Breeding Aquarium Micro Organisms - Setting Up a Food Web

[@uncommonaquatics]

Get your micro fauna here: www.phillipsfishworks.com Get your Shrimp breeding kit here: shrimpybusiness.com Get your Other supplies here: Quick Start: amzn.to/46q8Q0J Air Pump: amzn.to/4cdfJEc Drift Wood: amzn.to/3A03gGu Annubias: amzn.to/3WEvK1b Shrimp: amzn.to/3YnBldu

[@minasystems]

15:25 Hi, these are actually the scuds also known as amphipods. The freshwater isopods are Asellus aquaticus and they do not swim in the water column as much as the amphipods do. They also grow larger. They are mostly hidden in the substrate or are clinging to plants and botanicals. Love your video and your project! Thank you for intruducing us to Phillips Fishworks. We get our microfauna from Carolina Biological Supply sometimes.

[@uncommonaquatics]

Great. Thanks for sharing Phillips fish works has a KZbin channel just about micro fauna

[@AbdullahAzrael]

Oh yeah I love Phillips Fish World this is where I get my microphone off from I started off with the bag of bugs and I've never seen my betta fish so happy he is non-stop moving wrestling through everything looking for stuff to eat it's really cool getting to watch the beta actually hunt

[@uncommonaquatics]

Definitely

[@thorntrap]

This video ❤ great content! I expect to see this channel grow exponentially 🎉

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thank you for the kind words

[@TheRustyGarageandHomestead]

I have learned a ton In this video. Looking forward to seeing the progress

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thank you sir

[@fili.mp3146]

what the heck how do you only have 300 subs you deserve atleast 10-50 thousand!! your videos are super high quality! keep it up!

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks for the kind words. I am a full-time KZbinr in another niche. I just started this aquarium channel and I’ve only done 10 videos. I’m a lifelong aquarium enthusiast so I’ll definitely be sticking with this niche long-term

[@Cowboy_Steve]

Howdy Brock! Loving the detail on the various tanks. If you don't mind I'd like to know a little more about the shrimp... the breeding cycle timeline, how you manage the population for use in the big tanks, stuff like that. Well done and thanks for sharing! 🤠

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thank you for leaving a comment. I think the shrimp have to be about four months old to reach breeding size but once they are that age, they can have babies every 30 days. The plan is leave them until they are until they’re overpopulated and then just scoop them out to the big tank. They need lots of hiding spots. The guppies will reproduce every 30 days as well

[@tlaw8683]

The pod with the snail is a dried out lotus blossom the seeds were expelled pedals of the dead flower removed. Didn't know if you wanted to know or not :) But Cheers

[@MADMUSICENT.]

new subs. love from.philippines ❤ please keep it up. 😊

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks

[@AnthonyMorris-pg9xj]

The round thing that came with the shrimp is a lotus pod. The holes are where the seeds had been. Good video. Keep it up.

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks

[@lloyd011721]

cherry shrimp love to hang out in hornwort

[@kinglyzard]

I just ordered two Bags of Bugs from Phillip's Fish, one for each Walstadt tank

[@uncommonaquatics]

I’m setting up a 55 gallon walled tonight and will be moving a bunch of my micro fauna in there

[@LushSaltyAquariums]

cheers from my fish room channel in Chicago, where I just subscribed to yours! Love this video and Tony! last summer he came by my house with his wife and we traded plants and fish and microfauna! Super fun day.

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks for watching. I will check your channel

[@des10e31]

I love PFW. I set up a microfauna tank (5g) as well.

[@RolandRees]

Does anyone else know that you can use anubis as a floater. In about three months the plant will throw out roots that stick to rocks or drift wood. It actually does better, in my opinion. Just let the plant do it's thing. Worked for me.

[@JoeK6262]

I would put in a couple of frontosas

[@jonmanning7101]

Just a point the first bag was the isopods the second was your scuds. Isopods are crawly type bugs scuds are swimmers

[@uncommonaquatics]

Yeah. The video is older and these have spread through my tanks now

[@jonmanning7101]

@uncommonaquatics I'm currently converting a 20 long into an invert tank , how did the isopods work out ? I mean are they more trouble than the scuds pretty much any info you can offer I would love to hear it thank you

[@uncommonaquatics]

They have multiplied and doing well. No problems. I’ve also added black worms Waiting to see if my shrimp still breed before doing the follow up video

[@jonmanning7101]

@@uncommonaquatics well good luck with the shrimp and I will keep an eye out for the update vid

[@kinglyzard]

@13:35 Scuds are amphipods, not isopods.

[@uncommonaquatics]

wouldn’t be surprised if I said the wrong thing. I’ve ordered a bunch of stuff from Phillips fish works and I’m not sure which ones I showed in this video. One of the bags I ordered were just called isopods. I also have scuds, Daphia,moina. If I remember right, the ones labeled as isopods were huge comparatively. About half the size of my shrimp.

[@kinglyzard]

@uncommonaquatics Easy enough mistake to make. Thanks again for the resource. I just ordered two Bags of Bugs for my 10g tanks

[@stoneysscapes7544]

Love the setup and the only thing that should ever start the cycle is common sense that keeps animals from any and all harm to any creature. I have been successful with everything I have tried from fish food and a few days later anything containing Bacteria from a trusted source or one of the many products specifically made by dozens of Companies and even a Dr. 🌊 Anyone can be successful with a few hours of interest in learning about the Nitrogen Cycle and hopefully the good sense to approach everything based on patience and a good game plan.

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on it

[@lloyd011721]

how does the safe start bacteria stay alive in the bottle if it dies in the aquarium if you dont put anything to feed it?

[@uncommonaquatics]

Good question. I know that a sealed environment is different than when exposed to light and oxygen

[@masonmax1000]

plants also have bacteria on them when added to a tank.

[@uncommonaquatics]

True

[@AbdullahAzrael]

New subscriber here

[@uncommonaquatics]

Thanks

[@gayefanner731]

Hiya, thanku for a very interesting video. I would add a couple more snails but don’t get carried away like me, I now have twelve large pickle jars with snails, ‘pods’ n ‘cods’ - saving up for my first tank(s) but using the time to build up a good ecosystem. God bless your endeavours 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️. 🙋‍♀️🤍🇮🇱✌️

[@rldickie]

If you want 100 shrimp, you only need to buy about 10.

[@bojohannesen4352]

Good stuff, but your uptalk is unbearable.

[@gayefanner731]

I disagree, I can’t bear it in conversation but the subject matter completely overrode my hangups! ✌️