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/

I made one of these mistakes. I bought 12 on eBay for cheap, and one died after another. I bought another 6 from a local store (far better quality) and they're thriving! Very red and plenty of babies.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Glad you got there in the end 💪🏻

@zaink7037

Ай бұрын

I think the stress they endure from transport does it. I bought 12 bloody mary shrimps online and after about a month I lost 6. A lot less than when I bought them from my local shop. I feel shrimps bought from elsewhere and put in the tank don't live as long as shrimps bred in our tanks as there's no stress of that transport and being grown in our tank perimeters

@Miko-qz4qz

Ай бұрын

​@zaink7037 thanks! The same thing happened to me

Just great knowledge to be found, I live in a hard water zone so now I know which type of shrimp I'd target. It'll take me a good while to set up my tank and plants, but hopefully it will be an Eden for shrimp in a month or two!

Recently found your channel and i love how you sit down and get straight to the point, and the way you explain things just clicks so well with my brain. Subbed!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Welcome to the channel 🫶🏻

@RiverRat1953

Ай бұрын

I got lucky, I live in north eastern Pennsylvania and I have well water. I bought 20 neo caradina shrimp on a whim, and my water parameters were perfect. Now that I found and joined your channel, I have become a more educated shrimp owner. My shrimp population have quadrupled and the colors are amazing!😊

I've kept fish for decades but fairly new to shrimp keeping. I have a couple of Amanos and a bamboo shrimp that has to be at least three years old now in an established aquarium. Recently I bought some cherry shrimp and lost quite a few of them within days. Then last week I spotted some tiny babies and I already have another female with eggs, so they have obviously acclimatised to my water conditions.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Sounds like the beginning of a successful colony of RCS 🤞🏻

Number 3. I went through so many shrimp and almost gave up until I found a good local breeder. That and a few kind words from Richard kept me trying! I’m currently enjoying a healthy growing colony!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Glad to hear you are having some success 💪🏻

I have a sugar kettle fountain outside in Louisiana that was setup a year ago. Got 30 variety shrimp this spring to add to it. I now have a full ecosystem and my shrimp are still thriving after a month outdoors. Hoping they will reproduce!

Absolutely love watching your videos. Very informative and enjoyable. Thank you!

@FishKeepingAnswers

16 күн бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

As an experiment, I like meeting the water parameters in the middle for caridina and neos and they both breed in the same tank so far! The breeder I buy from does this as well and has some of the best shrimp ive ever seen

Just found your channel - you’ve taught me so much already! Ready to try keeping shrimp again.

@FishKeepingAnswers

7 күн бұрын

Hi. Welcome to the channel. Any questions, just ask 👍🏻

Great advice and i love the B roll. Thank you Richard.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

🫶🏻

I tried neo shrimp 2pcs and i dunno that it was a pair and now the female have babies on my 10 gallon 😅. My tank setup inspired from fatherfish, im newbie to the hobby i just try and exploring different things yet, by the way am from exotic hobby from Ts, scorps, and reptiles now i add aquatics and am enjoying it, thank you. I learn new things watching your video new subs. Here ❤❤ love from 🇵🇭.

@FishKeepingAnswers

11 күн бұрын

Hey, welcome to the channel. Thanks for taking the time to get in touch 🫶🏻

By the way I really enjoy your content and knowledge for shrimp and aquariums I’m watching from Toronto Canada

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks you 🫶🏻

I love your content! Hoping to have a big colony of shrimp soon ❤ I’m learning a lot from you.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback 🫶🏻

A local fish market near my school sells culled shrimps in bulk, at a cheap price. Sometimes a medium-high grade shrimp got mixed in that bulk. I got some blue dream, fire red, orange/red/carbon rili, and medium grade green jades for $14 (±50 shrimps, mixed)

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Nice!

@snekjek

18 күн бұрын

50 shrimps for 15 is an absolute steal. the pet store i work at is the only place that has the cheapest shrimp in our area,,,, at like $7-9 dollars CAD for EACH shrimp, even cherries. embarassing.

As a large home breeder in Midwest US with a business, i love what you said about local purchases where you shoot the shit with people for an hour. it's wonderful, and i 100% agree. Love the video!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to comment. Glad you like the videos

I can proudly say that I'm going to be a shrimplet nannie 😍 I've got 3 mummas who are berried and one who is saddled as well.. I was jumping around the backroom yesterday when I saw them

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

That’s great news 🥳🥳🥳

@zowiecardwell8807

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers I'm over the moon.. I'm so happy I've been able to do it and it's thanks to watching your videos.. Helping me make sure my tank was perfect for them

Such great information. Thanks for sharing

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 🫶🏻

The snail at 3:53 got me crackin up

I've gone from having high quality neos in my tank to now using junk shrimp. They look more natural eventually and are great for fish tanks. I then built specific tanks for high-quality pure colour shrimp, these tanks are small and easy to store.

"Most of us are starting the hobby with Neocaridina & Caridina" - & the 1 guy watching who has scuds 😂😂 Great content, very helpful 🦐

@FishKeepingAnswers

17 күн бұрын

😂. Thanks for sharing 💪🏻

@ThePOSM

16 күн бұрын

@FishKeepingAnswers no problem! good to have a laugh & also gain knowledge 🦐 keep it up

I had to do a major water change in my FF tank because I blew a hole in the sand barrier, and it seeped out soil until I was able to get the hole filled. I went into panic mode and started siphoning the dark water out. I have a siphon that goes right outside my front door into the bushes. AFTER this was all said and done, my new water started a bloom right away. I saw my little neons stressing out and PANIC mode 2.0 set in. So, I ran around grabbing all the filter cartridges from my other tanks filters and pitchers of cycled water from my other tanks too, THEN grabbed my neon's and put them in a little 10-gallon emergency tank I keep going... for emergencies.... long story short... my water calmed down almost immediately, and my neons survived. I have other fish in that tank but my neons are little stress balls. All my other fish are fine. Because that tank has plants, I was wondering, are there certain plants that are stronger nitrite eaters than others? And can too many plants harm the water for the fish? And why would a bloom like that happen so sudden and go away just as quick? Thank you.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Wow! That’s a great comment. Thanks for sharing. To answer your questions in order, typically the faster a plant grows the more nitrates they absorb. No, I don’t believe you can have too many plants, although you could argue a tank rammed full of plants with no surface movement could lead to a fatal drop in oxygen levels overnight (but it’s unlikely you’d encounter that) And as for a bloom, tanks typically settle back down given time. I assume by the FF tanks you mean dirt capped with sand? These tanks are great (and I am a Father Fish fan) however problems like this can occur when the substrate is disturbed 😕

@michelle8898

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you!!! :)

Your videos have super helpful and encouraging! I have 2 tanks set up which I'm not super happy with how they turned out aestetically but are breeding and multiplying like crazy right now so I've just left the tanks be. But thanks for all the knowledge and enthusiasm for the hobby! It really is uplifting!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Glad I could help! 🫶🏻

Great information. I have an established tank & going to get amanos

I have a refugium 75 gal. Started with 6 different colored shrimp last August from a local store. Seeded with mud from a local pond and decomposing coffee, and mud and capped with a thin layer of sand. Yielded 3 types of water plant and assorted micro fauna. I feed the shrimp raw meat, chicken necks, quail liver, pheasant bones. Old vegetables. Yeast added to the tank every 3 days for the daphnia. The tank will disappear a chicken neck in about 10 days, a chicken heart in 5. I squeeze out all the filter media into the refugium (from 4 other large tanks). There is a plastic container in the refugium that I put duckweed and water lettuce from my other tanks as well. This decomposes and produces huge algae plumes (Which is the whole purpose) I have a 225 gallon tank that maintains Neolamprologus Lelupe, altolamprologus comprecciceps goldhead. and a colony of Tropheus Moori Firecracker red and a colony of guppies and 6 synodontis petricola. Every day I scoop out Algae and duckweed to feed the fish. It will contain, blackworms, snails and eggs, and shrimp!. Some of the shrimp survive in the 225, it is heavily planted and rocky. It was seeded the same way as the refugium. .

@xValeTatt

Ай бұрын

isn't it bad for water to keep dead meat for days?

@davidtaber2904

Ай бұрын

@@xValeTatt So not sure what that means bad for water. You need the microfauna (especially blackworms) If you look at any of the professional Daphnia farmers many use manure. If you have the right microfauna it will break down everything. The refugium is so packed with live plants you cannot see the other side. All these factors mean that it is breaking down any decaying material in very short order. I could not guess the amount of shrimp three or four hundred. Each female drops 30 to 50 every x number of weeks. Tropheus Moori are super sensitive to diet and water conditions malawi bloat and internal parasites. I am done with fighting nature and making the most sterile environment for fish. IMHO this results in fish with compromised immune system. Most of the fish in the hobby are bleached out shells in terms of their behavior, immunity and coloration. My fish do not sit and wait for food they work for their food every day. Tropheus Moori, A Compressiceps, L. Lelupe have different feeding requirements and it is recommended that they are not kept together. But they are found together in the wild and they are found together in my tanks. Check out Father Fish.

I use a hang on filter with my microfaunia, scud, and shimp aquariums. Use your great aunts nylon stockings and a small rubber band. I use the same method with new fry. It works for me, it might not work for everyone.

I’m successfully breeding pest snails in my shrimp tank 🥴But my cherry shrimp are still alive, only got them a few days ago. I put a bowl of expensive shrimp food in the tank, about 4-5 different brands and products…the only one eating it is the snails 😆 The shrimp look happy enough though, swimming around and knitting on all the surfaces, so I assume they are full on biofilm, and why they don’t care about the food I put in.

Hi Richard i wrote to you earlier about some of my shrimp duying every week, if it was normal, i didnt tell that i also had assasin snails in the tank. i was looking on the internet for information and on several sites i saw that assasin snail could kill life shrimp, i have removed the snails and i hadnt have a dead shrimp since. maybe it was the snails maybe something else, i just thought i would let you know :) Thanks for your awesome videos.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the update. I do keep Assassin Snails in with some of my shrimp colonies, and I haven't noticed any problems. However, the main thing is your shrimp have stopped dying. All the best. Richard

Is it a bad idea to have assassin snails in the same tank as shrimp ? I've seen alot of different points of view but you sir seem like one of the worlds top shrimp experts. Let me know

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

I keep Assassin Snails with my shrimp. Never once had an issue 👍🏻

I have my blue dream shrimp and ramshorn in already it’s only a two week old aquarium they seem great packed with plants and sponge filter in a 5.5 gallon my parameters are good but I just got a nitrite spike to 1ppm I’m hoping this is ok and drops I’m very new to this and trying not to make mistakes I also have been using beneficial bacteria to jump start everything

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

At 1ppm, your shrimp and snails will probably be fine, but check your filtration is working and consider adding live plants if you don’t already have some. They will absorb the nitrite 🤞🏻

@user-ef6cm7vu4m

Ай бұрын

Yes packed with Java fern Anubis moss red root floaters and a few more I’m going to clean the filter with some tank water it’s the only thing I haven’t done in two weeks thanks Richard hope this helps once again love the videos you make

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

@@user-ef6cm7vu4m sounds like you have it all under control. Would love to hear how it goes.

@user-ef6cm7vu4m

Ай бұрын

Hey so I did a water change yesterday morning at 5am and added another small sponge filter to tank also I had 2 rotted anubias plants in the water not sure if this was the cause or immature filter the tank was only set up just over two weeks ago but I’m reading 0 nitrite 0 ammonia and barely and nitrate I think it’s been all soaked up

@user-ef6cm7vu4m

Ай бұрын

Also my shrimp are grazing and look happy

am definitely making some mistakes. gonna strive to be more patient

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Patience is the key 💪🏻

Just found your channel and all I can say is WOW. I can watch you all day. Love your stuff. It's so full of information and entertaining. Thank you for such a awesome channel as I'm a new aquascaper. And I was interested in checking out shrimp; and you've convinced me!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words 🫶🏻

Another great video

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

You are too kind 🫶🏻

12:52 bruh. several weeks for some skrimps? nah dawg. just take some plants or moss from an established tank, throw in some alder cones and a leaf or smthn and a sprits of aquarium fertilizer. let it sit still for a day and boom, biofilm galore. i literally did this 3 days ago. did a 30% water change to take out some of the tannins and added the shrimp. they are livin it up.

@FishKeepingAnswers

27 күн бұрын

👍🏻

If I set up a new tank, can I use or squeeze a sponge from another cycle fish tank into the new tank?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

It will certainly help ‘cycle’ the tank but it won’t necessarily speed up the development of biofilm etc, so proceed with caution 👍🏻

Ok yt, I'm subbed and have all notifications clicked but haven't gotten notifications from this channel for months! Honestly thought the channel was on a break out something. 😡

I paid mine 7 euros each for the Bloody Marys but I think they were of high quality unfortunately they didn't have something less expensive and easier 😢

How to prevent nitrates buildup by overfeeding?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

That depends how you mean by over feeding. It would only be classed as overfeeding if it were more food than they could eat. 👍🏻

What temp do you keep your shrimp...

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Low 70s normally 👍🏻

I already purchased your book. How do i save it?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Thanks for purchasing a copy. What device are you using to try and save it?

@poquito808

Ай бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswersi already saved it on my desktop pc. Was viewing it earlier on my phone.

I tried to buy your book, but there's no option for PayPal. Is there a different link with a PayPal option?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Hi. At the moment the only payment method is Stripe. Stripe is widely considered to be one of the safest payment gateways in the world, so your transaction is safe. 👍🏻

Are ramshorn snails bad in shrimp tank

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Not in my experience. 🤔

How do you deal with feeding/overfeeding and snail over population? I don’t put snails in any of my tanks yet they all have hundreds if not thousands of snails which at times out compete the shrimp…

I try and do each and every method I see ph gh kh everything but I know my tap water pH level but after changing my water my shrimps always die I did not understand what's happening here always I change the water always die 2 to 3 I have charry shrimps please help

@AdamFJH

Ай бұрын

What is the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate level of the water? Also what is the temperate, ph, gh and kh after the water change?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

I second @AdamFJH. If we know these numbers we can hopefully help 🤞🏻

@petertulas-henderson3388

Ай бұрын

I never do water changes. My shrimp thrive 😊

Been 8 months now since i got my 'setup' bloody marys from my local shop and online. Lost several shrimps in the initial 2 months but now cant even count how many i got now. Probably counted around 60 last time but im sure theres so much more hiding. Pretty sure therell be a cut off amount till the population will stop growing 🤔

Got 7 Amano shrimp 8 years ago… these little S**ts don’t die! 2 years life span the pet store said, nah they live forever!

@FishKeepingAnswers

29 күн бұрын

Yep, they are damn near indestructible 😂

I got 15 of them now I got only one. Maybe my vampire crab just ate them I guess

Now I am confused, I put 10 Blue velvet neocaridina shrimp in my tank 12 month ago, They have been and still are breeding well, Lots of babys and females berried atm, My water parameters are always nearly the same even after water changes I do 30% per week, My PH is 6.2, GH is 8 KH is 3 water temp is 72deg. But now you say my water is more suitable for caridina not neos, I am at a loss,lol

@justjacque587

Ай бұрын

No, your water is fine for Neos, they are very adaptable. Caradina will not survive in your water with high gh and any kh. Caradina need ph 5.5 -6.5 gh 5 and 0kh. Thay can not handle kh

@soggybottomped

Ай бұрын

@@justjacque587 Thank You for your response, That is good to know, I will stay with Neos, Thanks Again, Have a good day.

I love my neocardina since i have cery hard waterabd they thrive. I will say my amano have been bullet proof . Also huge a**holes! They are my tank bullies

I raise glass shrimp.

@FishKeepingAnswers

18 күн бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

Hi Richard, I am fairly new to shrimp keeping I just recently added 30 x skittle cherry shrimp to my Endler tank 10 gallon. My question to you is how do I know if my shrimp are eating well. How can i feed them directly so my endlers dont eat all their food? My tank is stacked with plants. I want to be successful in keeping my shrimp happy and healthy. Thanks

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Hi. It can be tricky to target feed when you have active fish like Endlers in the tank. You could try feeding the shrimp after lights out, or try feeding sinking wafers and floating food at the same time. The chaces are the Endlers will gravitate towards the floating food, and the ahrimp will naturally prefer the sinking food.

Hard agree on 'cut your teeth'. When I started a few years ago, I figured my capacity to intake information would offset my lack of experience. Nothing will replace experience in this hobby.

i but a low guality shrimp and i have no problems with them they have a lot of babies.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

That’s great news 💪🏻

Commenting for the algorithm

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

🤜🏻

I grabbed a gallon of pond water & some muck from the bottom & within a week of adding that to my new, 9 gallon tank with 24/7 lighting, the tank has exploded with life for some shrimp (green neocaridina), a nerite & a betta coming this week. ^^;

@FishKeepingAnswers

17 күн бұрын

Nice 👍🏻

Im first!! woohoo

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

🥳🥳🥳

We are in the uk use our currency please

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Hi. Truth be told, 45% of my viewers are based in the US, 16% in India and only 10% in the UK.

@whiskyeet

29 күн бұрын

Perhaps you, he and I, but obviously not the majority. The thing is that he has completely abandoned UK viewers and only seems to use "farenheit" which is a bigger issue in my opinion and is the sole reason I will not subscribe nor exclude from my ad blocker despite this channel being one of the most knowledgeable by far.

@coffeeguy2000

12 күн бұрын

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