Learn How to Breed MORE Shrimp - A Breeders Guide

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Did you know, I recently wrote the most comprehensive book ever written about keeping, feeding and breeding Cherry Shrimp. Check it out here fishkeepinganswers.com/neocaridina_shrimp_handbook/

[@sarah2178]

My 4 year old and I have been raising our cherries since December. We started with 12 and they recently had babies. I seriously couldn’t have done it without your awesome videos.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

That's great to hear. Glad to hear you and your little one are enjoying the hobby together ❤️

[@Vitamin_Pudding_The_President]

what worked for you the most?

[@flscubadiver]

Can I just say that Richard is the Boss! Had about 15 Jade shrimp for about 2 months that weren't doing much except for one hatch of about 10 babies. Made some changes according to your book and videos and literally had an "explosion" of over 50-60+ babies. You gotta get the book. Thank you Richard!!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thanks for your kind words ❤️ Also, great to hear things are going well

[@BloodOcean666]

I found this video bc my shrimp didn't breed and I wanted to know why. I didn't know how important protein is for them. I gave them shrimp food, leaves in many forms, cucumber but the only thing missing was meat. I gave them frozen food and bam, after couple of days even amano shrimp is carrying eggs right now. After one time feeding! Thanks for this video! You're the best!

[@eliza4817]

So glad I took the “leave them alone” advice to heart the past few days! I was tempted to remove a decayed frogbit leaf but inspected first. There are five tiny baby shrimp on it, just loving the pickings!!! Learning to make peace with the snail battle too and not stick my hands in 😊

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

'Just leave them alone' is the best advice to any shrimp keeper :-)

[@calvinpinto897]

Hey Richard, I've kept shrimps since August 2023 and have lost and replaced several dozens of shrimps until the year end. Since new year I re-watch several videos on your channel, scaped and maintained my tank accordingly n now my shrimps are thriving with few being berried too! Thank you for all the guidance and making my shrimp keeping experience consequently frustration free!

[@laurabustos6560]

I have all notifications on and haven't gotten a single notification I'm months! I'm so glad to see the channel didn't disappear!! And bonus I guess? Now there's a bunch of backlog vids to watch. ✌️

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Welcome back to the party 🥳

[@jordyp3696]

bigger rocks in the water also helps keeping the temperature stable. they for example will capture heat during the day and retain and return that warms slowly at night. and of course the other way around as well. the stone cools at night and capture heat during the day.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

True 👍🏻

[@Batmancontingencyplans]

Kudos for giving metric temps 👍🏻

[@laurabustos6560]

'The females give off the most wonderful pheromones' A sentence I never thought would seem normal, but totally is! 😂😅🤣

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😂

[@Subie.Stitch]

Woooooo thank you for sharing the secrets! ❤❤❤❤

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😎

[@zowiecardwell8807]

I set up my first shrimp only tank the other week and waited until the tank had lots of biolfilm before adding them. I had 2 male cherry shrimp and purchase 6 more last week and they made sure I had a few females in there. The next day I came downstairs and one of them had the golden saddle 😊 I've even got cholla wood in a bucket so I can grow more biofilm for my shrimp. They've also got Indian almond leaves, shrimp lollipops, pellets and snowflake pop.. Plus the like the occasional bit of cooked broccoli and carrot too

[@cinema6133]

Just did my first "harvest" from my oldest of now 3 seperate colonies. Got about 100 babies in a grow out bin, and a bunch more were left behind in the main tank. I'm estimating between all my tanks I went from 40 shrimp to at least 300 since December! Hoping to start selling some by April or May.

[@WinTyh]

I just started a breeding tank. After 2 months managed to get 3 shrimplets . Started from a colony of 18 shrimps . The problem I’m facing is mosquito larvae . And dragon fly larvae .

[@MAFishGuyAquarium]

Great video. Shrimp is something I'm considering

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Do it. You won’t regret it 👍🏻

[@boaboboadobo5487]

Thanks to your videos I have been able to boom my Community of jade shrimp and I am very grateful for your channel. I do have a question you do cover in some past Videos how to avoid death in shrimp. But when they do die Should I remove the bodies from the tank. I ask because currently in my tank The Java moss has become a thick and nice house for my community of shrimp but at times I see dead bodies deep within the moss. Should I remove them and possibly disturb the rest of the community or just leave them be? I am afraid because my tank has been a stable and almost self sustained environment but then also afraid what negative affects the dead shrimp may cause. Once again thank you for your knowledge.

[@BloodOcean666]

I put tights on filter intake. I have hanging filter with tights on both intakes (main and skimmer) and shrimp use them to feed on food that stays there :D

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Nice 👍🏻

[@Craig-777]

Im so glad i found this channel, you rock! If you were water you would be 600 tds😂

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Fanks! ;-)

[@happyhuman5766]

Subbed so happy I came across your channel you have great knowledge ❤

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Welcome to the channel 🫶🏻

[@GreighFuller]

Thanks I bought my first shrimp a month ago. They were blue dream and I had 10now there is 2.i think I was messing with the tank to much.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

That’s a shame. Don’t give up. It’s a great hobby 👍🏻

[@GreighFuller]

@@FishKeepingAnswersok I won’t

[@michaelmcnabb9748]

I had better results when I stopped using my aquarium and started using plastic totes ha ha.

[@adamsazaquatics3079]

At 10:39 you are talking about LRBretz’s colony idea

[@SnakeWorksStudio]

Where can I buy some of your shrimp?

[@auntonera1xtattoo]

You’re the best !

[@simongrainger5549]

Love your videos..one question, when you say feed frozen bloodworms do you just drop the frozen block in or defrost first?

[@krawlspace]

I look forward to Richard answering this, but I personally put a small bit of cube in a little cup and then add aquarium water, let it sit for 5/10 minutes before adding. Makes them swarm like crazy!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Over the years I’ve done it all ways. These days I typically take a cube of frozen bloodworms in my fingers, and gently swish it in each tank for a few seconds so some bloodworms fall off. I only have one large colony at the moment, and in that tank I typically just drop the cube in and wait for it to defrost and sink.

[@EyezLikaFox̌]

Hi Richard, i have a question. If i see eggs that a female has and shes fanning them. Does that mean they are definitely fertilized? I recently separated what few blue jellies my tank has to a different tank. They are definitely too young to have bred before, im hoping for all blue jellies. I didn't pick the best blue jellies i just grabbed every juvie blue jellies. Hoping i have both sexes. I am noticing the golden saddle on some..fingers crossed i have at least 1 male.. ty

[@lesteraguada2293]

I have successfully bred my red cherries. But I am having a trouble with blue dream. How can I improve their breeding? They got a good ratio.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Sometimes it’s just a case of giving them time. I had a colony of orange shrimp once that didn’t breed for about 6 months, but then there was no stopping them 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@asbestoswanker]

Hey Richard, I have an interesting scenario that I can't really find help on with my shrimp and I thought you could maybe provide me some insight. I have a 20 gallon aquarium with about 10 Blue Dreams, and I've had them for almost 8 months now. The tank parameters are all good. The shrimp are almost all fully grown. The males are actively searching the tank to mate with the females, but no matter what, the females won't accept. I haven't had a single berried female in the tank since I set it up. Ive seen several of the females saddled, so I know they have eggs. Ive done water changes, checked parameters, added more blues to get some genetic variation, but nothing. Can you help me out? (For more clarification, the water changes were very infrequent, and usually just topping up the tank. Ive also seen several molts so the shrimp are growing)

[@MsDragonfire1992]

Hie many shrimp would you say is the maximum for a 10 litre tank? I have downsized to 25×25×35cm tanks bevause i can have more so I will be able to seperate them by quality and have different colour variants. But i have limted space. I have 3 at the moment and have 10 in one, 4 in another and 8 in the 3rd.

[@Ghosteminx]

The link to download the book didn't work ☹️

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thank you. I have changed it to this one. neocaridina-shrimp-handbook.com

[@abhisekmukherjee6175]

Is rasbora's are good tank met of cherry shrimp & ghost shrimp?

[@garbagegremlins4707]

Instructions unclear shrimp launched a heist and stole all my seachem stability

[@louislajoie6782]

Do you have a beta

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Yep, 2 or them 👍🏻

[@djt7387]

If you have healthy soil in your tank, do you need to add calcium?

[@TheStormRogue]

My shrimp seem to be very picky. They don’t really seem to care for the crab cuisine. I’ll have to see what other stuff they want. I do dose daily with Bacter AE. So maybe they’re happy with the biofilm

[@blackmonteme]

Love it

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

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[@HeRo-qd6tk]

❤

[@poquito808]

How can i control the snails in my shrimp tank?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

It can be tricky. You can manually remove them or you could try adding Assassin Snails. The Assassin Snails will eat the other snails 👍🏻

[@poquito808]

@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks will try adding assasin snail to my tank.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

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[@Losendes]

Can u buy a pair of cray fish...I want to know more abt it from u

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

I am just preparing to start a video series on the Neon Blue Crayfish

[@Losendes]

Just do it as early as possible...

[@jayherrera5725]

Anybody know if I can keep cherry shrimp and ghost shrimp together?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Yep. They work well together 👍🏻

[@Clipcloude]

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[@FishKeepingAnswers]

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[@truth.hurts...]

Can you get rare guppys

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

You can, but the nature of guppies is they are as to breed, so any ‘rare’ guppies don’t stay rare for long 👍🏻

[@ALittlePB]

Is there any way I can buy a female shrimp off of you. or 2?? let me know!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Hi. Sadly there isn’t. I don’t sell shrimp any more. Sorry 😔

[@BehaveIntolerant]

Buy a prefilter sponges foam rolls you put it on the intake filter. The water filter intake pipe can suck in shrimps. It was happening to me.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Good advice. Thanks for sharing.