EVERYTHING I Know About Red Cherry Shrimp in 90 minutes!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Did you know, I recently wrote the most comprehensive book ever written about keeping, feeding and breeding Cherry Shrimp. Check it out here neocaridina-shrimp-handbook.com

[@DoubleMcZombie]

Shrimp breeders hate me: i keep a skittle tank that's gradually going wild coloration, and having a blast watching the cool patterns showing up

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

I don’t think wild color shrimp get enough love 😍

[@DoubleMcZombie]

@@FishKeepingAnswers we have rilli patterns that have come up I had never seen, like blue jelly carbons and blue jelly with blue velvet shoulders and tails.

[@georgeloveday9674]

With your enthusiasm and sincerity you could be a politician or used car salesman, but I’m glad you’re sharing your expertise on shrimp.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Not sure if this a compliment or insult 😂

[@Guy1nthecorner613]

As a college student that just got into the hobby, long videos like this are great to listen to while I’m studying. Hope you make more long videos🙏

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you so much for the feedback. This was a mission to make, but I am pleased people are finding it helpful 👍🏻

[@mattimoto]

You would make the best school teacher ever

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

🫶🏻

[@Chelokoshka_]

We need more long vids, unironically.

[@SlimTim_dirty_aquatics]

90 minutes of detail information on shrimp keeping, even learned new and what I’m doing wrong. Example: shrimp zoomies, I always figured it’s mating behavior. Every time I spot a molted shell, immediately look for the zoomer. Fired Up!!!

[@HypnoNett]

90 mins!! Awesome!!!!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Yeah, it was a marathon! Not one I’ll be repeating 😂

[@heelerhealer7552]

For the Canadians here, Cherry Shrimp Canada is awesome to deal with. Great shrimp excellent packaging/shipping with great customer service worth checking out! I just got into shrimp and got a 21 pack mixed colony to start out. So cool. Great channel sir, always informative and entertaining to learm from someone pumped on his topics!

[@tohdohsibir]

Your energy and passion won me over into wanting to keep neocaridina shrimp. I've been a freshwater aquarium keeper for over 10 years, from African cichlids and axolotls to dwarf frogs and bettas. I was never interested in shrimp until now. This is my go-to channel on everything I need to know about shrimp care. Keep up the great work!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you for your kind words. Glad to be of service

[@N7Fred]

Super informative. Loved the video and all of the information. I will be starting my cherry shrimp tank and eventually add some small fish.

[@charlieyb9]

You can really appreciate this chaps passion for shrimp 🍤 fantastic informative 90 mins.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

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[@MarksShrimpTanks]

wow this is a very long video... I love it!!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you. It was a marathon 😫

[@SlimTim_dirty_aquatics]

How do I join as a member

[@igorgilza]

Hello Richard, thank you so much for dedicating so much time and effort to sharing the info with the community. This is really the only video people need

[@geoffmorgan9025]

Thanks for this video. Very helpful and covered lots of questions i had which i couldnt find answers to

[@clementbellande8720]

Awsome ! Cheers from France ❤❤❤

[@agentgiblet]

Just discovered you, watched this end to end and got you book! I have fish,but i am so exciting to start a shrimp and snail tank

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Hey, welcome to the channel. I hope you enjoy the book. It’s genuinely my pride and joy! Would love your feedback. Richard.

[@BGN_Aquariums]

An epic video. Managed to put some time aside to watch. Love it. Needs its own IMDB page. Keep up the great work Richard 🫶

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😂. Appreciate you making it all the way through. Not many people have 😢

[@BGN_Aquariums]

@@FishKeepingAnswers its brilliant mate. I appreciate the hard work you’ve put in and i will always support your channel. My channel will always be indebted to you for your continued support. I actually started making a little money this week. Thanks to your advice. I struggle getting people to watch 8 mins so i can imagine. Why dont you release in in 3 parts too. Might help 🫶

[@coachfrankie1112]

Definitely learned a lot from this and I've been keeping RCS for years. Great job. 👏

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Great to hear! 💪🏻🙂

[@NosyfusBazenski]

I just ordered your book! I'm so excited to read it!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you. I hope you enjoy reading it 🫶🏻

[@bobblack4048]

It's an incredibly interesting video. I recently had to give up my large aquarium. I used the glass to create a 30cm cube nano tank. I've landscaped it, and at the moment, I have a male Beta in it. I am hoping to keep cherry shrimp in the near future. I have found your video very informative. I feel confident in setting up a colony of my own. Thank you.

[@determinedstudentwalearnin5579]

Just purchased you book :) can’t wait for it to arrive in the mail!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you. Would love to know what you think 🤔

[@linzynason7000]

Thank you so much for your videos on cherry shrimp. It has helped me so much in setting up my first shrimp tank. I have 4 berries females and a bunch of baby shrimp in only two months! I had a couple shrimp deaths in the beginning but I figured out what I was going wrong.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Glad you got it sorted and your colony is doing well. 👍🏻

[@periplanetamissionary]

Yes, I love long form content

[@mattiabressan3581]

thanks for alla the info provided, you are very clear also for a foreign speaker!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

You are very welcome 🫶🏻

[@ashleytasker4321]

just started breeding and thank you for this video

[@99Canecas]

Incredible thank you so much .

[@jonnny3564]

Great video 👌

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@alejandroguerra6755]

Please buy his book ! Support this Hero.

[@BGN_Aquariums]

Totally agree. This book turned my shrimp keeping around. Worth evert penny

[@periplanetamissionary]

Im back in the hobby boiz, i got a batch of mid grade green rilis, im so excited. And some orange rabbit snails.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Nice! 👍🏻

[@10gallonfishtanks]

Great video

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@eng60340]

Very comprehensive

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@FancyBoe]

Let's go Richard!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

💪🏻

[@spikey46]

wait wait wait.. golden saddle is EGGS? man, thats crazy :O buying the book RN :D

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

@@spikey46 Would love to hear your feedback on the book. It’s genuinely my pride and joy 🤩

[@metasymphony]

This is a great video and I also have your book! My shrimp don’t seem to eat any commercial shrimp foods, and I got a few really well rated ones (haven’t tried gel foods or bloodworms yet). I drop the pellets in, the shrimp ignore it and eventually snails show up to eat it. They even ignored the fancy shrimp pop entirely. I see them eating biofilm and algae though and they are active and alive but it’s weird.

[@turtlerides]

Great video, I was hoping you would touch on planaria and non exoskeleton pests.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you. I have a video in the works on these 👍🏻

[@BGN_Aquariums]

When the female carries the eggs, do they hatch while she carries them or does she drop the eggs and then they hatch?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

I believe she gives them a kick to set them on their way 🤔

[@BGN_Aquariums]

@@FishKeepingAnswers cool. Always wondered. Really enjoyed the video mate. Brilliant as always 👍🏻

[@Feliciathefishtanklady]

Thank you for this great video! The time stamps are really helpful. Can you feed your shrimp too much color enhancing food? And if so would red algae be as problematic as a commercially prepared color enhancing food?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you for your feedback. Can you overfeed them color enhancing foods? I would say no. Assuming what ever you are feeding is a proper fish or shrimp food, I can’t see any problems. 👍🏻

[@Feliciathefishtanklady]

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you. I haven't been keeping shrimp long, but my shrimp do seem much brighter with the color enhancing foods. I do not notice a change in the water color with these foods. I kind of think the people who do notice a reddening of the water may be using foods with additives,etc.

[@luigiluigi2098]

90 minutes that's longer than some movies. I'll come back with Popcorn later to watch it all in one hit.

[@SKONER333]

When will the audiobook come out?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Ah man! It’s on the list, but I need to set aside a few days to record and edit it. It will be out at some point 🤞🏻

[@SKONER333]

@@FishKeepingAnswers Awesome! I ended up getting the digital version. Amazing book!

[@WhiteCloudAffinity]

Personally the easiest plants are: java moss, frogbit, java fern, anubias, pearlweed, rotala and crypts(crypts & swords if you have a deep substrate system)

[@commonsense246]

I just put in almost 20 blue dream in my 6.6 gal tank, next morning, I can only find 1. I looked in the filter chamber, nothing and the intake slots are well protected by sponge. My tank is heavily planted but I've looked for an hour with a flashlight, no trace of them...and that's overnight! Any ideas? I have several Neons, 3 Serpae, 2 White Skirt Tetras and 2 Corys...how could they eat them?

[@onironius8008]

If the males have less colouration, how do you ensure you're choosing "ideal" males if you're breeding for specific colour grades? Do you just choose the best-coloured females and hope for the best?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

It can be tricky. Just decide which are your best males and breed those 👍🏻

[@Chelokoshka_]

Richard, I wanted to ask about proper сulling. At what age is it better to do it, can a young female gain good coloration with age, or is it already clear in adolescence?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Hi. Personally I cull at around the 2 to 3 month mark. At that point you can tell the really good colour shrimp from the average ones. With that said, cull for me means moving to a dedicated cull tank rather than kill, so I can always reintroduce a shrimp that suddenly colours up.

[@Chelokoshka_]

@@FishKeepingAnswers I apologize, I asked the question without watching the video to the end, there is already an answer to my question at the end of the Shrimp Life cycle section)

[@Player56494]

i don’t know why but i’ve never been able to keep shrimp alive or breeding i tried in a 5g walstad with heavy tannins and a lot of plants and floaters and they barely breed and now i’m going to try with my walstad 10g i hope they live. anyone have any tips or experience with shrimp?

[@RexWu]

Do you check your PH and nitrate levels? Water agitation? What are you feeding them?

[@dereksmith8962]

Hi, I’m really interested in starting shrimp breeding, you make it look really doable. Where is the near place buy shrimp?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

It really is doable my friend. I don’t know where in the world you are based, so it is difficult to suggest somewhere to buy shrimp 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@grathado28]

I dropped them in the tank and they lived lol i got lucky lol

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

💪🏻

[@RexWu]

I care less about the grade of colors of my shrimp. I purchased mine so they can help process waste. I love my shrimp no matter what. And I'd even prefer them less red if they can be healthier and harder and stronger. What's the point of having something "beautiful" if they're weak?

[@mattercolini7451]

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