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I found the shrimp safe fish aren't shrimp safe. Removing all fish was my answer. I am glad you mentioned that because others didn't.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

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@shanejones578

6 ай бұрын

No fish is, other than otos

Love the one that nicks the food at 0:44 😂

Thanks for sharing. Just about to start a shrimp aquarium.

@FishKeepingAnswers

8 ай бұрын

Good luck with it. Would love to hear how you get on 🤞🏻

You deserve alot more subscribers, you have helped me alot with your tips. Thanks alot!

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Hopefully the hard work will start to pay off 🤞🏻

Thanks for the information!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome. Thank you for the feedback 👍🏻

Love the tips. Great video

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you as always for your positive feedback 👍🏻

Great content. Thank you for sharing.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍🏻

Found you last night at work. Love your channel.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind feedback. Glad I can help 💪🏻

I love the neon tetras

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

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10/10

the first time i kept cherry shrimp, i had some black skirt tetras that sniped them all. i had about 8 at first so it wasnt much but i paid a bit more for them at petsmart. the 2nd time i bought 40 random colors from a guy and put them in a tank with guppies and let them be. since then ive had hundreds of shrimp and made over 500 in just 2 months of selling. i think im in a small market in a way. theres only 1 petstore thats not petsmart within like 2 hours and doesnt stock shrimp and petsmart charges alot per shrimp. no one else near by is selling shrimp too so everyone has been coming to me! ive only had orange, red and orange rili and red rili. i finally found some blues im gonna breed and sell with some luck!

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I have a colony of Red Fire Cherry Shrimp in my nursery tank which currently is home to 30 2 weeks old Kribensis fry. I feed the fry a varied diet of baby brine shrimp and bee pollen. The shrimp love the bee pollen. Great video 👍

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I've heard and read a fair bit about bee pollen. Still not had a chance to try it. I might give it a go 🐝🦐

@BGN_Aquariums

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers mine live it. And I believe it breaks down small enough for shrimplets

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I will try and Source some. How does it come? In pellets?

@BGN_Aquariums

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers yes. Well, little yellow nuggets really. I drop them between my floating plants so they dissolve so the fry can eat it as it drops, and I believe thats best for shrimlits too. I got mine off amazon. 1 packet will last ages

best youtube channel ever, I been started last week of growing cherry shrimp colony and I find it very useful, and can you teach me about the life cycle and how to make it breed faster, thanks

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Glad to be of service 🫶🏻

Love your advice ❤️ I'm starting a new nano shrimp tank and would like to keep shrimp only. I have an existing 10gal with roughly about 20 or more cherry shrimp. I would like to transfer some to the new tank to start a new colony. How do I select the shrimp without compromising the existing thriving colony?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

This is a great project. If it were me, I would pick two or three brightly coloured females and a couple of males and move them to the new colony. That way, you should get some really colourful shrimp in the new tank 🦐

Ive tried to breed shrimp for a year noe from 4 differenr tanks and all ive managed to get so far is 2 baby cherry shrimp. Levels are all good and stable, they have enough food, catapa leaves, higher GH and KH. Tonnes of plants including mossed and floating plants. Levels are usually 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites and between 5 and 10ppm nitrates. Ph is 7.5 and in one i tested with a lower ph of 6.8 and results were the same. One ive out a heater in to test the difference and its not made any difference. Their all molting fine and no deaths so im just not sure what im doing wrong and followed so many tutorials to no avail. Ive just shit my 70 liter cherry shrimp tank down because it was costing me too much to run on top of a 240 liter, 55 liter and then 3 nano tanks. I just have a few red crystals now in one, chocolates in another and 10 blue jellies in thr 3rd. Im suppist to be shutting my 50 litre one down soon for the same reason as the 70 litre one. That currently has none in it bar one giant african shrimp which i havent seen for weeks now so i dont even know if its still alive but the tank is still running and i popped 3 fish in this week just to keep the bacteria alive.

@FishKeepingAnswers

15 күн бұрын

Hi. In theory everything sounds right. Out of interest, what filters are you running?

@MsDragonfire1992

14 күн бұрын

@FishKeepingAnswers in my nano tanks I have sponge filters in all of them. My 50 litre has a ciano 80 internal filter, But that tank doesn't currently house any shrimp as my husband keeps telling me I need to break it down because I have too many tanks :/. I only have 5 🤣 3 of which are nanos. Mt 50 litre cube tank is mature and been running for over a year as I used to have rosey barbs and corys in it before I upgraded them to a 240 litre. In all fairness that tank would probably be perfect for shrimp as its stable and only has water changes once every 2 months and that's only because of the tannins leeching from the wood.

I’m trying to create a zero maintenance, zero feeding aquarium. 300 litres / 80gal. Heavily planted to keep nitrates and ammonia down. Only fish in there will be a couple of rams, possibly a male beta and a starlight mini pleco (very low stocking) I was intending to have a self sustaining shrimp colony to provide live food for those few fish. By using a moss wall and the heavy planting to provide enough safe space for the shrimp. How many head of shrimp do you think I would need to balance this?

I found your channel yesterday and am happy to get all the tips and instructions you share. I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to grow a blue dream colony. I have a dedicated tank just for them. To get it prepared and “cycled” I saw a tip to start off with a few feeder guppies a couple weeks before adding the shrimp. I’ve done that in addition to live plants and recently Java moss. I added 20 blue dreams about 6 weeks ago with high hopes of seeing a colony begin to grow. I’ve had a few die off and the rest haven’t produced any offspring. They’re color also seems to be fading to a much lighter, somewhat transparent, blue. Not the vivid sapphire blue they had been when they arrived. I’ve searched and searched to see what I’m missing. One YT channel said it’s best to start off with distilled water rather than tap water. I’d already started with tap, but have been using distilled for water changes. I’m getting very frustrated with myself. I’ve kept aquariums for years and have a happy, healthy community tank. So many offspring from my fish I struggle to find them new homes. I think with the success of my fish aquarium and the struggle with the shrimp has got me stumped. Oh. I did have a insert filter with charcoal, but saw that could remove things from the water the shrimp may need so I removed the charcoal and stuffed some filterfloss in place of it. Thinking that might be alright. Any other tips from you or your other subscribers would be more than welcome. I also have a nerite snail in with then. I’ve noticed I must’ve had some hitchhikers of rams horn snails and they’re multiplying. I’ve been tempted to transfer my two mini pea puffers knowing they’d keep the snail population in check, but heard they’ll go after the shrimp. So much info. I’m a bit lost.

@roelhensen8758

Жыл бұрын

Hi Island Dave, I see you haven't had an answer yet- but would like to tell you I've been active in this shrimpkeeping for over a year and have a colony of about 10 shrimp grow into a group of about 75 in half a year. I have always used a filter with charcoal (to keep the water crystal clear). You could check if the shrimp feel better in distilled water, but I do not think its necessary. I have a lot of people breeding shrimp in my country (the Netherlands) and most of them keep em on tapwater and they have huge numbers of shrimp. I believe if you do small water changes every week or so (small, in order to benefit the shrimp but also not stress them too much) the females will molt more occasionally (which will most likely result in them being able to grow babies faster). Increasing the water temperature can also help them speed up getting pregnant and having babies (but will shorten their lifespan). around 24-25 degrees celsius is doing a great job for me, as well as a PH of around 6 but not higher than 7. The other tips that are mentioned in this video are also correct. The only thing I haven't seen mentioned is that it might help to cull (=remove) some males now and then and keep the better looking/ healthier ones. I have a feeling my female shrimps died quite quickly sometimes and it might have to do with having only 5 females and about 50 males. . . . they get stressed from all those males going after them. Hope this helps out! oh yeah and i keep ramshorn snails too, just make sure they dont get to the food before the shrimps do ;) but I think that they are quite slow so it shouldnt be too much of a problem (as long as you make sure there is enough food for each shrimp). Good luck! // Roël

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would Halocaridina rubra benefit from Catappa leaves as well?

@FishKeepingAnswers

10 ай бұрын

Although I have never kept them, I believe adding catappa leaves would be beneficial 👍🏻

What are your ideal water parameters for growing a shrimp colony?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Temperature: 57°-86°F (14°-30°C) Chlorine/chloramines: 0 ppm (very toxic for shrimp) Ammonia/Nitrite: 0 ppm. Nitrate:

@OVHabitats

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers I am amazed that the their is such a wide range for parameters. Chlorine, Nitrite and Nitrate levels are what we watch for our fish. That does it I am in! My fish room will be getting shrimp tanks.

Hallo from Greece! On a 20ltr cherry shrimp tank if I put a small indian leaf, I still have to keep feeding the shrimps with the others foods I use ?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

I would keep feeding them. Think of the leaf as a supplement rather than a full meal 👍🏻

@louros7435

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you very much!

I put about a dozen in a 20 gallon tall with 2 sponge filters and a 70 degree room, I do a 50% water change once a week. It’s now about 6 months later and I have a number that could never be counted they multiplied by the dozens

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

😂 Once they get going, there really is no stopping them 🦐

@gameplaybythebros5907

Жыл бұрын

50% water change once a week.. isnt that too much for shrimps as per google..? 🤔 xD

@mr.octopus6972

4 ай бұрын

​@@gameplaybythebros5907 If the water doesn't stink or have a problem with algae it's really not necessary to change it at all... I found that a lot of bubbles (the more the better) is keeping any aquarium from going bad.

What is the best way to have a shrimp only tank? I really love the idea of that.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hey. In my experience, just set up a small tank, add a few live plants, and add some shrimp. It’s not as tricky as people make out. I have plenty more shrimp keeping video on my channel. Hope they help 🤞🏻

@Christian_Constrictors_TV

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you so much for the reply! Your channel actually got me interested in keeping a fish/shrimp tank a while ago, but now I realize I really love the shrimp the best. I am currently trying to gather as much information I can before jumping in. Thank you so much again!!!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hey, it’s a pleasure. Any questions, feel free to ask. All the best. Richard

@mr.octopus6972

4 ай бұрын

I've setup a 3 gal bare bottom tank. Aquatic plants are carefully jammed inside aquarium filter ceramic tubes so they sink to the bottom. There are also a lot of houseplants growing in little DIY mesh baskets attached at the top. The roots of these plants act as a great place to hide so there is really nothing else to add in that tank. Shrimp seem very happy about it. I do bare bottom because each time I've used substrate (any kind) sooner or later it came up with some undesirables like planaria or copepods. I want to give those beasts no chance to thrive.

I have a 6 gal tank with 4 drarf size corys and 7 shrimp, finally after a couple of months i had a female with eggs, I did a partial water change like I often do, and the next day she dropped her eggs, there must have been 50 or more, the snail and corys ate them all up. Any clue why she dropped them?? My water reads fine. Oh, and would super small netting like found on a small tropical fish tank net, work as a cover for vents as well as sponge?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hi. Sorry to hear she dropped the eggs. It can be hard to know why she might have done this. It is possible the stress of the water change caused it, but equally it could have been something totally unrelated. Fine netting over the filter intake would work just as well as an intake sponge 👍🏻

@AG-6969

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thanks so much for the quick reply, I've called a Fertility Clinic but they were no help. Hahahaha. Hopefully I'll have better luck next time.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

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do you use bacte ae?

@FishKeepingAnswers

8 ай бұрын

Nope.

Can i breed a shrimp colony in my fry tank ? will guppy fry give problems to the growing of the colony ?

@mr.octopus6972

4 ай бұрын

To my experience even as fry, they will eat your shrimp. I've tried this and failed.

@Filosaquarium

4 ай бұрын

@@mr.octopus6972 thank you so much ☺️

Thinking about breeding my own shrimp so i dont have to keep buying bait shrimp whenever i go fishing. Thanks for this

@mich421

3 ай бұрын

You can also sell them if they are of good quality

@admiralrhino4049

3 ай бұрын

@@mich421 you need a specific license to sell live bait, and I don't want to keep them frozen in my freezer

@mich421

3 ай бұрын

@@admiralrhino4049 If they are aquarium shrimp you can sell them to shops or private individuals. if you don't have industrial quantity

@ArnoldQMudskipper

2 ай бұрын

​@@admiralrhino4049Selling these as bait would be a mug's game. You'd sell them as aquarium fauna. See vid for info

Hi - the catappa leaves in my tank don't seem to break down very much and I never see my shrimp grazing on them - wonder why??? Have other plants and a branch and some stones - gravel substrate and a sponge filter. Feed with crushed up flakes and shrimp pellets. only have 2 adult shrimp and about 20 babies in a 5gal tank. Hopefully once the young mature I will get more babies. but enjoying watching their progress - I just can't seem to keep Java moss alive!!!!!! Have had it in my fish tanks but it always just dies off - is there a trick to keeping it healthy?????? K

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hi. Catappa leaves will start to break down. They can last a long time, so just leave them and you will eventually reap the benefits of the shrimp feeding on them. Growing a shrimp colony is a bit like rolling a snowball, the longer you roll it, the faster and faster it grows 🤔. With out actually seeing the Java Moss it’s hard to diagnose your problem but I would bet you are being sold Java Moss that has been grown out of water (it’s common for stores to sell moss that has been grown out of water). It will convert to a life underwater, but it takes time. What essential happens is the moss appears to die, then, given enough time it will start to grow back nice and green again. Java moss will practically grow in the dark, so if you have an even half decent light, the moss will grow for you. Just give it time. 🤞🏻

@mikekayanderson408

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks for reply.. I have a nasty feeling that ALL my young are going to be transparent!!!! The female was black but the male was blue - all the young are still clear in colour and are at last a month old now!!!! I did watch your video about keeping colours true - but things were a little mixed up when I got my shrimp- didn't set out with a purpose!!!!!! I really do not know how to go about getting a true colour in my tank other than starting a NEW TANK and buying reds from you!!!!! 😃!! I cant possibly kill of all these and I really do not think my local Fishkeeper store will take them!!!!!!! so am in a bit of a pickle!!!!!! I have 4 aquriums but have fish in the other 3...........so have hit a brick wall at the moment I think!!!!!!!! K

@kernalbert4939

Жыл бұрын

@@mikekayanderson408 Put them in the fish tanks! If they live, they live. If they are eaten by the fish, then that's natural. Not sure why you would start with one Black and one Blue shrimp, but usually how it goes, is you get six to eight of one colour. If you are serious about shrimp keeping then culling is a part of it.

@ruidadgmailcanada8508

Жыл бұрын

@@mikekayanderson408 Try, try again. There’ll be more babies again. You can grow the clear babies in a small container until they are large enough not to be eaten and add them to your other tanks or give them away? There’s always a child starting up an aquarium and with the likelihood of over feeding shrimp make a great cleanup crew. With only 2 adults you’ll have a much longer time to get a colony looking the way you want than if you had 10 or 20. Either way Patience is key. Good luck.

@mr.octopus6972

4 ай бұрын

​@@kernalbert4939true

Serious question: do shrimp really eat hair algae? My sole shrimp just died and I can convince you she spent her last 1,5 year eating random algae growth (I never give algae wafers), but I'm still not convinced that she ate hair algae

@FishKeepingAnswers

3 ай бұрын

Red Cherry Shrimp - no, not really Amano Shrimp - yes, providing you don’t offer them something ‘better’ to eat 👍🏻

How do i find you shop at Ebay?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

We haven't shared our eBay username on KZread 👍

what about molting problem?

@FishKeepingAnswers

9 ай бұрын

How do you mean? ⁉️

I have one question for you, Is shrimp eat moina and daphnia culture? And Is it ok to keep moina and daphnia culture in shrimp tank?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hi. So I don’t think shrimp will eat the live daphnia as they are unlikely to catch them. However I have no doubt the shrimp will dine on the dead daphnia and any discarded daphnia molts 👍🏻

@grsaquaria3975

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you very much.

Big space is the most important things for a big colony thats why professional breeders always use pond or big tank.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I don’t entirely agree. We frequently have 1,000 RCS in 25 liters (7 gallons)

@udaydas6291

Жыл бұрын

Wow.its maximum.What tempareture do you maintain?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

We run them at room temperature. We don’t heat our breeding tubs at all 👍🏻

@dylanhughes5944

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers do you use reverse osmosis or tap water?

Would love to hear your input on a blackworm/shrimp tank. Thats what I've been building and they seem to love it.

In a colony of pure shrimp only, how do you keep the mosquito to breed? I am living in an area where there is warm enough year round that mosquito is a concern. Usually, the way for me to keep mosquito larvae away is to keep some guppy or tetra fish in any bodies of water. As you mentioned, they can be predator for baby shrimp. So, if you do not have those fish, how do you keep the mosquito larvae away?

@FishKeepingAnswers

8 ай бұрын

Hi. I think you have 2 choices. Either go with a small ‘predator’ like a guppy or add a screen mesh to the top to keep the mosquitos out.

@BelajarBarengtentangKoi

8 ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you so much. 🙂

@mr.octopus6972

4 ай бұрын

Keep moskitoes out by adding fabric on top. Even a screen isn't 100% moskito proof but fabric is 😉

At minute 3:07 you mention that shrimp can eat fish poop, is that true???

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

In my experience, yes 👍🏻

My biggest question is how to harvest shrimp if I use substrate. Also I'm worried about the substrate absorbing too much dirt and ending up being harmful to my shrimp 😢

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

If you add live plants they will consume much of the waste that ends up in the gravel. If the gravel gets too dirty you could always gravel vacuum it 👍🏻

I have done all this but notice that the cherry shrimp explode (insane amount of babies can't even count them) but the bloody mary's, golden backlines, green jades and blue diamonds don't seem to follow Might there be a reason? Water quality is perfect, water is 24 degrees and theres a lot of air filtering, hiding places, christmas mos, java moss, java vern, you name it, wood, catapa leaves,... They also get beefheart, all kinds of special shrimp king food, spinach, lots of spirulina and idk they are treated like kings. Again the cherry shrimp get the same things and breed insanely, but other neocaridinas do not seem to follow. I even add Bacter AE biofilm multiple times a week so theres lots of biofilm too.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

It seems odd that the population of RCS grows massively, but the other Neos do not follow suit. I can't shed light on that one I'm afraid. I find most of my Neocaridina shrimp follow similar breeding patterns

@Wijnfles

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers maybe need to give it more time dont get it either. Same setup same water same food and space. I hope they will breed like the red cherry’s, cause those go like rabbits 😂

@tigertrent5821

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if you have thought of this but it could be different ratios of females to males

i think i have all males.. :{ how can i tell if i have females. had them for almost 1 month

@FishKeepingAnswers

9 ай бұрын

Hi. If you Google ‘how to sex Red Cherry Shrimp’ you should get some great results. Too hard to explain over KZread comments 😂

Change your youtube name to shrimp kepping answer. It would be easyer to find your channel.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

😂 Yeah, at the moment it’s shrimp heavy, but there’s plenty more to come 🐠

I tried food for the shrimp but my fish eat it all before they can! I have 20 bloody mary shrimp and I can't find any .. I have live gravel and plants 🪴 I have guppies and platys and snails and 1 pleco

@FishKeepingAnswers

11 ай бұрын

Guppies are gannets! They will eat everything. You could try feeding after lights out.