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

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Like this if it’s 1am

[@kbrown5523]

5:26 pm Wed here.

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

It morning in South straylia! 🥰🐶

[@luen1941]

2:49 am here, greetings from germany love your videos!

[@imranpatel4612]

2am here in the UK

[@ace150487]

9am in Japan

[@mattsullivan6624]

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.

[@dla0620]

Are you in the US? If so how much do they run if you sold them?

[@aryans7373]

Clear is closer to wild type

[@MS-vw6vj]

I explsined this in my comment. Check it out

[@slayer3471]

Not to rain on your parade because I'm glad you got some cool variety, but to much cross color breeding can lead the all to be brown, which I think is cool, but if you want to keep the variety the best you can do is try to keep the shrimp purebred, and if they turn to brown I heard you can revert that by haveing them breed with more colorful shrimp. Again sorry to break some bad news, I just want to see you have a variety of colorful and cool looking shrimp.

[@highsty9898]

If you keep multiple colors together over the course of time they will go back to their wild colour i.e brown or bronze.

[@smartalec8935]

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!

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Thanks man

[@darthblunt3833]

Thank you for your service @Smartalec

[@NinjaSushi2]

@@darthblunt3833 nice name

[@NinjaSushi2]

Nice story brother. I spent six years in the Army as an infantryman and the fish keeping hobby is definately my outlet for stress though sometimes it becomes my stress. Hahaha

[@darthblunt3833]

@@NinjaSushi2 thanks your's is pretty dope as well

[@MS-vw6vj]

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

[@Lancelotopus]

How do I make a living breeding shrimp?

[@333Beelzebub]

@@Lancelotopus not so sure about your question but usually breeding them has to be like other animals. same colors goes with each other. like guppies and all

[@JasmineTurnbull-o3b]

Is there anyway to breed purple shrimp?

[@MS-vw6vj]

@@JasmineTurnbull-o3b theoreyically. Some have already been bred. It might be possible by breefing a strain with red insides (like bloody marry) and a transparent blue shell (like low grade blue dreams or blue saphires, perhaps even blue jellies) most of the offspring would still be randomly coloured and end up as wild varieties, but it might be possible.

[@JasmineTurnbull-o3b]

@@MS-vw6vj thanks 😊

[@orionlazarus706]

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.

[@maranathajesuskommtbald1089]

Yes, with time there are more and more brown ones. But over time i also got great new variantes. And also very colorful ones. Over long time for example i didnt see great coloured yellow ones. But after month there are many of absolut great yellow ones. Also without wanting it, i got many great green jades. Its cool to have extra tanks for every kind. But i want encourage all to have one Tank with all colours mixed. Be happy with what you going to see. :)

[@c.b.kansan1700]

I would watch my cull tank from time to time for the odd color to pop up. If I had more room, I would have set up tanks to separate them all out.

[@hummingbird3771]

I threw in a handful of red rili and 15 blue dreams. I kid you not I have red, white, and blue appearing on several individual shrimp!

[@glennmuz3200]

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

[@Pierceprepper327]

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.

[@The_NativePSN]

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.

[@baileeleguillon1716]

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

[@hitlersmissingtesticle69]

I’m in a small town in north texas and our tap water measures at a PH of 9, it took me months and many failures to finally realize water is a big deal, now I use RO distilled baby water it. is. perfect.

[@matthewryan1998]

Our water up here sure does taste delicious but sucks you can’t use it for many plants/fish I grow Venus fly traps up here and I don’t use any tap water I have to use distilled water same with my betta

[@hitlersmissingtesticle69]

@@matthewryan1998 same here:/ the water does taste amazing because of the high mineral content, but I absolutely destroyed my first aquascape because I had no idea why tap water could be bad, it was all just water to me at the time😂 so I ended up mixing heavy organics with the heavy minerals in the water, and crashed my tank🙂 lesson learned and to never be made again, that was a 200$ mistake😭

[@angeladundon7271]

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

[@oretho6406]

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.

[@maurer3d]

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.

[@MegaFrixi]

Thx 4 info. I never tried cross breed srimp becouse all around read that they ll very bad light color ones. But this info possible i should do it.

[@magnuscraigie434]

I cannot express in words how cool this is

[@magnuscraigie434]

Thanks for the heart Mr keeping fish simple

[@andrewbranks371]

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!

[@mpf_agundipsht3619]

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

[@kazdaspaz6544]

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

[@michaelyciano2123]

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

[@BerryMckHawkener]

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.

[@ScissorsProduction]

Hey ,Sorry I've commented this after a year but do you think it's alright if there's a red rili shrimp in my colony of 10+ cherry shrimps? Will they turn brown after a few generations or will they stay red?

[@blaznmax8877]

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

[@Jannik-q1y]

Tiger shrimp are a completley different species

[@snookies1224]

@@Jannik-q1y pretty sure he just meant they had stripes LIKE tiger shrimp

[@blaznmax8877]

@@Jannik-q1y yea I know some how I have green tigers patterns now and kinda yellow ones too

[@Mrs.Silversmith]

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

[@richardcolligon4277]

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

[@Jimebbo]

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

[@vivekvs1992]

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..

[@Kam-go3bc]

it's called genetics. You get recessive and dominant traits.

[@vivekvs1992]

@@Kam-go3bc sure.. But its not simple mendelian inheritance is it? Probably multigenic controlling pigmentation concentration, color and calcium concentration, not to mention incomplete penetration and stable mutations..

[@pullbackbaby]

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.

[@Its_keichi]

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

[@Mae-nr7wr]

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

[@oblivionpotato9313]

You really should try they're easy to care for and they're so fun to watch

[@S.Trades]

They are easy too. A lot of the time they don't even need a heater.

[@jeffv774]

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.

[@NinjaSushi2]

Great idea! I use an old clothe pin and a rubber band to keep my aquarium plants on the edge of my rimless tank myself. I'll have to try this on my other tanks.

[@oblivionpotato9313]

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

[@tonycoleman9856]

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.

[@ianrafaeltoh7679]

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.

[@gonnalearntoday5649]

Java moss barely needs any light and I think that's why he went with it

[@S.Trades]

Just checked on my cold water cherry shrimps. They are at 17 C. They are more active at warmer temperatures but I don't heat the tank. Just got a sponge filter in there.

[@adamjuckniewitz727]

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

[@Txnkid76]

My first thought when doing this outside is mosquitos breeding in the tubs. Do you not have a problem with mosquitos where you live? Great video!

[@matthewschrader4494]

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

[@Stravideo]

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.

[@chrisb778]

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.

[@TalesByAJ]

i got a 5 gallon tank, 2 inches of substrate, java moss, crypt, Val spiralis and coontail. let 7 shrimp of all colors in there. within two months i have 30-40 babies and i dont even do any maintenance or filter. They are delecate but not when you dont intervene with their habitat

[@TheAlmighty.Z]

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

[@jyotishmoy]

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

[@MissDeathKiss18]

That rainbowfish shirt is very cute!

[@sethhughes2163]

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

[@christopherhauser1376]

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

[@yes5g311]

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

[@darthblunt3833]

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!!! 👍

[@ajkandroid8662]

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

[@fomomofo6917]

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

[@mhop08]

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

[@mynamesjudge]

8:25 8 months ago, people didn't know what country has blue and yellow. Better times.

[@KingsAquariumsAndReptileRoom]

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 ☺️

[@esmehenderson6003]

Have you tried getting a small piece of coolite, put a hole in it and let the plant float in it?

[@patrickyork2975]

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.

[@cryzz0n]

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!

[@haencoaquatic4121]

This is interesting, i have a neglected big container for months with some shrimps and mosses inside. No water filtration, no aeration and they are just keep breeding by itself.

[@kidd_kamakaze4476]

Soooo I’m about to buy like 5 bins 🤞🤞

[@Ad_Astra_321]

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

[@tomdoyle6030]

He offtain goes beyond most other content creators and its always great to see, very insperatinal for such a young guy , wish him all the best

[@shesellsfish]

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

[@amandadonegan2137]

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

[@reggiefishandfun770]

wow thats nice bro greetings from fishtuber also in philippines.

[@elilana9146]

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

[@Duffga]

They used to call me “heaps of factory sludge” in college

[@fomomofo6917]

There are breeding guides online that tell you the color to mix to get the desired results.

[@NinjaSushi2]

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

[@lindak8664]

Every kid knows when you mix your red paint with your blue paint you get purple shrimp babies! Same with blue paint & yellow paint, gives you green shrimp babies. Personally, I’m hoping for some stripes, or at least a respectable camo pattern 😜 But seriously, this is an interesting experiment, i’ll be following to see what you end up with.

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello how are you doing?

[@Chainchomp432]

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

[@strangermug]

I did add some blue shrimps to my red cherry shrimp colony a while back... it wasn't a great experiment for me in the end.... after 2-3 generations they lost colour altogether haha

[@gemtail3125]

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.

[@dcxvi7016]

Drill two little wholes and use cable ties or wire to hold plant in place, tape will probably fall off. Can also add a cheap USB air pump.

[@glenngilbert7389]

Really enjoy your love of experimentation

[@TheMhz10]

I tried to breed my neocaridina in a bin today. Straightforward setup, no light (container covered with black plastic to avoid lizard/cockroach) and no filter. I also put some moss balls, moss, driftwood, a couple of boraras brigittae(to eat the mosquito larvae) and frogbit. In your opinion, will they survive?

[@sammyliu503]

Hey this might be a newbie question, but how are your shrimps not dying if you haven’t cycled the water? Aren’t shrimps very sensitive to that? Currently cycling my shrimp tank so I was just curious. Cheers!

[@jjw5165]

Commercial farming dirtier water the better

[@ericamontoya7168]

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?

[@sarcasmo57]

Almost ready to chuck on the barbie.

[@unitnippynipz]

You’ll end up with some rilis from the red and blues. I’ve did the same experiment!! Good luck

[@bigmakkun3766]

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

[@spsniper1170]

Neat..use a floating feeding ring for plants

[@shekinahthorat7940]

I love the tips on here!!

[@Jorvs]

Shirmps does not need water change? What the best food to feed them that does make you need to change the water?

[@choogiesaur]

Amazing. Any update on colors of the babies?

[@CrowntailHalfmoon]

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

[@juliodiaz9795]

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

[@MKSouthernStar]

Hiya, love the channel. Have we an update on the shrimp tub?

[@majormorkiss]

Great video! I currently have a 3 gallon with yellow and blue neos only and no fish and once in a while they had yellow or blue babies but most of them ended up wild type neos (mostly clear and some brown but I thought the brown was cool)

[@oblivionpotato9313]

you have them together?

[@majormorkiss]

@@oblivionpotato9313 yup all together in a 3 gallon. I’ve had them for more than a year now and they produced mostly wild types

[@AmishHitman73.Archive]

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

[@Hanz345]

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

[@voidwalker8754]

Just wondering, are there any temperature requirements for this? I live in the Netherlands, and it frequently gets fairly cold, even in the summer. Will the shrimp die? Thanks, and great video!

[@johngrisum]

I found that they get lethargic and don't reproduce below 18C. Definetly not a permanent outdoor species in temperate climates. I put a few container ponds outside when I know the average daily temperature is always above 10C.

[@bewarious8348]

A heater can definetly help.

[@himlolo]

If your room is heated you can just keep them in the room

[@ajaquatics]

Did you use quick start or anything for benificial bacteria?

[@benjaminguith8100]

Shrimp hate change. Perfect project for someone who wants to breed but doesn’t have a lot of time!

[@imranpatel4612]

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

[@VinylUnboxings]

Havent clean mulm in two years in my tank. It's all Gucci.

[@gryaznygreeb]

I'm pretty sure shrimp love to eat that stuff, it's good for them so long as parameters are stable and no parasites

[@Auditing.northern.N.Y.]

My blues make a lot of brown themselves. I'm sure you will get some brown, but probably other colors too

[@TheBudgetAquarist]

I love success stories! Well done!

[@Ferretsbristoluk]

I mixed blue and yelow had green and few browns

[@mirandah3870]

How small are the baby blue shrimp? Are they teeny tiny microscopic when first hatched? How long does it take for them to grow into adults?

[@paulstingray]

Bin shrimp!!!

[@ryanwakebradtelle8682]

I know this isn't simple but transitioning land plants to aquatic plants is something that needs to be explained to everyone

[@gryaznygreeb]

What needs to be explained about it? Put a pothos stem with a leaf or two in some water and it starts to grow. Obviously remove as much soil as possible if it was grown in soil before.

[@luckydays8239]

I mix brown and red it's turned into black😋

[@receiving9067]

The pothos you don't even need to tape it, just drop it in, stuff grows fine once it acclimates.

[@janicehurlburt2573]

Enjoy your experiments!

[@zunikizunikilaloo4477]

Looking forward to update.

[@Eeveedelasirena]

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

[@enensis]

My tank has some really odd variations. Got some black ones, and some black with a white stripe down its dorsal, some odd green and yellow ones, shrimps are cool