Did you know, I recently wrote the most comprehensive book ever written about keeping, feeding and breeding Cherry Shrimp. Check it out here fishkeepinganswers.com/neocaridina_shrimp_handbook/

@jsv7211

2 ай бұрын

Hlw sir can I ask you something about shrimp please can you help me ??

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

sure, how can I help? @@jsv7211

I used to have a shrimp tank, they died from a freak accident & since then I’ve wanted to have shrimp again. These videos have certainly helped me refresh my prior knowledge about these weird little creatures…

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

You should get back into it. Would love to hear how you get on

Thanks for the video, I have been looking for a something new for a 16 gallon. Can’t wait to get started.

@FishKeepingAnswers

3 күн бұрын

Hey, you’re welcome. Would love to hear how you get on 🤞🏻

You a very passionate speaker you clearly love this hobby

@tommidrab83

Ай бұрын

Been watching fish videos for years, 1st time on this channeland i agree with you.

Wow, like taking a master class in Cherry Shrimp.. amazing amount of info ... thanks

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

You’re welcome 👍🏻

Brilliant mate, just binged 5 of your videos and very impressed! Subscribed ✅

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thank you and welcome 🫶🏻

@L190jack

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers whereabouts are you based in the UK?

@csharpe5787

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswersdo you know of any groups

I just started this hobby with Ghost shrimp and so far so good. Your videos have been VERY HELPFUL! I’m going to try my luck with cherry shrimp. Thanks for posting these videos especially to us newbies! 👍🤡👍

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share. Have you checked out today’s video? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZWh0tGImNKuhLw.htmlsi=DqdtsMlACLaE15Ho

So informative and great staitforward delivery 🎉

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share my friend ❤️

Great video as always!

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

I like what you're saying my friend😊 i am actually learning kinda fast!!!

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

That's great! I appreciate the feedback

I would love to start keeping cherry shrimp

@FishKeepingAnswers

26 күн бұрын

Do it 👍🏻

Dude!!!!! You’re awesomeness! ❤

@amandacramer1455

Ай бұрын

I’m building my shrimp tank!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🫶🏻

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Nice. Would love to hear how it goes. You can share photos and videos of it on the Shrimp Keeping Discord server 👇🏻 discord.gg/8Yky5GUe6r

Thanks great info 😊

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hello!!!!! Thank you for the new video! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 VERY informative! Keep it up friend!

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to comment 🫶🏻

Just set up my nano tank intended for cherry shrimp. Waiting for it to cycle, in the meantime I’m researching as much as I can, so thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge…my future shrimp appreciate it.

Thanks boss !

THANK YOU!!! I finally found out about those worms that been eating my shrimp because of you!! Got a new fan

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Pleasure. Welcome to the channel 🫶🏻

Great video! I'm going to get my first group of shrimp tomorrow! Been doing some research over time, so this is like extra cramming the night before a test lol. Thanks for the info! Much love everyone!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Congrats on your new shrimp colony. Would love to hear how you get on with them 🤞🏻

Your vid gave me a boost of confidence to start a community tank with shrimps. Thanks. Question. Does it matter how old the tank is given its fully cycled but still fairly a new tank (about 3 months)

Great Info .. thankyou .. all the best from Herts .. I have the perfect balanced aquarium for them ,,, Red cherrys , still saving lol so expensive ,, All the best .

noice shrimpieeeeees🦐🦐🦐🦐☺

You make us feel so confident 😂

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

🫶🏻

another great and informative video!

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ☺️

Going to my local aquarist shop tomorrow to start buying stuff I’m going to need for a 5 gallon planted tank. I already know the substrate I want and the general hardscape I’m going for. I’m on a shoestring budget though so it may be a few months before I can send you photos. Just wanted to say thanks. I have always been deeply interested in marine biology but I always figured you’d need a really large tank to keep anything interesting. Shrimp is perfect for my limited space, and if it goes well maybe I can convince my family to setup a larger one in the living room. A blackwater tank in a 30g long with tetras is gunna be the pitch lol.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to get in touch. Would love to hear how the new set up goes. Why not join the FishKeepingAnswers Discord server and share some pics of the new tank. discord.gg/Qav3ffpSh6

@AgxntOrange

Ай бұрын

​@@FishKeepingAnswersDone. I'll be sure to show off the tank when it's complete. Thanks for the inspiration!

Started with 20 of them in my community tank, but now I have a ton of them. Didn't really do anything special except for feed them once every other day. Sadly, I can't say the same for my aquatic plants. My Java moss hasn't really done anything, and it's been over a month.

I got 8 of them two weeks ago. Thought I lost all but 1 until yesterday night (lights out), when at least 5/6 of them were doing their thing. Apparently they've been hiding this whole time (aquarium is heavily planted). Their only mate is a scarlet badis. How long do you think it will take them until they lose their shyness?

@Benadiction

Ай бұрын

Same here, we had 10 Blue Dreams. Noticed three unfortunately lost their lives over the weeks. Then spend further weeks panicking and searching for the others hiding in the plants. Another month goes by and we notice one of the females carrying eggs. Two months after that and our 200l tank is now littered with an uncountable number of them 😅

Ive never had any kind of aquatic pets besides family ones as a kid but i always loved to watch them and found them very interesting. Im just a bit scared of what to get or how to set things up.

I’ve not had much success so far with my shrimp. Started with 10 and that has dwindled down to 3 over the course of about 3 months. Had two with eggs but nothing seems to have come of that as the eggs are now gone. Still got at least one male and one female left so hoping for success next time.

neos are the second year in my Gardenpond

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

Hi Richard, If I remember well you are based on UK. If I remember well you selling shrimp on Ebay. What is your seller name? Which is your shrimps? Thank you Peter

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Hi Peter. We no longer breed to sell. We decided to concentrate on making KZread videos instead.

Can you mix different color shrimp? And will they produce dinner of one and some of the other, or will it be a new color?

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

You can mix different colours, and you may well end up with a new colour strain, but most likely you will end up with some wild type, brown shrimp.

Where is the best place to buy shrimp in the UK? Loving these videos, im learning so much.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Recently I have been buying from Tropco.co.uk I have only had positive experiences with them so far 👍🏻

@Craftalyticalrants

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you so much for responding so fast, and for the recommendation! I haven't started a tank yet, but I'm doing as much research as I can. Really the tank is for my nearly 5 year old. She's autistic and *loves* fish. Watching them helps her regulate and get some of her stimming out. I'm on a really tight budget, so a heavily planted tank with Endlers or platys, then shrimp for all of their tank benefits. Although, I'm not going to lie, they are mostly for me 😂

No idea if this is a dumb question or not, but if you've just got the one shrimp tank and aren't introducing new shrimp, do you need to worry about inbreeding? Or is that just not really a thing that bothers shrimp and they'll keep having healthy babies

@FishKeepingAnswers

27 күн бұрын

I have essentially had the same group of Red Cherry Shrimp for about 10 years. No inbreeding issues so far 👍🏻

Very interesting video sir!! I have a blue crayfish/lobster one year old female. Do you think a couple of these shrimp would be ok to live in peace with her. IE help with cleanup. I once put some tiny Eurasian Minos in mebe six , and she hated them, wouldn't come out from her cave ect. IE would the shrimp leave her alone? Also if I had a couple of shrimp and they don't get on with my 'nessy' crayfish could I put them in my apple snail tank? Thank you.🦐🦂

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

This will be trial-and-error and may depend on your particular crayfish. If you do try, I would love to hear how you get along.

@mark70s29

2 ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you.. don't think I'll risk it:)🦐

How about air in a nano tank (2 Gal)?

Is it possible to have a planted shrimp tank with no filter at all?

@FishKeepingAnswers

8 күн бұрын

With no filter, yes because the plants will do much of the filtration for you. You will still need circulation and surface movement, so run an airstone 👍🏻

I have cherry shrimp in a community tank with guppies. Any tips on feeding the shrimp without the guppies eating it all before the shrimp even find it. I've tried feeding the guppies first and dropping a wafer in. I've tried hiding a wafer under something. I've tried dropping a wafer when the lights go out but the guppies still find and eat it all.

@jessethabarber

Ай бұрын

Are the shrimp dying off? You'd be surprised at how many microscopic pieces of food make it to the bottom.

@csharpe5787

Ай бұрын

They’ll be fine.

I've recently added some gost and cherry shrimp to my tank.. it's been at least 3 weeks and haven't seen any of them.. is this common..

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

They can be surprisingly good at hiding, although you would expect to seem them sometimes. Maybe shine a flash light around after lights out and see if they are out and about when it’s dark 🤔

Richard, do you feed frozen blood worms or freeze dried blood worms? I’ve been doing frozen but is it OK to do freeze dried?

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Personally, I feed frozen rather than freeze dried because I find freeze dried just float. Both types of bloodworm are fine to feed to shrimp 👍🏻

@user-pb5lm7wu5i

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

I’m getting to get shrimp to,Moros wish me luck,

@FishKeepingAnswers

13 күн бұрын

🍀

Sir can i put shrimps in a basin with plants and shells pls reply❤

@FishKeepingAnswers

26 күн бұрын

Sounds like a good set up 👍🏻

@aleenaaju9428

26 күн бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks

Can you make a video on tips shrimp with small fish. For example my fish eat all there food. And my shrimp stay by the heater and scared of the fish.

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add it to the list 🤜🏻

Any tips on how to keep shrimps with Betta male?

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Best tip is provided plenty of hiding places for the shrimp, just in case the Betta fancies a snack!

What if I don’t want them to multiply? Can I only keep females?

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

In theory, yes 👍🏻

Hi.. i have about + - 150 blue neocaridina shrimp in a 80 L aquarium, is it normal to lose 1 to 2 shrimp i a week? i feed them once a day with shrimp food from Sera, its all gone in about 4-5 hours. i have tried to change the water more frequently the last month about 25 % but the first week i did make a big water change about 50 % but it seems that i still have about 1 to 2 shrimp dying every week, it is normalt? they are breeding and seems to do well, so i dont know what to do.

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

I would say losing 1% or less per week is perfectly normal. If you have built your colony to that size, you are clearly doing something right, so keep going 👍🏻

Re. Stability- a lid is the biggest thing you can do, regardless of tank size.

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Great point 👍🏻

@ryhanna_rr

2 ай бұрын

May I ask why? Can they escape?

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

@@ryhanna_rr a lid helps prevent evaporation. Evaporation leads to a drop in water temperature and, as only pure water evaporates, can lead to rises of other water parameters. 👍🏻

@Shleeeemp

2 ай бұрын

@@ryhanna_rr A lid reduces losses from evaporation, so keeps your water parameters as stable as possible. Shrimpys will take stability over perfection any day...

@ryhanna_rr

2 ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers that makes sense thanks

Hey I have a 3 gal

@FishKeepingAnswers

9 күн бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

I feel like theres not that much money to be made in shrimp so Manny people sell them now

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Could be true, but quality always shines over cheap, so there is probably room for those who focus on quality 👍🏻

@Levis-aquatics31

2 ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers I have alot of shrimp I've been selling but I feel like it's hard to compete with mass shrimp seller's but I'm only 16 so it's just for fun lol

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

For what it’s worth, if I were in your shoes, I would pick one or two strains and breed the heck out of them. Become the BEST Blue Dream shrimp breeder or the BEST Black Diamond Shrimp breeder. Become know for breeding the best of whatever it is you love and go from there. Let me assure you, assuming you are a sixteen year old that doesn’t work full time, you have a massive advantage over most other breeders, which is you have time on your side. Would love to hear how you get on 🤞🏻

@Levis-aquatics31

2 ай бұрын

Ya I've been focusing on cherry shrimp and black rose and also green jade shrimp I've made 100 bucks so far I just started like 2 weeks ago selling them I've been chulling them as well

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like you are on the right track. Great work

🦐

Hey Richard , I just had to share the other day I was at my LFS River Shore Aquatics in MPLS MN 💙 , I was just talking to the owner about..... When we started talking about shrimp and what I was thinking about for my 2nd variety to go into my last empty 16 gallon , I asked if he was interested in trading my red's for some blue's? What he said kinda surprised me and I thought it would have been easy 🙄 So he offered me$100 for 50 RCS and that ended up taking so long ((((( Heavy plants , and seriously the top of my 40 Breeder has more floating plants that I have been hanging lights on the sides so I can keep the plants inside alive , which they are and healthy too. )))) I ended up making my 16 gallon my 2nd RCS and I think it will be much better for me to focus on the big picture to make both aquariums A) easier to get into. B) Keep doing everything as before because I have been consistent and the shrimp are loving it and I have a? for you .... What is the best way to get rid of the majority of the floating Salvinia and not risk losing any of the baby shrimp or any size for me , I have been considering following you again and buying a Large storage container 3' x 2 x 2 with the amount of floating plants that would cover the surface in 1 scoop of my big net . Should I go completely 0 floaters in my original 40 Breeder and the tub can benefit from the ridiculous amount since I am pretty good at growing those 2 I think it's a good idea to try to sell some ? HEY I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY THANK YOU Richard Help 💙💚

I'm 18th😁

Great info …. But raise the camera ! The angle is odd 😂

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

👍🏻

oh im first?

I wouldn't say it is their purpose merely something they do.

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

You mean like it's their hobby???? 😂

@geoa8090

2 ай бұрын

😂

@Shleeeemp

2 ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswersWell woodworking is right out…

Can you pinned me pls

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

‘Pinned you’ ???

Are you OK?? You seem very 'twitchy' these days..

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

I think I’m ok 🤷🏻‍♂️