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I had neo cardinas for 2 yrs Never changed the water I had mostly moss and duckweed I only added distilled water But one year I loose my power in the winter all loose all of them It hurt For They was fun too watch And when they had shrimplets I was amazed how small they was Nice video Thanks for All the information

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

My first shrimp tank was dry start hair grass tank with 4shrimp

Great video and I live these tips !!

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you love them :)

Vid creator agrees: Patience is KEY in all aquarium endeavors! After each water change, refill the reservoir and allow the chlorine to evaporate a long time (couple days). Use a tiny air hose as the siphon, so your water change takes a while.

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

I love this comment. I also use a tiny hose when re-filling the tank. It takes time but it gives me time to do additional maintenance. But, you do have to keep an eye on it as it's very easy to forget about since it takes a while to fill and there have been two occasions where I got distracted and the tank started to overflow.

Adding a diferent coment because its about the Ick medication ! I also had to add ick medication to my tank, and just before i put it in i read that some ick medication, mine included is NOT invertebrate safe ! I have them im my nano tank for now, the only way to put them back in, is after multiple water changes and using active corbon media to filter all the medication out!

Hey there what plant is that 15 seconds into your video it's awesome. Looks like your little guy is roaming through a forest haha

@shrimplycanadian

25 күн бұрын

Rotala Bossii but a lot of the leaves fell off hence why it looks like that.

Great video!!!! Everything I have learned over the last 2 years

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

Thank You! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Thanks ❤

@shrimplycanadian

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome 😊

Technical question - Im keeping cherry red shrimp in my current tank , can I add other shrimp like red fire shrimp or blue shrimp or yellow shrimp ?

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

Yes you can. Basically you'll be creating a Skittle tank. One thing to note that if you're focusing on breeding shrimp, it's best to only keep the same colour together. With this setup, down the line, the new baby shrimp will eventually revert to their wild colour of brownish tone. This will take a long time before this happens.

@michaelevil78

7 ай бұрын

@@shrimplycanadian noted with thanks 🙏 seem I’m have stuck with 1 colour unless I’m need created new landscape tank for new shrimps . Keeping shrimp no issue but create new planted or landscape is tough part took a lot patience and effort .

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelevil78 Honestly, go with something simple. Take a look at my 1K subs video and it's something easy that can be created (kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooGZuLGdgaTSqLQ.htmlsi=SzBHXZuGftT_KX-s).

Would you do Dwarf Crawfish too. I think they are interesting lil cutie and would love someone to make more vids on them😊

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

One day I will probably get into them but at the moment there's a whole lot of shrimping I have left to do.

Gorgeous video! Which camera do you use

@shrimplycanadian

5 ай бұрын

Thanks :) I use my Google Pixel 6 Pro at the moment.

Shrimp keeping is a weird combination of bulletproof animals that will happily live and breed in a bucket of mud for years but can die if you look at them funny. I regularly do 50% water changes, straight out of the tap with few degree C fluctuations on a large red cherry tank and the shrimp in that tank are in their thousands without any issues what so ever. I have another smaller tank of tang tigers that I am a lot more careful with and that suffers population crashes every six months or so and I still have no idea why. The mistake I regret is not appreciating that lots of very informed, smart people put out a lot of great information but at the end of the day, their water will be different to mine and knowing my water conditions is the most important thing. Even in the same city, water can be hard in some suburbs and soft in others. Some people have perfect taiwan bee water straight out of their taps, others have perfect neo water straight out of their taps (I have perfect neo water thankfully) and each person needs to know what water they are putting in their tanks. Intitially I tried to follow advice that worked for other people but was bad advice for my specific situation (such as adding crushed coral when the water is already hard enough).

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

I recently watched a video on a shrimp keeper in Singapore who mentioned that if he noticed one or two Caridina shrimp die in his tanks, he would do a water change but also it would be time to restart his tank as he uses under gravel filters. Not sure if any of this info is useful in regards to your population crash.

@erickborling1302

7 ай бұрын

Straight out of the tap is not smart at all.... how COULD you? There's chlorine. At least fill the bucket a couple days ahead so it evaporates.

@garthantash

7 ай бұрын

@@shrimplycanadian I think I know the video - Shrimp Mania? ;) Most tigers are supposedly to be kept identical to neos and in one of my tanks, I do have a ton of black roses and tiger hybrids both doing well (too bad the hybrids - hybrid of tang tigers and some other unknown caridina - are drab in colour) but in a tank with just tang tigers, they would be doing great until I realise I haven't seen any more babies in a while then the adults start to die and the damage is done. I have recently put a new batch of tang tigers in with my thriving blue dreams and will keep a close eye on how they all go together.

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

@@garthantash That's the video!

any advice on buying shrimp online? I looked everywhere locally for blue dream and finally ordered some online and it was scary trying to decide who/where to trust! I'm still nervous they'll arrive dead or microscopic in size!

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

I've never bought any shrimp online as I have a few local fish stores around me that stock the various types. I also believe in parts of Canada, most stores don't ship livestock anymore. I wish I could be of more help on this topic.

Drip acclimate when buying them then when I do water changes i give them the same temperature of water slowly dropped into the tank

Could you recomend a good air tube for this ? I dont have any air tubbing so what i do is usualy drop a bit of water at a time But i would much rather buy an air tubbing tie a knot and relax

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

I usually use the soft silicon air tubing. If you see my Amazon affiliate link, you will see the tubing I use plus the little tap connectors you can connect two tubes together to control the water flow. This way you don't need to tie a knot. amzn.to/49kAFJ5

How do you get your tap water to match the temps of your tank when doing water changes?

@shrimplycanadian

4 ай бұрын

It's hard because the most you can do is get it as close as possible. In the past I would place one of those mini digital thermometers but now I store dechlorinated tap water in a big plastic bin which is heated to the temperature of my tanks. It also has an air stone in there to help with gas exchange. Once I fill this bin, I leave it for 3 days or more (ensuring its dechlorinated), then I fill my tanks from there and this allows me to actually do larger water changes if needed since all the water parameters match what I have in my tank.

Excellent video.

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

You’re still a beginner.. and you’re making videos lol

@shrimplycanadian

7 ай бұрын

Everyone's gotta start somewhere. Even with 2+ years experience, I might as well share my mistakes so that someone even newer to the hobby can avoid them.