*_Thank you all for watching!_* Everything we talked about in the video you can find a link to it in the description of this video. If I missed anything, drop a comment below and I'm happy to help! Check out all of our [Beginner Shrimp Keeping] guides and more here: ru-vid.com/group/PLkj2jEAp8whm7j0-vd13y1iv2SrE-Z8zI
Thank you!!! Had a beautiful colony of carbon rili.... until I got covid. I wasn't able to do a water change for almost 2 months the first time I got covid a year ago, and luckily I had a very stable aquarium and plenty of plants, so everyone did well. This past episode with covid also included a 26 hour power outage. I don't know if there was a temp change, or if it was low oxygen levels in the tank. I lost the whole colony😔
I wonder sometimes if we treat them too pristine. They never get an immune and environmental workout to become more robust. Thank you by the way. This is one of the most thorough informational.
They have very primitive Immune system that means their bodies never “learn” to fight diseases and they can get sick back to back. The best thing is just to not make big changes in any parameters.
@@saharamoon. I tried keeping red cherries on my tap water but they werent thriving and just slowly dieing. I recenty bought an ro filter and started using re mineralised water and have not had any deaths for now but its been a week so it may be to soon to say anything for sure. I use denerle shrimp king salt.
Great video! I have learned so much from all of your videos and streams (some day will catch it live). My happy lil shrimp guys that I got from you guys are doing well. Getting ready to start another tank. MTS is real.🐠🐌🦐
MTS is 100% real haha! It happens fast too. Thanks so much for your support and comment! I really appreciate it and hope to see you on a livestream soon!
My public water supply story: I have a betta fish that once jumped out of his tank, and fortunately I found him in time to save him and he's still alive here a year later, but at the time I wasn't regularly testing water from the tap when I did water changes - I did that the first few times, found my tap water was consistently a pH of 7.0 and figured that was good and didn't test again. Until my betta's land expedition. Testing the water in the tank immediately afterwards saw a very high pH, so I went to the tap and saw the water from the tap was also well above 7.0, so culprit found, lesson learned. I never did figure out why the country was sending out high pH water (obviously still within safe parameters for humans, but not so good for bettas...), but it can and will happen.
100%! This happens more than most think. We have a video going out Thursday talking about this exact issue. Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you were able to save your fishy friend!
Glad to see you making videos again Rob! I learned almost everything about shrimp keeping from your channel and now I have 15+ shrimp only tanks. Keep it up and looking forward to what's to come!
Super grateful for this video because I'm planning on getting my very first ever neocarina shrimp within the next month or two and I'm soaking up all the info I can well in advance. In fact, I found your RU-vid channel via your website because I actually plan to get shrimp from y'all! The Fantasy Blue Dream shrimp are calling my name!! ;)
From my experience shrimp are pretty tolerant of most water parameters, they just need a completely cycled aquarium, lots of plants, low copper in the water, and very stable water parameters. When you add chemicals/salts/fertilisers and you throw off the water chemistry then the shrimp can die. Changing water has to be done SLOWLY! They are very sensitive to fluctuations in the water whether it is temp or chemistry so change the water slowly. Finally, shrimp stress out when under attack from fish and nowhere to hide. Put them in a tank with no other tank mates except snails or put them in a tank with fish but with very dense plants like pearl weed or mosses so they can escape the fish. If you are keeping large amounts of shrimp it can be helpful to get an RO filter and use shrimp mineral to mineralise the water to make it perfectly stable. Shrimp don't like change, I change my shrimp tank water once a month with large plant growth.
Thank you so much. I have wanted to add shrimp to my 75 gallon tank but I don't think it would be advisable after watching this video. I do have lots of plants but I do water changes that may be too much after what you said in the video. I am thinking about doing planted nano tank and would love to add shrimp. I might try after it is up and running for awhile. I thank you for all of this information and hope customer service will be able to direct me with the best shrimp to go with when the tank is ready. And I did take notes
I appreciate you mentioning specific products used to help with the situation and why not to use certain things. Thanks for this very informative video.
Great to hear it! Absolutely. I plan to shift to more videos like this as it helps hobbyists, my team, our customers and so on. Plus, it's great to share what I've learned to help the hobby I love.
All products mentioned is only available in the US. Would be nice to hear options for international products aswell. Seachem products for example is available everywhere.
As a person with much experience with African Cichlids looking into my first try with a Shrimp tank, you almost talked me out of it. I use the KISS system with my Cichlids KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid. I don't use any additives other than dechlorinator and I don't have problems. I use crushed coral substrate and reef rocks for decorations and never have to worry about keeping my PH high. Obviously, I will not use crushed coral or reef rocks in a Shrimp tank and now I have to worry about keeping my PH lower without becoming a chemist I plan to use Carib Sea Eco Complete, Mopani wood and Spider wood, and live plants like Anubias, and Java Moss. What is the best way to consult with Flip Aquatics before making an order? You almost talked me into abandoning the project but I am half way ready to order shrimp. I have the tank and equipment, I expect my substrate today and will fill my tank and get the cycle started before the end of the day.
Great information, definitely some issues raised that I could have done better. I have Amanos, they live for a good long time and I have no issues. They live in my Endler tanks at 25C at PH 7.6 GH 14.8. I did try to keep Cherry shrimp and they all died failing to successfully molt. I’ve been thinking GH too high, TDS over 350 not great although not sure TDS is much value if you don’t know what it is made up of and I won’t bore you! I do want to try again, but need to find a hobbyist that is keeping and breeding them in similar water parameters locally here in UK. Still can’t really see why Amanos do so very well but Cherries don’t make it past a first molt. They all molt so 🤔
I wish I saw this video first 😭 I had gravel and had my tank fully cycled and GH AND KH under controll but was told I needed shrimp soil for my cherries. Thank you sir I'm going back to gravel
Great information! Although now I have a visual of a bunch of shrimp strutting around with hoodies on because they’re cold and I can’t lose it LOL. Thanks bud 👊🏼
Not a problem at all. To each their own. I only sell product that I personally use so it's easy to recommend products we are selling if that makes sense. Feel free to buy the products else where but my opinion stays the same.
Fantastic video, Rob!! Loved it and loved all the footage🤩. The footage of all these beauties worth the price of admission right there! 🥳. P.s. hi Amanda! 👋
Wish I would have watched this before I bought a bunch of cardenia shrimp. Needless to say I no longer have any cardenia shrimp. In the process of getting the right stuff for shrimp. Not like keeping fish. A little more complex. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Extremely helpful. Learned a few more things I wasn't aware of.
I moved my shrimp to a new tank with plants, drift wood, rocks, and sand. They have been fine for a week now but there all passing away now. My PH is 8.0 and I have hard tap. Neo shrimp. I am a teenager who has tons of fish and do breed, but I find shrimp to be hard to keep and I lost around $135. Any advice?
I fully appreciate you taking the loss for us (keeping them for 30 days) but once they're shipped from you to a buyer.. doesnt that mean that 30 days starts again once they're shipped to the buyer?
Good stuff!!! Thank you for this, started up a new shrimp tank last week & just waiting, waiting, waiting til I think it's hit that 'sweet spot' to add the Blues!! :)
Hello. I have fish tanks for over 10 years now, but I've never had a shrimp tank... Last year I decided to build one... I put neocaridinas in the tank, but the original ones are pretty much all gone... just one left... the substrate is the one on the video, I used some seeds that I bought to grow plants in aquariums.. the parameters are ok, except the Ph, which is always below 7, approximately 6,8... I want to remove the plants because I have been noticing that they are "polluting" the tank.. I already bought some varieties of moss to put instead of the plants... But how can I do this change and avoid losing all my shrimps? There are 12 now in the tank.. Thank you, great video..
Seriously the cutest little ball of yellow shrimpers I've seen!! I'm on my journey back into fish keeping and am psyched about these interesting little creatures!
Thank you very much from russia, bro Have a problem with deaths of my cherries in my tiny 30 liter tank, trying to get system stable and not feeding at all. I'm tired of bying new shrimps every month. I hope your advices will help me)
Two of those don't seem to work well together. Don't use multiple sources, but also make sure you mix up the genetics. Wouldn't using multiple sources be the best way to ensure multiple blood lines?
decorations😭 all my shrimp died because of the grapestalks that i put in my tank for this stupid moss to grow on😭 i later learned that those grapestalks had pesticides in them😭😭😭
Thank you for the tips! I just realized my planet aquarium has rock (seiryu) stone that is causing my ph to stay around 7.0. I age the water with almond leaves prior to doing water changes but that stone is pretty bad.
I learned a lot from this video I always wanted to get shrimp but been Cautious due to lack of knowledge of shrimp this was a very good video thank you for sharing God bless
Great video! Have a colony of crystal red shrimp and some Pinocchio shrimp and 2 months ago I added 10 crystal black shrimp from a different source. I find dead crystal red shrimp every now and then and have found 1 or 2 dead Pinocchio shrimp. My crystals also stopped breeding. Could this be some kind of disease the crystal blacks brought in, which only they are immune to? I also added a school of 10 celestial pearl danios (juvenile, around 1-1.5cm) could this be part of the issue with breeding? All my babies seem to have vanished but I don’t see any pregnant females anymore.. I have a 30L tank with some driftwood, a lot of plants and the JBL proscape soil (I bought it thinking it was proshrimp..)
I have used tap water from the beginning just because I don't have an R O system as of now, My question is, if I buy some distilled just for the shrimp tank, and remineralize it, will the shrimp be okay going from one type of water to a different type of water if that makes sense?
Damn, I had been researching shrimp for about 2 weeks now and I wish your videos came up earlier! Great quality and presentation, same info here that I had to go between 4 or 5 other videos for. I had 2 deaths out of the 3 I started w/. 1 was 100% the store (Petco... ugh, I know.) fault, they were 90% dead before even getting home. The other I can't tell and was dead this morning after, but it was a different breed (not sure exactly, bad labeling as "rainbow", I think Bee???) than my surviving Cherry. I'm going to get a bigger more "official" shrimp tank soon and either keep my cherry w/ more or plan on some crystal shrimp.
I liked how you ended with the reality that everything dies. I laughed and thought maybe you should make some videos for children about topic. Thank you for the video because my order will be coming soon. My plan is to start a colony and then sprinkle them throughout my aquariums. It will be like sprinkling red pepper flakes on a pizza.
I set up a planted 55g, sand over soil substrate and used it as a quarantine tank for my Discus and Angel tanks After all the fish were gone from the 55, I decided shrimp would be cool, got 10 Orange Pumpkins, had them for about 6 months, they were healthy but didn't reproduce, so I added 10 Carbon Rili, 10 more Orange Pumpkins and 10 Cherries (all shrimp from Flip) Now I have 10,000 shrimp of every color and pattern, I have to cull weekly, good thing my Angels and Discus love shrimp. And the added bonus now I have thriving shrimp colonies in all my tanks.
About the heater part lower temperature not true I test to that. I keep pumpkin shrimp at 80 to 81 keep in the warm side over 400 shrimp I think they breed faster honestly. Take it if you want or not I’m 100 percent convinced that’s the reason for high numbers. But great video!
Awesome video! These tips are very helpful. You mentioned it's easy to over feed. If someone has relatively few shrimp in their tank (less than 50 in a 20 gallon for ex) is it ok to not feed them daily? Since there should be plenty of of biofilm? I noticed mine hardly touch their food
Thanks for the comment Josh and for being a member! If you're food aren't going crazy for the food, I would skip a day or two. You'll want to see then swarm the food. If they don't, then you may be over feeding or there are other issues. With a tank your size, every other day should be good and possibly skip the weekend. Or you can try feeding in super small amounts.
We have a great relationship with Brightwell. Since we recommend their products in the video, we had to put the disclosure. The video itself wasn't sponsored. This is one I've been meaning to make for a long time :) I'm glad it's finally out there for everyone
My shrimp is waiting for a better environment for a freind, and he hasnt been eating, But today he ate a whole little pellet! Im so happy hes survived so long, few more days and he gets a freind :D
Chiclids for decades... but new to shrimp... and new to you. This was an excellent video. I have subscribed and hit the bell. Will be placing an order from you too.
Rob, this is the second time I've seen Mystery Snails referenced for keeping a shrimp tank cycled. Do you suggest a specific amount per tank size for this? Like 2 or 3 snails per 10 gallons of water or something like that? I've never really had an issue with a tank losing a cycle, but I've never kept shrimp. Thanks
Oh, you might want to...adjust your point about boiling what you put in the tank...it kind of sounds like you're suggesting boiling rocks, which is actually quite dangerous (those random minerals can have different expansion points; you can cook yourself a stone grenade pretty easily...).
Awesome bacterial treatment advice! There seems to be a real good advice on how to treat bacterial infections in shrimp. I recently dealt with this issue myself, I used "API Fin and Body Cure" which I knew from research is actually Doxycycline, which was an effective treatment, but I believe it is a recently discontinued product (For good reason! antibiotic resistance is becoming a real issue, and physicians use Doxycycline to treat things like lymes disease or bubonic plague.) If I have this issue again, I will try this Maracyn/Maracyn2. Thanks for the tip!
How often do you do a water change and how much? Can I start a shrimp breeding tank with an inert sand substrate of about 2.5mm grain size? And lastly, should I clean the substrate if there's a good amount of waste accumulated?
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