*_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😔
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.
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!
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!! ;)
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!
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!
Great video. Everything was well explained and made a lot of sense. I wish I saw this video before I bought shrimp - this should be an introduction "101 on Shrimp Keeping" that all shrimp enthusiasts should watch before joining the hobby. 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.😊
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!
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
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
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.
Im a beginner and I have ordered 5 blue dream shrimp. . And I now feel i am going to fail these little guys before it begins. I only have panda corydoras and 1 clown pleco. Honestly, the seller/breeder i got them from said they'd be fine with them. Didn't mention any tank needs and differences from fish.. ive planned food for them hiding spots. Moss.. I've learned so much since placing that order yesterday. And coming across this video worries me they won't be alive long after I get them tomorrow
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! 👋
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.
So glad you found this helpful! If you're on discord we have a whole community of hobbyist over there that are constantly giving tips and tricks. It's totally free to join! discord.gg/NTcvt5YuYH
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
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 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.
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 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 🤔
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.
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.
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.
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..
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Awesome it helped me alot thanks for the video..Tell Amanda shes been a great help to my emails shes awesome I'm still praying for you both much love 💙💙💙
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
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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)
Would you still not recommend a heater if I live much norther than most people? It can get very cold in the winter so I’m think the heaters more for holding a minimum temp. It’s an eheim so I’m hoping it won’t suffer the same issue with temp window like you mentioned in the vid?
I have used tap water from the beginning just because I don't have an R O system as of now, My question is, if I buy some distilled just for the shrimp tank, and remineralize it, will the shrimp be okay going from one type of water to a different type of water if that makes sense?
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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!
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
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!
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?
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!
just received six Assasins and 10 Blue shrimp: NOT ONE DEATH !
they are beautiful! thank you !!!!!
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!
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 :)
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.
Great video. Everything was well explained and made a lot of sense. I wish I saw this video before I bought shrimp - this should be an introduction "101 on Shrimp Keeping" that all shrimp enthusiasts should watch before joining the hobby. THANK YOU!
We appreciate you taking the time to watch!
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.😊
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!
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
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
Eagerly waiting for my shrimpies 🦐 from you all! So excited to care for these little guys
Hands down the best video on this topic. And I've seen at least 20.
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.
Im a beginner and I have ordered 5 blue dream shrimp. . And I now feel i am going to fail these little guys before it begins. I only have panda corydoras and 1 clown pleco. Honestly, the seller/breeder i got them from said they'd be fine with them. Didn't mention any tank needs and differences from fish.. ive planned food for them hiding spots. Moss.. I've learned so much since placing that order yesterday. And coming across this video worries me they won't be alive long after I get them tomorrow
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.
This is such an incredibly helpful video. Thank you!
Thank you for such great advice, appreciate you sharing. Shout out from Sydney Australia
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 😂
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! 👋
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
I'm late to the game, but, I learned a lot. This video is very helpful to a newbie to shrimp.
So glad you found this helpful! If you're on discord we have a whole community of hobbyist over there that are constantly giving tips and tricks. It's totally free to join! discord.gg/NTcvt5YuYH
*Great video. One of the best on UA-cam for aquarium shrimp.*
The man the myth the legend is back...
New subscriber, just getting into shrimp, this is a GREAT resource for new shrimp keepers! Saw you on an older video with KG Tropicals!!
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
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!! :)
Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍
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.
Awesome info
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.
Great video! Good information with kool shrimp in the background. . .
100% right
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 😉
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 🤔
what are those red & black colored shrimp called at 5:39? Beautiful shrimps and such an informational video!
Great topic and video Rob❤️ thank you for this 🙏👍💯
Thank you so much :)
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.
wow so many beautiful shrimp
Yyyyyoooooooo...cut the hair...went baldy!!!! 😆 anyhow I’m prepping a tank per your instructions...soon to order the shrimp from you guys!
Great information as always! God bless you brother
I am very interested in shrimp. Thank you for good information.
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.
I subbed today 3-27-21 thanks for the great knowledge🙂👍🏻
Thank u. I'm new and also learning alone
Very helpful. Thank you for this very educational video. Question what about having shrimp in a community tank?
This is a very educational video! Thank you
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
Pleaseeeee tell me what type of shrimp that was at 12:40! Great video Rob!
Those are Black Galaxy Pinto Caridina.
Very useful information! Thanks for sharing.
Malaysian drift wood is a great food for your shrimp also a good place for shrimp to mold
I have been using spring water, is that acceptable for my neocaridinas?
If one uses distilled water, do you warm it to tank temperature? Also can you use tap water with Seachem Prime added? Thank you!
Great video. Thank you. Our major problem with our shrimp tank is uncomplete molting cousin death.
Very informative. 👍
Thank you for sharing.
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
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..
Do you have recommendations for keeping shrimp in a nano tank with tetras or other small fish?
Great video although I do like buying shrimp from different sources to improve genetics
Wow.very good .ty.info.⭐🏆⭐
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
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
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.
Great video, thanks
thanx for video! sir how to low ph on tap water?
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
its a great great advice .. thank you very much
How about Hydra and Planaria, are they threat to shrimps? Better leave the or treat with Fenbendazole?
Do yall ship to Canada?
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
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.
Awesome it helped me alot thanks for the video..Tell Amanda shes been a great help to my emails shes awesome I'm still praying for you both much love 💙💙💙
Thank you so much Ana :) I'll definitely let her know in just a minute. Thank you for your prayers. It means so much to us!!
Very cool info
I catch mine in the creek down the road from my house.. pretty lucky, because they are not everywhere..
Thank you so much. I learned a lot.
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
Thanks. I’d love for some of my shrimp to survive. My water is soft.
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.
When are you gonna do a once over showcasing your finished 125 racks?
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
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
Im in love with black rose shrimp
We’re do I order from you? Thank you,mike
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.
Do you need a filter if you have a heavily planted tank?
Can I raise blue shrimp as a food source?
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!
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)
I want to start a shrimp aquarium which shrimp you recommend and how many can i get for a 10g tank
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)
Very nice information is very helpful. P.S. I hope your eye gets better soon that looked unconfortable.
Hahaha you ain't lying! Working too much I guess 😂
Thank you for the most informative video. Can you recommend a shrimp breeder in British Columbia, Canada.?
Wow, awesome video
Thanks Mom :)
Would you still not recommend a heater if I live much norther than most people? It can get very cold in the winter so I’m think the heaters more for holding a minimum temp. It’s an eheim so I’m hoping it won’t suffer the same issue with temp window like you mentioned in the vid?
Heater is a must in my experience 80 for orange pumpkin they breed like crazy over 400 shrimp and growing
Do you have any recommendations on shrimp that could go well with corydoras in a planted tank
I have used tap water from the beginning just because I don't have an R O system as of now, My question is, if I buy some distilled just for the shrimp tank, and remineralize it, will the shrimp be okay going from one type of water to a different type of water if that makes sense?
Hey! I just bought an RO system for $56 on Amazon it works great and has great reviews id consider getting it if you have the funds it’s worth it!
You can do it slowly, like acclimation
@@mr.brightside6119 is it little buddy or something like that?