The Shrimp Paradise: NEW Tank Setup for Caridina (Step By Step with Mini Aquascape)

[@user-cs1ul2fn4u]

Shrimply remarkable 🦐

[@tonysemprul6248]

Must be nice to have friends like that.

[@flaviobonillaguevara4876]

Yes please keep adding more videos of the shrimp at the end! They clips are totally awesome :)

[@ShrimpMania]

Will do! Glad you liked it!

[@SteveHinrichs]

Let it rain shrimp. Love that part… Tanks are looking great. I still have not moved my shrimp into the new tanks. You have motivated me. I am remodeling my kitchen. The shrimp have been neglected lately.

[@ShrimpMania]

Hey Steve, good to hear from you buddy. I feel you, if not youtube I wouldn't set so many tanks and it would be only moss in them. I also got so much stuff going on right now, got 5 months daughter plus the job the shrimps are on weekends mostly and only possible because of my mother in law helping us with the baby.

[@SteveHinrichs]

@@ShrimpMania Congrats on the baby girl, that is awesome. You are blessed to have the mother-in-law helping out. I am looking forward to your next video and update.

[@jonbuckley]

Great Video as always.

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks!

[@ShrimpMania]

Omg thank you for super thanks 😯👍Appreciate your support. You actually the first who supported me this way😂

[@garthantash]

I like the glass pots too. I have been having a lot of success growing more expensive types of crypts in them. My one piece of advice though, plants get easily root bound in the small pot so good to occassionaly take them out, transplant the pups and put the original crypt back in the pot.

[@ShrimpMania]

Good advise, thank you 😊

[@fongyang6811]

That little pot looks epic! love your tanks and shrimps keep it up!

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks so much!

[@droiid123]

8:00 that akva is my favorit. Good job at all. And my personal tip : Use some of Limnophila Sesiflora. I use it for quick run-in and removal of pollutants. Later you can remove them. Very helping.

[@oftheHowl]

Just found your channel, now these are the kind of tanks I love to see! I hope to start my first caridina tank soon, I didn't have much success with neocaridina so hopefully my water parameters are better for these guys

[@ShrimpMania]

Welcome aboard! Glad you like my tanks! I would advise you to invest in RO unit, you going to get a better result with caridina

[@fbasantajr]

New to your channel, content is spot on. Thank you from NYC

[@ShrimpMania]

Awesome, thank you!

[@gouravcullen6779]

So without co2 your plant is growing so well! waoo

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes with good soil and good light the plants grow very well no need co2 but with co2 much faster

[@DetectiveLopez.]

​@Shrimp Mania Your plants are growing well without co2, what is the light your using to grow the hc cuba ?

[@gbeeshrimp]

Thanks, Shrimp Mania. Awesome as always

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad you enjoyed it Gbee

[@Doberminator]

Super video my friend, as usual, the idea with music at the end is very good, I would add the names of shrimps on the pictures in the corner, greetings

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks Jakub. Thats a good idea. But the most shrimp are the same just mixed pintos or galaxy pintos mixed grades

[@Doberminator]

@@ShrimpMania Here, yes, but I think it's a good idea to add the name in the corner in a delicate font, for the future :)

[@RWAquariumPages]

beautiful video! the new aquarium looks amazing with the triangle terraces. Sorry to hear about the tank leak but great work on your friend and his son to clean it up and move the shrimp and save them. Glad to see the yellow pintos doing well and breeding for you! excited to see that colony grow! love the shrimp videos at the end, really enjoy the music and watching them. cant wait until the next video! keep up the awesome work!

[@ShrimpMania]

Thank you Ray for your endless support, appreciate it!

[@RWAquariumPages]

@@ShrimpMania I really enjoy your videos. I typically watch them in the morning while I work out. Great content. Can't wait for an update on those golden galaxies tee hee. Until next video

[@JasonRenoux]

Great to see how it evolves into shrimp paradise :) By the wy, you use RO water but you make no mention of adding any minerals. Don't the shrimps need some calcium and maybe other elements? Thanks

[@VISShrimpPassion]

Hi, where did you buy these plastic bubble stones? Thanks

[@ShrimpMania]

did you mean air stones? They came with under gravel set

[@VISShrimpPassion]

@@ShrimpMania yes

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Damn you're killing it lately! Making me look like an amateur haha

[@ShrimpMania]

Thanks man, I just repeating the same method with little tweaks over and over...I hope people don't get bored seeing a very similar setups.

[@jamiewickens1014]

I'm in the middle of cycling my first shrimp tank, and I have two questions. 1. Do you have heaters in your tanks? 2. How do you clean your built in ugf? As always, great video bud 👍

[@ShrimpMania]

I don't have heaters in the tank my whole room is heated so no point of that. Caridina prefer room temperature 20-22C. I don't clean my ugf very often maybe once a few month with the pinsets, I showed it in this video.

[@frankgrunder8242]

Thanks for all these informative info. One question I have.... How many shrimps you normally hold in 50liter aquarium?

[@ShrimpMania]

You are welcome! I would say 100 would be good number but then you have to make sure the female to male ratio is around 1:3 with more females or the males would be too aggressive and eat all females when they molt. I'm having this problem now so have to move some of my males in a cull tank.

[@iggs85]

great video and love watching the macro footage at the end! Just wondering what your hope is for this tank? is it just a fun mixed pinto tank or are you trying to breed a specific pattern from it? thanks!

[@ShrimpMania]

Glad you enjoyed it. It's just mixing for fun, no goal for this tank.

[@akvasvet]

👍 👍👍 👍👍👍

[@monkeyape759]

Hey Shrimp Mania. I have a quick question, do you have detritus worm in your tank?

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes I do have not many though

[@lifewithnikka7440]

Really enjoyed this video. It's really inspiring how you have found ways to have so many plants in your caradina tanks in a realistically manageable way! My question is, how often do you find you need to clean out the bottom of your ugf boxes? I understand some use small shop vac to pull the dust and detritus out of bottom without disturbing filtration. What method works best for you? Also, how long does this system last before you must reset on average?

[@ShrimpMania]

I forgot when I clean ugf last time but if you have a lot of dust at the bottom you can siphon out with the small tube. It last a year a year and a half depends on the flow/amount of soil in the ugf

[@lifewithnikka7440]

@@ShrimpMania Thank you so much for answering my questions. I'm really enjoying your channel and have subscribed. I've been going back and forth on considering switching from sponge filters to ugf boxes for some time now. I have rheumatoid arthritis flare ups that make squeezing sponge filters out on 20+ tanks a tedious uncomfortable experience at times. After watching a couple of your videos and how you are able to incorporate plants to such a degree, I am definitely switching! I love plants and shrimp, and your tanks are very nice to look at. I don't keep any of the lines that are terribly unstable yet. This should work wonderfully for me! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and experiences!

[@ediwatdahek]

for me it's the other way round, i turn off when you start talking :P just kidding! i really like your projects, you can always learn something new. and thanks for making the last section longer! :D

[@ShrimpMania]

🤣you are welcome mate

[@igustiputuekadana54]

Do you have plan to do Sulawesi tank in the future?

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes I'm planning to do that

[@jimboong9327]

Hi Shrimp Main, do you use Ro water or dechlorinated water for cycling? what is your water change schedule during recycling?

[@ShrimpMania]

I use RO water because kH in tap water will wear out your soil. I try to do 50% wc every 3 weeks during the cycle

[@achidarc552]

Very nice aqua. what is aquarium plant ligth name is photo ? please

[@ShrimpMania]

I'm using DIY light for my tanks that I made myself

[@fajrdn]

Off topic. Why the backlegs of some of my Caridinas pointing upwards? Looks like twisted(?) but idk. Are they normal?

[@ShrimpMania]

Idk i'm not a shrimp doctor😊

[@subuniversalcdx]

Hello hola .......pregunta cómo logras tener algo en los vidrios? Gracias

[@RFelizardoo]

I can't get the same flow on the UGF as you have. All I get is huge bubbles coming from the diffuser. Any tips to improve this?

[@ShrimpMania]

probably airstone is not good

[@RFelizardoo]

@@ShrimpMania yes I'm using the one that came with the filter. I will try a new one

[@sundardivya2094]

Do you give co2 for plants?

[@ShrimpMania]

nope

[@Cleeon]

I think and I'm sure ammonia, mostly become ammonium inside caridina shrimp tanks?

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes it less toxic in lower pH bit i wouldn’t still put my shrimp until it’s gone completely.

[@Cleeon]

@@ShrimpMania yes 👍, always make sure it's have completed the nitrogen cycle

[@FeuxionTV]

what buce is this called? the blueish one in the middle on 11:00

[@ShrimpMania]

no idea😊

[@fidtysix2930]

Why don’t you add the plants at the beginning? They will thrive in the ammonia spike and you will get your tanks to stabilise quicker

[@ShrimpMania]

The plants wont doing great in high ammonia level they just melt also they will be overgrown with cotton like algae. From my experience it's better to wait for ammonia to go away before adding plants

[@sundardivya2094]

Can you please suggest how to grow moss like your tank without co2 is possible

[@ShrimpMania]

Good soil and light that's all you need

[@sundardivya2094]

@@ShrimpMania how many hours do we need to give lights for moss can it run for 24hrs

[@ShrimpMania]

@@sundardivya2094 10-12 is enough

[@sundardivya2094]

@@ShrimpMania ok bro thankyou

[@MrCharaf45]

Plants usually deplete de substrate of its ability to buffer the ph ! Without plants the substrate lasts longer ! That’s why breeders have no plants in their tanks

[@ShrimpMania]

Yes I know

[@MrCharaf45]

@@ShrimpMania we love your videos and your tanks look amazing! The 100 days timelines are so good keep them coming please 🙏

[@MahdiRanger1]

Hello, I am Iranian, what do you think I should do to start this work?

[@ShrimpMania]

Just watched all my videos first😊

[@achidarc552]

and what is the normal pH or ppm of this water?

[@ShrimpMania]

ph below 6, tds 110-120

[@erniespawn]

Why can you not plant stamp plants into refugium filter?

[@ShrimpMania]

The roots will block the water flow

[@SalamanderFangskin]

Can shrimp regrow missing eyes? 🦐 18:00

[@ShrimpMania]

I don't think so

[@SalamanderFangskin]

@@ShrimpMania oh no ☹

[@suleymanozpolat-lv6nl]

[@stringer1818]

jesus some times u speak so fast idk what u say lolol