Amazing! Breeding Colorful Shrimp in Bins! NO Filter, NO Water Change! 

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I mixed blue and yellow cherry shrimp and ended up with red, orange, green, bronze, brown and clear shrimp. I’m actually getting more clear shrimp than brown at the moment.

Never change brother, I’ve always loved the fish hobby but when I joined the Marine Corps I obviously couldn’t keep fish.. haha while I was in the military I would watch your videos for my “fish fix” and also as an escape during my tougher times. Since I have been back home I have dived back into the hobby and I have been using your info to help with project ideas like this! I will ALWAYS follow your journey, I know the sky is the limit for you and thanks for what you do!

I had no idea tiny shrimp come in so many colors. How cool!

Im a shrimp breeder. It will first start throwing random brown and blue branch (different mutations, shades and grades) snd after some time, youll end up with wild ones. Thats why we dont do much crossbreeding. Its like pallet. If u mix all the separated colors back together, u get wild (brownich clear) Amazing vid tho! Thanks for all your smazing work! Keep it up

Can’t wait for the update!! The blue/yellow tank is the Swedish tank💙💛

For neocaridinas they probably will go brown over time, but caridinas are a different story, you can get heaps of cool lines from mixing them.

One thing I noticed with all my neocaridina davidi shrimp is that at temps greater than 25C produce males about 70% of the time. The cooler temps like 22C produce loads of females but they do take longer to grow.

Awesome video nick! A nice little project you have going on there. I'm super excited to see more update videos regarding this project. Thanks for sharing mate ☺️

I have done the same color mixes with my shrimp. No fish in the tank. they do mostly turn brown or back but you do get some cool tiger patterns to come out and if you keep going the color starts to slowly reintroduce. I didn't keep the tank up and running for too long though due to a move so I am excited to see your future results!

I started with 7 reds and 1 brown. Over about 4 months, I let them do their thing. I cleared them out a couple weeks ago. I had all of the colors in the rainbow. There were more wild browns than nice colors.. But there were many good looking colored shrimp.

Such a simple setup, awaiting more updates to see how it pans out. I'm currently doing something similar in our greenhouse, mainly started as a backup for plants, but I've added ramshorn snails to see if they could survive, which they do. If I could add shrimp as well, that would be great, but my colonies are still growing.

I've been waiting for this! Do more things that can be bred in bins man thank you

because its above the waterline you could drill two small holes and use cable ties to fix the plants to the side for more stability

I cannot express in words how cool this is

With mixing colors, the first generation babies will mostly (if not all, well for the ones that cross breed) be brown, Because the color genes are separate. But in future generations a small portion of the babies will be a mixed color, then some will be one color, some the other and a good portion will be brown. The colors in these shrimp are all recessive, not sure if it's simple recessive (one gene like albinism in most species) or multi gene recessive (like noses in humans). Your results will be all over the place depending on what heterozygous (hidden) traits the starter shrimp might have too.

So cool, I love this project! I can't wait to see what happens. Thanks dude!

I feel like this may need to be said for the new people in the hobby. Tap water works well depending on the perimeters. I live in the rockies in the actual mountains. My tap water has way to may minerals and has way way way too high PH for shrimps. That’s probably the only big thing to watch out for in such a simple setup

Love ❤️ this. I have really learned a lot watching your videos. Keep up the good work.

I mixed red cherries and black and I get really cool greens,chocolate, and maroon. I love it.

Soooo I’m about to buy like 5 bins 🤞🤞

Super cool project! I've been waiting on this video since you did a fishroom tour not too long ago and mentioned them! Are you going to add in any more cherry shrimp or just leave it with how many you have left?

What an awesome idea! Thanx for sharing!

That rainbowfish shirt is very cute!

I used to grow a lot of dwarf sag using an outdoor set up i added some neo shrimp to them and it was one of my profitable project i had

Nice low cost innovative thinking, great summer project, too!

love watching your videos and always inspiring keep going.

Loved this video. Always looking for inexpensive ways to keep fish.

Really enjoy your love of experimentation

Such a great tutorial. Love your videos.

You are amazing and you've inspired me to go out of my comfort zone thank you!!

i dont even have an aquarium but i keep coming back to this channel, so finally im subbed now lol i really wanna try keeping shrimp they're so cute

super kool project. Thank you Sir for sharing. 💕💕💕

Now thats what we call KeepingShrimpSimple🤣🤣🤣 do more shrimps please

Saving this to watch later your vids are dope!

This feature is a blessing. You don't even need to be streaming now :p

Blue and yellow make green with paint. Can't wait to find out. Best of luck to you.

I love the tips on here!!

I hve cherry shrimps but never tried to breed them because i though it hard to do so,now i can try with this setup. Thanks

I've had some breeding for awhile, you only get brown when multiple different colors mix over several generations. I've had some blues and reds mix to create some with a purplish hue to it but you can clearly see the differences in blue and red upon closer looks, even managed to have a few mature females who were a darker green with an orange hue to them.

Your literally living my dream bro haha, your videos are also very informational

Looking forward to update.

I’ve had mixed some blues with my reds and there was mostly brown for a while but I’ve gotten some orange ones now and some cool looking like almost ghost looking ones too and now I’m starting to see blues now again lol 😂 fun fun

Always like your content! Great video!

I chucked all types of neo shrimp in my take and they made some cool babies .. like tiger shrimp and all diff colors

This is the best fishkeeping channel. Love from Asia ❤️

Hey mate, something you can feed the shrimp with is eucalyptus leaves from gum trees. I use it for shrimp traps

yay Pothos! I started adding Pothos to my tanks and i couldn't be happier with the results. I didn't want a janky look so i made something to do it call the Poth-O-Carry :D I thought it was pretty clever. lol

Just subscribed to your channel. Awesome video and instructions. I will try this for fun. 💯 👍😁👍

That's amazing 👏

Great vid bro, always appreciate how easy you make things look, and how you experiment for months and edit it into 1 vid. You've saved me and I'm sure others so much time by experimenting for us. You are appreciated my brother. So impressed with your knowledge of fish keeping for the short time You've been in the hobby!!! 👍

I love success stories! Well done!

Neocaridina are highly tolerant to low temperatures, mines are outside in a 90L bin for about two months now, and water temperature was below 10°C during day time. Night are still cold here, about 12°C last night. Sure, shrimps are not very active and not breeding yet, but they stay alive.

Love it

I like you free style of thought about the browns. Id love to breed shrimps. Cherrs

Thanks for the vid

I mixed some blues and reds and got some interesting color morphs. I had varying colors of the blues and reds and I had quite a few rili in both colors start to come out. I did get some browns and clears. I even got a few almost jet black. The most interesting color morph I got was kind of a blue rili with red tipped claws. I only got 2-3 of them though. I would have loved to see that come out as an actual strain.

I look forward to seeing more I enjoyed your video 🤗

Great project!

Friendly suggestion: You can also use air lines, run some metal wires through it and you can adjust the length/shape to hold the plants which you can hang it on the side.

I have a cull tank with all kinds of colours mixed together. They wont all be wildtype. But also do not expect to get half red , half blue. I got some blue ones with red spots. Most of them will be some variety of wild type.

I'm curious what kind of parameters you have coming out of the tap. Great video.

I can’t wait for another update on this

keep up the good work 👍

Awesome video keep up the great work and great vids :)

I really enjoy the content. ty

Neat..use a floating feeding ring for plants

There's a way to stop the color changes on Koi bettas?

Very cool you'd already waited a month, so we got like a bonus immediate update! Thanks... great idea for interesting videos, imo ;)

Ha! I'm looking for follow up videos. It's only been a few weeks. Ty for sharing this. When people say, they breed like mice, shrimp say hold my beer.

I enjoyed the video my young Aussie friend ( might be wrong... ) ! Have never seen those colored shrimp before... awesome! Saw that you used conditioner in the h20, in the 70's when I was a kid, we used to put it in the sun for a week and always used a bubbler or screen wheel ( ez to make w/ one battery that matches motor voltage/amperage) to agitate and induce 0² for them to breathe ( fresh water anything )... for Texas Gulf shrimp, you HAD better start with sea water... or you had mush shortly thereafter. Appreciate your content young man, thank you for sharing it with old guys like me! KUDO'S sir! Seth

Great idea!! Think I’ll try this with Crystal reds when I move to FL in a few months

An airline holder works well to hold pothos to the side of a tub or tank. 👍❤👍

Im thinking about growing aquatic plants in a bath now.....difficult to source cold water pond/aquarium plants here in lreland..

As someone who has had a few mixed tanks before with these guys, I've only gotten brown a few times. Most of the time, I'd get one, or the other, or something crazy. I've gotten some light blue ones with patches of red. I've gotten what looked like a red rilli but with light clear blue stripes instead of the clear or white stripes. It's surprising how often I got the clear striped rillis thinking back on it. I even got an orange rilli born to a group that were orange sakura. Either it's a pattern that commonly develops on it's own or it just means my stock was interbred beforehand quite a bit. No doubt, I'm sure you'll get some crazy combos but it's a shame they won't be in a clear tank. It'll be hard to see something as subtle as maybe a blue velvet rilli or something dark like that. But I'd usually put more colorful ones back in the original skittles mix I had so wild types wouldn't be able to keep coming out. You might want to add in more red and blues later if you still want to keep interest without worrying about too many wild types showing up down the line.

I would like to give you a slight correction, you need one last equipment and that is a basic light for the live plants because the bin is not gonna be outside for obvious reasons but plants still do need light.

I added green and blue shrimp and ended up with transparent shrimp and some blue shrimp 🔥

can you do a video on proper lighting for plants. I've heard my purple full spectrum light isn't good for them. any opinions or explanation as to why this is true or false.

Yellow and blue the colours of Ukraine.🙏 Great experiment! With love from the netherlands

Bin shrimp!!!

I accidentally did similar in the UK over winter, and then the cherry shrimps survived and reproduced.

I usually end up with clear ones when I breed... Curiosly these clear ones tend to change color depending upon lighting of the tank... Also if your original color was red then the kids of some of the clear or brown ones become red again... From breeding just blue you can get jet black ones..

For the most part the shrimp take care of the calcium by eating their shells after molting also. Great vid btw

bless your success

I love what you're doing and only twenty right? Amazing. The next George 12G but the down under version for freshwater!

dude this epic! ! :D :D

Been waiting on this video huge fan plzz respond love it

i think living dark environment help for color breeding , amazing video and gl

wait....? are you doing all this out a storage shed?!! my god its genius!

is there anything you would change or add for a different climate one thats hot I live in Florida and wanted to try this.

You have opened a whole new world for me with your tub breeding lol There’s NO WAY my fiancée can say no to new tubs like she can new tanks!

I have been using styrofoam box for breeding fishes, now I am transitioning myself to shrimp. Gonna use those boxes for the shrimps now :D

Enjoy your experiments!

I mixed blue and yelow had green and few browns

I have a 100 gallon stock tank with 18gal. Drums for filter (rfs,mech,sump) would the shrimp thrive in a swirl filter? It's basically a garbage can that's supplied with food for them ( I would think) this would be first time with shrimp. Looking to help maintain my aquaculture system and maybe make a few bucks.

Almost ready to chuck on the barbie.

I’m defending going to try this out 🤝

Really interesting proejct. Curious about the amount of mulm or dirt in the bins and whether it's harmful or healthy to leave in there as there looked like a lot building up in just 1 month

may i ask which water conditioner you use? thanks in advance

wow thats nice bro greetings from fishtuber also in philippines.