Mark the way you started this video made me laugh. I'm glad to hear every one is fine and no one else got COVID. I used your BBQ skewer idea for my pond, but since there was so much hair algae I had to use a dowel rod. Thanks for the videos, keep them coming.
Oh thank you Lord 🙏🙏💕 and thank you Mark for the updates!! What wonderful news!! I've been praying for all the situations!! I'm so glad that your wife and the young man are doing well 🙏 And as far as your test...... Not today covid 💪😁💕🙏 🙏♥️🥰 We will unleash the shrimp army!!! Thank you always for sharing with your doing in your shrimp room and helping us become better shrimp keepers!! Have a wonderful and blessed day my friend 🙏💕🦐🌿🦐🌿🙏💕
Before doing a water change I would recommend to re-top off the tank with RO on a drip or the salts will build up over time. I only top off with RO/DI, no water changes at all, and I drip it in over the course of about 2-4 hours, and only about 5 litres at a time at most in a 20G Long(which is about 6% water change done once or twice a month). This is possible with hornwort or other fast growing stem (My tank has a patch of water wysteria, a patch of java moss, a patch of susswassertang(translating the sound of "ß" in Deutsche with it's Englisch equivalent), a thick shrubby bundle of hornwort stems, and a patch of various colors of Bacopa plants to scrub the water. If you have a TDS meter, all you do is after every water change, check TDS with the meter, and GH/KH with a test strip If you need to increase one or the other, mix the correct amount of salts to bring the tank up to that level into a cup of RO water and drip that in over the course of 30 mins. If minerals and hardness are too high, drip some more RO. No mixing up big batches of water, accidentally ramping up salts slowly, and no surprises, your R/O drips very slowly so you can also just cut it off when parameters are right but the level will lower slightly every time by that method because there is still a rate at which your shrimp actually use it up too, so the water line will come down over time. Shrimp can tolerate slight reductions in minerals, but they can't tolerate overdosing, overfeeding, or frequent large PH swings. The most important thing with shrimp is consistency, which is why when I want to do things like change lighting times, I move them by a half hour per week, that way the critters can ease into a new lighting schedule. The ultimate ultimate will be a constant RO top-off with a float valve which I saw in action thanks to your channel, that is just amazing, and it would be so constant that there would never be a water adjustment of any kind, the changes would be imperceptible. Then every couple of months you just have to add a very mild dose of salts, like teensy pinches, essentially a comparable volume to the volume of shell material specifically(not the whoile shrimp body, but the parts that use the minerals). I have been doing top offs the hard way, with a 20ft long vinyl hose and a faucet hooked up to a 4 stage RO/DI filter. The only thing that has gone wrong so far has been overfeeding with an autofeeder while I was on vacation. It just kept feeding and feeding them till more than half passed away. Lesson learned, the colony went from 10 to 4, and now it is at about 36 adult shrimp (3 berried currently). Which is only 2 months and hundreds of hours of videos that include your own among them later... It's been a real learning experience and it's easy to overlook a potential flaw in a plan you work so hard on, but I mean... the Death Star... :D Even Emperor Palpatine makes mistakes, Yoda too.
Thank you so much for the update. I'm sorry your back is paining you though! I've got a bad hip myself, and walking the way I do, makes my back ache really bad, so I sure do understand! I'm also glad your wife, and the young man, are both ok. Take care and have a nice evening.
The tub and shrimp look great. I tried some dandelion leaves, par boiled them. My fish went crazy over them and the snails too. Must be some really good stuff in them. 👍❤👍
I was wondering how the tub tank was doing :) Oh I tried the dandelion. The leaves worked well. (I microwaved them) The loved the flower but it made an absolute mess in my tank. They ate yellow part of petal but apparently there is a tiny "stem" in the petal so I had white - they looked like eyelashes - all through my aquarium.
yeah the flower is no so great maybe its good for that initial release of pollen but my shrimp were not interested in eating it after 3-4 days' so AI removed it.
Love the fucking intro man busted out laughing you fool love it you so creative all the time stay cool man trying to be like you 😎 glad everyone is okay and safe
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Please start every video with “good morning shrimp!” “Good morning Mark!” 🤣
I thought I was so funny
I loved it and champions of champions 🤣💪💖🥰
Good morning Mark and shrimp!!
Mark the way you started this video made me laugh. I'm glad to hear every one is fine and no one else got COVID. I used your BBQ skewer idea for my pond, but since there was so much hair algae I had to use a dowel rod. Thanks for the videos, keep them coming.
Thank you Oscar 👍
good morning Mark
In your best little shrimpy voice!! I love when you guys make the shrimp talk 🤣🤣🤣 Good morning Alan 💖🦐🤣💕🥰
Might have to give this a go!
Good evening Mark and thank you gor this update 🦐🙏
Ohhhh look at you speaking English, thank you for the inspiration to do daily videos 🤙
So glad to see you happy and in better Spirits! Glad you don’t have Covid and everyone is ok!
Thank you Michele hope your having a great day 🤙
Oh thank you Lord 🙏🙏💕 and thank you Mark for the updates!!
What wonderful news!!
I've been praying for all the situations!! I'm so glad that your wife and the young man are doing well 🙏
And as far as your test......
Not today covid 💪😁💕🙏 🙏♥️🥰
We will unleash the shrimp army!!!
Thank you always for sharing with your doing in your shrimp room and helping us become better shrimp keepers!!
Have a wonderful and blessed day my friend 🙏💕🦐🌿🦐🌿🙏💕
Nice Movie ,Thanks regarts from the Netherlands
Thanks for watching
Great to hear about your wife and the family COVID update !!
Before doing a water change I would recommend to re-top off the tank with RO on a drip or the salts will build up over time. I only top off with RO/DI, no water changes at all, and I drip it in over the course of about 2-4 hours, and only about 5 litres at a time at most in a 20G Long(which is about 6% water change done once or twice a month). This is possible with hornwort or other fast growing stem (My tank has a patch of water wysteria, a patch of java moss, a patch of susswassertang(translating the sound of "ß" in Deutsche with it's Englisch equivalent), a thick shrubby bundle of hornwort stems, and a patch of various colors of Bacopa plants to scrub the water. If you have a TDS meter, all you do is after every water change, check TDS with the meter, and GH/KH with a test strip If you need to increase one or the other, mix the correct amount of salts to bring the tank up to that level into a cup of RO water and drip that in over the course of 30 mins. If minerals and hardness are too high, drip some more RO. No mixing up big batches of water, accidentally ramping up salts slowly, and no surprises, your R/O drips very slowly so you can also just cut it off when parameters are right but the level will lower slightly every time by that method because there is still a rate at which your shrimp actually use it up too, so the water line will come down over time. Shrimp can tolerate slight reductions in minerals, but they can't tolerate overdosing, overfeeding, or frequent large PH swings. The most important thing with shrimp is consistency, which is why when I want to do things like change lighting times, I move them by a half hour per week, that way the critters can ease into a new lighting schedule. The ultimate ultimate will be a constant RO top-off with a float valve which I saw in action thanks to your channel, that is just amazing, and it would be so constant that there would never be a water adjustment of any kind, the changes would be imperceptible. Then every couple of months you just have to add a very mild dose of salts, like teensy pinches, essentially a comparable volume to the volume of shell material specifically(not the whoile shrimp body, but the parts that use the minerals). I have been doing top offs the hard way, with a 20ft long vinyl hose and a faucet hooked up to a 4 stage RO/DI filter. The only thing that has gone wrong so far has been overfeeding with an autofeeder while I was on vacation. It just kept feeding and feeding them till more than half passed away. Lesson learned, the colony went from 10 to 4, and now it is at about 36 adult shrimp (3 berried currently). Which is only 2 months and hundreds of hours of videos that include your own among them later... It's been a real learning experience and it's easy to overlook a potential flaw in a plan you work so hard on, but I mean... the Death Star... :D Even Emperor Palpatine makes mistakes, Yoda too.
Glad to hear ur doing better :)
Thank you Anthony
Thank you so much for the update. I'm sorry your back is paining you though! I've got a bad hip myself, and walking the way I do, makes my back ache really bad, so I sure do understand!
I'm also glad your wife, and the young man, are both ok. Take care and have a nice evening.
The tub and shrimp look great. I tried some dandelion leaves, par boiled them. My fish went crazy over them and the snails too. Must be some really good stuff in them.
👍❤👍
Great content thanks
I was wondering how the tub tank was doing :) Oh I tried the dandelion. The leaves worked well. (I microwaved them) The loved the flower but it made an absolute mess in my tank. They ate yellow part of petal but apparently there is a tiny "stem" in the petal so I had white - they looked like eyelashes - all through my aquarium.
yeah the flower is no so great maybe its good for that initial release of pollen but my shrimp were not interested in eating it after 3-4 days' so AI removed it.
So you lower the pH of the RO water with peat before you add it so you don't make the substrate work as hard?
yes but not in the tank in this video
Good Evening!
Good morning!😂🤙
Love the fucking intro man busted out laughing you fool love it you so creative all the time stay cool man trying to be like you 😎 glad everyone is okay and safe
Why do you get so much string algae? I dont have those algae in my tank.
probably not doing enough water changes and letting crap build up.
mark g'day mate. not so much a champion, more of a runner up.and i am fine with that.lol see you in the next installment stay well
Some only use DI without using the RO due to not wasting the water.
you would go through a lot of DI resin doing it that way no?
@@MarksShrimpTanks thanks for the reply
Why not stir up the detritus before removing water, you'll at least get some of it out. :)
I didnt think of that 😂
Maybe that's why my shrimp is dying I don't have that powder stuff0
How old are your berries females?