Another great video mate perfect timing i just ordered some redrooters and the cold is exactly what im worried about lol i was taking a drink when it get to the butthole gesture and almost sprayed my phone i started laughing
Thank you for the video Mark. I'm dealing with a similar issue right now too with some melting issues during shipping. With your video I'm not going to try and section off some of my Frogbit into a QT tank and try to nurture it back to life independently of what is going on in any of my stocked tanks. Thank you sir.
@@MarksShrimpTanks headed to the store for supplies now. Do I need to do more frequent water changes if I keep them in a qt tank with just ferts and light or is a weekly water change okay?
My favorite floater is salvinia minima. The leaves look awesome, and it grows fast enough to feed my koi a few handfulls of it once a week. Plus the roots dont grow as long as frogbit roots do.
Marks Shrimp Tanks I feed them a ton of duckweed and salvinia minima. I only give them some frogbit once a month or so. I do feed them a good quality pellet food too, but they love my floating plants as a treat!
When it comes to plants and fertiliser and shrimp in tanks, are fertilisers safe for the shrimp? I bought fluval plant micronutrients and I’m scared of introducing anything harmful for the shrimp. Can’t find much useful from google. Do you use ferts in the tanks?
That's stuff so hardy, just take your best plants and put them in your neo tank, in a month they'll be coming out your ears. I just threw a bunch out this morning, it grows so fast. Lol
My favorite is the red root floater, it doesn't need as much nitrates, and it looks so nice with shrimp hanging on the roots n it produces tiny yellow n white flowers.
@@dgstanks7447 Question about the red root floater if you dont mind, the roots used to be red and so did some of the leaves is it normal for the whole plant to turn green roots and all ?
Marks Shrimp Tanks I've never heard of that, I've got it in like 10 tanks I've had it drop leaves n the roots turn black, which I think is a lack of nutrients, but never green, I've heard anything red requires more iron, but I use a liquid fert that's shrimp safe w/ not much iron in it.
Want to be successful with Frogbit? Cut off all roots that did not grow in the water you are placing them (this is an important step). Place them in ~70degree F old tank water with an aerator of some kind with plenty of light from whatever source available and within a week you will see growth. I started with 5 leaves of Frogbit (not 5 plants but 5 leaves on a plant) and now I can hardly keep up with it all. I now have tons of Frogbit in many tanks, and I mean so much plant matter leftover after each weekly cleaning that I use much of it to fertilize my terrestrial plants.
Anthony I am not kidding I started growing frogbit from a bag of green mush, I had ordered some and we had freezing temps and it killed everything. I didn't get rid of the bag straight away and after a week I noticed what I though was duckweed in the bag, I put it in a tank and it grew into frogbit. 😂
I'm confused and a little dissapointed, i've had shrimp for a few months now. Yet they do not breed, my ph is always around 7.4. My temp on tank is about 24 celcius. I have tried lower like some people suggest for ages. Tds always around 180, No ammonia or anything nasty. I have saddled Females. But never anything more. I have 6 cherry shrimp. Could it be they are all Females? lol or do i need to buy more shrimp in the hope for a male? im not so sure my local aquatics centre knows the difference in male to female, also they have sold me a pregnant female with eggs a few months ago, which turned out to be Ellobiopsidae. Wish i had seen more vids before i bought them. On the ellobiopsidae front, "the shop" admitted liablity and recomended i quarantine my cherry shrimp away. They admitted liability and said they would replace all my shrimp if they die. Is the secret to breeding RO water? Is that something people do not tell us? As in Do you HAVE to use it? can shrimp breed in de chlorinated tap water?
I am here to help you Deltoid!! your water is more than good probably, can I ask you how often you change water and how much ? do you store and age the water before you use it ? that part is really important. This playlist will probably help you ua-cam.com/video/IilegKBsh_o/v-deo.html
I sell different floating plants on eBay and Frogbit 🐸 is my personal favourite. The dying leaves are more manageable than Salvinia and Dwarf Lettuce. Never tried Redroot Floaters as my lights are probably not strong enough
Remember to like guys so we can smash those no life haters hahahaha😂
I absolutely love floating plants! I love watching the shrimp clinging onto the roots! I just wish they didnt make the tank so dark.
Yeah me to , I hate it when they get supper long roots though that go into the substrate.
Yeah there not the best for my Fluval spec... So i ended up swapping them out for some water lettuce instead! These are slightly smaller.
Another great video mate perfect timing i just ordered some redrooters and the cold is exactly what im worried about lol i was taking a drink when it get to the butthole gesture and almost sprayed my phone i started laughing
Thank you Sir !!
Thank you for the video Mark. I'm dealing with a similar issue right now too with some melting issues during shipping. With your video I'm not going to try and section off some of my Frogbit into a QT tank and try to nurture it back to life independently of what is going on in any of my stocked tanks. Thank you sir.
Hows it going ?
@@MarksShrimpTanks headed to the store for supplies now. Do I need to do more frequent water changes if I keep them in a qt tank with just ferts and light or is a weekly water change okay?
Normal water changes would be fine, I am just going to do them when I remember like all my tanks hahaha
@@MarksShrimpTanks understood. I'm on it!
They love nitrates, don't like surface agitation, love it over 22°c /72°F , and medium to high light. Have some myself they took over several tanks.
Thank you for the advice Thomas, I think they might also like humidity so I will put a lid over their tub.
I can't wait for the summer time Mark need some of those red root floaters. Awesome video Mark.
Thank you Very Much carbon !!
My favorite floater is salvinia minima. The leaves look awesome, and it grows fast enough to feed my koi a few handfulls of it once a week. Plus the roots dont grow as long as frogbit roots do.
You feed frogbit to your koi? I can see how they would like it, reminds me of cucumber hahaha
Marks Shrimp Tanks I feed them a ton of duckweed and salvinia minima. I only give them some frogbit once a month or so. I do feed them a good quality pellet food too, but they love my floating plants as a treat!
when I had these before the ramshorn snails would also eat alot of them.
Marks Shrimp Tanks thats weird, my blue leopard ramshorn snails dont eat any of my floating plants. They do eat leaves on stem plants though haha
Yes need this have some & are in a 3 gallon tote with a lid ..
They are a great plant to have in a shrimp tank.
@@MarksShrimpTanks yes mine are a little bigger unless yours are is water lettuce or maybe small ones.
@@yanjijay6752 No these are still small, when I got them you couldnt even make out they were frogbit they were so damaged.
Is orchid fertilizer aquarium safe? Thanks Mark.
it is if you get the stuff that has no ammonia, some of them do.
Hey Mark, was wondering if you could do a neocaridina or caradina cull live on stream just to go through it
Yeah we could do it today actually in the live stream :)
When it comes to plants and fertiliser and shrimp in tanks, are fertilisers safe for the shrimp? I bought fluval plant micronutrients and I’m scared of introducing anything harmful for the shrimp. Can’t find much useful from google. Do you use ferts in the tanks?
Just make sure it doesn't contain copper. Copper is either toxic or poisonous to them, can't recall which. Otherwise I think you are ok.
Lol @ "butthole" + gesture
hahahaha I was wondering if I should have cut that out hahaha
That's stuff so hardy, just take your best plants and put them in your neo tank, in a month they'll be coming out your ears. I just threw a bunch out this morning, it grows so fast. Lol
I will do something like that, probably add a few pieces to different tanks :)
My favorite is the red root floater, it doesn't need as much nitrates, and it looks so nice with shrimp hanging on the roots n it produces tiny yellow n white flowers.
@@dgstanks7447 Question about the red root floater if you dont mind, the roots used to be red and so did some of the leaves is it normal for the whole plant to turn green roots and all ?
Marks Shrimp Tanks I've never heard of that, I've got it in like 10 tanks I've had it drop leaves n the roots turn black, which I think is a lack of nutrients, but never green, I've heard anything red requires more iron, but I use a liquid fert that's shrimp safe w/ not much iron in it.
I will have to look into it I dont give them any iron at all , I think red is from lots of light and iron right ?
Can put a video of money plant grown in a tray between glass tanks
can you use frogbit to feed your shrimp like the way you used your duckweed?
I am not sure my friend
Want to be successful with Frogbit? Cut off all roots that did not grow in the water you are placing them (this is an important step). Place them in ~70degree F old tank water with an aerator of some kind with plenty of light from whatever source available and within a week you will see growth. I started with 5 leaves of Frogbit (not 5 plants but 5 leaves on a plant) and now I can hardly keep up with it all. I now have tons of Frogbit in many tanks, and I mean so much plant matter leftover after each weekly cleaning that I use much of it to fertilize my terrestrial plants.
Anthony I am not kidding I started growing frogbit from a bag of green mush, I had ordered some and we had freezing temps and it killed everything. I didn't get rid of the bag straight away and after a week I noticed what I though was duckweed in the bag, I put it in a tank and it grew into frogbit. 😂
Cool video, hopefully they survive. Give us an update when you can.
oh yeah they really survived and grew to much and now I have none 😂
Who likes fishing ;D
hey you look like me !!!
Marks twin. I like fishing videos LOL.
I definitely need this type of plant for my wild betta tank/ i hope these plants will be ok / 👊 shrimp fist
Yeah I think they will be fine as long as I remember to feed them :)
@@MarksShrimpTanks😂 6h of light everyday 👌
I'm confused and a little dissapointed, i've had shrimp for a few months now. Yet they do not breed, my ph is always around 7.4. My temp on tank is about 24 celcius. I have tried lower like some people suggest for ages. Tds always around 180, No ammonia or anything nasty. I have saddled Females. But never anything more. I have 6 cherry shrimp. Could it be they are all Females? lol or do i need to buy more shrimp in the hope for a male? im not so sure my local aquatics centre knows the difference in male to female, also they have sold me a pregnant female with eggs a few months ago, which turned out to be Ellobiopsidae. Wish i had seen more vids before i bought them. On the ellobiopsidae front, "the shop" admitted liablity and recomended i quarantine my cherry shrimp away. They admitted liability and said they would replace all my shrimp if they die. Is the secret to breeding RO water? Is that something people do not tell us? As in Do you HAVE to use it? can shrimp breed in de chlorinated tap water?
Mark can neo caridinia breed in de chlorinated tap water? Have you ever breed that way? Or are we all wasting time until we get RO water?
I am here to help you Deltoid!! your water is more than good probably, can I ask you how often you change water and how much ? do you store and age the water before you use it ? that part is really important.
This playlist will probably help you ua-cam.com/video/IilegKBsh_o/v-deo.html
I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction to get some frogbit
Try ebay
@Mark Ulis hey I know my comment was years ago but does your offer still stand? Lol
Lol, "MST" in French means "vd" as in venereal disease (maladie sexuellement transmissible).
#40 👍😁😘😘
You joked about secret water then told exactly what tds it was and what is in it.
I sell different floating plants on eBay and Frogbit 🐸 is my personal favourite. The dying leaves are more manageable than Salvinia and Dwarf Lettuce. Never tried Redroot Floaters as my lights are probably not strong enough
same, my lights are not strong enough for it ether which is a shame because its super nice when its red.