My Favorite Shrimp OF ALL TIME!!!!!

Hey Shrimp People!
The title says it all! My favorite shrimp of all time (heart eyes!)
If I could only keep one type of shrimp, this would be it! Since 2014 GREEN JADES have been the apple of my eye in my shrimp room. I've kept every color of neocaridina out there, and this one has steadily remained my #1!
While beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, its hard to deny how beautiful they are.
The luxurious emerald green color and high percentage of high quality offspring produced are some of my favorite things about this color variant. They are nicer in person, if you can believe that!
NOTE*The colony featured in the video is my current Dark Green Jade colony obtained/started in 2019. The pictures referencing 2014-2018 are some green shrimp from my PREVIOUS colony. Green jades available in the shrimp hobby PRIOR to 2018 available typically looked like those ones (light green, high variability). These are 2 seperate colonies, from 2 seperate times (2014-2018 and 2019-2020)
If your looking to purchase high quality, homebred, healthy green jade shrimp in Canada, I sell them in my online shop.
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[@ShrimpLife]

These are my fav shrimp of all time ❤ I'm getting a new device for recording pretty soon so I am hoping to make some better quality videos moving forward, by LIKING & SUBSCRIBING, you help support my efforts! ❤

[@carlapappalardo1901]

I so wish you shipped to the states. Yours are gorgeous! Best I've seen.

[@TheChubbyGuppy]

Carla Pappalardo Detroit Shrimp & Aquatics has them on sale $3 each USA only! Mine look great!

[@carlapappalardo1901]

@@TheChubbyGuppy I'm not seeing a website or a Facebook page just their KZbin channel.

[@TheChubbyGuppy]

Carla Pappalardo KZbin works. His March sale video.

[@carlapappalardo1901]

@@TheChubbyGuppy Thank you, I've msgd asking more about the bizness.

[@yongchenseng5841]

Wow 🤩 I love them 😍

[@kevinsheppard3920]

Hello how are you? Happy Holidays! I do hope that all is well with you and your family! I would like to know where do you get your Green Jade from they look great! 🌲🎁🎅🏾❄☃️🙏🤗

[@cristianchan5402]

uncle Nathan also in Canada... i love Green Jade shrimp and i love your pronounce... Macchiato cheers, ma'am...

[@rick49]

So many beautiful shrimp! They never stop moving. I especially liked the fast-forwarded segment at the end. :)

[@ShrimpLife]

Thanks!!

[@papapig2876]

Hello, your colony is beautiful. I got 20 green jade and want to begin to select them. Do I need to wait the next generation to start culling? I'll keep the best females and do i need to keep all good males of just one or two? Thank you!

[@dannycastaneda1974]

Hello shrimp life. Thanks for sharing these beautiful shrimp! I visited your site and have been preparing to order these jade shrimp as the site appears to indicate you ship to the USA . But i see comments here that you don't. So sad. I just bought some Bacter AE. Curious why you don't use it?

[@seanootd3406]

Wow they are absolutely stunning like you know being a mod for mark and few others i see plenty of shrimp and these are truly stunning shrimp

[@ShrimpLife]

Thanks!!

[@shibhinbabuc367]

Nice color...can you please share some tipson whatyou feed them?

[@marulamsamosir85]

do you use any enhancer food for your green shrimp ?

[@heithchoate5048]

I'm just starting. And I've been looking around for jades. And I haven't found any I want to start with yet.

[@TheChubbyGuppy]

Sweet! Absolutely gorgeous! Just got mine a long time dream of mine. I call the lighter ones “Pickle Ricks”. Love your channel!

[@Cussonification]

Beauty

[@evacardell8808]

Fantastic, so beautiful shrimps!!❤🌹🌹

[@theurbanfarmgirl3665]

One of my favourites also! 😍 I feel so lucky to have some of your gorgeous shrimps! 😇

[@ShrimpLife]

Thanks Sarah!! I'm so happy to share with a fellow hobbyist 😁

[@medusianAllure]

Omg! You're Canadian too! I want to order some shrimp from you once I get my tank and have it cycled and planted. So maybe in a month lol. But I'm excited to hear I can order from you.

[@MarksShrimpTanks]

Love them !!

[@ShrimpLife]

Thanks Mark!!!! 😁

[@saidmilani]

wish you had bought from here, @Marks Shrimp Tanks

[@ShrimpLife]

@@saidmilani if I was able to ship to Norway, Mark would get a box of green jades from me

[@saidmilani]

@@ShrimpLife it would be great

[@DylanRenke]

Beautiful Shrimp!

[@TaR0BaDai]

Yes! This is one of my favorite shrimp too :)

[@sharronmiller451]

They are beautiful!!

[@rajgill7576]

I have just one solo jade in my betta tank, his cousins are bloody mary and blue dream, and the colors in the tank really work to make red and blue pop, but I still love finding the jade hiding in the plants

[@cocojones959]

Really beautiful Dani! It took a long time and loads of culling to get to this stage but it was definitely worth the effort ^^

[@ShrimpLife]

Aw thanks COCO!

[@ShrimpLife]

Sorry I meant to say that the old green jade Line I had from 2014-2018 is alot different then the line that became available in 2018 (much improved) I did not selectivelly breed them since 2014. I put a note in the video description regarding that in case anyone is confused.

[@cocojones959]

@@ShrimpLife Ah k thought you mentioned before that you had to hard-cull them but maybe I've got them confused with another line then (black rose?). Still jealous regardless, haven't seen any that nice over here. Almost just as green with envy :'P

[@ShrimpLife]

@@cocojones959 Yes the black rose is the never ending culling, yet much improved still. My old green jade line that I showed pics of in this video never could improve as much as I wanted regardless of culling. It was kinda always mixed shades of green regardless. But this dark line I obtained in 2019 sure is dark and consistent. (I do also cull this line but its improving rapidly as you can see they are pretty large number of high grades)

[@themichaelmartinify]

Hey Dani, at what point in a colony's age would you start culling? And at what age in the younger shrimp do you know when its time to take them out and sell them to a friend?

[@twunderaquatics1770]

These are beautiful!!!! Wish I could order but I live in 🇺🇸. I really enjoy your vids. 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

[@ShrimpLife]

Thanks Terry 😁

[@derekgh3fan]

Wow, I love these!! They're so pretty

[@bigrhom55]

Hi, do you live in Toronto by any chance?

[@chocochu2]

They look beautiful! I can't wait to get some eventually! I'm also starting to cull my pumpkin and blue neos. I'm always scared that my colony will crash (like some die off and i'll end up with nothing) after I cull my shrimps so i've been waiting for their number to grow first. But, now... I see some of the offspring looking like the low grade males and it upset me. lol

[@ShrimpLife]

You should only keep your best males with your females :)

[@Bigtizzle]

Is it normal for the GJ Neocaridina's to show a blueish color if you shine a light over then?

[@ShrimpLife]

Bigtizzle yes it is. It’s also normal for them to appear blue after shipping from being faded. Once they are comfortable in your tank and under proper lighting they are Undeniably green

[@yongchenseng5841]

How are they green?

[@tylercahill7859]

Do you actually need to buy shrimp salts to keep more exotic species of freshwater shrimp?

[@ShrimpLife]

For caridina yes

[@tylercahill7859]

Shrimp Life is there a reason? Any suggestions for brand to try out

[@ShrimpLife]

Each shrimp has specific parameters that are required to thrive. Depending on the type of shrimp there's different ways to achieve those parameters. For example with caradina species of shrimp you would use the combination of buffering substrate +rowater+ salty shrimp gh+ to create the right parameters.

[@tylercahill7859]

Shrimp Life im sorry to keep bothering you but im just getting more confused😅. Is there a difference between Neocaridina and Caridina?

[@ShrimpLife]

Different species that require very different parameters to thrive. I do recommend doing quite a bit of research before setting up a shrimp tank to know the basics and familiarize yourself on how to set up a tank so that your shrimp do well

[@vb2377]

Do you use Bacter AE?

[@ShrimpLife]

Never

[@vb2377]

Is an Indian almond leaf more than enough for shrimplets? Do you recommend golden pearls for babies shrimp??

[@ShrimpLife]

@@vb2377 no it may not be enough, use a powdered food for babies, biofilm is usually sufficient if the tank is mature and the colony is small. My colony is large so there is never enough biofilm, Need to be supplemented with Powder food

[@vb2377]

Shrimp Life so any powdered food is fine?

[@QualeQualeson]

So, how does inbreeding work with these? Won't the genome deteriorate over time?

[@ShrimpLife]

Would take a very long time before you would notice any deterioration.

[@QualeQualeson]

@@ShrimpLife Well, that's rather unclear if you don't mind my saying so. You confirm that it's happening (which can't be good unless shrimp are a special case, I don't know) and also, what does "noticeable" even mean when it comes to an individual looking at a shrimp? I imagine there could be severe damage before it's noticeable to the naked eye. I'd love some more information. I'd like to know if it's avoidable and still compatible with selective breeding. Thank you.

[@ShrimpLife]

@@QualeQualeson The reason its "unclear" is because I have not experienced "deterioration" within any of my colonies. That doesn't mean others havn't.

[@QualeQualeson]

@@ShrimpLife Like I said, it can be hard to determine simply by looking at the shrimp. One might even be used to the effects of inbreeding by treating the level of sickness and death caused by the weakened genome as the standard. Anyway, there are articles and studies online that you can look at if you're so inclined. I think that even if you're not that interested in the science behind it, it would behoove you to routinely remove some of the premature stock regardless of color, and add stock from the outside to keep the genome healthy. The problem might be that it can be hard to track down stock that's not already inbred. Best of luck.

[@ShrimpLife]

@@QualeQualeson As you can see in this tank there are no defects visually or slow breeding. There is also not sickness or death in the tank. I've not experienced any of the above in my colonies ("weakened genome") I mostly advise based on my own personal experiences and not studies online. Thanks for your comment

[@ShazeemKhan]

Do u export?

[@ShrimpLife]

Sorry I only ship within Canada

[@ShazeemKhan]

@@ShrimpLife ok I undertand. Thanks for replying

[@aquaaurora2747]

So cruel-taunting with such lovely fish! (not a Canada resident ) I have a hard time finding 'local' people with similar water params I can get neos from.

[@ShrimpLife]

It's not always easy. Many of the shrimp that I have right now I had to wait and wait a very long time before I could find someone who had them.

[@yanjijay6752]

Beautiful shrimps as usual but got myself 6 for 30$ took them home acclimated them & out them in the tank & they all died 😭 .

[@ShrimpLife]

whaaat!!!! 😮 OH NO! I am very sorry to hear this. Hopefully you can figure out the problem and have some success next time

[@saidmilani]

congratulations what is this substrate? can I use it for Orange Eyed Blue Tiger shrimp tank?

[@ShrimpLife]

Sunset gold sand..

[@saidmilani]

@@ShrimpLife can I use it for Orange Eyed Blue Tiger shrimp tank?

[@ShrimpLife]

@@saidmilani it depends. The oebt were they raised in soft or hard water? If hard water then yes use the sand. If soft water you should use buffering soil