This is an old video but I don't think any of the shrimp you caught were in the genus Neocaridina haha. The first type should be Amano shrimp (Caridina multidentata) or some other type of Caridina. The big clawed shrimp, funny enough, are in the genus Macrobrachium (meaning "large arms"). Taiwan has ~15 species of those, it would be difficult to get an ID without a researcher/taxonomist.
Ive always wanted to know where they come from.... Thanks for this video my friend.. now im going to put them in a pond and see if i can make them multiply
Awesome video! Fairly certain those in the first 5 minutes of the video were actually Amano shrimp, or Caridina multidentata. The shrimp crawling up your hand was the main giveaway but the body shape was also more similar to Amano. Awesome footage nonetheless. Thank you!
Can they survive in cold water ? I'm thinking about putting them in my ponds . They are in Northeast Ohio and spring fed . It gets pretty cold in the winter and the ponds freeze . Wondering if they would be able to survive ...
BOSSDarkJedi I had been wondering the same thing since I left this place. As far as my research goes, they are a type of macrobrachium species, a couple of which are present in Taiwanese rivers and streams.
I want to have a cherry shrimp tank but i want the plants in the aquarium to be native to the same place the shrimp are. Do you think you could give me some names of aquatic plants from Taiwan? I google them all the time but i can’t really seem to find too many that are aquatic
It would have been awesome if you could get some water parameter measurements as well. 🥲 Long story short: I got new red cherries and want to keep them in the most low maintenence setting possible. So I want to know the water parameters to see if I can keep it constant. I see a lot of rocks which mineralize and could possibly rise the PH of the water but also see a lot of detrius and decaying vegetation... It makes me think that I should have decaying vegetation and a small patch, or pile of rocks or coral that rises the ph. The rocks/coral should serve as a calcium/mineral source and the decaying vegetation as a food source. The coral dissolves at different speeds depending on water flow and water ph. So basically, in the end I think I'm going to put coral cause it's great stabilize ph. My biggest fear is the white ring of death, or the molting problem. It's a molting disorder caused by a sudden water parameter change.
you are correct that it is a balancing game. I use aquasoil (UNS Controsoil) plus a small cup of aragonite (for calcium) and it does fine for my blue dreams and green jade. Although marketed as a good buffer to 6.8 pH, the controsoil is like 3 years old too, so I bet it doesnt buffer as well as before. The issue with measuring the random water parameters and publishing that is this: there has been so many generations of domesticated shrimp bred in different parameters that the chance of your red cherries needing the exact same parameters and this stream is close to 0. Much better to contact your seller and ask for their tank parameters. In addition, my experience with shrimp has been that they are most likely to die within the first 2 weeks. After that, close to bulletproof.
@@AvatarAquatics I see... You went on a somewhat high tech approach with the substrate. Call me old school, or more lazy, or both, but I want to stick to just plain sand as a substrate, a heap of plants ( I can't imagine not having a heavily planted aquarium and at least 1 floating plant. I'm just broken like that ha ha. Plants never failed to beautify and help with the aquarium balance.) A cheap mineral/alkaline source like the coral/egg shells and let some detrius to build up for the microfauna and a above average light for a bit of algae formation. I was a victim of all these flashy aquarium miracle products and chemicals that are just snake oil that almost threw me out of the hobby. But one day I just threw it all away and made my personal ambition to hold life in aquarium and make it thrive with "ingredients" that are cheap and locally available. I've seen people on RUclips holding supposedly very sensitive fish like discuss in stupidly simple setups and were healthy and thriving. No high tech at all. Father Fish in my opinion is the old school aquarist that is fully driven towards keeping it simple but bulet proof in the detriment of esthetics. I've learned extremely valuable information about how an aquarium composition should be and how it works in nature. Cory from Aquarium Co-op taught me about the various fish and about their behavior and interactions with other livestock. Jay's aquarium taught me the nitrogen cycle in a very comprehensive way and even did long term experiments to prove them with the deep sand bed experiment that is also endorsed by Father Fish. And many more youtubers that put out pieces of valuable information. Now, I was checking out the natural environment of my livestock to see their natural habitat as it is in nature and stumbled upon you're treasure trove of a video. 😊 I always wondered where all these fish/snails/shrimp/plants came from originally as I'm from Europe and there are virtually 0 aquarium worthy livestock/plants here in the wild. In my humble opinion, with all that I've learned so far there are x basic rules that set you're aquarium to success 90% of the time. The 10% is parasites and illnesses that you have to own the risk. 1. Is for the aquarium ph to be stable. You can do that by putting slow dissolving calcium sources to act as a reliable buffer like crushed coral, cleaned & crushed egg shell ( the most dirt cheap ) or even eregonite but I find it to be one of the more fancier buffer rocks he he. And always have coarse sand, at least 3 inches, it developes a very useful underground microfauna that will later on feed you're plants and complete the nitrogen cycle. 2. Plants... half or more of them should be fast growers and the rest esthetic. Plants might be the most underrated or overlooked factor in a balanced aquarium. Also get floating, fast growing plants or if you can stick a pothos plant in the corner and make sure the pothos have enough light to grow as fast as possible to draw out the excess nutrients. 3. Oxygen, oxygenate the hell out of you're aquarium. The beneficial bacteria will do it's work well, the fish will be happy, you avoid night time oxygen deprivation and rest assured that the small % of CO2 that gets dissolved or is produced by the decaying matter is enough for growing the plants. You can even keep it in a relatively stronger light without algae blooms provided that you're plants have the capacity to keep the nutrient level low. 4. Do everything in you're power to discipline yourself when feeding you're livestock. FEED THE FISH AS SPARINGLY AS YOU CAN!!! It's very difficult but with practice you will eventually get it right. It's one of most difficult things to master. Some fish like the guppy can be a neusance when feeding cause they get in the way of all of the other fish so you have to be creative and use all maner of foods and distractions for the more docile and slow livestock to get a bite. Boiled carrot/cabbage/coliflower for snails once in a blue moon. Sinking protein/vegetable granules for bottom feeders like corryes. Wafers/tablets to stick on the glass for the middle water colum feeders like the neon tetras, flakes for the top feeders and some frozen foods of various types. I even feed them hard boiled egg yolk once or twice a month. Feeding them a diversified diet is awesome for their health. But YOU HAVE TO FEED SPARSELY even of you're fish beg you for food with those fishy eyes. 5. Patience.... patience and some more wise man patience. And observe everything that is happening in the aquarium. From fish behavior to algae growth and depending on the case make informed adjustments to the aquarium to help it balance itself out. Adjust light intensity and feeding especially at the beginning when you're aquarium is prone to risks like amonia spikes or algae bloom. Use chemicals just once to solve a problem and then stop, never get used to it being a common practice. Before you put then in inform yourself really well about what they do. Some can affect some livestock like snails and shrimp. And never make too many adjustments at one time or you might throw it out of wack again. And I apologize for the long lines. I have no one to talk about this beautiful hobbie and I saw too many people fail at it cause of toxic marketing of companies. I wish everyone to enjoy this hobbie and take it as a journey of exploration. You have to be crafty, patient, atentative, informed and disciplined. It's not just a piece of ornament on you're desk, it's a mico-world and you are it's God. You can bring it to grateness by being responsable or you can tear it down. To all of you, I wish you clear waters and healthy fish. 😊
Hi shrimp lovers! I recently made a video on breeding Amano shrimps. Check it out! ruclips.net/video/c91vXktRfHM/видео.html
InstaBlaster.
Watching this video to help me keep shrimps better by make their tank similar to their natural habitat. Thanks! This is a great resource. 🙏
"My cousin owns a mountain"...... mine owns a minivan. XD
Ahhaahha
I grew up on a farm and playing in a creek is the best. Always something new to see. You can not beat God's creation.
This is an old video but I don't think any of the shrimp you caught were in the genus Neocaridina haha. The first type should be Amano shrimp (Caridina multidentata) or some other type of Caridina. The big clawed shrimp, funny enough, are in the genus Macrobrachium (meaning "large arms"). Taiwan has ~15 species of those, it would be difficult to get an ID without a researcher/taxonomist.
Any idea what the basic water chemistry is in this little stream? pH, KH and GH? Thanks for sharing this.
TaUnc Fester didn’t get to bring a test kit over sorry
Ive always wanted to know where they come from.... Thanks for this video my friend.. now im going to put them in a pond and see if i can make them multiply
man I would never leave!!!! I love these tropical fish waterways
Wonderful video ! Want to emulate a natural home for my shrimp aquaponics tank, very cool to see them in the wild!
You never did it did you, failure
@@TheBigMclargehuge well actually I did
Awesome video! Fairly certain those in the first 5 minutes of the video were actually Amano shrimp, or Caridina multidentata. The shrimp crawling up your hand was the main giveaway but the body shape was also more similar to Amano. Awesome footage nonetheless. Thank you!
you make a great point! what do you think about the bluer shrimps in the bucket at 17:34?
agree, ive never seen a Neo be able to support itself (stand up) completely out of water.. Caridina multidentata however can...
Great video! I'm heading to Asia soon myself to see what fish I can trap.
ah that's faaascinating! Can't believe they just live wild in the rivers. Amazing
Can they survive in cold water ? I'm thinking about putting them in my ponds . They are in Northeast Ohio and spring fed . It gets pretty cold in the winter and the ponds freeze . Wondering if they would be able to survive ...
Those other shrimps with the pincers are mostly some type of Macrobhracium shrimps
Where in Taiwan was this filmed? I want to recreate the biotope down to the rocks in the stream!
Georgia Pulford hsinchu!
@@AvatarAquatics Thank you! Can I send pics of my completed set up?
Georgia Pulford of course! avataraquatics@gmail.com
I love Taiwan
What is the temperature of that water?
Did you find out what the clawed ones were? That would make a neat colony
BOSSDarkJedi I had been wondering the same thing since I left this place. As far as my research goes, they are a type of macrobrachium species, a couple of which are present in Taiwanese rivers and streams.
@@AvatarAquatics they're cute with their little arms waving about, reminds me of my honey gourami pair, always touching stuff.
Avatar Aquatics they look like whisker shrimp to me
Wow! Awesome video bro! New subscriber here 👍👍👍 thumbs up
12:05 looks like subwassertang?
After rewatching this documentary again, now I'm pretty sure, which one is from my cherry shrimp reverted to wild type color
Looks like Caridina Formosae (aka beauty shrimp)
So cool!
When’s the breeding season for these shrimps in the wild in Taiwan
Cool
That water is crystal
King Chaz cool and actually quite fast flowing too
Awesome video
great video thanks
Junito thank you! Definitely had a blast
Amazing video. Thank you.
I want to have a cherry shrimp tank but i want the plants in the aquarium to be native to the same place the shrimp are. Do you think you could give me some names of aquatic plants from Taiwan? I google them all the time but i can’t really seem to find too many that are aquatic
I dont know enough about the ecology of Taiwan to comment on that :(
@@AvatarAquatics Dang :(
Nice
i see, i comment, i like
what phone did you film it with?
iPhone 8
thank you for the vid
Love video
Where’s the Taiwan fish store video?
Respex Koins ruclips.net/video/3vCokXR7bIc/видео.html vidéo is up!!
Did I hear that right...Your cousin owns a mountain!
Dontdalla if only I could do that too!
@@AvatarAquatics even still, your so lucky! That is a beautiful place. I'm stuck here in cold London. I would love to visit Thailand one day.
@@Dontdalla Thailand and Taiwan are differrent places. This is in Taiwan.
No nice 🔥
Nice 😁👍
Them shrimp look like a scorpion
So cheap! I pay 6 Australian dollars for 1 shrimp :(
Same here
Don't disturb the shrimps 🙄
Spoiling the Environment.
It would have been awesome if you could get some water parameter measurements as well. 🥲
Long story short: I got new red cherries and want to keep them in the most low maintenence setting possible. So I want to know the water parameters to see if I can keep it constant.
I see a lot of rocks which mineralize and could possibly rise the PH of the water but also see a lot of detrius and decaying vegetation...
It makes me think that I should have decaying vegetation and a small patch, or pile of rocks or coral that rises the ph.
The rocks/coral should serve as a calcium/mineral source and the decaying vegetation as a food source.
The coral dissolves at different speeds depending on water flow and water ph. So basically, in the end I think I'm going to put coral cause it's great stabilize ph.
My biggest fear is the white ring of death, or the molting problem. It's a molting disorder caused by a sudden water parameter change.
you are correct that it is a balancing game. I use aquasoil (UNS Controsoil) plus a small cup of aragonite (for calcium) and it does fine for my blue dreams and green jade. Although marketed as a good buffer to 6.8 pH, the controsoil is like 3 years old too, so I bet it doesnt buffer as well as before. The issue with measuring the random water parameters and publishing that is this: there has been so many generations of domesticated shrimp bred in different parameters that the chance of your red cherries needing the exact same parameters and this stream is close to 0.
Much better to contact your seller and ask for their tank parameters. In addition, my experience with shrimp has been that they are most likely to die within the first 2 weeks. After that, close to bulletproof.
@@AvatarAquatics I see... You went on a somewhat high tech approach with the substrate.
Call me old school, or more lazy, or both, but I want to stick to just plain sand as a substrate, a heap of plants ( I can't imagine not having a heavily planted aquarium and at least 1 floating plant. I'm just broken like that ha ha. Plants never failed to beautify and help with the aquarium balance.)
A cheap mineral/alkaline source like the coral/egg shells and let some detrius to build up for the microfauna and a above average light for a bit of algae formation.
I was a victim of all these flashy aquarium miracle products and chemicals that are just snake oil that almost threw me out of the hobby.
But one day I just threw it all away and made my personal ambition to hold life in aquarium and make it thrive with "ingredients" that are cheap and locally available.
I've seen people on RUclips holding supposedly very sensitive fish like discuss in stupidly simple setups and were healthy and thriving. No high tech at all.
Father Fish in my opinion is the old school aquarist that is fully driven towards keeping it simple but bulet proof in the detriment of esthetics. I've learned extremely valuable information about how an aquarium composition should be and how it works in nature.
Cory from Aquarium Co-op taught me about the various fish and about their behavior and interactions with other livestock.
Jay's aquarium taught me the nitrogen cycle in a very comprehensive way and even did long term experiments to prove them with the deep sand bed experiment that is also endorsed by Father Fish.
And many more youtubers that put out pieces of valuable information.
Now, I was checking out the natural environment of my livestock to see their natural habitat as it is in nature and stumbled upon you're treasure trove of a video. 😊 I always wondered where all these fish/snails/shrimp/plants came from originally as I'm from Europe and there are virtually 0 aquarium worthy livestock/plants here in the wild.
In my humble opinion, with all that I've learned so far there are x basic rules that set you're aquarium to success 90% of the time. The 10% is parasites and illnesses that you have to own the risk.
1. Is for the aquarium ph to be stable. You can do that by putting slow dissolving calcium sources to act as a reliable buffer like crushed coral, cleaned & crushed egg shell ( the most dirt cheap ) or even eregonite but I find it to be one of the more fancier buffer rocks he he. And always have coarse sand, at least 3 inches, it developes a very useful underground microfauna that will later on feed you're plants and complete the nitrogen cycle.
2. Plants... half or more of them should be fast growers and the rest esthetic. Plants might be the most underrated or overlooked factor in a balanced aquarium. Also get floating, fast growing plants or if you can stick a pothos plant in the corner and make sure the pothos have enough light to grow as fast as possible to draw out the excess nutrients.
3. Oxygen, oxygenate the hell out of you're aquarium. The beneficial bacteria will do it's work well, the fish will be happy, you avoid night time oxygen deprivation and rest assured that the small % of CO2 that gets dissolved or is produced by the decaying matter is enough for growing the plants. You can even keep it in a relatively stronger light without algae blooms provided that you're plants have the capacity to keep the nutrient level low.
4. Do everything in you're power to discipline yourself when feeding you're livestock. FEED THE FISH AS SPARINGLY AS YOU CAN!!! It's very difficult but with practice you will eventually get it right.
It's one of most difficult things to master.
Some fish like the guppy can be a neusance when feeding cause they get in the way of all of the other fish so you have to be creative and use all maner of foods and distractions for the more docile and slow livestock to get a bite.
Boiled carrot/cabbage/coliflower for snails once in a blue moon.
Sinking protein/vegetable granules for bottom feeders like corryes. Wafers/tablets to stick on the glass for the middle water colum feeders like the neon tetras, flakes for the top feeders and some frozen foods of various types. I even feed them hard boiled egg yolk once or twice a month.
Feeding them a diversified diet is awesome for their health. But YOU HAVE TO FEED SPARSELY even of you're fish beg you for food with those fishy eyes.
5. Patience.... patience and some more wise man patience. And observe everything that is happening in the aquarium. From fish behavior to algae growth and depending on the case make informed adjustments to the aquarium to help it balance itself out. Adjust light intensity and feeding especially at the beginning when you're aquarium is prone to risks like amonia spikes or algae bloom. Use chemicals just once to solve a problem and then stop, never get used to it being a common practice. Before you put then in inform yourself really well about what they do. Some can affect some livestock like snails and shrimp.
And never make too many adjustments at one time or you might throw it out of wack again.
And I apologize for the long lines. I have no one to talk about this beautiful hobbie and I saw too many people fail at it cause of toxic marketing of companies.
I wish everyone to enjoy this hobbie and take it as a journey of exploration. You have to be crafty, patient, atentative, informed and disciplined.
It's not just a piece of ornament on you're desk, it's a mico-world and you are it's God. You can bring it to grateness by being responsable or you can tear it down.
To all of you, I wish you clear waters and healthy fish. 😊