Top 5 Shrimp Tank Must Haves 

I feel lists are adequate and help detail things for people. I agree with this statement

That’s awesome! Congratulations!

*buried berried is like strawberries being buried. Lol

@@Poeticfloeticit’s berried…

@@Poeticfloetic no its berried, it means they had eggs on em when they got em

No problem! Glad to help :)

Thank you Richard! Floaters are great nitrate removers. They definitely make the list!

Nice! That’s exciting! Glad I could help!

Absolutely! Always a good refresher.

Thanks! Glad to help!

Thank you 😊 glad to help

Glad to help

Yep! I agree!

Thank you! Glad you like them 🤗

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Thank you, that means a lot to me

No problem! Thank you!

Right!

Thanks! 😂 glad you liked it

your mama!!

Thanks! Was fun to make. Had a good time with the edits lol

@marks shrimp tanks she must be a lovely lady!

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊

Thanks!

There you go! As long as no one uses pesticides nearby you are good!

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There you go! You are all set!

Absolutely! It’s a great plant regardless of what it is! You are the second person to catch that 🤗

Thanks 😊

Carpeting plants and moss are great baby cover 🤗

@@PoseidonsPets I can never get moss to grow in my tank I can have 2 frog bits and 2 weeks later the surface of my 20 long is covered lol. Myrio, camboba green, golden Lloyd's can't stop growing but no moss.

Oh no! That’s not good! I’d say if a Danio can get stuck a shrimp can get stuck

@@PoseidonsPets i was thinking of when i get a new one, get one thats smaller outter diameter or cutting off enough so theres a gap between the intake stem and glass

Thank you!

Thanks! Those are blue bolt shrimp a type of caridina

Lol!

I have a 3 gallon with lots of baby’s. Had a piece of wood, Java moss tied to rocks and the too half of the wood. And a whole bunch of floating guppy grass

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@@PoseidonsPets i have to thank you they are precious

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Thanks! I’m sure if you feed a variety of food and have a well established tank, almond leaves aren’t too important.

You could use a dehydrator or the sun to dry them. Fresh leaves can be blanched and added directly to the tank. I would be careful to make sure there’s no pesticides or chemicals on the leaves

Thats awesome. Neos are a lot of fun

Thanks m 😊

Thanks! It takes awhile to grow in!

@@PoseidonsPets that’s good to know! I just acquired a small clump of it and I can’t wait to see how it does. I know very little about this specimen! Have you noticed differences in growth in soft vs hard water?

Absolutely! I have snails in all my tanks

I like to dip them in boiling water to sterilize them before adding them to my tank. They will breakdown naturally and the shrimp will eat it. I end up removing them when they are leaf skeletons

Definitely

Thanks!

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Will do! I had fun editing it too. I’ll see about adding more stuff like this into other videos. I watched your Rico niko videos the other day. He’s got some impressive setups.

@@PoseidonsPets Yes this is basicaly his job and he invested a lot into this hobby. His building with shrimp rooms is impressive

@@shrimpmaniadaily that is what I’m working to here in the states.

animation drives mature viewers away. like me

That’s awesome! I live in the desert so have to purchase almost all my stuff 😝

@@PoseidonsPets Yeah I can only harvest them during certain times of year though since the leaves and cones tend to decompose rather fast. I live in a rainforest so I can expect a lot of rain and the leaves tend to only be good during late summer or early fall. Also most of the trees here are poisonous to fish which is a bummer.

Either one will do. If you add the fish first you can ensure the cycle is established enough to hold the bio load of the fish and shrimp. Shrimp don’t create a lot of waste, the fish will. Adding shrimp first and then the fish could cause an ammonia spike if not cycled fully which would hurt the shrimp

@@PoseidonsPets ok, thank you

Could always find a nice piece of hard scape to go in the center. Or place a large plant like Amazon sword as a Center piece

Open spaces are not necessarily bad when it comes to keeping shrimp. As long as you have a heavily planted area or two for the babies to hide in, your doing just fine. The driftwood and rocks might not make the best of cover for baby shrimp, depending on what else is in the tank. Some easy to grow plants which will give lots of cover to baby shrimp are; Pogostemon Stellatus 'Octopus', Pearl Wart, Dwarf Hairgrass, Baby Tears, maybe Money Wart if you plant it densely enough, and Ammannia Gracilis. Don't be afraid to plant densely. The more plants you plant the less food is left in the system for algae to grow on. If algae does start growing, it will first grow on places where the babies will have an easy time getting to it. Also, if you have a heavily planted tank and you start getting algae growth, it most likely means you're feeding your fish and shrimp too much. There is a lot to learn if you are going to make your shrimpies the happiest they can be, so watch as many videos as you can get your hands on, and read as much as you can find on the Internet, and if you have questions, ask. Hopefully someone will come along who can answer those questions.

Plants in general are beneficial 😊

If you’re doing neocaridina you can use any substrate you like and add whatever rocks you like. Caridina shrimp require special substrate, I use brightwell aquatics florin volcanite. I wouldn’t add stones in with caridina as some of them can leech carbonates affecting the ph

Me too!

and in my toilet!

Congrats on the new shrimp! Sounds like you may have some cherry shrimp (neocaridina) The shrimp in this video are part of the caridina family. They are 100% freshwater but require specific water parameters to live their best life.

May I suggest that in a jar you use either Java moss or Christmas moss? While it would be good to cultivate this moss in a properly sized aquarium, a plant with this length of leaf might make it hard for your shrimp to find the food you give them. With the shorter Java moss or Christmas moss they will be able to find their food, but there will still be plenty of cover for them, especially for any babies which might come along.

Yes you can 🤗

Spinach and mulberry leaves can help with adding calcium in soft water tanks. I know the y struggle in the low ph tanks, it’s unfortunate

Hi! I prefer brightwell florin volcanite for caridina shrimp and plain sand for neocaridina

Yep yep!

You shouldn’t notice too much rotting plant matter, any pieces that die off will get eaten quick by the shrimp. More than likely you have a lot of mulm from other waste producers in your tank. If you are looking for a different floating plant, red root floaters are pretty and good nitrate removers. Frogbit and salvinia minima work well too 🤗

Dragon stone is ok for hard water species like Neocaridina but soft water types like caridina require a low ph and some stones can affect the carbonate hardness of the water. Sounds like you are on the right track though 😊

Thank you!

Brightwell florin volcanite

I would get neocaridina shrimp. They are hardy and can survive in a wide range of paramters

@@PoseidonsPets thank you!

The tannins are good for most aquatic creatures

You can try it and see but I’ve never tried it

I use brightwell aquatics florin volcanite. 🤗 I did a video on my tank setups. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v6A7bY0asRM.html

@@PoseidonsPets thank you! I’ll go back now and watch it again!👍

Pretty good list!

lol thanks for the before and after!

Yup! All my tanks are 10 gals!

It can, they leach tannins into the water turning it a brownish color

Hey! I have a few on my website but Amazon has a lot of stuff too. poseidonspets.com

Hi! The red and white striped and the black and white striped shrimp are called crystal red and crystal black shrimp. The shrimp at the end of the driftwood portion are blue bolt shrimp. They are all part of the Caridina family.

@@PoseidonsPets is it blue bolt the shrimp under the text boble saying “yup, my farvorite”? What kind of soil are you using?

@@anniesaito7882 yes it is a blue bolt, I use brightwell aquatics florin volcanite 🤗

You can but the ph fluctuates with co2 and that can be a struggle to balance with shrimp

@@PoseidonsPets my shrimps are not moving much is it too much co2? Or too much fertilizer?

You can have microfauna living on surfaces even with mechanical filtration

It was an easy build. Basically cut 2x6’s to the length I wanted and then used cinderblocks as feet. Here’s a video of the remodel of this setup. Shrimp Rack Setup 4K Re-Upload ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VYDdpZCsKZY.html

Shrimp usually gather around a food source. I usually drop a pellet in and start to cull. When culling it can take multiple sessions to get all the undesirables out

@@PoseidonsPets Yes i noticed this in RU-vid vids about shrimp. Either my shrimp have too much natural food sources or my shrimp are broken haha. They never gather

Are you using RO water and shrimp salts or just tap water? Knowing your source waters parameters can help with deciding what shrimp would work best.

Only concern with high tech is that usually means c02. When running c02 the ph can fluctuate and shrimp aren’t fond of ph swings. It can be deadly.

Tangerine tigers and blue aura serrata shrimp

Mopani or cholla wood is my preferred

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Nice! Congrats!

They’re a good food source. I don’t have the heart to do it, others will buy them off you too if you wanna sell them

@@PoseidonsPets thank you for responding. It's better than spending money on Frozen and fresher I know it seems inhumane but it is Nature's Way. I guess if I try shrimp tank that's what I'm going to do. At least there's purpose to it or more purpose that makes sense

@@richarddbennettjr no problem! Keep in mind I started breeding shrimp to feed my Oscar’s… now I have a shrimp room and over 20 shrimp tanks 😂

@@PoseidonsPets that's cool man. I've been in the hobby over 20 years I love my big tank it's all I have right now I have others kicking around but nothing up and running at the moment. And got intrigued at a local fish store just the other day watching all different colored ones in a 7 gallon and just started thinking about it and researching it before I jumped in feet first so thank you for the video and the information I appreciate it looks like I'm going to start a shrimp Nano tank. What would be your recommendation for color or what kind would be the easiest to start off with I really wanted to do a bunch of colors but it says I'll end up with a bunch of brown shrimp so that's no good

@@richarddbennettjr nice! I love the bigger thanks but they take up so much space. I would start with Neocaridina like cherry shrimp or blue dreams. They are prolific and will breed well for you. Most mixed tanks are a mix of Neocaridina colors, eventually they will turn clear or brown if you mix colors.

Are you in the United States? I have some on my website.

@@PoseidonsPets yes in New Hampshire

@@PoseidonsPets what's ur website?

@@barnhartmd051977 poseidonspets.com

There are some easy plants you can try! But algae would serve the same purpose 🤗

Depends on the water parameters and the type of shrimp. Tannins are helpful but there can be too much of a good thing

Hey! Thanks for watching. The substrate depends on the type of shrimp you want to keep. For neocaridina shrimp like cherry shrimp and blue dreams you want an inert substrate that doesn’t alter the ph or water chemistry because they like a harder less acidic water then other shrimp. For caridina shrimp like crystals, blue bolts, pintos, and galaxy shrimp you want a buffering substrate that lowers the ph. For this substrate I use brightwell florin volcanite but a lot of people use the Ada Amazonia V.2 soil and I’ve heard it can lower ph lower then other soils. Cholla wood is cholla wood no matter where it comes from. You just want to ensure it is safe for aquarium use and hasn’t been treated for anything. In the video I was referring to driftwood as a whole is beneficial. Whether it is cholla wood, spider wood, or Mopani, driftwood is beneficial. It’s always good to soak new driftwood and let it age in a bucket of water for a week or two to make sure there is nothing breaking down and contaminating your water. I’ve lost shrimp from new driftwood.

@@PoseidonsPets wow thank you so much for such a quick and well explained answer! So the first time I tried shrimp was about a year ago, just cherry shrimp but they didn't do so well. I don't know if it was the Samurai soil substrate for shrimp I used or the small piece of manzanita wood we put in there but didn't know to soak it first. Or could have been both those things. I've heard cherry shrimp were the easiest. So if I go with those would sand be a good neutral substrate?

Hi, 10gal or bigger is usually what I recommend

Yes, I dip all botanicals in boiling water. You want to sterilize not steep them like tea. I dip for 10-30 seconds and take them out.

@@PoseidonsPets i knew about catappa leaves but i just bought 100 alder cones on amazon. do they ever deteriorate entirely?

@@glassboxes yes and no, they last a long time as a skeleton in the tank. They look like little bare pine trees when broken down.

Helps to pay for shrimp food 😂

The amount of acids leached is pretty neglible: the main reason is for a natural food source from micro flora and fauna that lives on the wood. For neocaridina shrimp they wouldn’t like the acids as much a caridina shrimp that like a low ph acidic water

Frogbit, it’s a good nitrate sucker

Lol 😂

I’m with yuh! I’m always looking for good discounts! If you live in the states I’m running a sale on my website right now. Pricing isn’t too bad. poseidonspets.com/products/copy-of-taxiphyllum-sp-spiky-moss-1

It can take awhile! I had a piece take two weeks to fully sink

@@PoseidonsPets oh jeez

I use brightwell aquatics substrate

Thanks!

Nah not necessary

Thanks for watching. It’s spelled Cholla

Thanks lol

Water, a tank, substrate and shrimp Would be a boring video 😂

There you go!

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