My hidden shame and new crabs! A day in the life...

Today we take a look at an aquarium that is an absolute algae disaster AND add NEW CRABS to my penjing!!!
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[@RachelOLeary]

Stay tuned for an update on the hot mess of a tank and on the crabs. Super stoked to have gotten them! They are Limnopilos naiyanetri (microcrabs) and are the first addition to the penjing. :) My Patreon: www.patreon.com/racheloleary Fan mail can be sent to: PO box 146 Manchester PA 17345 Buy me a coffee: msjinkzd.com/about_msjinkzd/support-our-site/ Instagram @msjinkzd Website and stocklist: msjinkzd.com/stocklist/ Facebook: facebook.com/msjinkzd/ Music: Breathing Planet by Doug Maxwell

[@dentednj]

That hot mess of a tank is going to look gorgeous after those shrimp devour the longest threads. One of my favorite tanks was the one near it that looks like a finely mown lawn landscaped.

[@RachelOLeary]

@@dentednj fingers crossed!

[@TimmyME]

Rachel you are awesome!

[@annethornton9938]

Always informative &/or timely! I've a similar problem, cropped up when we went away for a few days, and the timer on the lights didn't work as planned. 125 hours of light later, two of my tanks were almost engulfed, and even a month later it's still coming back. I'm battling green/brown hair algae in a couple of my tanks right now; removing by hand, taking out driftwood and soaking in scalding hot water, hydrogen peroxide dips for plants, and it's still coming back. Biggest regrowth is in the Spec V holding my older son's betta, with an anubias, java fern, and a corkscrew val, and a big, beautiful piece of Mopani that's algae central. I'm going to try bathing the mopani in the hydrogen peroxide next. I don't know yet if Ruby could handle tank mates, but a few amanos may be in order...

[@chrissy24-7]

Amano to the rescue!! ✊🏻

[@bluebowser3121]

I wish you'd do a amano shrimp algae tank timelapse.

[@blueiceaquatics8205]

That would be nice

[@chrissy24-7]

She just did about 2 weeks ago!

[@bluebowser3121]

@@chrissy24-7 Wait what

[@bluebowser3121]

@@chrissy24-7 I just checked, found no such video.

[@chrissy24-7]

Maybe a month ago? I know she did bc I had algae and I saw it and ordered 6 amano from her for it. Let me check my order date...

[@LEE-kq9tq]

It's actually really refreshing to see someone as experienced as yourself having difficulty with algae. It helps to know that even the most experienced can still have problems that are a PITA to fix. So thank you for sharing your shameful shameful tank with us ;) lol And those little crabs are too cute!

[@njvikings1]

Omg this Amano shrimp feast would have been a great time lapse!

[@Spartan265]

The shrimp be like: Been spending most my life living in an algae paradise Been sifting once or twice in an algae paradise We keep spending most our time swimming in an algae paradise Keep feeding day and night in an algae paradise.

[@earthgirl7267]

What a beautiful world we live in. Creatures big and small are uniquely and wonderfully made. Thank you for sharing Rachel. ❤

[@Bloodhoundfostermom]

Those shrimp will have that tank spotless quick...they probably thought...hey guys ,LOOK AT THE BUFFET IN HERE ...nom nom nom....hope you have a great day !! I can't wait to see the update on the shrimp buffet tank 😊

[@yiacrazy]

Considering the other tank with the groomed alage, I'm very excited to see what the shrimp do and how cool it will look.

[@jamesparadigm]

When your green thumb goes radioactive. ♥ Even your swivel chair can grow plants (or at least, not kill them)

[@thinktanks4592]

These little guys seem fascinating! So glad you chose them to work with and share with us, thank you :) I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for the Amano results!

[@themadaquarist]

Love it! Best quote...’you can really see the hairs on that big female’

[@ccsorn]

That is going to look so cool with the shrimp in the algae tank. Let's Go Amanos! Lets Go!

[@tinymetaltrees]

Those cute little crabs are illegal where I live. I’m glad you have some now, so I can enjoy them vicariously. I think they’re super cool!

[@vampgaia]

Those crabs are adorable. I did not know crabs existed that were that small. Perfect addition to your new tank. Your Amanos will that care of that algae. No algae can defeat an army of hungry amanos!

[@allaroundthemetaverse-nftg725]

I will definitely want to see the result of the amano experiment!! 😁 Didn't knew the crabs but they look cool, curious about the rest of the livestock.

[@pamelak819]

I really like the juxtaposition of the micro crabs next to the big boy tank in the wide shot.

[@theoglegogalaxy5307]

Algae I'm so tuff nothing can stop me amano shrimp I'ma bout to end this man's hole career

[@SimplyShrimps]

Will be interesting to see how quick the Amano shrimp take to clean up that algae 😁

[@thefishylife6823]

Oh wow those bonsai trees really make it pop!!! It already looked amazing but the trees changed the whole feng shui.....✌️🌿☮️🐟🦀

[@Cberk03]

Beautiful creatures in a stunning tank. I love your channel.

[@robertforrest7956]

Cute little Spidey crabs..😊 Love your updates... Thanks Rachel....

[@jonwebb5241]

Excited about the micro crabs. Also eager to watch the Amano experiment!

[@lrlasvegas6427]

AMANO ALGEA BUFFET TANK - YAASSS! 🦐🦐🦐 I vote for a time lapsed update as well! And love the little hairy crabs🦀🦀... They are just darling! ❤

[@MDFishTanks]

I say go with the tank lol. Call it "my algae growing tank" 😊

[@PunchiePaints]

very interesting little critters. I think I could spend hours watching those little crabs

[@augustvukosovich4683]

Girl I feel ya. My new 29 gallon is starting to look like this. I am at a loss at to what to do at this point. I have tried dosing excel but I dose it at 25% of what is needed because I have painted fire cherry shrimp in there and I don't want to hurt them. I do see them eating the algae, but there are only 7 of them in there so there's no way they can keep up with it. I'm thinking about taking it all down and starting over with some fast growing stem plants so it won't happen again. Thanks for sharing this as I think a lot of us have had this issue.

[@fruitlove8842]

Fast shoots are a good idea. Pothos water pots rarely gets any other groths and apparently it has worked for someone else here.

[@EightJane]

I have to show these little crabs to my sister! She is in love with the tiniest micro tanks

[@SimonJones265]

Wow the shrimp got to work straight away

[@twasbrillig33]

that algae will be cleaned within days by using Siamese flying foxes. I had the same thing, and I bought three, they devoured it all within days.

[@probablynotabigtoe9407]

Make sure to quarantine the amano shrimp before you move them to another tank... Their poop would seed the algae wherever it goes.

[@At0micAllison]

Porkchop Sandwiches interesting!

[@DavidDL]

Cute little crabs

[@crittergirl3647]

Been asking about your Micro Crabs periodically for years, not realizing you not longer had any. I'm so glad they are back in your fish room.

[@kenny3151]

Wow. Really like the crabs addition. I look forward to following that tank and see it’s development over time.

[@lilianubia3648]

Lovely little crabs! I did not even know they existed!

[@At0micAllison]

I wonder what is it about this tank that allows the algae to thrive this way?? It’s pretty amazing, really. 😮

[@lynnbonica4342]

I think the micro crabs are cool. That is such a neat tank. I'd enjoy an update on them. Can't wait to see what else u add to the tank. Love watching your vids, i learn alot. U rock! Keep up the awesome work.

[@raypimienta7670]

pothos in the filter should clear that up... it worked for me..

[@CaylorsReptilesAquatics]

I really like that substrate. I'll have to re-watch the set up to see if it's discussed. Thanks Rachel. Love being a Patreon and getting extras and early.

[@RachelOLeary]

Its sera anthracite, same as I used in my 55g impulsive aquascape

[@marcor1610]

your audio has really improved since last year. And your presentation for your tanks is still the best.

[@RachelOLeary]

Thank you for noticing. I have been really trying to upgrade equipment and my editing skills so it's a better listening experience

[@reynolds326ify]

Awesome Rachel! Love your videos and I chuckled a few times during this video, thank you for always being so informative and helpful!

[@4randosutube]

As a former hermit keeper I think these guys are awesome. Gonna be a really neato tank.

[@DavidRodriguez-jt1ns]

Those crabs were a smart choice, they look amazing, they add intrest and dynamic to the tank, great choice!

[@sylviaschuur1581]

Hi Rachel, we love your video's. All your tanks are beautiful. I also wanted to tell you we had a tank that also kept having extreme algea conditions, tried almost everything incl chemicals, nothing helped until we moved it to a different location in our living room, never had a problem with it again. We have since discoverd that there is some kind of electrcal or other current that runs through a certain area of our house where the tank first was. It causes havok on the clock, tv and pc. I also tried a smaller tank there and same problem as the first with algea. Maybe your tank is also hinderd by some kind of current? Thx for sharing and have a great day😃

[@Jennifer-nz2ss]

I'm OBSESSED with the adorable micro crabs!!!💜💜😁💜💜👍 I want some but live in Texas so our water is awful here.

[@JayckobHernandez]

This is a really awesome tank. I love the little critters you've stocked it with too!

[@barbkrienke8400]

Love those tiny crablets!! Would love to see some footage of them eating the powdered food. You inspired me to start a small tub pond this year, and I’m so psyched to have a leopard frog calling it home now! He sits on one of the plant baskets and I’ve seen him in the same spot for the last 7 days. He doesn’t even flinch when I feed my little koi! Now that fall is in the air, would you mind doing a video on how you prepare your carnivorous bog garden and your tubs for winter? I heard the water lilies stay outside for the winter and will come back. Just not sure where to put them. I really love your videos, Rachel. You have so much knowledge to share on so many interesting critters and other topics!

[@RachelOLeary]

I will absolutely be doing those things- the bog its not until near the first frost. The tubs will start in the next couple weeks. I use the same temp threshold for moving them in as I do for moving them out. Here, its still 70-80s daytimes and around 60 overnight, and is forecast like that until the last week of September. If you need immediate info, I have documented it as well in previous years and I have the total playlist on my home page. I move all my lilies indoors- I cut off all their foliage, and wrap them in black trash bags and put them someplace cool (I have done it in my basement, in my greenhouse, and underneath the overturned tub).

[@barbkrienke8400]

Rachel O'Leary thanks!!

[@hunghopper1993]

I cannot wait to see what the shrimp do to the tank! The crabs blew my mind. I cannot wait to track some down.

[@BabyBoiification]

They look like spiders. Kinda creeps me out lol.

[@1974me1moore]

Best photo bomb ever at 4:20 🤣

[@jonandlisa2000]

Love the new crab additions 👍

[@zimrianispresent8123]

I'm learning a lot of hard lessons over here. Fish keeping is hard, you are very inspiring to keep going! I love the hobby! 🤘🐌🥦

[@TheBSideDJ]

it's easy : good setup, clean water, good food....

[@zimrianispresent8123]

@@TheBSideDJ oh snap I hadn't tried any of those things you're right 😂🤣

[@TheBSideDJ]

@@zimrianispresent8123 funny reaction, love it. No serious, i keep and breed a lot of fish, and frequent waterchanges and variation in food is the key to success. Waterparameters like KH, GH and pH is not so very important when it's different from their natural habitat, as long as you keep the parameters stable.

[@zimrianispresent8123]

@@TheBSideDJ I literally cook entire meals for my snails. I keep snails and plants. I treat them like family

[@zimrianispresent8123]

@@TheBSideDJ The hard lesson I'm talking about is that my local store doesn't quarantine/didn't know what quarantine was. It was a hard lesson but I learned from it and now three of my five tanks are quarantine. Rachel is smart and has taught me everything I know

[@Chillazilla2]

My vampire shrimp would love that tank.

[@AlpacaMade]

Thank you for featuring micro crabs! I am considering them for a Walstad nano but they are not common livestock. The info you provided assured me they would not be a burden to my nano.

[@Katseye102]

These little guys are so cool!

[@michaelmccarthy4077]

if I didn't know what this channel was about and I saw the description as hidden shame and new crabs in the same sentence, I'd have a totally different idea. 😉 🤣

[@lotusjewel6219]

Those crabs are sooo cute💙Please do keep us updated on them along with the shrimp and algae tank!

[@lex2306]

It could be a nutrient imbalance! I had the same problem and I reduced my lighting to only 6 hours a day and I stopped dosing fertilizer as well as before starting that I completely cleaned out the algae and substrate. I’d definitely try this! Took two years for me to figure this out and fix my terrible algae problem.

[@Evil_Genius_888]

I almost bought a bunch of those micro crabs when I first started, but thought I should actually know what I’m doing first. LOL! After Aquashella I think I’ll add a bunch of neo shrimp to my 29 gallon. After this weekend I’ll only have the 4 amanos in there.

[@blueiceaquatics8205]

I don't even try anymore cause my fish and shrimp love it

[@1974me1moore]

Same

[@djssquibbs3295]

This is going to be sooo cool to observe

[@cichlidkingaquatics5988]

God, your tanks are so perfect. You keep me fishkkeeping. Thank you!

[@RachelOLeary]

except for the occasional algae shit show, LOL

[@delirisnmartinezgonzalez6661]

Rachel, looks nice, nice and nice. Nothing else but nice.

[@jeffreyboster6899]

They are really cool little guys.

[@deeschoe1245]

So cool. Wish my lfs would get stuff like this in. I managed to get some Mexican dwarf crayfish and they have bred, so stiked about that.🇨🇦💜

[@Shaden0040]

6 Siamese Algae Eaters, 6 Otocinclus, and 2 rubber lipped plecos and it will be spotless in a week or less.

[@annethornton9938]

Otos don't touch hair algae, at least in my experience.

[@1014p]

Pup314 Columbia zebra pleco is a work horse as well. Also the other go to is green/blue phantom plecos. Don’t forget the hilstream loaches are great surface keepers.

[@BatmanPwnage]

I have a diff type of green algae. Only my water is green. My plants, gravel and glass have nothing. What do I do for that? My husband says its cause i have it outside. Its on our shaded porch. I dont plan on moving it cause I like people looking at it while they wait at my door...

[@leonardotheuseless4188]

@@BatmanPwnage its green water. A unicellular algae that lives in the water column. Ita pretty much impossible to get rid of exept with either live dafnia or a powerful UV sterilizer. It usually pops up when there is a lot of light or a lot of nutrients. I would move the tank inside. If its a glass tank and the temperatures at night was kinda cold i would worry about the silicon schrinking and leaking.

[@BatmanPwnage]

@@leonardotheuseless4188 I live in Miami. Two temps. Hot or super hot. Im not too worried about the tank cause I bought it as an emergency since petco made an error when i bought two "female" hamsters. Its prolly scratched on the corners and it doesnt have its own lid etc. I have a 40 gallon but that one stays inside. (My robo hamsters passed 2 years ago at 2. Tank was just sitting there)

[@fruitlove8842]

I love seeing other people's tanks and critters

[@RachelOLeary]

Me too!!

[@Clawdeer]

Fantastic choice for this beautiful aquarium, they are the cutest x

[@meredithferguson2412]

I love them, Rachel!! Will be watching for them.

[@patriciakloeppel9863]

would love to see a progress update video on these little guys

[@brettkreider18]

Hey don’t know if you’re aware but when looking at the tank you put the shrimp into, all the way in the right corner up top; looks to be some kind of worm ! Lol. I’m pretty sure I watched it back like 5 times. Just don’t want it to hurt the shrimp. Xoxo

[@RachelOLeary]

I think it was an algae coated piece of duckweed 😂

[@miguelsoliz772]

Can you please do a time lapse of the amano shrimp eating down the algae

[@NiX_aKi]

I'm loving this tank ❤️ I like the pebbles. It's like miniature rocks

[@michellesmith7111]

Rachel really like this tank. Good call with the micro crabs, you don’t see them very often.😁

[@leomaurice]

yes! cool little crab. perfect

[@lunatrics]

Waauw. I need that crab enclosure in my life

[@robertanthony7133]

Say bye to them crabs.!!! You will almost never see them again!!! I got 15 in a planted 5 gallon and I have only seen a few while moving plants.

[@MusingsFromTheDen]

The crabs are so cute! 😁 I'm fascinated to see how long it takes the Amano's to do their thing. 😊

[@benn7639]

incredible setup

[@danielkacprzyk3991]

Can't wait to see how shrimps did!

[@nancyware7282]

Too incredibly cute! I love watch crabs scuttle around picking at stuff. You said they are filter feeders, but would they also feed off something on the bottom such as an algae tablet or a piece of cucumber?

[@RachelOLeary]

definitely not a cucumber, possibly very soft pellets or something like baby brine.

[@nancyware7282]

@@RachelOLeary Thanks! I was thinking of the Sera o-nip tabs as they seem to dissolve rapidly, unless the particles are too big?

[@RachelOLeary]

Should be fine

[@Crystalspets]

I love the new crabs Rachel

[@johnnymoore108]

Hey Rachel! I think the "algae scape tank" looks awesome! Why to destroy something so... natural? Keep on tanking!

[@getthatcornouttamyface2461]

I had hair algae in my newly set up 29. I added 3 amano shrimp, no effect(probably not enough shrimp). Then I added 2 flag fish, algae gone!

[@Orlandohaschanged]

My feather stone sales are going up... nice video. I love mts crabs.. so fun

[@RachelOLeary]

Awesome!

[@tootieroe1797]

Love these wee crabs and the setup is beautiful

[@mirtagordillo3486]

Yes would like to see an update on the algue tank with the shrimps

[@ShadowLynx516]

Its good for the livestock Rachel!

[@kaputkittie]

That bonsai is just amazing, that is what I want to do with a 50 long rimless tank and a water tupelo.

[@carolebraswell982]

They are so cute! Never seen anything like them before!

[@herveydoerr-rolley9241]

I breed Amarinus Lacustris which look almost identical but have fully formed offspring and are easy to keep and breed

[@1974me1moore]

Are those aggressive to neocaradina?

[@herveydoerr-rolley9241]

Not at all, the only thing they would predate on are aquatic worms. they wont even touch shrimplets

[@zalphinian]

I totally want to see more of the micro crabs. I'll have to track down your species spotlight on them in the mean time.

[@gregcxox5562]

You know when it comes to aquariums that have run away algae. I wonder if inconsistency in the glass magnify the light or certain colors of light.

[@adreeves3374]

Personally I love the look of the algae! I'm my patio pond I had a massive algae bloom. I put some brine shrimp in there and within a week it was completely clear. They bred like crazy in there and my goldfish had a blast. Never seem them look so chubby!

[@elenterprises506]

I looked up yesterday micro crap they're so small and cute

[@dentednj]

Will you be keeping vegetation out of the water area or adding it? It does look striking with just the rocks but a little of a sterile environment for critters. Looking forward to your design additions. Very relieved you found your bonsai plants. I was anxious about that. I really enjoyed the drive out to your place and the drive back. Google sent me different ways because of traffic patterns. Such gorgeous scenery. I will drive out to Turkey Hill with hubby and take time to stop and photograph and hit some of those antique shops at some point. It looks a lot like my area of Jersey but your corn fields are larger.

[@RachelOLeary]

Knowing me I will put plants in!

[@brianmanning9793]

Sweet tank look forward to updates Wishing u good health and success

[@robertfletcher3421]

Looking forward to the next episode of the Amano shrimp dinner. Those crabs are great I love them.

[@catfishcave379]

This already looks like a Halloween tank. Crabs are always interesting to watch.

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

I love the crabs! They're adorable and so cool. I noticed a few of them have some missing legs. Will those grow back with time?

[@RachelOLeary]

yes

[@abelationgorgoro8310]

Nice. Will you be puting any plants in this aquarium?