Breeding cherry shrimp in natural planted aquariums. Everything you need to know for keeping and breeding Neocaridina shrimp as well as easy to grow live aquarium plants.
Can you please explain how you are breeding fancy red tigers? I have about 30-40, all grown from juveniles. They e all become adults and I’ve had them for about 3-4 months. I had one female breed and that was it. I have a 20ga, GH 4, KH 0, TDS 130, temp 72F. Thank you.
Just like you, I decided to try Caridina after much success with Neo's. I killed multiple tanks of shrimp by overfeeding. Since that day i have never fed my Caridina and I haven't lost one since. Starting a shrimp tank with a 40 breeder sounds good, but they never find the food. Unless of course you start with a ton.
When I first got them I would have 4 or 5 berried females at all times for months, ended up with like 3 or 4 babies make it. Started with 15. Ended up having bacterial issues and was able to save them before they all died. Had 7 or 8 left. Got 10 more, those did pretty good, but still not many babies living. Started getting dead ones again, just quit feeding all together and they did pretty good, just not any getting berried because I quit feeding all together and had 100s of snails. Needed that 40 I started out with for neos, had almost 30 fancy tigers, and started this new 10 full out Asian style, with help I managed to finally have a fully successful setup. Sure is awesome to see these babies. Hard water vs soft water is a completely different ballgame. 35 years of keeping liquid rock tanks, old habits are hard to shake lol.
Will temperature effect the caridina shrimp health? I live in tropical country and my neo tank is constantly 30 degrees celcius. Would like to have an opinion on this before i start keeping crystal shrimp. Great video as always mark. Keep making these video. Helpful tip i get from your videos is feeding powder food, my neos have breeding like theres no tomorrow 😂
Caridina are much more sensitive to temp, you really don't want really high temps. I would say 19C to 24C is the range you want to be in. My tanks are 21 to 22C because that's what I keep my house, so I honestly don't worry too much about temp, guess I forgot to mention temp. Thanks you 👍
Snowballs are just neos, same as any other neo shrimp. They will graze on it for sure, but they're likely to not make it dissappear unless you have 100s and 100s of shrimp. Actually seen them clean the glass of a tank, but that tank has 2000 shrimp lol.
@@MarkShellyAquaticsthanks for the reply! I definitely don’t have 1000 neocaridina shrimps. I just want an algae eating shrimp that isn’t the Amano shrimp because they can escape and jump out of water
I never did lose all of them, but was beyond frustrated with my lack of success. Been keeping hard water tanks my whole life, soft water is a big adjustment of you have 35 years experience working with liquid rock aquariums lol.
I been keeping Caridina for a long time there a love and hate relationship with care and success but I learned with patience and great mentors it greatly helps out and it seems your taking the right steps to succeed
Can be intimidating. Crystal reds would probably be an easier one to start with than the fancy tigers. Some of the tiger caidina (not fancy) are more forgiving too.
@@MarkShellyAquatics i have a t8 tube light pretty strong and a stable ph of 6.7. I started seeing some cyanobacteria form on my white sand instead of some algae bloom.
such a great video with lots of great tips. The overfeeding one hit me hard as that happened to me when I first got into caridina shrimp. I wish there's a safe way to lower the pH without using buffering soil as that can get expensive with multiple tanks. thanks for sharing with us they look great with all those babies in your tank
Thanks man. I never did kill them off and did manage to keep them going with just a stray baby here and there surviving. First time ever having lots and lots of them. Makes me happy to finally see them thriving.
Yep, new rack is in the works when I get all the neo work caught up. Would like to have 2 or 3 10s for breeders, then a 20g for growout with each line. And gotta set up a cull tank too. Thanks 👍
@@MarkShellyAquatics can't wait too see the rack, yo! Remember, continually learning new things helps keep you young. It's better to Overstand than to understand.
First🎉😊full comment at the end🙂👍🏻 great video and information on feeding and water quality.. an RO unit im definitely getting, great for apisto and wild type bettas too, and of course caradina. Your fancy red tigers look magnificent mark!😮👍🏻⭐️
It's definitely a completely different way of doing tanks, so much different than the typical hard water neo setups. Took me over a year and a half to figure it out with lots of guidance from experts. Making the water is a pain, but not difficult. It takes a whole new philosophy with soft water.
It's gardening bug Netting and 70% shade cloth with a thick para cord holding it on. Showed how I did it back in one of the shrimp farm setup videos back in March or April
Ideally before they start breeding. But usually do tanks every 6 months that I reset, and try to cull tanks really hard every 3 or 4 months while always picking out odd balls when you can.
Reds I find have been the toughest to take from good to awesome. They're also the most stable, never seen reds throw anything but reds, it's the grade that you're always chasing.
For anyone watching this in the future. I started out with a single portion of pilo moss from Mark about 4 years ago. I currently have enough moss to fill two 5 gallon buckets right up to the brim.
My favorite part about it is that it grows depending on light and can look like a different moss altogether. Have you had it climb up out of the water and "flower" before?
@@MarkShellyAquaticsI have a really nice little colony of your blue jellies, and then I have a tank spawned from the culls with random bits of red. I also mixed a blue jelly male with a snowball female and got a bunch of red rilis, so I am working on my own line of them now! So much potential in those lil blue jelly genetics!
hi im from Nicaragua central America, im really curious about how to breed snowball what color do i need to get snowball. Thank you sow much btw and learning a lot with u. Much blessings
Well snowballs are snowballs. To breed snowballs you need snowballs. They are actually a bit different to other neos, but will still breed with other neos.
