I have the blue ones in a filterless 10 gallons, they are very sturdy, they even survived the heater crash with temperatures going below under 58 during one month. But at cold temperature, they disappear, hiding somewhere like if they were hibernating
After seen your set up i have fluval stratum with little bit of crushed coral in a 7.5 cube fish cyclying for months i orderd some red mixed pinto shrimp from grant and shelby 4days aqo they seems to do well in tank with neutral p.h and t.d.s of 250 i was wondering if i should take out the crushed coral and leave just the fluval stratum to keep them at their normal p.h. of 6 to 6.5 ?
I'm starting 2 10 gallon tanks. one with 20 gold-backs and one tank with 20 red cherry shrimp. I have 4 mystery snails and 2 s n p cory's in each tank. each tank has 3 inches of gravel, java moss and coontail. I'm feeding aqueon shrimp pellets and its working great- the snails digest it, immediately. while they are eating, the cory's come in for crumbs. then the snails poop out goopy pellet crumbles that the shrimp seem to love. I have a tank with amazon sword growing, so i took a yellowed-out amazon sword leaf, dried it out and broke it in half into the shrimp tanks. I let algae grow on the tank walls before the shrimp got here and they are happy.
Oh man this is awesome. As an aside, you got me inspired to get some cold water fish (I believe you had a video on that back in the day that I just saw) I live in Maryland so I am trying to see the species that live around Loch Raven as we speak :)
I can vouch for the hardiness of tangerine tiger shrimp. Got mine last year at Aquashella. Filterless except for hookerus moss. Room temperature. They really show up beautifully on the green of the moss.
Mmm mayyyybe if you found some already living in harder water locally or perhaps garden of Eder shrimp? You may try asking him for his heartiest kh and gh tolerant caridina and see what he says
@@Fishtory your knowledge is priceless I've learned so much about things I never knew about and have made keeping my water buddies happy and healthy from learning how a tank should be setup
Have tangerines in with green jades but better remove the cories. No-Planaria is great. I have two quandary if you ever have time. I got two different jades and see the beginning of a fishbone pattern. I will work with this and never seen this in net's? Next I got a bunch of rabbit snails but the Purple Hercules are closed up now after moving and eating for several days. Any thoughts? Thanks.
@Fishtory I had never seen that before. Now I know! Thanks. Like you I have really enjoyed this hobby. Had some more rainbows and a Cory hatch in a scudd tank. Didn't even see them until they had made it through the critical period.
@Fishtory Yes Sir.I have had mixed luck with them at times. I had a city water problem and I got a carbon block filter set up and got away from weekly water changes. Found out that my hard water wasn't enough. Had a 40 gallon tank lose all MTS's and Spike Tailed MTS's and only had ramshorns.? Didn't know why shells were turning white. Now I know. The purple rabbits were a bit closed in their container. Didn't know they could be shipped with little water and a paper towel. They opened up and started scooting and were feed for a few days well. I think you are correct about them taking a time out after the ride and a good meal! Thanks. I have a bunch of rainbows and ready to breed them now at almost 66 years old. I wish I had put more effort in earlier?
I have well water. pH 6.0 GH 100~120 KH 40 Would I be better off with neo or regular caridina under these parameters? Or will neither thrive without a different water source?
You would need to bring up the ph a bit probably. Id say you could do malawa, tang. Tigers or any neocaridina no problem if you use a buffered substrate like brightwell or fluval stratum
Here's a question that's neither here nor there, at any rate I'm growing a particularly largish Java Fern that I think is often called Phillipine Fern. when it gets growing to over 10" to 12" leaf length it will grow out a trident leaf. Are these Java Ferns fairly common? Because of this plant's history and that I've also kept regular Java Ferns that hardly get half this size I keep thinking I may have an unusual variety.
I've been looking at Tiger shrimp lately. I've got the water for them, and most other caradinas. The price has always stopped me in the past. One thing to lose some nice cherry shrimp, but caradinas are a whole lot more spendy. I always have to add crushed coral and wonder shells to my other tanks. Really thinking about just going with the water I have. There's a natural creek behind my house on the nature preserve. I'm going to test the ph in the creek itself, and the TDS in a quart of it. I'm really curious about the natural water I have available to me. Have to heal up to make that hike though. First it was the broken leg last year. . And right now, I have a badly broken baby toe, 3 other severely bruised toes, and a badly sprained foot and ankle. All from slipping on a wooden bead on the floor from a craft project I was working on. My whole foot just rolled right over and under and a heard the sharp, crack, snap of the baby toe along with the intense, sharp shooting pains. So in a boot thing, supposed to and Dr loudly emphasized this...Stay The Hell Off It!! She knows me too well...I have the ADHD thing going on and things to do...cannot stand just sitting with my foot elevated for hours on end. So probably another month before I'll be able to go trotting off thru the wild woods, unless of course I can find a couple of nice, young, very strong men to take turns pushing me in a wheel barrow back there. These are the things I think about while sitting around with my foot up in that clumsy, bulky, boot thing... Thinks about project...starts googling prices on oversized wheel barrows, lol. How did your implants work out in Florida? Are you happy with them? Are they comfortable? Hope everything worked out well, you've been through enough with all that. Later, my friend. 👍❤️👍
So far so good...its 3 months before we know if theyre all in 100% and grafted on. But yeah And those tangerine tigers are like only 4 to 6 dollars most places now! Which i why i bought 15 (18 really) to start a colony
I have the blue ones in a filterless 10 gallons, they are very sturdy, they even survived the heater crash with temperatures going below under 58 during one month. But at cold temperature, they disappear, hiding somewhere like if they were hibernating
Alot of people say it not okay to mix crush coral with aqua soil is it gonna degrade the aqua soil more faster ?
After seen your set up i have fluval stratum with little bit of crushed coral in a 7.5 cube fish cyclying for months i orderd some red mixed pinto shrimp from grant and shelby 4days aqo they seems to do well in tank with neutral p.h and t.d.s of 250 i was wondering if i should take out the crushed coral and leave just the fluval stratum to keep them at their normal p.h. of 6 to 6.5 ?
Yes, especially if you are feeding quality food with calcium enriched as an ingredient
One of my favorite pets in the hobby I love the shrimp thanks for another great one Alex...🦐🦀🐠🐟
Right on, right on
I'm starting 2 10 gallon tanks. one with 20 gold-backs and one tank with 20 red cherry shrimp. I have 4 mystery snails and 2 s n p cory's in each tank. each tank has 3 inches of gravel, java moss and coontail. I'm feeding aqueon shrimp pellets and its working great- the snails digest it, immediately. while they are eating, the cory's come in for crumbs. then the snails poop out goopy pellet crumbles that the shrimp seem to love. I have a tank with amazon sword growing, so i took a yellowed-out amazon sword leaf, dried it out and broke it in half into the shrimp tanks. I let algae grow on the tank walls before the shrimp got here and they are happy.
Nice!
@@Fishtory thank you.
Hi Alex its great your shrimps are doing so well. I have bad luck keeping shrimps. I think I should try a separate tank as you pointed out.
Wow. I love those both the tangerine tiger and raccoon shrimp. Might have to try it.
Theyre some of my favorites for sure. The cheetahs are even cooler looking
Thanks for sharing Alex looks like you are back at itnice and strong after your trip to Florida we missed you
Oh yeah! Im back. Thanks for sticking around hehe
Do you cull them or seperate them so as not to melt down the breeding lines?
Culling is always going on, yes. I toss them in a community missmatch tank if they arent looking top notch. And add fresh genetics every year at least
Oh man this is awesome. As an aside, you got me inspired to get some cold water fish (I believe you had a video on that back in the day that I just saw) I live in Maryland so I am trying to see the species that live around Loch Raven as we speak :)
Right on! Should be fun
I'm a new sub. I like your channel very much. Your planted tanks are insanely beautiful!
Thank you so very kindly
That's really cool thanks for sharing 💗✌️👍💯
Glad you think so too hehe
I can vouch for the hardiness of tangerine tiger shrimp. Got mine last year at Aquashella. Filterless except for hookerus moss. Room temperature. They really show up beautifully on the green of the moss.
Nice. Was looking at some because they are so pretty. Might just give them a try
Thanks Chevy! It makes me feel better that you also agree hehe
I have hard water, KH is about 14. Do you think tigers could adapt to harder water?
Mmm mayyyybe if you found some already living in harder water locally or perhaps garden of Eder shrimp? You may try asking him for his heartiest kh and gh tolerant caridina and see what he says
Great video Alex
Thanks for tuning in and dropping a nice comment
@@Fishtory your knowledge is priceless I've learned so much about things I never knew about and have made keeping my water buddies happy and healthy from learning how a tank should be setup
Is there info as to why the tangerine shrimp are so much more challenging to keep?
What do you do w your shrimp that done have the true bright colour? Like the clearish ones?
So far i only get yellow or orange. Those clear ones are a different species all together
@Fishtory or maybe you have high grade shrimps
Looking great Alex! Perfect setups for the shrimp and types of fish 😊
Thanks el Heff!
Have tangerines in with green jades but better remove the cories. No-Planaria is great.
I have two quandary if you ever have time. I got two different jades and see the beginning of a fishbone pattern. I will work with this and never seen this in net's? Next I got a bunch of rabbit snails but the Purple Hercules are closed up now after moving and eating for several days. Any thoughts? Thanks.
So neos wont ever hold a fishbone pattern beyond one generation unfortunately. They can end up with a gold stripe down the back though
The snails are probably just full and resting if they got lots of food in one session. Id only be concerned after 3 or 4 days of that
@Fishtory I had never seen that before. Now I know! Thanks. Like you I have really enjoyed this hobby. Had some more rainbows and a Cory hatch in a scudd tank. Didn't even see them until they had made it through the critical period.
@Fishtory Yes Sir.I have had mixed luck with them at times. I had a city water problem and I got a carbon block filter set up and got away from weekly water changes. Found out that my hard water wasn't enough. Had a 40 gallon tank lose all MTS's and Spike Tailed MTS's and only had ramshorns.? Didn't know why shells were turning white. Now I know. The purple rabbits were a bit closed in their container. Didn't know they could be shipped with little water and a paper towel. They opened up and started scooting and were feed for a few days well. I think you are correct about them taking a time out after the ride and a good meal! Thanks. I have a bunch of rainbows and ready to breed them now at almost 66 years old. I wish I had put more effort in earlier?
Hi like your tanks. 👍🏻 about no planarian you may also kill snails, check that
Thanks... and yes it tends to kill 20 or 30% of my snails if i use it as directed. I tend to dose 20% less than the pack suggests
I have well water.
pH 6.0
GH 100~120
KH 40
Would I be better off with neo or regular caridina under these parameters? Or will neither thrive without a different water source?
You would need to bring up the ph a bit probably. Id say you could do malawa, tang. Tigers or any neocaridina no problem if you use a buffered substrate like brightwell or fluval stratum
What's the suction tool you're using in this video?
Hehe turkey baster
You got any big fish. Like cat fish size . Your shrimps look cool and your nano fish
I wish ... i only have some 5 inch cichlids max
Here's a question that's neither here nor there, at any rate I'm growing a particularly largish Java Fern that I think is often called Phillipine Fern. when it gets growing to over 10" to 12" leaf length it will grow out a trident leaf. Are these Java Ferns fairly common? Because of this plant's history and that I've also kept regular Java Ferns that hardly get half this size I keep thinking I may have an unusual variety.
Yes it is one of the 10 or so common leaf mutations that are popular in the hobby. Theyre great
I've been looking at Tiger shrimp lately. I've got the water for them, and most other caradinas. The price has always stopped me in the past.
One thing to lose some nice cherry shrimp, but caradinas are a whole lot more spendy.
I always have to add crushed coral and wonder shells to my other tanks.
Really thinking about just going with the water I have. There's a natural creek behind my house on the nature preserve.
I'm going to test the ph in the creek itself, and the TDS in a quart of it. I'm really curious about the natural water I have available to me.
Have to heal up to make that hike though. First it was the broken leg last year.
.
And right now, I have a badly broken baby toe, 3 other severely bruised toes, and a badly sprained foot and ankle.
All from slipping on a wooden bead on the floor from a craft project I was working on. My whole foot just rolled right over and under and a heard the sharp, crack, snap of the baby toe along with the intense, sharp shooting pains.
So in a boot thing, supposed to and Dr loudly emphasized this...Stay The Hell Off It!! She knows me too well...I have the ADHD thing going on and things to do...cannot stand just sitting with my foot elevated for hours on end.
So probably another month before I'll be able to go trotting off thru the wild woods, unless of course I can find a couple of nice, young, very strong men to take turns pushing me in a wheel barrow back there.
These are the things I think about while sitting around with my foot up in that clumsy, bulky, boot thing...
Thinks about project...starts googling prices on oversized wheel barrows, lol.
How did your implants work out in Florida? Are you happy with them? Are they comfortable? Hope everything worked out well, you've been through enough with all that.
Later, my friend.
👍❤️👍
So far so good...its 3 months before we know if theyre all in 100% and grafted on. But yeah
And those tangerine tigers are like only 4 to 6 dollars most places now! Which i why i bought 15 (18 really) to start a colony
What fishes do u think is best for eating planaria?
I can't even keep cherry shrimp alive.
How much mineral water would you use for a 10 gallon tank?
Id probably use half drinking water then half tap water. If you have a tds of 300- 600 and not insanely hard
Shrimp! Now you're speaking my language!
Oh... you like shrimp eh? Ive got playlists on them, including the most up to date and accurate caridina history genetics video (From 2.5 months ago.)
Hi Alex. Did you delete your lastest Betta video, the one of the history info?
No its rigggght... here... ua-cam.com/video/HV8-QEvqs1c/v-deo.html
Replay review
1st 😂
Winner winner
hi how long do shrimps generally live
2 or 3 years