Top 10 Reasons Why Shrimp Die [Beginner Shrimp Keeping]

The top 10 reason why shrimp die in aquariums is what we are discussing today. In this video, I share my 10 years of experience with importing and breeding 100,000's of shrimp. Anything from Taiwan bee shrimp to cherry shrimp, these 10 reason apply to them all. Find out what the top 10 reasons are for shrimp deaths in aquariums and how to fix them.
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0:00​ - Intro
0:59​ - #1 Water Parameters
3:07 - #2 The Source of Shrimp
6:03 - #3 Shipping
7:49​ - #4 Bacterial Infections
9:35​ - #5 Non-Cycled Aquariums
11:42​ - #6 Feeding
12:55​ - #7 Non-Stable Environments
14:36​ - #8 Tank Decorations
16:36​ - #9 Temperature
18:42​ - #10 All Animals Die Eventually
19:17​ - Outro

[@LupDiesel]

*_Thank you all for watching!_* Everything we talked about in the video you can find a link to it in the description of this video. If I missed anything, drop a comment below and I'm happy to help! Check out all of our [Beginner Shrimp Keeping] guides and more here: kzbin.info/aero/PLkj2jEAp8whm7j0-vd13y1iv2SrE-Z8zI

[@mackssilver9053]

You da Man!

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

Thank you!!! Had a beautiful colony of carbon rili.... until I got covid. I wasn't able to do a water change for almost 2 months the first time I got covid a year ago, and luckily I had a very stable aquarium and plenty of plants, so everyone did well. This past episode with covid also included a 26 hour power outage. I don't know if there was a temp change, or if it was low oxygen levels in the tank. I lost the whole colony😔

[@dadagoldenchopsticks8336]

But it’s only for United state :c

[@kai_plays_khomus]

Very useful video, thank you very much!

[@sststr]

My public water supply story: I have a betta fish that once jumped out of his tank, and fortunately I found him in time to save him and he's still alive here a year later, but at the time I wasn't regularly testing water from the tap when I did water changes - I did that the first few times, found my tap water was consistently a pH of 7.0 and figured that was good and didn't test again. Until my betta's land expedition. Testing the water in the tank immediately afterwards saw a very high pH, so I went to the tap and saw the water from the tap was also well above 7.0, so culprit found, lesson learned. I never did figure out why the country was sending out high pH water (obviously still within safe parameters for humans, but not so good for bettas...), but it can and will happen.

[@LupDiesel]

100%! This happens more than most think. We have a video going out Thursday talking about this exact issue. Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you were able to save your fishy friend!

[@accelerationquanta5816]

I've always found that aquariums decline in pH overtime towards acidity.

[@alexgorron6470]

I wonder sometimes if we treat them too pristine. They never get an immune and environmental workout to become more robust. Thank you by the way. This is one of the most thorough informational.

[@darya7473]

They have very primitive Immune system that means their bodies never “learn” to fight diseases and they can get sick back to back. The best thing is just to not make big changes in any parameters.

[@jansshrimps3785]

@@darya7473 its easy to say when you have stable tap water parameters, but whe i live water paramaters change drasticly depending on the season.

[@jansshrimps3785]

@@saharamoon. I tried keeping red cherries on my tap water but they werent thriving and just slowly dieing. I recenty bought an ro filter and started using re mineralised water and have not had any deaths for now but its been a week so it may be to soon to say anything for sure. I use denerle shrimp king salt.

[@laurabustos6560]

Seriously the cutest little ball of yellow shrimpers I've seen!! I'm on my journey back into fish keeping and am psyched about these interesting little creatures!

[@MatildasMama]

just received six Assasins and 10 Blue shrimp: NOT ONE DEATH ! they are beautiful! thank you !!!!!

[@oneofmanysouls]

Super grateful for this video because I'm planning on getting my very first ever neocarina shrimp within the next month or two and I'm soaking up all the info I can well in advance. In fact, I found your KZbin channel via your website because I actually plan to get shrimp from y'all! The Fantasy Blue Dream shrimp are calling my name!! ;)

[@blakerayze1726]

how did it turn out?

[@Jordan-ov1vq]

Glad to see you making videos again Rob! I learned almost everything about shrimp keeping from your channel and now I have 15+ shrimp only tanks. Keep it up and looking forward to what's to come!

[@rickfromthecape3135]

Great information as always! God bless you brother

[@savoirfaire8979]

*Great video. One of the best on KZbin for aquarium shrimp.*

[@KristenCox9]

This is such an incredibly helpful video. Thank you!

[@CoffeeTimeBrian11]

Very useful information! Thanks for sharing.

[@jimobrien7315]

Love the folks at Flip Aquatics. This is a great video. The Re-cycle aspect was especially on point. I lost a large colony of blue dreams to that.

[@dwighterickson6121]

New subscriber, just getting into shrimp, this is a GREAT resource for new shrimp keepers! Saw you on an older video with KG Tropicals!!

[@mymysticaqua2952]

Very informative. 👍 Thank you for sharing.

[@nourhanateout7187]

This is a very educational video! Thank you

[@thesmallscape]

Fantastic video, Rob!! Loved it and loved all the footage🤩. The footage of all these beauties worth the price of admission right there! 🥳. P.s. hi Amanda! 👋

[@princescdk3107]

I wish I saw this video first 😭 I had gravel and had my tank fully cycled and GH AND KH under controll but was told I needed shrimp soil for my cherries. Thank you sir I'm going back to gravel

[@finnwiggles28]

Good stuff!!! Thank you for this, started up a new shrimp tank last week & just waiting, waiting, waiting til I think it's hit that 'sweet spot' to add the Blues!! :)

[@shrimpnarcropolis8191]

Beautiful just beautiful thats what I think and I learn so much watching you guys!!!!

[@LupDiesel]

Thanks so much my friend!! I'm glad you liked it. I really appreciate your support :)

[@natg169]

Thank you so much. I learned a lot.

[@abstractaquarist9637]

Like the information your giving lessons like these on a vlog style video would be cool ...give us a run threw of quarantine when you get a shipment.

[@SWu-sl5kz]

Hands down the best video on this topic. And I've seen at least 20.

[@arabaquarium731]

its a great great advice .. thank you very much

[@VictoriaLeeCreates]

Thank u. I'm new and also learning alone

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

Great topic and video Rob❤️ thank you for this 🙏👍💯

[@LupDiesel]

Thank you so much :)

[@gregwilson5910]

Thank you for such great advice, appreciate you sharing. Shout out from Sydney Australia

[@mattordiway8631]

Wish I would have watched this before I bought a bunch of cardenia shrimp. Needless to say I no longer have any cardenia shrimp. In the process of getting the right stuff for shrimp. Not like keeping fish. A little more complex. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Extremely helpful. Learned a few more things I wasn't aware of.

[@Everything-dr1wb]

Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍

[@pelhamsaquatics]

I subbed today 3-27-21 thanks for the great knowledge🙂👍🏻

[@dgstanks7447]

Great video!

[@Scaze74]

Love the Cherry and Redclaw shrimps. They do well in my low Ph6.6 Great breding and got tousends of them in my 540 liter tank

[@pbaquatics94]

I learned a lot from this video I always wanted to get shrimp but been Cautious due to lack of knowledge of shrimp this was a very good video thank you for sharing God bless

[@mtlsportscards]

The man the myth the legend is back...

[@heatherharris5633]

Thank you so much. I have wanted to add shrimp to my 75 gallon tank but I don't think it would be advisable after watching this video. I do have lots of plants but I do water changes that may be too much after what you said in the video. I am thinking about doing planted nano tank and would love to add shrimp. I might try after it is up and running for awhile. I thank you for all of this information and hope customer service will be able to direct me with the best shrimp to go with when the tank is ready. And I did take notes

[@michaellindsey1543]

Great video! Good information with kool shrimp in the background. . .

[@wmw6485]

100% right

[@ibesam7170]

Great video! I have learned so much from all of your videos and streams (some day will catch it live). My happy lil shrimp guys that I got from you guys are doing well. Getting ready to start another tank. MTS is real.🐠🐌🦐

[@LupDiesel]

MTS is 100% real haha! It happens fast too. Thanks so much for your support and comment! I really appreciate it and hope to see you on a livestream soon!

[@MikeinEtna]

Great video, thanks

[@amilaharovic-dizdarevic7205]

Great video. Thank you. Our major problem with our shrimp tank is uncomplete molting cousin death.

[@shadowfox1779]

Great video Rob. I have relearned some things i forgot about. I hope you have some plans on more of these types of videos.

[@LupDiesel]

Great to hear it! Absolutely. I plan to shift to more videos like this as it helps hobbyists, my team, our customers and so on. Plus, it's great to share what I've learned to help the hobby I love.

[@BrackenFamilyLife]

Chiclids for decades... but new to shrimp... and new to you. This was an excellent video. I have subscribed and hit the bell. Will be placing an order from you too.

[@teklife]

wow so many beautiful shrimp

[@vincentalaimo7527]

Very cool info

[@ndbyers23]

Very helpful. Thank you for this very educational video. Question what about having shrimp in a community tank?

[@forwaitfor]

I am very interested in shrimp. Thank you for good information.

[@wetwaterfish]

All products mentioned is only available in the US. Would be nice to hear options for international products aswell. Seachem products for example is available everywhere.

[@ZenmasterZORT]

thanks for the tips. i had a shrimp tank a few years back and had a large die off. ive been wanting to get back into the hobby again.

[@marshaw652]

Thanks for the information. I've never in any of my tanks kept shrimp. I've done saltwater but No shrimp. I'll be changing that on saturday.

[@melissafeinberg2055]

Im in love with black rose shrimp

[@Wal48]

Great information, definitely some issues raised that I could have done better. I have Amanos, they live for a good long time and I have no issues. They live in my Endler tanks at 25C at PH 7.6 GH 14.8. I did try to keep Cherry shrimp and they all died failing to successfully molt. I’ve been thinking GH too high, TDS over 350 not great although not sure TDS is much value if you don’t know what it is made up of and I won’t bore you! I do want to try again, but need to find a hobbyist that is keeping and breeding them in similar water parameters locally here in UK. Still can’t really see why Amanos do so very well but Cherries don’t make it past a first molt. They all molt so 🤔

[@jenelleespat2218]

I just started a community aquarium, cycled my water for 4 wks and added 6 male guppies so far. Was going to add 4 ghost shrimps today but maybe not, this sounds complicated. I guess 2 🐌 will do. Thanks for a great video

[@riskuyat]

THANKS !!!

[@Nic-kx5dn]

Wow.very good .ty.info.⭐🏆⭐

[@andrewhuynh2514]

what are those red & black colored shrimp called at 5:39? Beautiful shrimps and such an informational video!

[@saidmilani]

great job, man what's your opinion about water evaporation?

[@REALHomeTeam]

Wow, awesome video

[@LupDiesel]

Thanks Mom :)

[@anacortinas8956]

Awesome it helped me alot thanks for the video..Tell Amanda shes been a great help to my emails shes awesome I'm still praying for you both much love 💙💙💙

[@LupDiesel]

Thank you so much Ana :) I'll definitely let her know in just a minute. Thank you for your prayers. It means so much to us!!

[@DocDurr]

I liked how you ended with the reality that everything dies. I laughed and thought maybe you should make some videos for children about topic. Thank you for the video because my order will be coming soon. My plan is to start a colony and then sprinkle them throughout my aquariums. It will be like sprinkling red pepper flakes on a pizza.

[@LupDiesel]

Haha I'm glad you liked it :) thanks for the comment too. I hope your red pepper flakes arrive soon 😉

[@jacklaporte472]

Great information! Although now I have a visual of a bunch of shrimp strutting around with hoodies on because they’re cold and I can’t lose it LOL. Thanks bud 👊🏼

[@LupDiesel]

Hahaha this made my day 😂

[@MichaelClark-uw7ex]

I set up a planted 55g, sand over soil substrate and used it as a quarantine tank for my Discus and Angel tanks After all the fish were gone from the 55, I decided shrimp would be cool, got 10 Orange Pumpkins, had them for about 6 months, they were healthy but didn't reproduce, so I added 10 Carbon Rili, 10 more Orange Pumpkins and 10 Cherries (all shrimp from Flip) Now I have 10,000 shrimp of every color and pattern, I have to cull weekly, good thing my Angels and Discus love shrimp. And the added bonus now I have thriving shrimp colonies in all my tanks.

[@OrcHead]

Great video although I do like buying shrimp from different sources to improve genetics

[@toffeecoffee9618]

Cool video

[@jato8998]

From my experience shrimp are pretty tolerant of most water parameters, they just need a completely cycled aquarium, lots of plants, low copper in the water, and very stable water parameters. When you add chemicals/salts/fertilisers and you throw off the water chemistry then the shrimp can die. Changing water has to be done SLOWLY! They are very sensitive to fluctuations in the water whether it is temp or chemistry so change the water slowly. Finally, shrimp stress out when under attack from fish and nowhere to hide. Put them in a tank with no other tank mates except snails or put them in a tank with fish but with very dense plants like pearl weed or mosses so they can escape the fish. If you are keeping large amounts of shrimp it can be helpful to get an RO filter and use shrimp mineral to mineralise the water to make it perfectly stable. Shrimp don't like change, I change my shrimp tank water once a month with large plant growth.

[@adonscadlock1704]

how expensive is ro filter

[@adonscadlock1704]

@@nengsar2678 english please

[@yes5g311]

Malaysian drift wood is a great food for your shrimp also a good place for shrimp to mold

[@peacefrog64]

Thank you for the most informative video. Can you recommend a shrimp breeder in British Columbia, Canada.?

[@mr.yu1018]

thanx for video! sir how to low ph on tap water?

[@heres_the_sauce]

Awesome video! These tips are very helpful. You mentioned it's easy to over feed. If someone has relatively few shrimp in their tank (less than 50 in a 20 gallon for ex) is it ok to not feed them daily? Since there should be plenty of of biofilm? I noticed mine hardly touch their food

[@LupDiesel]

Thanks for the comment Josh and for being a member! If you're food aren't going crazy for the food, I would skip a day or two. You'll want to see then swarm the food. If they don't, then you may be over feeding or there are other issues. With a tank your size, every other day should be good and possibly skip the weekend. Or you can try feeding in super small amounts.

[@chevyfish4028]

I appreciate you mentioning specific products used to help with the situation and why not to use certain things. Thanks for this very informative video.

[@markbass7102]

hi I am following you a lot and have taken your ideas up I have now got an ro unit at last and use kh/gh tds of 225 I have cholla wood and plants and use mattan filter I use large ram snails with my shrimp my water is getting cloudy i use to other foam filter air run do you mead to clean the mattan filter if yes how do you do it whith out all the dirt going into the tank

[@DeminicusSCA]

#9 is the only good advice

[@cdropbox]

nice!!!

[@lucasszymanski114]

Thank you for the tips! I just realized my planet aquarium has rock (seiryu) stone that is causing my ph to stay around 7.0. I age the water with almond leaves prior to doing water changes but that stone is pretty bad.

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

It's a good excuse to use them in a different tank and start over lol

[@gregorycollins3096]

Thanks. I’d love for some of my shrimp to survive. My water is soft.

[@yannickbroos5283]

Great video! Have a colony of crystal red shrimp and some Pinocchio shrimp and 2 months ago I added 10 crystal black shrimp from a different source. I find dead crystal red shrimp every now and then and have found 1 or 2 dead Pinocchio shrimp. My crystals also stopped breeding. Could this be some kind of disease the crystal blacks brought in, which only they are immune to? I also added a school of 10 celestial pearl danios (juvenile, around 1-1.5cm) could this be part of the issue with breeding? All my babies seem to have vanished but I don’t see any pregnant females anymore.. I have a 30L tank with some driftwood, a lot of plants and the JBL proscape soil (I bought it thinking it was proshrimp..)

[@richardmaccarthy101]

Hi flip, thanks for the video -- got my first two shrimp ever about a month ago. So glorious! Any thoughts of 6gh as a compromise for keeping neocaradina with phoenix rasbora? 6.5ph?

[@richardmaccarthy101]

*2 dozen! Am I mad for mixing red and blue with no plans to cull?

[@jeremygotair]

Do you have any recommendations on shrimp that could go well with corydoras in a planted tank

[@vazzaroth]

Damn, I had been researching shrimp for about 2 weeks now and I wish your videos came up earlier! Great quality and presentation, same info here that I had to go between 4 or 5 other videos for. I had 2 deaths out of the 3 I started w/. 1 was 100% the store (Petco... ugh, I know.) fault, they were 90% dead before even getting home. The other I can't tell and was dead this morning after, but it was a different breed (not sure exactly, bad labeling as "rainbow", I think Bee???) than my surviving Cherry. I'm going to get a bigger more "official" shrimp tank soon and either keep my cherry w/ more or plan on some crystal shrimp.

[@BigShrimpin416]

You can’t keep cherry shrimp with crystal shrimp they are different species and require different water parameters

[@loumemorabilia1369]

Yyyyyoooooooo...cut the hair...went baldy!!!! 😆 anyhow I’m prepping a tank per your instructions...soon to order the shrimp from you guys!

[@jackreacher4897]

Do these apply to Macrobrachium Rosenbergii as well?

[@jaxntax5509]

Very nice information is very helpful. P.S. I hope your eye gets better soon that looked unconfortable.

[@LupDiesel]

Hahaha you ain't lying! Working too much I guess 😂

[@jc070899]

Does anyone know what shrimps were at 5:10? it was beautiful!

[@elsernall8732]

Pleaseeeee tell me what type of shrimp that was at 12:40! Great video Rob!

[@pandalee7491]

Those are Black Galaxy Pinto Caridina.

[@claudia7316]

Are Lava rocks from a pet store okay? I did rinse it before adding it to the tank (tank is still cycling so nothing is in it right now)

[@kitcraft9516]

Rob, this is the second time I've seen Mystery Snails referenced for keeping a shrimp tank cycled. Do you suggest a specific amount per tank size for this? Like 2 or 3 snails per 10 gallons of water or something like that? I've never really had an issue with a tank losing a cycle, but I've never kept shrimp. Thanks

[@voluntaryismistheanswer]

I have been using spring water, is that acceptable for my neocaridinas?

[@LucasSilveira-tp5yd]

Hello. I have fish tanks for over 10 years now, but I've never had a shrimp tank... Last year I decided to build one... I put neocaridinas in the tank, but the original ones are pretty much all gone... just one left... the substrate is the one on the video, I used some seeds that I bought to grow plants in aquariums.. the parameters are ok, except the Ph, which is always below 7, approximately 6,8... I want to remove the plants because I have been noticing that they are "polluting" the tank.. I already bought some varieties of moss to put instead of the plants... But how can I do this change and avoid losing all my shrimps? There are 12 now in the tank.. Thank you, great video..

[@beatap6250]

Like my friend 😉👍🙋‍♀️

[@jeffb5785]

As a person with much experience with African Cichlids looking into my first try with a Shrimp tank, you almost talked me out of it. I use the KISS system with my Cichlids KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid. I don't use any additives other than dechlorinator and I don't have problems. I use crushed coral substrate and reef rocks for decorations and never have to worry about keeping my PH high. Obviously, I will not use crushed coral or reef rocks in a Shrimp tank and now I have to worry about keeping my PH lower without becoming a chemist I plan to use Carib Sea Eco Complete, Mopani wood and Spider wood, and live plants like Anubias, and Java Moss. What is the best way to consult with Flip Aquatics before making an order? You almost talked me into abandoning the project but I am half way ready to order shrimp. I have the tank and equipment, I expect my substrate today and will fill my tank and get the cycle started before the end of the day.

[@suman5492]

How often do you do a water change and how much? Can I start a shrimp breeding tank with an inert sand substrate of about 2.5mm grain size? And lastly, should I clean the substrate if there's a good amount of waste accumulated?

[@TheAwesomesauceNinja]

Do you have recommendations for keeping shrimp in a nano tank with tetras or other small fish?

[@sarawat635]

How about Hydra and Planaria, are they threat to shrimps? Better leave the or treat with Fenbendazole?

[@lazypat5497]

When are you gonna do a once over showcasing your finished 125 racks?

[@57door]

God Bless :)

[@Chris-zg5hw]

Hydras too! Those things suck..

[@anabelperera7070]

I want to start a shrimp aquarium which shrimp you recommend and how many can i get for a 10g tank

[@hhinojosareef1]

About the heater part lower temperature not true I test to that. I keep pumpkin shrimp at 80 to 81 keep in the warm side over 400 shrimp I think they breed faster honestly. Take it if you want or not I’m 100 percent convinced that’s the reason for high numbers. But great video!

[@madmax1412]

Do you need a filter if you have a heavily planted tank?

[@sharmai]

I saw your recommendation to use RO/Distilled water for water changes but I have a 50 gallon tank and doing weekly 50% water changes isn't something I can keep up with (I have bad knees). Is there no way to work with tap water? My tap water is pretty good but usually very cold coming out.

[@darya7473]

Invest in a python! Best aquarium purchase ever. My goldfish tank (55g) need 50% changes twice a week (I can’t do 100g buckets every week!). They sell hoses up to 75ft so it reaches any tap at your house. Although if that’s not an option for you, shrimps generally don’t like big water changes. Maybe try 15-20%changes twice a week.

[@brandononishenko2841]

Would you still not recommend a heater if I live much norther than most people? It can get very cold in the winter so I’m think the heaters more for holding a minimum temp. It’s an eheim so I’m hoping it won’t suffer the same issue with temp window like you mentioned in the vid?

[@hhinojosareef1]

Heater is a must in my experience 80 for orange pumpkin they breed like crazy over 400 shrimp and growing

[@aptravel9047]

Thank you very much from russia, bro Have a problem with deaths of my cherries in my tiny 30 liter tank, trying to get system stable and not feeding at all. I'm tired of bying new shrimps every month. I hope your advices will help me)

[@piece0man]

I was watching the video and by the way very well done and informative. I did not catch the name of the product that you mentioned that helped with the problem of the food that fell into the substrate. It sounded like something floor clean. If you can get back to me with the name that would be great! I do have rams horn snails in with them. No heater maybe that's why my numbers dwindle slowly, but I still get babies. Any way thanks again. If you can get back to me that would be great. Ray