My Top Tips for Breeding and Keeping Shrimp

[@midnightthebettafish589]

I am a 12 year old with Blue Dream cherries. They are in a planted 21litre tank with a sponge filter. I can't wait to see them start breeding and grow their colony.

[@ShrimpMania]

I wish you luck, It shouldn’t take very long.

[@csharpe5787]

Good luck, happy shrimping.

[@midnightthebettafish589]

@@ShrimpMania I HAVE MY FIRST BURIED FEMALE!!!

[@_invertico_]

Good luck and I am also 12

[@koenwijnen9186]

@@midnightthebettafish589 Why would you bury it ? lol =p Jk jk berried

[@Shrimpspiration]

I absolutely love the way you have ended the video, re-watched the last part thrice now. Thank you, and keep inspiring 🥰

[@ShrimpMania]

Awesome! Thank you! Happy you like it!

[@jonbuckley]

Yep. Love the new format. Video quality and the lighting is a massive improvement. Looks fantastic.

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad to hear it! Thanks Jon

[@szopensshrimps]

Very good advice. A good stable substrate that holds the PH is the basis for shrimp breeding. Everything else is an accessory to help us and make our hobby more fun.

[@ShrimpMania]

Well said! Absolutely agree with you mate😊

[@stevenyap6454]

your new recording setup is amazing! and I envy for your work set up, when you got stressed you just can turn your head to watch the beautiful shrimp 😍

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you, Steven, I worked hard all summer to create this room glad you like it. I still need to improve it quite a bit - new rack, new pc, still missing blinders but it is getting together slowly, and it becomes a cozy room. I also plan to work there so it's my office at the same time

[@stevenyap6454]

@@ShrimpMania your hard work paid off then 😁, by the way about shrimp bend their body, someone though me they are grooming, after seeing you video in close up, I'm like oh damn i dont expect they eating their own poop 🤣 thanks for the sharing!

[@RomanPittroff]

Thank you, this was the best video for me with information on how to start with shrimps.

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@RomanPittroff]

@@ShrimpMania Please allow me one question water, I live in Thailand and her is tap water a no go, now what about drinking water from as base this water should be quite stable over time without any surprises and then processing for the shrips.

[@CozyFishroom]

Gorgeous closeup footages at the end! Great to see the shrimp room/studio with the ambient lighting! Thanks for another awesome and informative video! 💯😊

[@ShrimpMania]

I’m glad you liked it. Thank you so much for watching😎🙏

[@RWAquariumPages]

beautiful tips and answers to those questions! love this video and it's a great refresher! can't wait till the next one!

[@ShrimpMania]

Hi Ray, Thank you so much for showing your awesome support!!

[@SteveHinrichs]

Great Q&A, I truly learn something new every time watch your videos.

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad to hear it, Steve! Thank you for watching!

[@Detlefroemisch]

Ja wir lernen immer neu dazu 👌 Danke für den guten Bericht 🦐🙏👍

[@ShrimpMania]

Danke, dass du zuschaust, mein Freund!😊👍

[@BakeJake]

I've learned stability is key, I adapted my neos to live in 850ppm, ~10gh ~4dkh 7.5-8ish ph. I had some issues early on, but once I started dosing prime/safe with any additive(like nutrients or some of my heavier bacteria) I don't know if some of those bacteria contain nitrogen from dieoff or what, but that's been keeping me going for almost 3 months now? Been over a month since a loss! The last loss was when I realized it takes about 4 weeks for my kh to deplete. One couldn't handle the change, I have about 200 living happily though! Started with about 20 :D My babies are getting berried, my mature ones are getting berried again, babies all around, seems like its working out! (I just have to maintain this and keep it stable) and hope for the best

[@MarksShrimpTanks]

Very nice closeups shots of the poop grabbing 😂

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks Mark, I’m glad you liked it😊

[@koenwijnen9186]

It pulled a poop of like half the shrimp size lmfao. Im cracking up

[@arcticwinds6125]

Nice video, with great information, shrimp are like good, and the editing of the video is becoming better and better.

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you Artic, so nice to hear it from you.

[@jordanforever2345]

Thanks for this video. It answers a lot of my questions and helps me to troubleshoot. I am going to bookmark this video

[@ShrimpMania]

Great to hear it helped!

[@Thomas.T8]

Such an informative and easy to understand video. Thank you for your advice and excellent video quality skills! Subbed!

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you for your kind words, appreciate your support!

[@RWAquariumPages]

5th time watching this video and love the tips! great for everyone getting into shrimp! love the footage at the end!

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks Ray, appreciate your support!

[@kasunfonseka8867]

You'r videos helps a lot brother. Thank you so much

[@ShrimpMania]

Happy to help

[@timdavidson2583]

Really helpful stuff, loads of info throughout your shrimp video library. I’m an experienced keeper but still can’t accurately sex caridinas 100% I have a male cull tank with quite a few berried 😂 I appreciated the end shots with type and gender. I also appreciate the humour you bring 🤘

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you for your kind words, it is always a pleasure to hear that someone enjoying my content.

[@iggs85]

did you get a new camera? the footage is so sharp! great video brother.

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you, brother, just got a new macro lens for macro and tried to film in 4k. Now need a new pc to edit 4k footage my pc is too slow.

[@pelhamsaquatics]

I’ve had my first shrimplets in my life! Blue dream neocaradina! Some day I’ll try Caradina, you are an inspiration sir!

[@ShrimpMania]

Congrats👍🎈👏

[@harveygronwald1699]

Just starting this video and the first shot reminded me to ask when camera equipment you used, your video ands shots are always amazing on the shrimp close ups

[@ShrimpMania]

Hey Harvey my only member😊. Apologise for not replying earlier I should respect my members and prioritise answering their comments. Just been busy with my last video. in that video I used my Canon 90D with a cheap Canon EF 50mm F2.5 Compact Macro lens. Now I'm still using it but I also have my new full-frame camera Sony a7siii and I have Sony E-mount 90mm f/2.8 macro lens but I still using Canon lens as well it has very sharp close-ups and a bit easier to use. I also have another camera Lumix S5 with 20-60mm zoom lens. Love it too. So I'm using 3 cameras now😂

[@harveygronwald1699]

@@ShrimpMania Thank you for the reply :) I just got the Canon EOS and a nice Macro lens so im going to give it a try. Speaking of soil, Ada Amazonina is either discontinued or out of stock.. What do you suggest to use now? I have Akadama 3 red line in my closet, any thoughts on that? Thank you!

[@shrimplabusa]

Another amazing video! Cheers! 😎🙌🏽🦐

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you, sir😊🙏

[@51dzusi]

Nice info thanks mate.🦐

[@Shrimpspiration]

Another great video, thanks! 10 days without shrimp mania! I was going into withdrawal 😹

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you😊

[@didnthurt4077]

Great info! Setting up 4 tanks next week and will keep it in mind 🙂 Do you remove detritus when doing waterchange once a week or only if waterparameters are rising?

[@ShrimpMania]

Good luck with new tanks! No, I normally don't, sometimes at the very end I vacuum the gravel.

[@TheVoyagers.]

Yes

[@markclayden7654]

"From the butthole straight to the mouth" - Quote of the week 🤣🤣🤣

[@ShrimpMania]

😊

[@Rob-Brook]

Another very informative video ✅️

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad you think so!

[@csharpe5787]

Great information. Note just the same old information repeated like some other channels.

[@RedGalaxyFishbone]

Nice man I got 3 tanks right now, and just red galaxy fishbones. Their breeding goes fine. Had a few losses. But it’s stable again. Thinking about adding a new caridina.. not sure yet though!

[@ShrimpMania]

Good to hear

[@VISShrimpPassion]

Hi, please tell me why tangerine tigers are more difficult to keep?

[@ShrimpMania]

They are not difficult they’re very easy to keep

[@runnin3703]

Hello Leon, what lights are you using on your tanks? love the videos by the way, wish i had the space for a setup like yours.

[@ShrimpMania]

Hey Runnin, I'm glad you like my videos. The light on the rack I've made myself with led strips - more details here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXuXaZhsgLJpo68

[@abyidicula2009]

Hi it’s a really helpful vedios. I want to start a shrimp tank Is Carib sea eco complete substrate is good for shrimps?

[@ShrimpMania]

I’ve never tried it before

[@remonvanginkel3234]

Absolutely lovely video Shrimp Mania, thank you! I have been meaning to ask you, I have been breeding caridina shrimps for 5 years now with its natural up and downs. I saw a video by shrimp time on the most important factors on molting and what causes molts to go wrong. I have experienced molting problems for a long time and after a few years of having to learn that I was overfeeding, ammonia spikes because of thick soils and experimenting with different levels of kH and gH for crystal reds, I think I learned a lot. However, I do still see molting issues especially among adult shrimps, never on baby/younger shrimps in my tanks from time to time. Perhaps with your experience you have encountered this as well and could give an indication on what could be wrong and how you help your shrimps molt well. I would love a video about it!

[@ShrimpMania]

I had some molting issues before but it only happened in some of my tanks and because all my tanks were setup almost identical with the same water parameters, I can only think of bad genetics. It also happens when your shrimp is not ready to molt but is forced to molt by changing water temperature or parameters very quickly

[@remonvanginkel3234]

@@ShrimpMania Thank you! I did notice previously that it would occur after water changes. That's why I changed it to only adding RO water when evaporation occurs and I do maximum water changes of 10% only with pure RO and the salts I slowly add later over the week to do it more like VIN. I find it triggers molting much less for now, although I have to be careful with the amount of salt I add per time. For now a 1-2 ppm change max per time seems good without die off. Perhaps bad genetics as well, I might try mixing some shrimp for different people. Previously I would only buy about 20 to start from one seller. Would you recommend a certain amount of generations after which you have to introduce new genetics into your population? As for now I only know the short carapace as a sign of inbreeding

[@lelouis9399]

How do you syphons the substrate without getting ammonia spike?

[@ula_la0806]

I'm in North of Scotland. The TDS of tap cold water is 46, KH 0 (max 1) GH 2 pH 7 I just add Salty Shrimp GH+ to make TDS 160 (gH about 6) & caridina shrimps are happy (no special substrate). The pH is about 6.6 in the tank. When adding new water I drip it in because of the pH. (Previously had neocaridina was just adding salty shrimp kh/gh+ instead)

[@ShrimpMania]

You are very lucky with your tap water, it’s absolutely phenomenal! Here in London tap water is a solid rock.

[@glpshrimp6301]

Great video 👍

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks 👍

[@night4401]

My non filtered tap water is ~ 150 tds, when filtered it can reach to 80 tds no issues. Is this usable for caridina shrimp? or is it safe to just go more expensive with R/O and salts. Second, I am about to start two new caridina tanks, I have glasgarten Environment aquasoil, and aquagro by Ocean Free. Do you have any experience with any of them?

[@ShrimpMania]

I never used tap water for caridina only for neos. My tap water is liquid rock. You can try to test your water for kh, gh, ph and see if it suitable for caridinas. simple answer if your water has som kh it won't work.

[@Zlachry]

Hi first i will say nice videos. so what do you think off akadama soil?

[@ShrimpMania]

It's good for beginners, ph around 6.5 ok for simple caridina but not good for high end

[@kasunfonseka8867]

Brother. Please can you do a video about different varieties of caradina shrimp and identification. Identification is very confusing

[@ShrimpMania]

I'll see what I can do

[@destinythanhphuong]

I just has set up a new tank 2 weeks ago. I use 350g benibachi mix with 150g boom x2 soil. My tank size is 433. The PH is really low about 4.5 by liquid test kit. Does PH affect winred shrimps ? Should i add mosura soil to adjust PH or put some soil out of the tank. Thank for your advice

[@ShrimpMania]

you lucky to have ph 4.2 its very low

[@destinythanhphuong]

@@ShrimpMania Is low ph good for shrimps ? Someone said ph 5.5 is the best.

[@ShrimpMania]

@@destinythanhphuong yea as long is below 6

[@oakharts]

Now I am not alone... my shrimp also eat it!

[@markclayden7654]

Hurry up and breed your Blue Calceos and send me some lol

[@oakharts]

@@markclayden7654 they are about to drop babies :D

[@harrybennett6155]

When adding RO water for a water change, will the ph difference effect the shrimp? Because it might be slightly different from the tank because of active substrate etc.

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes that's why we do it slowly

[@harrybennett6155]

@@ShrimpMania ok thanks

[@Shrimpspiration]

Do you recommend ada Amazonia, or ada Amazonia 2?

[@ajkandroid8662]

yes i have same question which one better for the shrimp

[@ShrimpMania]

I like Amazonia 1 because it is more potent and contains more minerals, Amazonia 2 is a light version

[@poringland]

Hallo Shrimp Mania, I want to ask you about planaria in my tank, right now I have 4 pieces prl shrimp that are laying eggs, is it save if I give “No panaria (Aquarium Bio Protector SL Aqua Z1)” right now? thx

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes it safe i used it before in my shrimp tank with 0 deaths

[@iam_ramby195]

What TDS u preffer when changing the water in caridina shrimps? i like to 100 TDS , because i bou new shrimps with 80 TDS water in bag ...

[@ShrimpMania]

Sounds good to me, I prefer 110

[@edwardthompson3213]

My caradena shrimp. Galaxy fishbone and prl have done well since i started my 120L tank about 4 months ago. I started off with 30 shrimp. my 3 female shrimp got berryed and had babies 2 of them got berryed again a few days later and have since given birth .so i have lots of baby shrimp of all ages. But iv noticed now all the babies are born my three females are hiding a lot now and not getting berryed. All my water parameters are the same as before my heater keeps the water veary stable temp so my shrimp dont know its the start of winter. Do shrimp have a rest from breeding after a couple of pregnancies or because there is a lot more babies in the tank thay slow down it is a moderately planted tank with plenty of room. Have you any ideas why thay have stopped breading . Its only bean a couple of weeks since the last batch of baby's or am i being to inpatient

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes sometimes females can have a break for a month or two it's normal. They not get berried every single molt they can skip some time. It can depend on how many babies already in the tank and to maximise your breeding activity its better to move the babies to different tank that's what most of the breeders do

[@poringland]

hello, I want to ask, does caridina shrimp eat baby shrimp?

[@ShrimpMania]

I don’t think so, I never noticed it

[@squamsh122]

Hey my tap water TDS is pretty low but my tanks are much higher. Is there a reason for that?

[@ShrimpMania]

Minerals will build up in your tank over time especially if you don't use RO water for top offs

[@fishdaddyjackaquatics664]

How do you keep your shrimp tanks cool? I have neos and I have a hard time keeping them below 75. I could lower my thermostat, but I don't feel like wearing sweaters all day and not to mention the cost of my electricity would be outrageous.

[@ShrimpMania]

Neos will be ok in temp up to 81-82. Now I don't need to worry about keeping my tanks cool until May next year at least then I might install aircon next summer.

[@fishdaddyjackaquatics664]

@@ShrimpMania thank you. My Neos seem to be doing fairly well. What can you suggest for a caradena shrimp tank?

[@ShrimpMania]

@@fishdaddyjackaquatics664 For Caridina no higher than 75 if you can

[@fishdaddyjackaquatics664]

@@ShrimpMania thank you so much. I think that might be a bit more achievable especially now that the weather is starting to cool down a little here.

[@vasili1207]

If i set up a shrimp tank could i buy some shrimp from you??? i am in the uk too. i ask this because you seem to know what your doing and i know i will get good shrimp... i dont need high end shrimp as it will be my first time keeping them. so i will accept what your willing to sell

[@ShrimpMania]

I'm not selling my shrimp sorry man. There are a lot of good options on ebay this is where I got all my shrimp from.

[@vasili1207]

@@ShrimpMania ok no problem.... nah you are ok e-bay is terrible tried them once with fish and all i got was a box of stinky dead fish and a puddle. i will try my fish store... if he's still open. last time i went he wasn't having a good time, didn't have tank lights on etc because of energy prices. and had a electric bill of £15,000 to clear for one quarter. i felt bad for the guy as all i needed was food. times are hard for our fish stores hence they dont stock what they normally did.

[@pillsnpiegaming]

saw a dude thats using copper fertilizers in his tanks, says that they are his income and wouldnt hurt them, problem is silicone absorbs copper eventually it will become toxic enough to kill them in my opinion.

[@G-boi]

I always thought cause their ichy.!.

[@ShrimpMania]

I know they are always itchy😊

[@olivierl9523]

Measuring TDS for shrimp keeping is useless because not accurate, you need to use an EC meter with temperature correction. TDS reading is an EC reading multiplied by a variable coefficient when the water content is known (not the case for tap water or water in a tank). Shrimp salts manufacturers give always the values in EC, even if they know the content and weight of the salts. TDS means total dissolved solids; it is a mass per volume. So, a TDS meter can only be used if the water content is known and constant, not the case here. The only time a TDS meter gives the wright reading is when it's 0, for pure water.

[@ShrimpMania]

Both TDS and EC meters are not 100% accurate but we dont need them in this hobby. Both measures electric conductivity but the difference is that the TDS meter converts TDS with a multiplier giving you the same reading in ppm instead of microsomes. Both EC and TDS meters can't measure solids that do not conduct electricity, but we don't have those solids in the salts we are mixing for them. Caridina can thrive in a wide range of TDS 80-180 the accuracy is not important we are not in the chem lab. My TDS meter has temperature correction for your information.

[@olivierl9523]

@@ShrimpMania No offense but I've being explaining that to many shrimp keepers and it does make sense. TDS meters don't use all the same coefficient to convert from EC to TDS and I have seen a range above TDS 100 (+/-50) between the TDS meters. An EC meter has 3 points of calibration, and it is extremely accurate. Anyway, this EC reading is only relevant for the purified then mineralized water. The tank water reading doesn't tell much about its composition, same for the tap water. My point here is that there is a gap between approximation and accuracy. It's just one of many factors you want to be able to control. The inaccuracy of a TDS meter can easily put you out of range. Keep shrimping

[@ShrimpMania]

I have 4 tds pens all of them giving me almost the same readings with 2-5 points differences. They are all fairly accurate.

[@artiliciousv]

I have to say, i find caridina easier than neocaridina... i have lost a lot of neos and almost no caridinas

[@ShrimpMania]

I know, neos can be tricky to breed once you get used to caridina. I was trying to keep my last neos in caridina parameters, but I failed.

[@TariaJoyce]

Why do you have a little box in the tank full of soil?

[@kasunfonseka8867]

Recently I lost about 200 shrimps 😢

[@ShrimpMania]

sorry for your loss