/salts/fertilisers and you throw off the water chemistry then the shrimp can die. Changing water has to be done SLOWLY! They are very sensitive to fluctuations in the water whether it is temp or chemistry so change the water slowly. Finally, shrimp stress out when under attack from fish and nowhere to hide. Put them in a tank with no other tank mates except snails or put them in a tank with fish but with very dense plants like pearl weed or mosses so they can escape the fish. If you are keeping large amounts of shrimp it can be helpful to get an RO filter and use shrimp mineral to mineralise the water to make it perfectly stable. Shrimp don't like change, I change my shrimp tank water once a month with large plant growth.
As a person with much experience with African Cichlids looking into my first try with a Shrimp tank, you almost talked me out of it. I use the KISS system with my Cichlids KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid. I don't use any additives other than dechlorinator and I don't have problems. I use crushed coral substrate and reef rocks for decorations and never have to worry about keeping my PH high. Obviously, I will not use crushed coral or reef rocks in a Shrimp tank and now I have to worry about keeping my PH lower without becoming a chemist I plan to use Carib Sea Eco Complete, Mopani wood and Spider wood, and live plants like Anubias, and Java Moss. What is the best way to consult with Flip Aquatics before making an order? You almost talked me into abandoning the project but I am half way ready to order shrimp. I have the tank and equipment, I expect my substrate today and will fill my tank and get the cycle started before the end of the day.
Thank you for the tips! I just realized my planet aquarium has rock (seiryu) stone that is causing my ph to stay around 7.0. I age the water with almond leaves prior to doing water changes but that stone is pretty bad.
hi I am following you a lot and have taken your ideas up I have now got an ro unit at last and use kh/gh tds of 225 I have cholla wood and plants and use mattan filter I use large ram snails with my shrimp my water is getting cloudy i use to other foam filter air run do you mead to clean the mattan filter if yes how do you do it whith out all the dirt going into the tank
Hi is it necessary to have an air pump for my betta tank with shrimps? I have a 4 gallon tank which is heavily equipped with live plants and around 7 shrimps
The plants could potentially provide enough oxygen, but if your betta or shrimp linger at the surface it most likely means they're searching for oxygen and then i would definitely add one
About the heater part lower temperature not true I test to that. I keep pumpkin shrimp at 80 to 81 keep in the warm side over 400 shrimp I think they breed faster honestly. Take it if you want or not I’m 100 percent convinced that’s the reason for high numbers. But great video!
I just started a community aquarium, cycled my water for 4 wks and added 6 male guppies so far. Was going to add 4 ghost shrimps today but maybe not, this sounds complicated. I guess 2 🐌 will do. Thanks for a great video
Damn, I had been researching shrimp for about 2 weeks now and I wish your videos came up earlier! Great quality and presentation, same info here that I had to go between 4 or 5 other videos for. I had 2 deaths out of the 3 I started w/. 1 was 100% the store (Petco... ugh, I know.) fault, they were 90% dead before even getting home. The other I can't tell and was dead this morning after, but it was a different breed (not sure exactly, bad labeling as "rainbow", I think Bee???) than my surviving Cherry. I'm going to get a bigger more "official" shrimp tank soon and either keep my cherry w/ more or plan on some crystal shrimp.
Now, I bought my first ever shrimp (rili shrimp) a week ago, got 15 of them for a 10 gallon tank along with 2 mystery snails. I never seem to be able to find more than 5-7 of them at any given time. I'd like to assume they are taking turns hiding and I'm seeing different shrimp each time, and all or nearly all, of them are ok somewhere in there, but how to find the ones who are hiding and get a full count? I mean, without removing all the plants and decorations from the tank. I certainly haven't found any dead ones lying (or floating) around, although I did find one molted exoskeleton, but no way to be sure if it was premature or regularly scheduled, but premature does sound to be likely.
I would say they are hiding especially if you have a planted aquarium. The best way to get them all out is to delay feeding for 3 days then feed. It will cause a feeding frenzy and give you time to count them :)
@@LupDiesel I was able to count 9 of them the other day, so that's a good sign. I did very minimal food this past weekend and then putting an Aqueon shrimp food disc into the tank did indeed draw them out. Until a snail found it and completely took over the disc... I skipped food yesterday and put another Aqueon disc in this morning and have 8 of them there now. The snails are still on the far side of the tank so the shrimp will have a while yet to feed in peace. Although they can get a bit feisty amongst themselves for a position at the disc. So I dropped a second one in, but it fell so close to the first that it doesn't help as much as I'd like with how many can be feeding at the same time. I also found a molted exoskeleton this morning. It's been 10 days since I got the shrimp, so I expect that's just a normal molt and not a premature stress molt. One thing that does have me rather surprised is that the shrimp, when I can find them, mostly seem to hang out under the filter. I was worried my filter might be a bit too strong in its flow, but apparently not. I did finally put a sponge on the intake, and sometimes I find a shrimp on the sponge. They don't seem bothered by the filter flow at all, and might even prefer it. Now the filter is also in the corner of the tank farthest away from direct sunlight, so perhaps that could play a role in their preference for that corner as well? Although the tank only gets direct sun for an hour or two in the early morning, and the rest of the day it's all indirect sun or artificial light, so I'm not sure how big a deal that is overall. And by artificial light, just the normal house lights, I don't do special tank-specific lighting. Is it weird that I turn lights on and off in the room from east to west as the day progresses? I try to simulate the position of the sun as best I can with the lighting. I don't know why I feel like I should do that, but it feels important to me some how.
Rob, this is the second time I've seen Mystery Snails referenced for keeping a shrimp tank cycled. Do you suggest a specific amount per tank size for this? Like 2 or 3 snails per 10 gallons of water or something like that? I've never really had an issue with a tank losing a cycle, but I've never kept shrimp. Thanks
Thank you very much from russia, bro Have a problem with deaths of my cherries in my tiny 30 liter tank, trying to get system stable and not feeding at all. I'm tired of bying new shrimps every month. I hope your advices will help me)
How often do you do a water change and how much? Can I start a shrimp breeding tank with an inert sand substrate of about 2.5mm grain size? And lastly, should I clean the substrate if there's a good amount of waste accumulated?
My shrimp is waiting for a better environment for a freind, and he hasnt been eating, But today he ate a whole little pellet! Im so happy hes survived so long, few more days and he gets a freind :D
Great video! Have a colony of crystal red shrimp and some Pinocchio shrimp and 2 months ago I added 10 crystal black shrimp from a different source. I find dead crystal red shrimp every now and then and have found 1 or 2 dead Pinocchio shrimp. My crystals also stopped breeding. Could this be some kind of disease the crystal blacks brought in, which only they are immune to? I also added a school of 10 celestial pearl danios (juvenile, around 1-1.5cm) could this be part of the issue with breeding? All my babies seem to have vanished but I don’t see any pregnant females anymore.. I have a 30L tank with some driftwood, a lot of plants and the JBL proscape soil (I bought it thinking it was proshrimp..)
Awesome video! These tips are very helpful. You mentioned it's easy to over feed. If someone has relatively few shrimp in their tank (less than 50 in a 20 gallon for ex) is it ok to not feed them daily? Since there should be plenty of of biofilm? I noticed mine hardly touch their food
Thanks for the comment Josh and for being a member! If you're food aren't going crazy for the food, I would skip a day or two. You'll want to see then swarm the food. If they don't, then you may be over feeding or there are other issues. With a tank your size, every other day should be good and possibly skip the weekend. Or you can try feeding in super small amounts.
I moved my shrimp to a new tank with plants, drift wood, rocks, and sand. They have been fine for a week now but there all passing away now. My PH is 8.0 and I have hard tap. Neo shrimp. I am a teenager who has tons of fish and do breed, but I find shrimp to be hard to keep and I lost around $135. Any advice?
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*_Thank you all for watching!_* Everything we talked about in the video you can find a link to it in the description of this video. If I missed anything, drop a comment below and I'm happy to help! Check out all of our [Beginner Shrimp Keeping] guides and more here: ua-cam.com/play/PLkj2jEAp8whm7j0-vd13y1iv2SrE-Z8zI.html
You da Man!
Thank you!!!
Had a beautiful colony of carbon rili.... until I got covid. I wasn't able to do a water change for almost 2 months the first time I got covid a year ago, and luckily I had a very stable aquarium and plenty of plants, so everyone did well.
This past episode with covid also included a 26 hour power outage. I don't know if there was a temp change, or if it was low oxygen levels in the tank.
I lost the whole colony😔
But it’s only for United state :c
Very useful video, thank you very much!
Seriously the cutest little ball of yellow shrimpers I've seen!! I'm on my journey back into fish keeping and am psyched about these interesting little creatures!
I wonder sometimes if we treat them too pristine. They never get an immune and environmental workout to become more robust. Thank you by the way. This is one of the most thorough informational.
They have very primitive Immune system that means their bodies never “learn” to fight diseases and they can get sick back to back. The best thing is just to not make big changes in any parameters.
@@darya7473 its easy to say when you have stable tap water parameters, but whe i live water paramaters change drasticly depending on the season.
@@saharamoon. I tried keeping red cherries on my tap water but they werent thriving and just slowly dieing. I recenty bought an ro filter and started using re mineralised water and have not had any deaths for now but its been a week so it may be to soon to say anything for sure.
I use denerle shrimp king salt.
@jansshrimps3785
I'm trying my luck with my well water.
It's only been 3 weeks, But no fauna yet, just plant life
just received six Assasins and 10 Blue shrimp: NOT ONE DEATH !
they are beautiful! thank you !!!!!
Wow, I learnt something alright. Shrimp/prawns are high maintenance! I will never take it for granted the next time I see another shrimp how much effort it took to grow that shrimp.😊
Super grateful for this video because I'm planning on getting my very first ever neocarina shrimp within the next month or two and I'm soaking up all the info I can well in advance. In fact, I found your UA-cam channel via your website because I actually plan to get shrimp from y'all! The Fantasy Blue Dream shrimp are calling my name!! ;)
how did it turn out?
My public water supply story: I have a betta fish that once jumped out of his tank, and fortunately I found him in time to save him and he's still alive here a year later, but at the time I wasn't regularly testing water from the tap when I did water changes - I did that the first few times, found my tap water was consistently a pH of 7.0 and figured that was good and didn't test again. Until my betta's land expedition. Testing the water in the tank immediately afterwards saw a very high pH, so I went to the tap and saw the water from the tap was also well above 7.0, so culprit found, lesson learned. I never did figure out why the country was sending out high pH water (obviously still within safe parameters for humans, but not so good for bettas...), but it can and will happen.
100%! This happens more than most think. We have a video going out Thursday talking about this exact issue. Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you were able to save your fishy friend!
Glad to see you making videos again Rob! I learned almost everything about shrimp keeping from your channel and now I have 15+ shrimp only tanks. Keep it up and looking forward to what's to come!
Beautiful just beautiful thats what I think and I learn so much watching you guys!!!!
Thanks so much my friend!! I'm glad you liked it. I really appreciate your support :)
Thank you so much.
I have wanted to add shrimp to my 75 gallon tank but I don't think it would be advisable after watching this video. I do have lots of plants but I do water changes that may be too much after what you said in the video.
I am thinking about doing planted nano tank and would love to add shrimp. I might try after it is up and running for awhile.
I thank you for all of this information and hope customer service will be able to direct me with the best shrimp to go with when the tank is ready.
And I did take notes
Wish I would have watched this before I bought a bunch of cardenia shrimp. Needless to say I no longer have any cardenia shrimp. In the process of getting the right stuff for shrimp. Not like keeping fish. A little more complex. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Extremely helpful. Learned a few more things I wasn't aware of.
Eagerly waiting for my shrimpies 🦐 from you all! So excited to care for these little guys
Love the folks at Flip Aquatics. This is a great video. The Re-cycle aspect was especially on point. I lost a large colony of blue dreams to that.
The man the myth the legend is back...
Hands down the best video on this topic. And I've seen at least 20.
I wish I saw this video first 😭 I had gravel and had my tank fully cycled and GH AND KH under controll but was told I needed shrimp soil for my cherries. Thank you sir I'm going back to gravel
This is such an incredibly helpful video. Thank you!
Great video! I have learned so much from all of your videos and streams (some day will catch it live). My happy lil shrimp guys that I got from you guys are doing well. Getting ready to start another tank. MTS is real.🐠🐌🦐
MTS is 100% real haha! It happens fast too. Thanks so much for your support and comment! I really appreciate it and hope to see you on a livestream soon!
All products mentioned is only available in the US. Would be nice to hear options for international products aswell. Seachem products for example is available everywhere.
Love the Cherry and Redclaw shrimps. They do well in my low Ph6.6
Great breding and got tousends of them in my 540 liter tank
*Great video. One of the best on UA-cam for aquarium shrimp.*
Great information, definitely some issues raised that I could have done better. I have Amanos, they live for a good long time and I have no issues. They live in my Endler tanks at 25C at PH 7.6 GH 14.8. I did try to keep Cherry shrimp and they all died failing to successfully molt. I’ve been thinking GH too high, TDS over 350 not great although not sure TDS is much value if you don’t know what it is made up of and I won’t bore you! I do want to try again, but need to find a hobbyist that is keeping and breeding them in similar water parameters locally here in UK. Still can’t really see why Amanos do so very well but Cherries don’t make it past a first molt. They all molt so 🤔
I set up a planted 55g, sand over soil substrate and used it as a quarantine tank for my Discus and Angel tanks
After all the fish were gone from the 55, I decided shrimp would be cool, got 10 Orange Pumpkins, had them for about 6 months, they were healthy but didn't reproduce, so I added 10 Carbon Rili, 10 more Orange Pumpkins and 10 Cherries (all shrimp from Flip)
Now I have 10,000 shrimp of every color and pattern, I have to cull weekly, good thing my Angels and Discus love shrimp.
And the added bonus now I have thriving shrimp colonies in all my tanks.
thanks for the tips. i had a shrimp tank a few years back and had a large die off. ive been wanting to get back into the hobby again.
I learned a lot from this video I always wanted to get shrimp but been Cautious due to lack of knowledge of shrimp this was a very good video thank you for sharing God bless
Malaysian drift wood is a great food for your shrimp also a good place for shrimp to mold
Thank u. I'm new and also learning alone
Like the information your giving lessons like these on a vlog style video would be cool ...give us a run threw of quarantine when you get a shipment.
Thank you for such great advice, appreciate you sharing. Shout out from Sydney Australia
thanx for video! sir how to low ph on tap water?
Great video! Good information with kool shrimp in the background. . .
100% right
wow so many beautiful shrimp
I liked how you ended with the reality that everything dies. I laughed and thought maybe you should make some videos for children about topic. Thank you for the video because my order will be coming soon. My plan is to start a colony and then sprinkle them throughout my aquariums. It will be like sprinkling red pepper flakes on a pizza.
Haha I'm glad you liked it :) thanks for the comment too. I hope your red pepper flakes arrive soon 😉
How about Hydra and Planaria, are they threat to shrimps? Better leave the or treat with Fenbendazole?
Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍
Great video Rob. I have relearned some things i forgot about. I hope you have some plans on more of these types of videos.
Great to hear it! Absolutely. I plan to shift to more videos like this as it helps hobbyists, my team, our customers and so on. Plus, it's great to share what I've learned to help the hobby I love.
what are those red & black colored shrimp called at 5:39? Beautiful shrimps and such an informational video!
Thanks for the information. I've never in any of my tanks kept shrimp. I've done saltwater but No shrimp. I'll be changing that on saturday.
If one uses distilled water, do you warm it to tank temperature? Also can you use tap water with Seachem Prime added? Thank you!
Very helpful. Thank you for this very educational video. Question what about having shrimp in a community tank?
Hello. I have fish tanks for over 10 years now, but I've never had a shrimp tank... Last year I decided to build one... I put neocaridinas in the tank, but the original ones are pretty much all gone... just one left... the substrate is the one on the video, I used some seeds that I bought to grow plants in aquariums.. the parameters are ok, except the Ph, which is always below 7, approximately 6,8... I want to remove the plants because I have been noticing that they are "polluting" the tank.. I already bought some varieties of moss to put instead of the plants... But how can I do this change and avoid losing all my shrimps? There are 12 now in the tank.. Thank you, great video..
Great video although I do like buying shrimp from different sources to improve genetics
Good stuff!!! Thank you for this, started up a new shrimp tank last week & just waiting, waiting, waiting til I think it's hit that 'sweet spot' to add the Blues!! :)
New subscriber, just getting into shrimp, this is a GREAT resource for new shrimp keepers! Saw you on an older video with KG Tropicals!!
Im in love with black rose shrimp
Do you have recommendations for keeping shrimp in a nano tank with tetras or other small fish?
I have been using spring water, is that acceptable for my neocaridinas?
Great information! Although now I have a visual of a bunch of shrimp strutting around with hoodies on because they’re cold and I can’t lose it LOL. Thanks bud 👊🏼
Hahaha this made my day 😂
I am very interested in shrimp. Thank you for good information.
This is a very educational video! Thank you
Fantastic video, Rob!! Loved it and loved all the footage🤩. The footage of all these beauties worth the price of admission right there! 🥳. P.s. hi Amanda! 👋
Great information as always! God bless you brother
Chiclids for decades... but new to shrimp... and new to you. This was an excellent video. I have subscribed and hit the bell. Will be placing an order from you too.
In my experience of keeping ornamental shrimp in an aquarium, unnatural water still has a lot of ammonia, if the water is not natural, if there is dirt it cannot be decomposed by bacteria.
Very useful information! Thanks for sharing.
Great topic and video Rob❤️ thank you for this 🙏👍💯
Thank you so much :)
From my experience shrimp are pretty tolerant of most water parameters, they just need a completely cycled aquarium, lots of plants, low copper in the water, and very stable water parameters. When you add chemicals/salts/fertilisers and you throw off the water chemistry then the shrimp can die. Changing water has to be done SLOWLY! They are very sensitive to fluctuations in the water whether it is temp or chemistry so change the water slowly. Finally, shrimp stress out when under attack from fish and nowhere to hide. Put them in a tank with no other tank mates except snails or put them in a tank with fish but with very dense plants like pearl weed or mosses so they can escape the fish. If you are keeping large amounts of shrimp it can be helpful to get an RO filter and use shrimp mineral to mineralise the water to make it perfectly stable. Shrimp don't like change, I change my shrimp tank water once a month with large plant growth.
how expensive is ro filter
@@nengsar2678 english please
As a person with much experience with African Cichlids looking into my first try with a Shrimp tank, you almost talked me out of it. I use the KISS system with my Cichlids KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid. I don't use any additives other than dechlorinator and I don't have problems. I use crushed coral substrate and reef rocks for decorations and never have to worry about keeping my PH high. Obviously, I will not use crushed coral or reef rocks in a Shrimp tank and now I have to worry about keeping my PH lower without becoming a chemist I plan to use Carib Sea Eco Complete, Mopani wood and Spider wood, and live plants like Anubias, and Java Moss. What is the best way to consult with Flip Aquatics before making an order? You almost talked me into abandoning the project but I am half way ready to order shrimp. I have the tank and equipment, I expect my substrate today and will fill my tank and get the cycle started before the end of the day.
Great video!
Thank you for the tips! I just realized my planet aquarium has rock (seiryu) stone that is causing my ph to stay around 7.0. I age the water with almond leaves prior to doing water changes but that stone is pretty bad.
It's a good excuse to use them in a different tank and start over lol
Do you offer a shrimp set up kit? Everything you'd need/want in a shrimp tank thats safe?
I wanna order shrimp but I'm in ny and it's really cold.. should I wait for warmer weather
Great video. Thank you. Our major problem with our shrimp tank is uncomplete molting cousin death.
#9 is the only good advice
hi I am following you a lot and have taken your ideas up I have now got an ro unit at last and use kh/gh tds of 225 I have cholla wood and plants and use mattan filter I use large ram snails with my shrimp my water is getting cloudy i use to other foam filter air run do you mead to clean the mattan filter if yes how do you do it whith out all the dirt going into the tank
Pleaseeeee tell me what type of shrimp that was at 12:40! Great video Rob!
Those are Black Galaxy Pinto Caridina.
Does anyone know what shrimps were at 5:10? it was beautiful!
Hi is it necessary to have an air pump for my betta tank with shrimps? I have a 4 gallon tank which is heavily equipped with live plants and around 7 shrimps
The plants could potentially provide enough oxygen, but if your betta or shrimp linger at the surface it most likely means they're searching for oxygen and then i would definitely add one
Very informative. 👍
Thank you for sharing.
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About the heater part lower temperature not true I test to that. I keep pumpkin shrimp at 80 to 81 keep in the warm side over 400 shrimp I think they breed faster honestly. Take it if you want or not I’m 100 percent convinced that’s the reason for high numbers. But great video!
I just started a community aquarium, cycled my water for 4 wks and added 6 male guppies so far.
Was going to add 4 ghost shrimps today but maybe not, this sounds complicated. I guess 2 🐌 will do. Thanks for a great video
Can I raise blue shrimp as a food source?
Great video, thanks
Thanks. I’d love for some of my shrimp to survive. My water is soft.
When are you gonna do a once over showcasing your finished 125 racks?
I want to start a shrimp aquarium which shrimp you recommend and how many can i get for a 10g tank
its a great great advice .. thank you very much
We’re do I order from you? Thank you,mike
Thank you for the most informative video. Can you recommend a shrimp breeder in British Columbia, Canada.?
Very cool info
Do these apply to Macrobrachium Rosenbergii as well?
Damn, I had been researching shrimp for about 2 weeks now and I wish your videos came up earlier! Great quality and presentation, same info here that I had to go between 4 or 5 other videos for.
I had 2 deaths out of the 3 I started w/. 1 was 100% the store (Petco... ugh, I know.) fault, they were 90% dead before even getting home. The other I can't tell and was dead this morning after, but it was a different breed (not sure exactly, bad labeling as "rainbow", I think Bee???) than my surviving Cherry. I'm going to get a bigger more "official" shrimp tank soon and either keep my cherry w/ more or plan on some crystal shrimp.
You can’t keep cherry shrimp with crystal shrimp they are different species and require different water parameters
Do you know what happened to borneowild? They've been silent for almost 2 years now, and I can't find stock on the shrimp food.
Yes, their products being more difficult to find in market, even in Asia
Do you need a filter if you have a heavily planted tank?
Do you have any recommendations on shrimp that could go well with corydoras in a planted tank
Now, I bought my first ever shrimp (rili shrimp) a week ago, got 15 of them for a 10 gallon tank along with 2 mystery snails. I never seem to be able to find more than 5-7 of them at any given time. I'd like to assume they are taking turns hiding and I'm seeing different shrimp each time, and all or nearly all, of them are ok somewhere in there, but how to find the ones who are hiding and get a full count? I mean, without removing all the plants and decorations from the tank. I certainly haven't found any dead ones lying (or floating) around, although I did find one molted exoskeleton, but no way to be sure if it was premature or regularly scheduled, but premature does sound to be likely.
I would say they are hiding especially if you have a planted aquarium. The best way to get them all out is to delay feeding for 3 days then feed. It will cause a feeding frenzy and give you time to count them :)
@@LupDiesel I was able to count 9 of them the other day, so that's a good sign. I did very minimal food this past weekend and then putting an Aqueon shrimp food disc into the tank did indeed draw them out. Until a snail found it and completely took over the disc... I skipped food yesterday and put another Aqueon disc in this morning and have 8 of them there now. The snails are still on the far side of the tank so the shrimp will have a while yet to feed in peace. Although they can get a bit feisty amongst themselves for a position at the disc. So I dropped a second one in, but it fell so close to the first that it doesn't help as much as I'd like with how many can be feeding at the same time.
I also found a molted exoskeleton this morning. It's been 10 days since I got the shrimp, so I expect that's just a normal molt and not a premature stress molt.
One thing that does have me rather surprised is that the shrimp, when I can find them, mostly seem to hang out under the filter. I was worried my filter might be a bit too strong in its flow, but apparently not. I did finally put a sponge on the intake, and sometimes I find a shrimp on the sponge. They don't seem bothered by the filter flow at all, and might even prefer it.
Now the filter is also in the corner of the tank farthest away from direct sunlight, so perhaps that could play a role in their preference for that corner as well? Although the tank only gets direct sun for an hour or two in the early morning, and the rest of the day it's all indirect sun or artificial light, so I'm not sure how big a deal that is overall.
And by artificial light, just the normal house lights, I don't do special tank-specific lighting. Is it weird that I turn lights on and off in the room from east to west as the day progresses? I try to simulate the position of the sun as best I can with the lighting. I don't know why I feel like I should do that, but it feels important to me some how.
Rob, this is the second time I've seen Mystery Snails referenced for keeping a shrimp tank cycled. Do you suggest a specific amount per tank size for this? Like 2 or 3 snails per 10 gallons of water or something like that? I've never really had an issue with a tank losing a cycle, but I've never kept shrimp.
Thanks
I catch mine in the creek down the road from my house.. pretty lucky, because they are not everywhere..
Thank you very much from russia, bro
Have a problem with deaths of my cherries in my tiny 30 liter tank, trying to get system stable and not feeding at all. I'm tired of bying new shrimps every month. I hope your advices will help me)
Are Lava rocks from a pet store okay? I did rinse it before adding it to the tank (tank is still cycling so nothing is in it right now)
How often do you do a water change and how much? Can I start a shrimp breeding tank with an inert sand substrate of about 2.5mm grain size? And lastly, should I clean the substrate if there's a good amount of waste accumulated?
How can you prevent shrimp inbreeding?
Thank you so much. I learned a lot.
Do yall ship to Canada?
My shrimp is waiting for a better environment for a freind, and he hasnt been eating, But today he ate a whole little pellet! Im so happy hes survived so long, few more days and he gets a freind :D
Great video! Have a colony of crystal red shrimp and some Pinocchio shrimp and 2 months ago I added 10 crystal black shrimp from a different source. I find dead crystal red shrimp every now and then and have found 1 or 2 dead Pinocchio shrimp. My crystals also stopped breeding. Could this be some kind of disease the crystal blacks brought in, which only they are immune to? I also added a school of 10 celestial pearl danios (juvenile, around 1-1.5cm) could this be part of the issue with breeding? All my babies seem to have vanished but I don’t see any pregnant females anymore.. I have a 30L tank with some driftwood, a lot of plants and the JBL proscape soil (I bought it thinking it was proshrimp..)
Awesome video! These tips are very helpful. You mentioned it's easy to over feed. If someone has relatively few shrimp in their tank (less than 50 in a 20 gallon for ex) is it ok to not feed them daily? Since there should be plenty of of biofilm? I noticed mine hardly touch their food
Thanks for the comment Josh and for being a member! If you're food aren't going crazy for the food, I would skip a day or two. You'll want to see then swarm the food. If they don't, then you may be over feeding or there are other issues. With a tank your size, every other day should be good and possibly skip the weekend. Or you can try feeding in super small amounts.
I might try a few but they sound like a pain.
I moved my shrimp to a new tank with plants, drift wood, rocks, and sand. They have been fine for a week now but there all passing away now. My PH is 8.0 and I have hard tap. Neo shrimp. I am a teenager who has tons of fish and do breed, but I find shrimp to be hard to keep and I lost around $135. Any advice?