CRYSTAL RED SHRIMP TANK w/ ALL BUCE & AKADAMA SOIL

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[@peasantrobot]

It might be that the blue acara won't breed because there are no tetra fish in? And where there is no food....

[@FreakShowScitchy]

What was the small teabags with nutrients and stuff?

[@charlestingel9700]

How about making a black tank. I mean black leaf plants(almost) like buce ghost for the Halloween?

[@durst101]

Video 58 of asking for a tank with some freshwater dolphinfish please.

[@graffic13]

Lolz those moss ball things would be great in a kuhli loach moss ball ball pit aquarium!

[@wendydix5534]

My granddaughter says the shrimp look like they are knitting! When they swim across the tank I think they look like they are riding a bike 😂. We love them

[@ananda-b3u]

They do look like they’re knitting! How cute 🥰

[@space_ghost_z941]

Welp can't unsee that! XD

[@ShrimpMania]

Beautiful shrimp tank MD! I like to see the buce + moss combo in the shrimp tanks they look awesome and work great for Caridina. Thanks for mentioning btw, good to hear I'm a 'nice guy' from your perspective😂. That microbe bag is very popular among Asian breeders, they call it Lubao bag. It's slow release beneficial bacteria inside that feed your shrimp and bacteria in the tank. Very beneficial for the shrimp, but keep an eye on the ammonia level as it also gradually releases a little bit of ammonia over time that is absolutely safe in the established tank but can be a bit toxic for the shrimp in the new tank, but I think for this tank size you should be fine. Good luck with them and I hope to see 100's of those shrimp in that tank in your future videos!

[@seymour47]

Buffer means it stabilizes the water chemistry so additional acid input or reduction doesn't change the pH. So, if soil is reducing the pH it's not buffering.

[@alancai9903]

Yeah but the soil is also acidic so it reduces the ph to a certain level and maintain at that level which is why it’s buffering the water

[@JohnnyGreenroom]

There is very very little nutrition if any in Akadama. Its just clay from Japan, it will be slightly acidic as that is the nature of Japanese soil. It has micro channels running through it so has good capacity to hold nutrition and oxygen. It is almost never used neat in Bonsai as it breaks down far to easy during frost and becomes a solid clump, which kills root growth. Depending on the brand and shipment it can be harder and less dusty (ideal) or really poor and crumbly (ibaraki is better than Ryusen). Hope it helps!

[@aaronkameric1419]

I don’t practice bonsai but I was thinking along the lines of what you said. That substrate would be for drainage and aeration I’m thinking? Not nutrients. Good explanation. Cheers.

[@DirkDeadeye_]

honestly I was thinking "what's wrong with ADA soil?"

[@Nutamago]

@@DirkDeadeye_ maybe akadama is cheaper? idk. sand gravel Crushed lava rock is much much cheaper in my country. Normally used for every potted plants aeration

[@itsneroyt]

I would love to see MD do a saltwater tank. I know they are more maintenance but I feel like he would scape it beautifully.

[@robdean1229]

Yes! Next level bro! 🤓

[@50shadesofgreen17]

There are next to no nutrients in akadama 😊 hence why bonsai growers carefully fertilise depending on species, size, season etc. Speaking out of personal experience ❤

[@ashamane]

Also meant to say, thank you for linking the glass scraper you use; it was absolutely perfect for my small, heavily planted tank. The narrow form of it was so much better than what I had and my tank looks so great :)

[@skrounst]

I would really enjoy like a 3-4 minute relaxing beauty shots/ B-roll of the finished tank at the end of the video. Ive seen you do it in older videos, but noticed you kinda cut back on it. It's just really cozy. I do it sometimes with my tanks just for myself lol. I like seeing what my fish and shrimp are up to all day

[@FuzzSquatch]

The hard scape design on this tank is fantastic! Great composition and it really looks like one piece of wood!

[@wirtification]

This is a great video for the caridina parameters, I don't feel like I couldn't do this. I love that neo's have very simple parameters though. But, if I want to expand, you made it easy to follow! They absolutely 💯 POP!!! GORGEOUS TANK and gorgeous shrimp.

[@ashamane]

I love Buce so much. Once it's adapted to underwater it gets so irridescent and beautiful. I'm literally considering CO2 in my 10 gallon nano betta tank to get their best color they are so satisfying. Hardy too!

[@brockn7878]

Glue moss on the round caves. Stick them in the crevices of the scape. They'll look fabulous.

[@MrVovansim]

Haha, I thought it was amusing when he said the sphere things looked artificial, so he hid them in the back, but he was ok with the plastic pipes. 😅

[@Shmu22]

I love watching shrimp ... they are always busy. I have blue dreams in a shrimp only tank but your caridina shrimp are beautiful ! The plants you chose are perfect.

[@kyleemery2798]

Your last two shrimp videos have inspired me. I just closed down one of my larger aquariums because I was running out of time to maintain it but I think I'm going to do a shrimp tank!

[@calsd107]

When you have access to such lush healthy large sized plants, I bet it's so much easier to start a planted aquarium! Where I live, the best you can get is 1/3 or less of your pot's size for the same price. And you are lucky if you get plants that are not already in the process of dying. As for the tissue culture, for the same price we get cup's contents barely 1/4 of those you show in your videos. And often times they already have lots of brown rotting leaves and barely any roots. The overall price of aquarium plants is so high that in order to plant a new tank the way you do, you'd have to spend more than you paid for the whole tank, hardscape, and lights put together.

[@KasyMini]

Shrimps are so much fun! I absolutely adore them.

[@blakehugueley4564]

Thanks for all the videos you’ve inspired me to get into the hobby I just set up my first big tank well 55gal I put in cardinal tetras rummy nose tetras and some Pygmy corys I have red crystal shrimp coming in this week I ordered them last week

[@donnabopp9327]

I love seeing your tanks. I have a couple of plants that are doing so well in my small 10 gallon tank. There are only 4 fish but they are doing very well also.

[@Diospyros1985]

Beautiful tank! Just used buce for the first time in a 12g long bookshelf tank. Mixed it in with a bunch of Anubias Nana Petite. Awesome plant!

[@AquaticHomeGarden]

I knew when the glasses appeared MD means business and this would be an epic build 👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥

[@AH-Aquatics]

I love this, I recently bought some blue dreams for my new tank and the shop told me I needed RO water. I don't use RO and they are doing fine, hardier than you think as long as you acclimate them right as you did. It is worth taking the time.

[@traceyirwin1954]

They are gorgeous, I think they look like sweets from the old fashioned winter mixture I need a shrimp tank in my life 😅

[@trentonjohanson2701]

Can we get an updated fish room tour? The last one was amazing and it would be awesome to see what changes you've made and how the tanks are doing!

[@Plecoryco]

When he said, "You don't wanna breathe that in so, DON'T!" I held my breath for a sec

[@SJLamb-te3dt]

MD you’ve gotta glue some buce or anubias or something to those hideous artificial tubes. They look ok in the shire because you covered them in moss. I bet covered in buce they will look great.

[@MrVovansim]

I was thinking this. HOW are the pipes ok to be in the foreground, while the spheres have to be hidden in the back?😅

[@adam6260]

Agreed, I initially thought to cover them with moss, like the stones MD added to the tank

[@emilpetterssontornros8182]

I think the channel where u saw it is Marks shrimp tanks, great scottish shrimp youtuber that lives in Norway. More shrimps plz! Great video as always 👍

[@dragonrage3398]

I laughed so hard when I seen your hoodie. 😂😂😂

[@aronro1291]

Love the shrkmp and about 80% of the build. Yhinking that the moss should've been put on something thinner like slate. It looks a bit odd sitting high on the rock like that. (I would've also tucked the plastic tubes to just poke out behind the wood)

[@Foogle..]

Love some shrimp videos 🙂 While watching I thought you could perhaps attach some live moss to the stack of tubes? Hmm.

[@Philip_Taylor]

Yes, bonsai become very valuable to the owner/artist and the soil quality is, obviously, a big consideration. Akadama soil is created for excellent water retention, airflow to the roots, and drainage.

[@robdean1229]

Dude.. your fish and shrimp would totally POP against black sand.. been waiting for you to try it. Let the artist in you experiment with it!! 🤓🌱

[@shaunburns543]

They have glass catfish in Maidenhead aquatics today. They swim in shoals vertically instead of horizontally. Very interesting looking and completely see through. Quite a good size too!

[@shel.b.1090]

I have 3 in one of my tanks and they truly are a fascinating fish. Scaleless and prefer low light xxx

[@jaapvanoosten4697]

Love the shrimp shire build, looks stunning!

[@Parasol1957]

See you next saturday in Sint Niklaas - Belgium, MD. I'm already looking forward to it 😀

[@33ttpat10]

Love the tank. I just love watching shrimp

[@coelacanth9311]

Another inspiring scape, perfect for the crystal reds.

[@Staktionn]

Wonderful design! Just love shrimps

[@vandreadify]

I swear coming from reef tanks everything is so much cheaper. loving freshwater so far

[@KevinB-y1f]

Great job as usual the buces look amazing

[@bonethroat7794]

i love buce! really hard to get where i live but this looks so awsome

[@thephalaenopsisqueen6960]

They are beautiful! I'm looking forward to seeing your care for them as time goes by. I have always wanted Crystal shrimp but thought I had better try my hand at a planted aquarium with Neos and fish first. Planted tank is doing very well. Water out of my tap is over 8ph so I think I'd need a substrate like this along with a buffering product to use during water changes? Cant wait to see if you get babies!

[@fernedowns6652]

I love your shrimp tanks you should do another shrimp forest aquarium 😊

[@VIVEKVLOGGSS]

Hey, so you know how you have a bunch of aquariums? I was wondering how many you have and how you manage to keep them all so clean. The water always looks so crystal clear, and I'm curious about your daily routine for aquarium maintenance. If you have time, could you make a video about it? I'd love to learn from your experience.

[@WibblyMart]

*thru gritted teeth* "They're so Beautiful!" Cue cute aggression song

[@charlestaylor7245]

Man I love buce! Another awesome build as always

[@carlosseptiencuevas1613]

Great thank,Utricularia is carnivorous and may eat shrimp!😊

[@orrfamous8078]

Love my neo caridina tank that I have. Would love to do a cardina tank next but my water is probably way too hard

[@miniscenesgb]

Wonderful. Those are some lucky shrimp

[@cindyjohnsen326]

I didn't realize I wanted shrimp. L0L Thank you!!

[@bigrededdy]

that is a fortune on Buce! but it looks awesome! …I live in Ireland and getting access to either Neo or Caridina shrimp from LFS’s is a nightmare, i have to order mine which is always touch and go

[@WildPursuit1]

I used fluval stratum soil plants and shrimp did perfect

[@gabrielwannes9220]

Love more shrimp content!

[@lorischwemmer1164]

I just watched it! FANTASTIC!! ❤❤

[@AquaticNubia]

25:27 - Was waiting for the other parameters that you were measuring besides PH, don't forget to include the info please :) I had an option to go for Crystal shrimp since I was using ADA Amazonia II aquasoil, but in the end I picked up Neocaridina because I thought they would be hardier to keep since it was my first time keeping shrimp. Always enjoy your videos, keep up the good work!

[@LA61582]

very beautiful tank cool setups stuning shrimps

[@michaelagostino3483]

Green Neon tank. I'd like to see something I have never seen you keep. In that tank, besides whatever fish your thinking of, put it a group of 3 to 4 Kuhli Loaches.

[@The_G.I.P.G]

I've used the same soil for my bleu tiger shrimp but Instead of buce's I used crypt's , sweet chestnuts leaves and wood

[@clementbellande8720]

Really nice ❤❤❤

[@CaritasAngola]

Buffering would be raising pH, not lowering it. A higher pH number is more alkaline.

[@littlemidwestrebornsdolls]

Gorgeous tank!! 🌿🌿🌿🌿

[@ArtistrynowforU]

Great inspiration, thank you

[@FinnegansFish]

Mark's Shrimp Tanks has a video on acadama soil in his caradina tanks. It's a great video. If you are interested. Cheers from 🇨🇦

[@aislingmckee2964]

That looks really great!!!

[@TheoGermal]

Yay! A new MD vid 😊

[@stringer1818]

lol md loves his dark holes haha

[@davidmccann2633]

I must say to everyone as a fishkeeper if you keep Cory Dora's you need a fine substrate because if you have gravel they will whare down ther barbells on ther faces and ther mouth gits infected

[@DerekTran-c2m]

you don’t. They live in rough/rocky environments in the wild.

[@ds1839]

fake news!!!!

[@psy_99]

I wonder how long the Akadama soil will last till it exhausts it's acidic properties. They also tend to break down overtime as well so that'll be interesting

[@millionpavillion3126]

I heard it was around 12-18 months but depends on the thickness of the soil and how often you do water changes

[@ShrimplyAquascaping]

Just a question, but where exactly does the water go when it get sucked by the trusty shop vac, doesn't the water leak

[@markpegler3277]

Great build love it

[@kingston6191]

You should have kept the artificial looking moss balls and just glued real moss to the top of them. They are still perfectly useful ;)

[@manki_d_oumar6668]

Bc of MD my fish and aquarium sanity is over the roof, bought a new 70L tank, aquascaped it and its cycling now. Lowkey addicted to these vids

[@MarksShrimpTanks]

Oh I like !!!

[@BrewByMe]

❤ it if you have the tank space you should do a few different species of these awesome shrimp with different scapes of course lol. Cheers Mate 🍻

[@deathandtexas2016]

As much as I appreciate your "just chuck it in" method, I think it would be fun to see you plan more hardscapes this way. Why not build a dojo?

[@marct138]

24:20 are you saying i should put chips in my fishtank? 😂

[@przemekm9161]

long time subscriber here , your channel helped me a lot, but there is no way you and your wife are taking care of this

[@dylansgaming8066]

Amazing video MD

[@BekeBaked]

How do you always have nice clean black background. It took me 5h to let it stick to the back i had to go buy the glue because water and soap wasn't working now still with glue its getting loose at the top 😂 I gave up

[@gwn_viktor]

What do you do against bodem rot?

[@afsarpathan02]

More shrimp videos❤❤❤

[@snowleopard1831]

Great scape! I'm a big fan of yours and I love your scaping style. I'm going to be scaping a 75 gallon tank for a small soft shelled turtle, what plants 🪴 do you recommend?

[@patrickdevro1841]

beginner here , do the plants that are glued to the stone and wood grow ?

[@SaraJfai]

18:01 It looks really nice! I love Bucephalandras as well. My favorites is called brownie blue, red cherry, and skeleton king. Brownie blue and black cherry has a lot smaller leafs.

[@puzzledrock]

Hey MD, this is a cool video so far. I’d love to see you tackle a some more saltwater on the channel. I’d also love to see you tackle a tank that has a smaller footprint but with more space vertically, seems like it’d have some interesting scaping/species opportunities.

[@tehlokhao7025]

how is bro getting crystal shrimps without RO water and with plants he needs like an award for this

[@glex4112]

Can u pls explain, for the non-shrimp keepers

[@hookedonprjonrojas2314]

Sometimes things are simpler than they make them out to be

[@brianfpv623]

Yes ! I started out with 10 red shrimp- I bred about 100 with out lowering ph or anything- I just let them be and over time you’ll see -

[@JS_Gaiserik]

well, he got lucky that his tap water + the akadama soil combination produces a good enough parameter for crystal reds. It might be another story if he's getting fancy BOAs but I think it should be fine for crystal reds as long as the parameters are fine

[@auditivmiljo8883]

He has a dream coming out of his tap ,i have kind of stones coming out of my tap 😂

[@GSG-lc5zm]

21:00 Hey, Halloween is coming up.. you could use those green balls for a Halloween themed face tank... They'd make great eyes ... OH.. I'm sure you have stuff around that would make great faces and such rocks ,, wood Lots of stuff I've seen around your shop almost has a face anyway 🤣

[@oprofessionell]

Just make sure to keep an eye on your KH and GH-levels as these shrimp are kinda picky... you will also eventually need to start culling/removing new shrimp progeny that do not keep that pattern/color of their parents, if you don't within a few generations they will all have reverted to a brownish wildtype.

[@gemmacorinne9487]

Early again! Yay, and for shrimp!

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

We have a round tank - entrance small but huge area - I want a big piece of drift wood with plants in it to re start our tank - but the drift wood won't fit trough the top of the tank! Please help! Should we chop it in half then glue it together?????

[@walstadmethodstepbystep]

wow, nice !

[@colinnickless4015]

Hey MD. What was the name of those pouches you were using that you placed in the back behind the wood?

[@jhchecri]

Hey man ! I think that your filter still has pores that are too large for shrimplets. I'd advise something a little smaller, there are many options out there

[@markbeesley7831]

Hi .can you put a list of the plant you used in this setup please.

[@FMAquascapes]

great tank as always

[@manki_d_oumar6668]

YESSS SKRIMP TANKSS

[@matthewjoiner6977]

MD we need a CPD tank!!

[@jordanvillanueva023]

Hi! What is the name of the adapter you have at the end of the tube that you use to fill the tank up the black part you put inside the tank what is that exactly? I could definitely use one of those!

[@Farkurnell]

Mate, where’d you get the stand/holder thing for the co2 bottle? Cheers.

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

I've heard it's best to boil your driftwood before putting it in your tank - is this true?