What is the best pH for High Grade Caridina Shrimp - Best ACTIVE SOIL

What is the best pH for keeping Caridina Shrimps. Checking the pH of different active soil for Shrimps. How to breed a lot of shrimps on good active soil and how long will the active soil last.
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Sl Aqua more pH 5.75
Brightwell - pH 5,82
Benibachi fulvic pH 5,88
ada amazonia light + sl-aqua more soil pH 5,62
ada amazonia light pH 5,88
Benibachi fluvic layer 5 - 6 cm pH 5,92
Ada amazonia 1 pH 5,5

[@orihs1x]

Thank you for posting this! I know in the comment section a week ago we were talking about this partially so having this full breakdown literally right before i go shop for substrate (this weekend) is really helpful. I took up your advice and will be trying out Vin and SL aqua for bacteria I'll setup 2 tanks and see which I think works better for me. I was curious I know you had a video on your 5 day feeding routine, for someone with a more planted tank do you think I should reduce it to 3 because theres more biofilm available and more plants or should I also continue with 5 days. I am just starting out with "nicer shrimps" (recently got red galaxy fishbones, SS-SSS PRLs, and will hopefully be getting some nicer black fancy tigers) I was curious if I'm only starting off with 10-15 shrimp right now should I also consider a 3 day schedule instead of a 5 day until my colony gets bigger. I found conflicting info on stuff like that, but you've been so helpful I thought I'd shoot my question and hope for an answer

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

At the beginning of the colony You can feed once a week. Shrimps will feed on biofilm. The feeding time starts when Your femals are ready to be barried and when You get young shrimps. The amount and feeding routin should depend on the colony - how many shrimps are in the tank - more shrimps higher amounts and more often :) With 10 -15 young shrimps they will most likly leave most of the food uneaten :)

[@orihs1x]

@@ShrimpTimeInt I feel like this is the answer I was looking for thank you I'll start off with feeding once or twice a week and as they get berried I'll go to a 3-5 week schedule thank you for all the info

[@orihs1x]

@@ShrimpTimeInt I'm just curious I know you use an undergravel filter a lot, however when you use a sponge filter as well how often do you clean the sponge out? I see a lot of algae growth in some of yours so I was curious do you still clean it? what do you do with the algae then?

[@kandyrew]

i got some brightwell soil based off this video, i put it in a 20gal long in a UGF. my ph meter reads 5.8-5.9 so not too bad! would love to try SL aqua to see if i can bring it down more 🤔 anyways it’d be great to see a follow up to this video. What soils that are easily available would bring ph down to 5.4-5.6? ada amazonia 1 is getting hard to find these days since they stopped making them

[@mehmetselcukgungor4208]

Hi ,have you ever used Tropica Soil? in your expirience which soil has longer and better ph buffering capacity ? ADA gold or Tropica or Neo ? Thank you

[@alepsalleh9827]

why below 6pH ? a lot of other use 6.2 - 6.8 pH, can you explain?

[@Cleeon]

Maybe this kind of shrimp really adapted well for very soft water

[@LeahhJett]

Great information! I just started using Amazonia light as I’m almost out of Akadama. Both keep a nice low PH 5.0-5.3 for about a year (3cm deep, sponge filters only) it took 2.5 years for the Akadama to go to 6.1

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Thats and intresting info. What sort of akadama do You use? Maybe I'll try akadama aswell

[@LeahhJett]

@@ShrimpTimeInt it’s the Super Hard Baked or double red line

[@alantooth48]

I use 1and half inch brightwell pH stays at 5.6 with dual sponge filter and small hob filter. Shrimp are doing great and breeding well. Have fancy red tigers and Taiwan bees and crystal reds in the tanks. GH is 4, Kh is 0 . Crystal reds are doing well but have not started breeding yet I think because of immaturity still. In your experience do crystal reds need higher pH. I read a lot of articles that say they do ?But mine are doing well just not breeding yet but I think it's because of their age!

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Lovely water parameters for Caridinas. There were some theories that normal Caridina - Cristals likes higher pH, but I don't agree my PRL's love low pH. Cristals can do good in higher pH, but I still think 5,5 is optimum.

[@alantooth48]

I agree

[@alantooth48]

Update!!!!!! my crystal shrimp are breeding now I wish I had more females but the females I have are all buried. Maybe you could do an English video about how to increase the survivability of high-end shrimplets! Thanks shrimp time

[@nchn8198]

How about akadama? Did you try this?

[@iam_ramby195]

where i can buy benibachi soil?

[@chrisbee9164]

Brilliant video. I have a question.... Stuff you do any follow up to this? You were going to look into lowering pH?? Also as you cannot get Amazonia 1 now, how does Amazonia 2 compare? Which soil are you now recommending and what filtration in order to get 5.5pH ??

[@ShrimpMania]

Very useful info about soil, thanks for sharing. I think the best ph for caridina is 5,5 except tiger shrimp. I'm using 'Ista ph 5,5' it does what it says, good soil

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

I agree 100%. Unfortunetly there was a problem with ista in poland. The got batch that keept pH at 6.8-7 level. I think that the manufacure made an error when packing the soil.

[@mqasem80]

How much ista soil should i add to 60 litres tank to get ideal ph value?

[@twi452]

Hi there. Can you make a video about restarting an old tank? Do you cycle the new soil in an other tank before the restart so you can simply transfer the shrimps? Or any tricks if you have only one tank?

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello will do that in a short futuer. The need to cycle the soil depends on the soil.

[@twi452]

@@ShrimpTimeInt Superb, thank you 🙂 I've got only two 40 liter planted tanks that I converted into sponge filtered caridina tanks. One got amazonia and the other got dennerle/shrimp king soil bit they are close to 2 years old now. Ph is around 6,5-6,8 and my crystal blacks are breeding like crazy in there but I want to shift one of my tank to Taiwan bees maybe pintos.

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

@@twi452 Taiwan beeshrimp likes lower pH according to my expirience. Need to lower it a bit :)

[@arcticwinds6125]

Thank You so much for another English movie, would love to see your other methods for a even lower PH.

[@veneshpillay2988]

It will be interesting to see how you lower the ph. Thank you.

[@tajulislam6200]

Hello

[@livingwaters.4U]

Thank you for this information

[@dondutch4107]

im currently breeding galaxy/boa/ star dust in 4.5-5.0 on Amazonian 2.0..

[@Fatihfalcon]

Great video! I want to buy high grade shrimps. Can you ship to Turkey?

[@faizhasan675]

Iam from UAE love ur videos alot

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Thx :)

[@vatozkosku]

Very nice

[@7415124a]

Very interesting. The ph range from 5,7 to 5,3 sounds really low. What's the most realiable ph test kit brand?

[@passingwind2681]

New sub, from Florida

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Greetings and remember Keep on shrimping :D

[@asianpussykat33]

My blue bolts breed just fine in a PH of 7.5 and regular Lake Erie tap 💧. I think I’ve slowly adapted them to higher ph 👍

[@bumblebeeyaj9375]

What soil and water treatment do you use and how long did it take for your blue bolt to breed?

[@linnealeora]

Thank you for saying this. I have soft tap water & think it’s more suitable for caridina than neocaridina, which I’d have to harden the water for… it tests 6.8

[@morrisvw1]

Hi Shrimp Time, Thank you for the information. Can I please ask you a question?. Have you tried the new Amazonia Ver 2 yet (orange/red label), and if you have, how have you find it compared to other soils?

[@SERGEX42069]

love your English videos my friend

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

thx :)

[@kevinsheppard8725]

Hey Brother how are you? Please do a video on lowering PH, thank you so much. 👍🏾

[@kevinsheppard8725]

Great information 👍🏾 Thank you so MUCH 👍🏾

[@FatherFH]

Apparently you can make your own aquasoil and it is not very hard. I also wonder if a dirted tank done the father fish way will work.

[@brianwebb2748]

Hello. I want to keep caribina shrimp. I am drawn to Taiwan bees

[@aaronschaekel8848]

If you were trying to make a tank where the pH and water parameters allowed for a wide variety of various caridina varieties what substrate would you recommend? Brightwell maybe??? Thanks in advance.

[@faizhasan675]

Please also make video how to lower the ph

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Will do :)

[@faizhasan675]

@@ShrimpTimeInt iam using the jbl proescape for shrimps still tank is in cycling process hope all will go gud in futrue

[@z3ro7o]

did you try MASTERSOIL by now?

[@tanvu7089]

Thank you, hope you will have more video about shrimp

[@jhonycruz421]

I appreciate the video brother 👌very helpful. Exactly what I was looking for😀

[@MB-vs1rp]

Hi, very interesting ... How about kanuma with a PH of 5.5

[@khalidtaml2160]

Thank you for this video

[@andyroknroll2449]

Hello, New Subscriber here! 🎉 wanted to say thank you, got new Red Galaxy Pinto Shrimp and had 11 and one died after 5 days. I wasn’t sure why and watched one of your videos and found out every-time I changed my water I was not filtering it just using tap water, well it effected the GH level and I fixed it now and they are all healthy and well now and still watching it but got new shrimp on the way. I come here for all my info! Thank you ❤

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

So happy to hear that my expirience helped some one. Happy You saved the shrimps. Welcome in subscriber family

[@williammason4694]

You have a set of yellow and blue mixed

[@richardportelli1983]

Do you have any video on how you restart a tank or change soil?

[@Γιωργος-π9ζ]

I have 4.5 ph in every tank and i dont know why i have only active soil and ro water

[@papapig2876]

I've seen that PH below 5 must be good for survival rate but maybe not for adults. How is your RO water PH ? 7? How many soil and wich one did you put in your tanks ?

[@Γιωργος-π9ζ]

@@papapig2876 im using fluval stratum 4 kg in 50 litres tank.My ro water has 6.8 ph.With so low ph shrimps dying their shells become very soft

[@AnimalAce]

Same! I can get guppies and peacock gudgeons to breed in it but can't get neocardinia. Debating if i should get cardinia instead.

[@Cleeon]

@@AnimalAce 4.5 is very low and I think that's not good for breeding purposes of Caridina, I recommend 6 or just slightly higher, just make sure keep it bellow 7,but for anyone who have their Caridina shrimps already breeding with 7 or higher ph, continue it, that's can be better, but need to be careful some change can be catastrophic

[@destinythanhphuong]

@@Cleeon my tank just has been set up 2 weeks PH is 4.5 , i use benibachi mix with boom x2 soil . Should i add some mosura to adjust PH, thank for your advice

[@AnhBoyDad]

Amaazing video thank you for taking your time

[@williammason4694]

Hello I see that you have a nice set of strips

[@T.J-and-Soul]

G'day mate thanks for the info.

[@gilfisher8457]

What is the shrimp at the 2.08-2.20 minute make in this video? Beautiful. Its in the far right of your tank.

[@GreenThumbExotic]

Boa

[@albertoc3279]

Nice video! I couldn't find any similar comparison of substrates online. Thank you

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

No problem. I try my best to share my knowledg :) Would love to have it few years ago :)

[@gsh2780]

When you talk about ada Amazonia one,you have a link ? To see what’s soil you talk about thanks you 👍🏼😇

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hard to get the link. Ada amazonia 1 isn't on sale anymore :(

[@williammason4694]

Shrimps I'm sorry

[@didnthurt4077]

How long do you cycle the ada amazonia v1 for? Just found a few packs in my local store.

[@Howitzer09]

6 Weeks here

[@richs9633]

Always love your videos, very informative. Please keep the English channel going.

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Thx so much. I will keep this channel going and growing :)

[@anthonyc5362]

breaking down old tank with ADA substrate and it has a oily spell and feel is this normal for ada soil ?

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

I can be probably bacteria film - if You make water movment on surface then it will go away

[@paulmilsommusic]

The evidence of what you are saying is your shrimp. So VERY impressive. Ps do you think shrimp kept a ph 6.5-7 ph will adapt to a lower ph 5.5 or leave it? Pss have you tried peat moss??? Psss is ph down liquid a no no?

[@jesse0M]

What do you use to measure low pH ?

[@Cleeon]

@@jesse0M highly suggested to use liquid reagents test kit

[@lmclrain]

Hello please add timestapms to the videos, it is really helpful

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello would love to and will try to. The day got just 24h but I'll try my best :)

[@kakash19]

Thanks for making English videos for us, really appreciate it, I got one question: do you ship internationally (Germany), I’m interested in ordering some lubao?

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Helo, thx for kind word. Yes I do shrimp over whole eu :) You can buy lubao dirctly from the shop: sklep.shrimptime.pl/ or if You want to have cheaper (but a bit longer shipment) I can send You lubao via post office (about 2 weeks deliver)

[@didnthurt4077]

Do you also ship shrimps to austria?

[@erniejoopjoopful]

Thanks for the video👍🏻

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

No problem :)

[@catalinaciocan1819]

Hallo ❤️❤️❤️

[@aquarialife8418]

Thank you! Really helpful! I use Brightwell with good success. 💕 from USA

[@aaronschaekel8848]

What type of Brightwell substrate did you go with? I find the naming conventions a little confusing.

[@aquarialife8418]

@@aaronschaekel8848 I use Brightwell - Florin VOLCANIT (Rio Escuro-F) ~3mm which works great for shrimp. 💕💕 I get it from Amazon.

[@aaronschaekel8848]

@@aquarialife8418 thanks for the prompt replay. I appreciate it. 👍

[@ismailrq261]

hi sir , how about mixing ada ver 2 with akadama ? , thank you for the informative videos

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello sir :) I have never tryied akadam so can't answer this question.

[@ismailrq261]

Thank you for your answer

[@13xXLionheartXx12]

Hello! Love your videos 👌

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello!. Thx :)

[@MotorCityAquatiks]

Just subscribed

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

THX! happy to hear that

[@The-epic212]

Hello 😁

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello there :)

[@poquito808]

Hello!

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hi there :)

[@skarscalp8157]

Hi

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello there!!

[@louisswanepoel158]

Hallo

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

hi there

[@FinalFlameXD]

Awesome information! Thanks for the video :) have you ever used ADA Africana or Malaya? I have heard that they lower the pH even lower than Amazonia. Malaya being the lowest pH. I currently use Africana in many of my tanks. I hit 5.5-5.8pH in those tanks with a HOB. But I just started up a new shrimp rack with 11 10g tanks cycling with the Africana. It is very hard to obtain the Amazonia right now so it was my only option. Do you run sponges and UFG in the same tank? I bought all these double sponges with media baskets under the intakes for all my tanks. But have done further research and UFG seems the best. :( Is it too late to add them into the tanks as well? Might be a bit crammed. Thanks for making these English videos!

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello I read that Africana hold pH higher then regular Ada. Maybe it was miss information. Need to check it up. I run different filtration - solo ufg, ufg+sponge, HOB eaven canister filter. UFG help to lower pH. You can try making little ufg in a little acrylic box.

[@stigblue]

Hello shrimp time! I was wondering if you had more pictures/videos of the differnce between your 4 grades of BOA galaxy (gold/black)? I am very interested :D

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Hello I got some pictures but still working on developing my lines. Will make more video in future

[@stigblue]

@@ShrimpTimeInt Ahh okay. I was just interested because i am considering to order and would like to know what i could expect if i ordered each grade from your shop ^^

[@francis5583]

Great video! I’d love to see you make an Instagram account so I can see even more of your content!

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

shrimp.time on IG :D

[@francis5583]

@@ShrimpTimeInt thanks!

[@Bo83xxx]

Hi, I just discovered your channel. Such interesting and informative videos! I can't wait to see more. :)

[@ShrimpTimeInt]

Will do more and more and more :) Love shrimps and love sharing knowledg :)

[@SamSam563]

How to add ada amazonia 1 to existing tank.