Some home truths - Day in the Life of a shrimp keeper😲 

Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective, I know its not the algorithm but its so frustrating trying to work it out sometimes! 😂

​@@MarksShrimpTanks and @MDFishTanks, You guys are literally talking about the thing that is holding me back, I have learned so much from u both in the hobby and i thank you both for this. I do not care what the video is about, there is always something that we as a viewer can use in our hobby, making this contend is really hard to do, talking into a camera is one of those. Mark, just keep doing what you have always been doing, we will be here to push u trough if u need it. Keep it up, i'm breeding shrimp myself now, and most info i got out of your videos and KeepingFishSimple! You guys are doing good work! @MDFishTanks, @Shrimpbot - @KeepingFishSimple i salute you! Best regards.

Well now we need a Marc and Mark colab episode. Maybe go do a proper planted aquascape MD style with Mark. My two favourite youtubers.

Thanks for sharing and giving us your time. Take care, nothing is more important than your health. Love the chatty approach and hearing your experiences. Xxx

Thanks you for the knowledge.

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RIP mama shrimp 😭

Thank you Sleepy Sob, I am going back to this type of style and format, less editing more information and just me talking.

I appreciate that

Awesome! Thank you Ian!

Thank you Gregory

Speedy recovery and getting back to the best health and clarity as possible 🙆

I dont think I will ever not love shrimp keeping, ive been doing it now for a very long time and I can honestly say there has never been a single day where I have thought about giving it up, RU-vid on the other hand ive thought about giving up a few times. 😂

No problem 👍

Thanks 👍

Awesome! Thank you!

Hello Chris, thank you for that, I get the youtube blues every year and I think most youtubers do at some point.

Yay! Thank you!

My pleasure!

Thanks 👍

Wow, I can't express how grateful I am to hear that my videos have had such a positive impact on you. It means a lot to know that my content stands out in a sea of videos. Your support and kind words keep me motivated to continue creating and sharing my knowledge. Thank you for taking the time to reach out and share your experience with me!

Just get what you can get, I ve used both.

I keep it for plant pots.

I don't have anything against water changes per say. But i think it's so wasteful, how much water is "recommended" isn't sustainable and that's what I like getting out of my tanks, not that it's really possible. I've been keeping fish for years, since high school, and i've probably made every mistake known to the hobby. But i've also learned that sometimes what people say is what they're taught, and while it might work, there's not just one way to skin a potato. The most common things i've seen, all boil down to product dependency. I'm not saying all products are bad, especially medications. However, if you need a product to maintain your tank, assuming you don't kill your fish every other week anyway, the most common misnomers in the industry are all based around product dependency. And that's how you know if someone is just trying to make you buy their bottle of .... bacteria .... right. Like i'm sure it's in there. But if people went around explaining that chlorine is a volatile compound that off gases at room temperature, I guess most people just don't understand that adding a bacteria to create ammonia actually creates a variable instead of letting one just absolve it'self. The bacteria in that bottle, is a culture at best. What's even better is natural bacteria, and all you have to do is go to the park take a tiny plastic cup from taco cabana where you got lunch. And harvest your own "bacteria starter" from you own local creek/lake/pond. That being said Old tank syndrome is a thing. and when you're not worried about ammonia, mainly cause the plant load, (i had a tetra tank 30 gallon that i NEVER did water changes on, because i saw that when i topped of it would stress the fish) the water here is super hard like it maxes out every test kit, we live on a limestone/granite deposit. Now tetras don't care for hard water anyway, but because i wasn't doing regular changes, the plants i had in the tank chewed through the mineral content, they grew great! and the nitrates (cause i had like 8 tetras and 4 goldfish/koi in a 30 gallon, yes it was bad, they're doing better now in a 110gallon patio pond, the goldfish) were 200+PPM almost constantly When i took the water sample into the store to have a detailed test done. I had NO MINERAL content left in the water, and the nitrates had dumped the PH to 6, so like the tetras didn't care. But when i added water back in, with a PH of like 7.6 and GH 300+ every once in a while i'd lose a fish. So yea water changes are not necessary however beware of old tank sydrome.

oh haha i forgot to mention atm i can get around with 1 water change every 3 months. However i also just use the fish water all the time for plants so im constantly adding more back in (that sat out a day to off gas)

Unfortunaly he has closed his shrimp room.

if you mean on the sponge in the big tank behind where I sit its moss.

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Its possible to get chloramine past the RO unit if the active carbone is done its why we use DI ....I think 😂

It was the RU-vid part I wasnt enjoying, ive always loved shrimp keeing and I can honestly say i never once have thought about stopping it.

Yes its very draining especially when you put tons of effort into a video and then it flops, RU-vid doesnt make it easy thats for sure.

I dont sorry. search for bleach dip or alum dip on youtube.