Hi Chris. Fantastic, informative Videos. I have been keeping fish for 55 years and shrimp for 10 years. I have blue jelly and amano shrimp in a tank with borus maculatus and I love them. I use the Indian almond leaves bought from the ornamental shrimp outlets as well as shrimp food. I would love to have more shrimp tanks but I 'm an old woman at 60 years 😊and not getting any younger. I have 2 fantails goldfish in a 125 litre aquarium. Both the shrimp tank and the goldfish tank are heavily planted with real plants. Enough for me to care for with my arthritis. But I soo wish I could have more aquarium with shrimp and fish. I love them! Keep the good work up. 😊
Hi. I'm 74 with 4 aquariums, and just added a 10 gallon shrimp aquarium. And yeah, arthritis too. But I've found having passions keep me interested, active and moving. For me its therapy. Just saying.
Well, you might be slightly better than me. I have rheumatoid and duphetrons so my wrists and fingers are very Deformed. I have worked out a Way to keep up with my weekly aquarium maintenance. It would be unfair to have more fish /shrimp aquariums if l can't keep up with the maintenance. It's always been my passion like you but I the welfare of the fish and shrimp have to come first. You have to To work within your means. 😊
Guys try to make and drink ginger powder tea , it will help you with your joints pain and therefore your fishes/ shrimps too, I am 61 years young and into aquarium hobby since 12 . Good luck ❤
I always harvest grapevine leaves from my garden usually in August and September (not sprayed with pesticides). After boling them for 3 minutes they go to the vacuum sealed bag and in the freezer. Usually 100 -150 leaves will last me for 6 month for 5 of my Neocaridina breeding tansk. Cheers Chris
I notice that my scuds like grape leaves better than oak. I have wild grape vines on my fence line. I've got oak leaves in two of my scuds tanks that have been in there for months, they don't look like they are breaking down much at all. I think I will switch to only grape leaves or catappa. I did put some dried banana leaf in a tank yesterday, I just want to see if they like it.
I had also noticed that the oak leaves weren't breaking down. It was when I stopped paying attention that all of a sudden I would notice the skeleton of the leaves were all that remained. Chris did mention in the video about oak leaves specifically, and that does seem to be what I am experiencing. For my tanks, I think that I will be more patient and have leaves of various amounts of time under water so I don't have to worry about the shrimp running out while waiting for the next leaves to break down enough.
I have seen an improvement in my neocaridina shrimps' vitality after putting some leaves in the tank. This specific video is gold. Thouroghly enjoyed it. Thank you.
Chris, this is hands down the most informative video on feeding dwarf shrimp I have ever seen. I really appreciate your presentation of scientific literature in general in your videos. You are incredible ❤
Wonderful video Chris. You spoke about leaves in your first livestream and alluded to this video coming out soon. I jumped straight in and collected dried leaves (Platanus occidentalis) from my yard straight away and added them to one tank. They do not have any fungus as of yet but I hope to see shrimps feeding on them soon. An idea for you to consider: You speak to how oak and catappa leaves work for you. I am guessing most of your viewers live in temperate climates. If you know of temperate species or genera that work well with shrimp it would be great to know. Personally I do not want to order leaves from outside my local environment if I can collect my own. I believe that living things benefit from the energies of local food. Plus leaves flying all over the world seems a little off for me, but I understand others might be OK with it for them. I want to focus on the best local options, if that knowledge is available. Just a thought! Thank you so much for your passion Chris. Keep up the great work and be well. Cheers! PS- perhaps I should run an experiment on my own and see which my shrimp prefer- as you did in the video. :)
Maybe stupid questions but nevertheless, how long do you soak your leaves for and should you use dechlorinated water for that? Mine go through them pretty slowly as I am just starting a colony so I'm not sure how many to pre-soak at a time.
I hope you read this, I am sure you need to know that evergreen trees waters edge puts more oxygen in the water, the breakdown of leave decomposition takes oxygen out of the water. This affects the oxygenation of all the aquatic life within range of the tree in the riparian zone. Thanks for including so much information, learning never stops.
Thanks, Chris for this helpful video. Per my experience, they love spinach leaves the most. I stored a lot of spinach leaves in my fridge after boiling them.
thanks for this very interesting lesson about leaves and shrimps..i will follow further..and yes i want shrimps in my new tank so i am new with this, and are eager to learn..thanks again
Thank you very much, this is such good information. At what temperature did you run the experiment? I wonder how the temperature would influence how much they eat.
Good videos, I am working my way through most of your videos. I am wondering what leaves I can collect in the UK that are best for shrimp, i guess UK has a lot of the same native trees as Germany? I have access to beech, oak, sycamore, cherry, willow, poplar, horse chestnut, edible chestnut, and some I can't identify. As you say, I notice shrimp don't eat oak leaves much, they last for weeks, but they do seem to nibble on cherry and pothos more.
I definitely noticed that when I used oak leaves they took way longer to break down and the shrimps did not seem as Interested in them as the cattappa leaves
@@chrislukhaup thanks for tips.. I was really scared that if I did not boil the leaf enough the gum from the leaf might poison the shrimps (feeding my shrimp with papaya leaf)
I tried feeding leaves, from my garden, that i don't spray, to the shrimp. I fed apple, and pear leaves. They liked apple leaves. Fortunatelly, apple leaves are easy to get.
Love the content brother, hows the Panda loaches, i can't find a lot of information about them online. Any chance of on update video, i was told that above 22 degrees, they start dying ,so how do your fare in the summer when temps get high
Great job with the video, it was well made and very informative. Videos that you produce inspire me to want to keep shrimp. I have a 10 gallon with 1 honey gourami, 10 celestial pearl danios, 4 panda corys, could I keep 1 or 2 amano shrimp to tackle the green hair algae?? Thanks
I'm using them, just don't give too much of them, that's leaves seems have too much nutrients and while it start to decompose it decomposed fast, so give it little by little
Apart from the humic acid, my observation is that these organisms are heavy protein feeders and most of that protein they get from microbes decomposing the leaves. Their basic form of protein is microbial protein.
I have alder cones in my tank, and the driftwood has a lot of biofilm. Should I still add leaves? I have around 12-15 shrimp. Some have recently had babies, but they're too small to see in the tank. One is berried. They never eat the food I add. I think because of the biofilm and algae.
First of all, I just want to say your footage is absolutely gorgeous. You could just put some music on the background and you'd have a wonderful relaxing nature video as is. Second, you asked if there was anything watchers would like to see a video on. I was thinking, relating to the topic of this video, that it would be really nice to have a video dedicated to gathering and using leaves from outdoors in one's tanks. There's a lot of different advice on which plants to use, how to treat the leaves, when to collect them etc. and some of it is conflicting. Because of this, a lot of this stuff is confusing. For example, I see a lot of people say that leaves should be allowed to fall and turn brown before collecting them, but then shops sell dry leaves that are clearly green, like dandelion or raspberry leaves. And some say to freeze the leaves after collecting, while others suggest boiling. Yet some more are very adamant that only leaves from a few plants are suitable for putting into a (shrimp) tank. I've been running a little neocaridina/snail nano for a bit over a half a year now, and am just setting up a 100L one with more of the same. I live in the countryside and have a garden (in which I don't spray), and I would love to know which plants I could collect leaves from to feed my tank critters, and how to treat those leaves, as well as how to store them for winter. Of course if you don't feel this is a suitable topic for a dedicated video, I completely understand. There would be some issues with plant species of course, as a lot of viewers would be from all over the world. In fact, that's partly the issue with some of the advice on collecting leaves for tanks, that the people writing the advice are e.g. from North America, while I'm in continental Europe. Making any sort of a comprehensive list of what's good and what isn't would probably require an entire book, not a UA-cam video. I've watched a few of your videos now and your content is excellent, the video quality is great and your pacing/editing is very good. I'm definitely going to browse through your channel for a good while.
Hi Chris. Fantastic, informative
Videos. I have been keeping fish for 55 years and shrimp for 10 years. I have blue jelly and amano shrimp in a tank with borus maculatus and I love them. I use the Indian almond leaves bought from the ornamental shrimp outlets as well as shrimp food. I would love to have more shrimp tanks but I 'm an old woman at 60 years 😊and not getting any younger. I have 2 fantails goldfish in a 125 litre aquarium. Both the shrimp tank and the goldfish tank are heavily planted with real plants. Enough for me to care for with my arthritis. But I soo wish I could have more aquarium with shrimp and fish. I love them! Keep the good work up. 😊
Hi. I'm 74 with 4 aquariums, and just added a 10 gallon shrimp aquarium. And yeah, arthritis too. But I've found having passions keep me interested, active and moving. For me its therapy. Just saying.
Well, you might be slightly better than me. I have rheumatoid and duphetrons so my wrists and fingers are very
Deformed. I have worked out a
Way to keep up with my weekly aquarium maintenance.
It would be unfair to have more fish /shrimp aquariums if l can't keep up with the maintenance. It's always been my passion like you but I the welfare of the fish and shrimp have to come first. You have to
To work within your means. 😊
Guys try to make and drink ginger powder tea , it will help you with your joints pain and therefore your fishes/ shrimps too, I am 61 years young and into aquarium hobby since 12 . Good luck ❤
I always harvest grapevine leaves from my garden usually in August and September (not sprayed with pesticides). After boling them for 3 minutes they go to the vacuum sealed bag and in the freezer. Usually 100 -150 leaves will last me for 6 month for 5 of my Neocaridina breeding tansk. Cheers Chris
I notice that my scuds like grape leaves better than oak. I have wild grape vines on my fence line. I've got oak leaves in two of my scuds tanks that have been in there for months, they don't look like they are breaking down much at all. I think I will switch to only grape leaves or catappa. I did put some dried banana leaf in a tank yesterday, I just want to see if they like it.
@@MandyJane123700 I noticed that as well. All the scuds in my shrimp breeding tanks go crazy for grapevine leaves.
good idea. Never fed those. Dadap leaves are great ..do you know them ?
I had also noticed that the oak leaves weren't breaking down. It was when I stopped paying attention that all of a sudden I would notice the skeleton of the leaves were all that remained. Chris did mention in the video about oak leaves specifically, and that does seem to be what I am experiencing. For my tanks, I think that I will be more patient and have leaves of various amounts of time under water so I don't have to worry about the shrimp running out while waiting for the next leaves to break down enough.
@@chrislukhaup yeah I heard about them and I know what they are but I never tried them. Maybe I will one day...
I have seen an improvement in my neocaridina shrimps' vitality after putting some leaves in the tank.
This specific video is gold. Thouroghly enjoyed it. Thank you.
you are welcome. !
What does vitality mean?
Thanks for this, and also, beautiful imagery. I rarely get to observe them in such detail.
Chris, this is hands down the most informative video on feeding dwarf shrimp I have ever seen. I really appreciate your presentation of scientific literature in general in your videos. You are incredible ❤
thanx a lot !! I am just interested myself in these things thats why i want to know whats the real deal ;-) But thanx for your kind words !
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Great information on Botanicals, Thanks for sharing Chris 🙂
Wonderful video Chris. You spoke about leaves in your first livestream and alluded to this video coming out soon. I jumped straight in and collected dried leaves (Platanus occidentalis) from my yard straight away and added them to one tank. They do not have any fungus as of yet but I hope to see shrimps feeding on them soon. An idea for you to consider: You speak to how oak and catappa leaves work for you. I am guessing most of your viewers live in temperate climates. If you know of temperate species or genera that work well with shrimp it would be great to know. Personally I do not want to order leaves from outside my local environment if I can collect my own. I believe that living things benefit from the energies of local food. Plus leaves flying all over the world seems a little off for me, but I understand others might be OK with it for them. I want to focus on the best local options, if that knowledge is available. Just a thought! Thank you so much for your passion Chris. Keep up the great work and be well. Cheers! PS- perhaps I should run an experiment on my own and see which my shrimp prefer- as you did in the video. :)
Hey Mike, i will be on this Friday..if you want to join its a members only Live. If you have time join and we can talk about these things...
I plan to do my best to join on Friday. I enjoy your livestreams. See you then!
Thx you for bringing all this info and your experience regarding leaves and shrimp health. Very detailed. amazing.
Maybe stupid questions but nevertheless, how long do you soak your leaves for and should you use dechlorinated water for that? Mine go through them pretty slowly as I am just starting a colony so I'm not sure how many to pre-soak at a time.
you can use rainwater...better. Also i added a bit of shrimpsalt to it ;-)
@@chrislukhaup Good tip, thanks!
Loved this content. This is so much in detail and also with practical experimentation.
I hope you read this, I am sure you need to know that evergreen trees waters edge puts more oxygen in the water, the breakdown of leave decomposition takes oxygen out of the water. This affects the oxygenation of all the aquatic life within range of the tree in the riparian zone. Thanks for including so much information, learning never stops.
thanx for letting me know about that...i am also still learning;-)
Super video Chris, beautiful footage and wonderful explanation. This video is rich in info. Great job. Thank you so much. Superb 👍💯💖
Thank-you for this in-depth information. It helped explain some things that confused me about leaves and shrimp.
Happy that you like it !!
Thanks, Chris for this helpful video. Per my experience, they love spinach leaves the most. I stored a lot of spinach leaves in my fridge after boiling them.
I've been using leaves in my shrimp tanks for quite a while but have just learned something new. Thanks
Your shrimp videos are my favorite 💗
thanx a lot !
Another really awesome video!
It's always interesting seeing an indepth dive into topics like this.
i think it is very needed to provide this info
Great video! Are there other botanicals other than leafs you like to use?
no, i just use leaves...
thanks for this very interesting lesson about leaves and shrimps..i will follow further..and yes i want shrimps in my new tank so i am new with this, and are eager to learn..thanks again
thanx ;-) Do you know the Breeders and Keepers Magazines Vol 1-3 ? if you really want to learn you should check them out !
I will do fore sure..its also part of our hobby 👍 thanks again
That was amazing please keep the videos coming
Very Educational Video. Thankyou for sharing.
Thank you very much, this is such good information. At what temperature did you run the experiment? I wonder how the temperature would influence how much they eat.
Given your experiment, do you think it's accurate when people say that shrimp have a low bio-load vs. fish after adjusting for their size?
that is a interesting question ...i think compared to their size they have a very big Bio load...
Good videos, I am working my way through most of your videos.
I am wondering what leaves I can collect in the UK that are best for shrimp, i guess UK has a lot of the same native trees as Germany? I have access to beech, oak, sycamore, cherry, willow, poplar, horse chestnut, edible chestnut, and some I can't identify.
As you say, I notice shrimp don't eat oak leaves much, they last for weeks, but they do seem to nibble on cherry and pothos more.
i think more important is that you keep them a while in a bucket then i guess they will take everything..even oak. But they need to be slimy
I definitely noticed that when I used oak leaves they took way longer to break down and the shrimps did not seem as Interested in them as the cattappa leaves
Maybe because oak leaves takes long and hard to decompose?
I used ketapang leaf and my shrimp simply love it!
love this, thanks for sharing
amazing video..just wondering, is a necessary to boiled the leaves first?
you can do that...but then you will boil also all the other stuff that live on them
@@chrislukhaup thanks for tips.. I was really scared that if I did not boil the leaf enough the gum from the leaf might poison the shrimps (feeding my shrimp with papaya leaf)
I am interested in seeing and hearing more about the Blueberry Snails.
if you come to live i can talk about them.
I tried feeding leaves, from my garden, that i don't spray, to the shrimp.
I fed apple, and pear leaves.
They liked apple leaves.
Fortunatelly, apple leaves are easy to get.
Great video! thanks for sharing with us! 🙏🙏🙏
Great video 🤘
Great information!
Love the content brother, hows the Panda loaches, i can't find a lot of information about them online. Any chance of on update video, i was told that above 22 degrees, they start dying ,so how do your fare in the summer when temps get high
there is not so much info about them even if a lot of people have them.
Fantastic thanks!
Very useful information 👏🏼
I subscribed because of this video. Great content
thanx for your support !!!
Hi,
Hope you are doing fine sir .
Could you PL guide how often shall we change the water of neocaridinaia tank and how much
Can pecan tree leaves be used?
i think so..i have never used them but i think they can be used.
what about bambo leaves?
they love them..not that much himic acids on them
Hadir bos ku mantap spot nya luar biasa bos ku seaht selalu bos 👍👍
Love your video and your explanation! The fungi fact very very interesting, I Will try the bucket with catapa leaves
let me know how it works out...
Great job with the video, it was well made and very informative. Videos that you produce inspire me to want to keep shrimp. I have a 10 gallon with 1 honey gourami, 10 celestial pearl danios, 4 panda corys, could I keep 1 or 2 amano shrimp to tackle the green hair algae?? Thanks
just try some shrimp...if you have problems you know where to find me... ;-)
@@chrislukhaup Thank you
How do terrestrial leaves compare to aquatic plant leaves?
Interesting question but i think that they dont have these fungus on them...or not in this quantity
@@chrislukhaup awesome! Thanks!
I am in Rhode Island, have oaks, maples, black cherry, willow, chestnut. Any of these good ?
all of them have been used by others and they weem ok to use.
That shrimp poop water would be perfect tp pour onto your compost pile, or directly on your plants or garden.
my water goes always into the garden..
Stream still going on soon?
next stream next week...
What is everyone's favourite botanical??????
Ill go 1st.....India almond leaf
Mulberry (fast decaying) and Jack Friut leaves (stay stable for longer)
plane tree, grapes, mulberry, nettle. You have to boil the oak, then they eat very well
Mulberry leaves
What are you thoughts on banana leaf?
I'm using them, just don't give too much of them, that's leaves seems have too much nutrients and while it start to decompose it decomposed fast, so give it little by little
Thanks chris
Thanks for new beautyful video!
What a beautiful video
Apart from the humic acid, my observation is that these organisms are heavy protein feeders and most of that protein they get from microbes decomposing the leaves. Their basic form of protein is microbial protein.
there is some good scientific papers about that...
what they eat?
they are omnivores
Awesome video thanks for the info mam
Great info, got a new sub
thanx Jeremy, how did you find me?
@@chrislukhaup UA-cam algorithm 👍🏼
At 14,19 what type of leaf is that? I cannot quite catch it. Thank you.
Dadap Öeaves
Dadap Leaves
Great information
thank you! very interesting video!
My i know what’s the camera setup you’re using for these shots!? 😁😁😁
🍀☘️🌿🌱🌾🌴
THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION :)
BEAUTIFUL MACRO VIDEO :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
I have alder cones in my tank, and the driftwood has a lot of biofilm. Should I still add leaves? I have around 12-15 shrimp. Some have recently had babies, but they're too small to see in the tank. One is berried. They never eat the food I add. I think because of the biofilm and algae.
i would always have some leaves in the tank esp. for the babies ;-)
@@chrislukhaup Thanks! I started soaking some after watching this video :)
Can I put it with the lobster in the same tank?
lobsgter is marine, crayfish is freshwater. So crayfish you can add..but just the really big ones. Not Cambarellus
@@chrislukhaup thank you, I really I meant cambarellus, but I did not know that its name was like that
Cambarellus are dwarf crayfish @@yoko7263
@@chrislukhaup yeah I know
silkworm mulberry leaves are great for them.
Pretty awesome!
thanx !
Now i have learned something Thanks You
great video Chris 😙. Big question: can we hope to one day have your books on invertebrates (shrimp, crayfish, snails) translated into French?
THANKS
actually there is one...with Marie Sophie Germain
I love your videos
Mine love boiled spinat leaf
I like how u take picture
thanx !
I buy an "f". - Leafes.
❤❤❤
Haven't fed my shrimps in my outdoor tubs for quite a long time because of leaf litters. They would munch on fallen leaves every now and then.
Can wait for the live stream unless I missed it
Good content
I love jackfruit leaves, they're amazing for any tank. Fyi, please update your title, it's 'shrimp' not 'shirmp' 😉
oh yes..you are right..i have to correct that. Thanx !!
@@chrislukhaup cheers dude
5:03
Thanks. Great Video.
First of all, I just want to say your footage is absolutely gorgeous. You could just put some music on the background and you'd have a wonderful relaxing nature video as is.
Second, you asked if there was anything watchers would like to see a video on.
I was thinking, relating to the topic of this video, that it would be really nice to have a video dedicated to gathering and using leaves from outdoors in one's tanks.
There's a lot of different advice on which plants to use, how to treat the leaves, when to collect them etc. and some of it is conflicting. Because of this, a lot of this stuff is confusing. For example, I see a lot of people say that leaves should be allowed to fall and turn brown before collecting them, but then shops sell dry leaves that are clearly green, like dandelion or raspberry leaves. And some say to freeze the leaves after collecting, while others suggest boiling. Yet some more are very adamant that only leaves from a few plants are suitable for putting into a (shrimp) tank.
I've been running a little neocaridina/snail nano for a bit over a half a year now, and am just setting up a 100L one with more of the same. I live in the countryside and have a garden (in which I don't spray), and I would love to know which plants I could collect leaves from to feed my tank critters, and how to treat those leaves, as well as how to store them for winter.
Of course if you don't feel this is a suitable topic for a dedicated video, I completely understand. There would be some issues with plant species of course, as a lot of viewers would be from all over the world. In fact, that's partly the issue with some of the advice on collecting leaves for tanks, that the people writing the advice are e.g. from North America, while I'm in continental Europe. Making any sort of a comprehensive list of what's good and what isn't would probably require an entire book, not a UA-cam video.
I've watched a few of your videos now and your content is excellent, the video quality is great and your pacing/editing is very good. I'm definitely going to browse through your channel for a good while.
i thought about that also...yust relaxing videos...
sorry i had to leave the live stream yesterday! things got hectic after dinner! 😮😢
no worries..but i need your email to send you the poster ... I hope you are doing ok.
shrimp faeces, isn't that a problem in the aquarium?, now they shit so much
i clean the aquarium every week..so all is great. no algae nothing..
thanks for reply ,and thanks for your help@@chrislukhaup
@@chrislukhaup thanks for your help. I enjoy watching your video
Asia ka sabse bada Machhali Mandi
U should go as movie sorry series script writer...saying the same storry again and full time pass
what you mean ? that i repeat to often thee things?
Thanks chris