Do the shrimp eat the fry because I have a 10 gallon fish tank for my guppie fry and it is Dirty and I can not clean the tank. Because I'm scared that I will leave them in the tank when I am cleaning the tank. Please let me now
Hey Cory, now that this video is two years old, could we get an update on this setup please? Are you still doing mixed tanks for your shrimp breeding? Have a couple tanks I'd like to set up for shrimp breeding and would love to do mixed but unsure.
I just bought a filter and will be buying more. the whole experience from searching product on your website to buying and delivery was just great. You guys know what makes a customer come back for more unlike the locate fish store near me where I bought some gravel just to see what kind of experience I would get with them and the people there have as much personality as maybe a snail which I hate to say because it feels like an insult to snails. Love your Videos and your website.
When the females are saddled and ready to mate they release hormones in the water and the males fly around the tank tryin to find the female. Very funny watching them frantically search! good video cory
I didn't know that until a month ago and thought something was wrong and like week ago I see pregnant blue velvet shrimp now. They're in with a Betta and celestial pearl danios so idk how many will survive but there's tons of plants and moss, like lots lol I wasn't trying to breed but now I hoping some survive and keep going.
@Le Baguette look up serpadesign, he does exactly that in a couple of his videos, just not with an aquarium, it think it's a riparium or paladarium or one of the ones without fish, land animals.
I introduced five red cherry shrimp to my tank, and they're breeding like rabbits, young shrimp literally everywhere. Wasn't intending to breed them, but I can see why you state they're fairly easy to breed! The Platys and Guppies are also breeding like rabbits, which will be a problem later as the tank will be way too crowded when they get bigger. At present though, it's awesome watching such a busy tank!
Love your channel dude. I’m new to the hobby, but I take my ecosystem super serious and I appreciate the knowledge I get from you. No point doing it, if you’re not going to do it the right way!!
thI just got into aquariums and now shrimp and you have provided me a great deal of info. Thank you. I also find that you appear to have great business ethics which means a great deal to me, far too often "business ethics" is an oxymoron so it is nice to see someone succeed doing it the right way and treating their employees well. As an accountant who loves animals you are living my dream to own a fish/pet store, I think I should have been a biology major...
Looking great Cory. Love the Ecosystems. Technically your blue shrimp is a blue dream line. Blue velvets are actually a whole different line. Many people have been calling blue dreams blue velvets lately which this is a misconception. If you ever want to see sometime I can show you the difference or mayb I should make a video on it...
+L.R.Bretz's Aquatics I should just call them blue shrimp and red shrimp. I don't believe in the conventional naming system for shrimp as there is so much variation and all names are made up.
There are legit name classification its just sellers often mislabel them even alot of wholesalers which in turn causes confusion but there are legit classification. I have Blue Velvet lines that breed true no blue dreams or anything else thrown unlike blue dreams which can throw a blue velvet time to time amongst a few other types. Theres also a blue pearl line which the blue velvets are actually more similiar too. I could expand on this with many others and where the future of the shrimp market is going... Just trying to help share what I know with you.
@@LRBaquatics I realize this is a 3 year old comment but something to notice is that all Neocaridina davidi ( come in brown, red, blue, green, etc) are all the same species. The “common names “ cherry shrimp, blue velvet etc. are made up to attribute to density of color. All the blue shrimp or red shrimp you see in this video are exactly the same species of animal. Just check out Latin nomenclature. And that is what Cory is referencing when he says he’s not going to get crazy with the common names.
@@rurutuM they’re the same animal. Just varying degrees of colors. That’s the only difference. Just like greyhounds can have any color fur, even spotted etc but they’re all still greyhounds.
Just did a bulk order of 100 red culls with an acceptable colour and I’m excited to introduce them to the small 10 shrimp colony already existing in the tank. The price was pretty prohibitive with my first 10 because they are almost top grade reds but I got an insane deal on these little guys and decided I’d rather a stable ok looking population then a weak amazing one. Hopefully over time I’ll be able to pick out the best of their fry and separate them into a tank for selling and try to stabilise a good red.
Got an absolute wealth of info from substrate to lighting from you Cory.. Many thanks... There used to be an old film character who... From my limited memory used to say things like "that's my boy".. So when you speak out the side of your mouth as a greeting it reminds me of him.. Can't remember his name.. Regardless, many thanks our Cory... Cheers
good to see a video with a full ecosystem and not just shrimp It shows how well it can work.i was a bit worried about mixing fish with shrimp especially because how dear some can be but definetly gunna give it a try now
I put 5 cherries in my tank last December and left them alone only feeding bottom feeder pellets.. Now I have over 100 easy in my 40 gallon. They are super easy to take care of and breed
I love your stuff man! Your videos are what inspire me to have all the tanks that I do today. My mum wasn't so keen at first but as soon as she realised how big the hobby actually is she loves it just as much as I do
Aww , I like that way of thinking . They are definitely your friends when you can hand feed them! Wait? Didn't they turn on you and try to eat you?!?! Jk mark love your shrimp videos!!!!
Hmm that interests me! To feed them by poop? Or are you yanking our chains some more ? I have been setting up a bunch of tanks for neo thinking lots of moss plants and rock piles would house the shrimp , while also breeding guppies endlers and similar fish. With some blue and red rams horns in there as a working ecosystem .?? What do you guys think?? Cory does it but he has casualties, do you think casualties could be minimized to very few and even a natural kull by doin this??
Thank you. I was wondering if my cherry shrimp was carrying eggs. I have 3 shrimp in a 1-gallon planted fishbowl. They have plenty of mulm, 3 marimo balls, dwarf sag, crypts, and frogbit. I keep the bowl in a southeast window where the plants get natural light. It’s a little ecosystem and they like the stability. No water changes. After watching your video I added some moss. Thanks for the informative videos!
Great video man! I have been doing the same thing so this is reassuring that my ecosystem approach is not only achievable, but beneficial for the criers too! Thanks for the tips!
I am planning on putting 40 red cherry shrimp on my community tank (guppies, neon tetras, rummy nose, and a pleco) Day 2 of quarantine, they hatched 10 babies more or less and i think i need to change my plan a little bit
Great video Cory! I *love* the new intro! I have Sherry shrimp too! I had 12 but 7 died! I will buy some new ones soon! How are the Turtle eggs doing? *Thumbs up!*
Absolutely extremely educational simplify. thank you Cory you’re the guy.Also aren’t all of his friends blue velvet cherry and orange the same just a different color variation that’s what I would think but then I’m not an expert
Glad to hear you can safely breed with a community tank, I watched another video saying you should just keep the shrimp in their own tank but where's the fun in that?
I have learned so much from all of your videos!! I love you guys! Thank you for all of them! I have a 60 gallon, and just started my first cherry shrimp tank - so excited! I've read a lot on it, but this helps keep it simple and follows how I set up my 60.
Hi! I have been following you since I started keeping fish a few years ago. Thanks for all the helpful information. Here, today, I have a question about keeping Cherry shrimp. I bought ten, online, and drip acclimated them. That was about a week ago. I have seen only three at best. I know they hide but am wondering if my nitrate is affecting them? My tap water is 40 and I can't seem to get it down from about 70 even with plants although I have run out of API tests and the NT labs mini kit doesn't have that test so am unsure of nitrate levels at present. My fish seem ok and my Amano are doing OK. I am also concerned about my filter. I have an internal AquaEL which will suck up babies should the cherries ever breed. My tank is 105 litre long. Any advice you can give me will be most appreciated. Also, in this video you say that the shrimp eat fish poop. I always believed shrimp and snails will not! You read so much conflicting information on the web! Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy questionnaire LOL! Lynne x
Good advice, have been thinking about keeping some of those shrimp. Have a sponge filter in the back and I know there is a good amount of algae on that. Did not know they prefer to have lots of algae and moss too.
Nice one Cory. My biggest regret with my red cherry shrimp is that I put them in too many different tanks initially. Now that I'd like to try to keep some other neocaridina species I'm struggling to find a tank that doesn't already have cherry shrimp in there and dont want them to inter-breed!
Hi Cory, it'll be the platies cleaning the algae off the glass....the shrimp do love to eat it, but in my experience (about 10yrs I've been breeding these guys), they never graze it all the way back. You can check it out on the Ep I did on Cherry Shrimp breeding, I do a few things I haven't seen done before that work exceptionally for me, and there is even some legit prawnography as I caught a couple in the act :) Anyways, keep up the good work mate.
I had Ramshorn snails in a planted pond in Thailand- and they bred like crazy but if I reduced the feeding they ate all the plants!! They were savages!!
Hey Corey:) I have been a long time subscriber and it’s awesome to see you &your channel explode. I know this video was a while ago and you don’t have this tank but I am wondering what you used to run PH and TDS wise in your shrimp tanks. Thank you for the years of info and entertainment, lol I’d love to buy you a taco some time, keep on keepin on👍
Hi Corey, Greetings from Australia! Just wondering, is it still as effective to have sponge filters without the lift tubes, as I noticed some of the sponge filters in your tanks didn't have lift tubes in them. Just wanted to know if I should bother with lift tubes with my sponge filter setups Thank you and keep up the great content brother!
Awesome video co-op I’m starting up a channel at the moment that will have all sorts of aquarium content on it at the moment I’m documenting my experience with breeding crystal red shrimp, So far it has been awesome and a lot of fun. I have a lot more content coming keep up the good vids !!!
Corey appreciate all your videos! They have been more then helpful. I'm out in Cleveland but I hope in the near future I can come out and see your store. Thanks again for the pro tips and can't wait to see what's coming up next.
Corey, you are my go to for everything fish related. Definitely the GOAT, but I don't believe that shrimp eat poop. Shrimp and snails are definitely scavengers but I don't believe from my research anything actually eats fish poop.
Excellent description how to seed an Aquarium. That's the easiest and fastest method how to stock a tank after 2-3 days (slowly, of course - but really fast). Can you explain what you said "contaminated" the moss? I'm always struggling to grow moss (java, christmas, riccia...) in various of my aquariums and the only one where it slightly grows is my highly filtered stream tank. Or maybe make a guide about moss? Species, how to grow it.... if any fish eat it (I suspect that happens in my big tank).
Thanks for all your videos! Super helpful content, wish I had a fish shop near me with someone as passionate as you. Most fish sellers I deal with seem to just know the bare minimum for the job or check an iPad to answer my questions. I recently picked up 6 cherry shrimp to put in my 5 gallon betta tank. I didn’t realise in advance that the more red coloured ones are usually females. Within two weeks my tank was full of babies! Thankfully it’s pretty well planted and had about 5 survivors and now I’m seeing another new batch of babies! Do they ever stop?! They don’t seem very good at cleaning up leftover fish food. Wondered if you had any suggestions for a good bottom feeder to pickup food debris that can go with the betta. I was considering a few panda corys as they’re small. You can check out the tank im talking about in my latest “Diy resin aquarium ornament” video if you get time. Thanks again for all the top content!! ✌🏻
By far my favorite video so far Cory! I have a ten gallon with about 10 cherries, with two or three berried females. So happy😄 I also love those platies. Could you possibly tell me what they are called and where you got them?
I started a five gallon tank on my desk two months ago. Started with six neon tetras, live plants, and two cherry shrimp. Now I have six neon tetras, 100 snails, and probably 20 baby cherry shrimp.
Nice Thank you i am looking to populate my few tanks with shrimp, fish and lots of plants. I am just getting started. Hopefully i can find enough moss to fill half a tank (10 gallons) to get started. Then get shrimp to reproduce. I have two 29g, a 20g and 10g. I am hoping to get each going with reproduction to eventually mix with each tank. Buying substrate has been costly, and putting off getting into co2. Anyways thanks for the great helpful videos.
Zom Bee Nature which shrimp did you start with and did you make enough research? I think the easiest for start is Cherry. I have mine for over a month and they are doing very well. Just shrimp and snail tank.
@@BRUH-xz1zp I have tried Cherry Shrimp, Neocaridina, red ones, blue ones, orange ones, and yellow with a white stripe down the back. The ones that don't die immediately might last a couple weeks and then disappear. The water here is very hard, 350 to 450 officially by the water company, too hard for a color kit to work since the level is above the highest level of the kit. Even pet shops have told me not to bother testing hardness, it's very hard. And to not ever try the other kind of shrimp, Caridina or the other kind, they refuse to even special order them for anybody because they are impossible to keep.
what do you recommend for temperature, and do you worry about pH? How about adding catawpa leaves and alder cones? Love your sponge filters by the way, converting my whole fish room to them with the ziss airstones gradually.
i am working on a shrimp aquarium atm, i was wondering how do you keep up with the shrimp that unfortunately dont make it in an aquarium that has a lot of moss?and other then water changes do you need to vacuum the tank? also Thanks really enjoyed the video a lot, very helpful.
Nice Cory, always focusing on the Eco System first. It is good to know, that there is an alternative way. I would like to try sometime a Show Tank at the same time a Guppy and Shrimp breeding tank. I think there is a way to make it work. Thanks.
Great video, can you make a walstad dry start video, with pool filter sand or black diamond blasting salt? Not sure if you want to avoid showing cheap alternatives, but there are a ton of videos out there. Think yours would be better than what is out there currently though
I show cheap alternatives all the time. I don't make that video because I believe it is leading people in the wrong direction. Walstad tanks are great for people who understand plants. Most people blindly follow that tank style and have very poor results. Most plants are water column feeders, So you get people who load their tank with stem plants and then get poor leggy growth after "doing everything I was told". In general I'm not convinced that something like easy green or another good quality fertilizer is more expensive than buying dirt, sand, etc. Any gravel plus a good quality fertilizer and plants are much easier for most people, with exception of heavy root feeders.
So as long as you have: 68-78F Plants (preferably moss) decent surface area and thats it? Confirm this, it seems too easy! Will endler livebearers eat fry? If I try to breed them too?
I love this video! And I have a 3 gallon with cherry shrimp. And it did have amono shrimp at the start. But then I found out amono shrimp need much more room, so I moved the amonos to my 29 gallon, and in my 3 gallon, I have I think 5 cherry shrimp left. And I want more, and I don’t know if I should wait for them to breed, or just buy more. What would you do?
I have a very well established 30 gallon tank with a small bristle nose and about 13 adult shrimp I'm trying to breed. It's a no water change tank just top ups once a week. Full of live plants so much vegetation you can't see the back of the tank. But I'm having no luck breeding these shrimp. I'm Startin to think I have all of 1 sex or something. I do check water parameters every few days and nothing really changes. Gonna try adding another 10 this weekend see what happens. Would you recommend also buying some small fish? I do feed the tank (for the pleco mostly) there was a ton of algae in the tank a month ago but since I added floating plants the amount of algae went from 100 to 0 pretty much. Should I maybe add more light to grow some algae back?
i just got some cherry shrimp and my betta grabbed one and threw her across the tank and i realized it’s a pregnant shrimp so i put her in another container and i’m crying now 😭
I test my bettas on my ghost shrimp, which are big and aggro and tend to teach my bettas not to mess around. That said I am still dubious about keeping my cherries with even guppy fry, I have none to spare lol
Hi Cory, I would like your opinion on how to deal with vorticella on my planted tank. I have been cutting off the part of the plants with vorticella clusters but the critters grow back faster than I can remove them. I don’t see any vorticella on my shrimps yet but the vorticella growth rate is concerning. The plants are 2 month old, I have had red cherry shrimps and neon tetras in for a month. It’s a 12 gal long tank with sponge filter, water is clear but a bit dull. I suspect I have too much bacteria in there feeding the vorticella? My air pump is old, so maybe not enough aeration. I stopped feeding the fish the last 2 days.
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Do the shrimp eat the fry because I have a 10 gallon fish tank for my guppie fry and it is Dirty and I can not clean the tank. Because I'm scared that I will leave them in the tank when I am cleaning the tank. Please let me now
Hey Cory, now that this video is two years old, could we get an update on this setup please? Are you still doing mixed tanks for your shrimp breeding? Have a couple tanks I'd like to set up for shrimp breeding and would love to do mixed but unsure.
@@bobs5596 thank you
I just bought a filter and will be buying more. the whole experience from searching product on your website to buying and delivery was just great. You guys know what makes a customer come back for more unlike the locate fish store near me where I bought some gravel just to see what kind of experience I would get with them and the people there have as much personality as maybe a snail which I hate to say because it feels like an insult to snails. Love your Videos and your website.
When the females are saddled and ready to mate they release hormones in the water and the males fly around the tank tryin to find the female. Very funny watching them frantically search! good video cory
They want that
I didn't know that until a month ago and thought something was wrong and like week ago I see pregnant blue velvet shrimp now. They're in with a Betta and celestial pearl danios so idk how many will survive but there's tons of plants and moss, like lots lol I wasn't trying to breed but now I hoping some survive and keep going.
I like the fact that the aquarium can be a fully functional microenviroment, wth the creatures living symbiotically.
Me too, it's awesome!
@Le Baguette look up serpadesign, he does exactly that in a couple of his videos, just not with an aquarium, it think it's a riparium or paladarium or one of the ones without fish, land animals.
As nature intended.
That's what I live for! Big fish in big tanks are so overrated and sad..
I introduced five red cherry shrimp to my tank, and they're breeding like rabbits, young shrimp literally everywhere. Wasn't intending to breed them, but I can see why you state they're fairly easy to breed! The Platys and Guppies are also breeding like rabbits, which will be a problem later as the tank will be way too crowded when they get bigger. At present though, it's awesome watching such a busy tank!
How fast before you had babies?
Hey, did your shrimp breed in the same tank with guppies? I’ve got 7 guppies and 6 shrimp, did your guppies ever try to eat the fry?
How to breed cherry shrimp - My personal experience.
Put two cherry shrimp in a tank,
Drink beer,
Done.
Ok thanks for saving my time though i would be drinking water
😂😂
Thanks for the helpful tip! I’ve not had much success with breeding cherry shrimp. I see now that I’ve been skipping Step 1.
Yeah they are like unwelcome roaches, get real. I’m sure they could survive a nuclear event.
@@jusbeaming cherry shrimp? alot more pleasing than roaches
Love your channel dude. I’m new to the hobby, but I take my ecosystem super serious and I appreciate the knowledge I get from you. No point doing it, if you’re not going to do it the right way!!
thI just got into aquariums and now shrimp and you have provided me a great deal of info. Thank you. I also find that you appear to have great business ethics which means a great deal to me, far too often "business ethics" is an oxymoron so it is nice to see someone succeed doing it the right way and treating their employees well. As an accountant who loves animals you are living my dream to own a fish/pet store, I think I should have been a biology major...
what I love about this video is, I got a lot more out of it then just how to breed shrimp. Tunes of great information. thank you
I can’t believe aquarium co-op doesn’t have wayyy more subscribers
We put 2 cherry shrimp in the community tank a few days ago and so far so good
Looking great Cory. Love the Ecosystems. Technically your blue shrimp is a blue dream line. Blue velvets are actually a whole different line. Many people have been calling blue dreams blue velvets lately which this is a misconception. If you ever want to see sometime I can show you the difference or mayb I should make a video on it...
+L.R.Bretz's Aquatics I should just call them blue shrimp and red shrimp. I don't believe in the conventional naming system for shrimp as there is so much variation and all names are made up.
There are legit name classification its just sellers often mislabel them even alot of wholesalers which in turn causes confusion but there are legit classification. I have Blue Velvet lines that breed true no blue dreams or anything else thrown unlike blue dreams which can throw a blue velvet time to time amongst a few other types. Theres also a blue pearl line which the blue velvets are actually more similiar too. I could expand on this with many others and where the future of the shrimp market is going... Just trying to help share what I know with you.
LR bretz should do a video on all the different lines/names of cherry shrimp and what differentiate them
@@LRBaquatics I realize this is a 3 year old comment but something to notice is that all Neocaridina davidi ( come in brown, red, blue, green, etc) are all the same species. The “common names “ cherry shrimp, blue velvet etc. are made up to attribute to density of color. All the blue shrimp or red shrimp you see in this video are exactly the same species of animal. Just check out Latin nomenclature. And that is what Cory is referencing when he says he’s not going to get crazy with the common names.
@@rurutuM they’re the same animal. Just varying degrees of colors. That’s the only difference. Just like greyhounds can have any color fur, even spotted etc but they’re all still greyhounds.
Just watched your cherry shrimp vid from a couple years back last night. Great update on all the shrimp!!!
Just did a bulk order of 100 red culls with an acceptable colour and I’m excited to introduce them to the small 10 shrimp colony already existing in the tank. The price was pretty prohibitive with my first 10 because they are almost top grade reds but I got an insane deal on these little guys and decided I’d rather a stable ok looking population then a weak amazing one. Hopefully over time I’ll be able to pick out the best of their fry and separate them into a tank for selling and try to stabilise a good red.
Got an absolute wealth of info from substrate to lighting from you Cory.. Many thanks... There used to be an old film character who... From my limited memory used to say things like "that's my boy".. So when you speak out the side of your mouth as a greeting it reminds me of him.. Can't remember his name.. Regardless, many thanks our Cory... Cheers
I'm starting my cherry shrimp breeding tank today! Thank you for the advice!
How is your aquarium going now? I'm starting mine soon!
2:00 I think that substrate is like 50% snail
SpottedTiger that's actually almost an accurate percentage too.😂 I hadn't noticed earlier.
Kind of proves that food competition doesn't cause lack of breeding.
True dat.
I noticed that too, and I'm wondering what type of snail that is. Any ideas?
@@buckstarchaser2376 some trumpet snail I guess (funny that Trumpet snail is also called Melania :))) )
good to see a video with a full ecosystem and not just shrimp It shows how well it can work.i was a bit worried about mixing fish with shrimp especially because how dear some can be but definetly gunna give it a try now
This is a proper presentation for cherry. Good job man. Balance and consistency is key.
i searched "how to stop cherry shrimps from breeding out of control in my tank" and this came up... very helpful youtube
I put 5 cherries in my tank last December and left them alone only feeding bottom feeder pellets.. Now I have over 100 easy in my 40 gallon. They are super easy to take care of and breed
I love your stuff man! Your videos are what inspire me to have all the tanks that I do today. My mum wasn't so keen at first but as soon as she realised how big the hobby actually is she loves it just as much as I do
+Ciaran Chaplin awesome when the whole family gets involved.
I'd love to see more shrimp videos.!
Man, you are just the best. I love your approach and point of view about the fish tanks as full eco systems
I know this video is 3 years old but there is a ton of useful information here and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this :)
I absolutely love the blue velvet and blue dream shrimp
they love u2
Shrimp are our friends not just for profit and food, good video Cory :)
Aww , I like that way of thinking . They are definitely your friends when you can hand feed them! Wait? Didn't they turn on you and try to eat you?!?! Jk mark love your shrimp videos!!!!
yes, shrimp are delicious
You know I was thinking about breeding guppys/goldfish/discus ect as food for my Shrimp ..what do ya think?
Hmm that interests me! To feed them by poop? Or are you yanking our chains some more ? I have been setting up a bunch of tanks for neo thinking lots of moss plants and rock piles would house the shrimp , while also breeding guppies endlers and similar fish. With some blue and red rams horns in there as a working ecosystem .?? What do you guys think?? Cory does it but he has casualties, do you think casualties could be minimized to very few and even a natural kull by doin this??
@@MarksShrimpTanks Discus as food for your shrimp? I think you're going to go broke quick! BTW, love your videos Mark.
this is great, I was in last night and bought some blue shrimp. thanks for the info!
Corey! Legend bro! Your channel is just excellent, always providing great information.
I have a pregnant neocaridina this has been great help!
Thank you. I was wondering if my cherry shrimp was carrying eggs. I have 3 shrimp in a 1-gallon planted fishbowl. They have plenty of mulm, 3 marimo balls, dwarf sag, crypts, and frogbit. I keep the bowl in a southeast window where the plants get natural light. It’s a little ecosystem and they like the stability. No water changes.
After watching your video I added some moss. Thanks for the informative videos!
Great video man! I have been doing the same thing so this is reassuring that my ecosystem approach is not only achievable, but beneficial for the criers too! Thanks for the tips!
I am planning on putting 40 red cherry shrimp on my community tank (guppies, neon tetras, rummy nose, and a pleco)
Day 2 of quarantine, they hatched 10 babies more or less and i think i need to change my plan a little bit
Interesting, all the symbiotic relationships going on there. Gives me ideas for a new tank. Thanks.
We are going to try the cherry shrimp 🍤. Good advice for netting them!
Great timing! I’m obsessing of my shrimp. They may be my favorites!
That new guppy strain at 11:19 is beautiful
Im also very curious as to what this guppy strand is?
Great video Cory!
I *love* the new intro!
I have Sherry shrimp too!
I had 12 but 7 died! I will buy some new ones soon!
How are the Turtle eggs doing?
*Thumbs up!*
Danny's Aquariums Appearently the turtle eggs werent fertilized
Thanks Cory! I was trying to find something on this just before I saw the upload. Very useful, as usual!
Absolutely extremely educational simplify. thank you Cory you’re the guy.Also aren’t all of his friends blue velvet cherry and orange the same just a different color variation that’s what I would think but then I’m not an expert
I love your vidéos, my breeding tanks going beter and beter by watching your videos. Ty so much
Glad to hear you can safely breed with a community tank, I watched another video saying you should just keep the shrimp in their own tank but where's the fun in that?
Fun video! I would love to know more about specific water parameters as well... ph, temp, etc... Thanks a ton!!
just picked up some cherry shrimp. cant wait to have cherry babies.
I think you deserve more subs than you have. All of your videos are informal entertaining and quality
I love your videos!They have helped me buy my fish & shrimp Thanks 🦐🐠
I was just about to set up a shrimp breeding tank! Great timing for this video :D
I have learned so much from all of your videos!! I love you guys! Thank you for all of them! I have a 60 gallon, and just started my first cherry shrimp tank - so excited! I've read a lot on it, but this helps keep it simple and follows how I set up my 60.
Hi! I have been following you since I started keeping fish a few years ago. Thanks for all the helpful information. Here, today, I have a question about keeping Cherry shrimp. I bought ten, online, and drip acclimated them. That was about a week ago. I have seen only three at best. I know they hide but am wondering if my nitrate is affecting them? My tap water is 40 and I can't seem to get it down from about 70 even with plants although I have run out of API tests and the NT labs mini kit doesn't have that test so am unsure of nitrate levels at present. My fish seem ok and my Amano are doing OK. I am also concerned about my filter. I have an internal AquaEL which will suck up babies should the cherries ever breed. My tank is 105 litre long. Any advice you can give me will be most appreciated. Also, in this video you say that the shrimp eat fish poop. I always believed shrimp and snails will not! You read so much conflicting information on the web! Thanks for taking the time to read this lengthy questionnaire LOL! Lynne x
Cory I love your channel soooo much, I'm setting up my first shrimp tank, thanks for the informational videos
Good advice, have been thinking about keeping some of those shrimp. Have a sponge filter in the back and I know there is a good amount of algae on that. Did not know they prefer to have lots of algae and moss too.
How many gallons is your tank?
Always learn so much from your videos!!! Thank you!
Nice one Cory. My biggest regret with my red cherry shrimp is that I put them in too many different tanks initially. Now that I'd like to try to keep some other neocaridina species I'm struggling to find a tank that doesn't already have cherry shrimp in there and dont want them to inter-breed!
Hi Cory, it'll be the platies cleaning the algae off the glass....the shrimp do love to eat it, but in my experience (about 10yrs I've been breeding these guys), they never graze it all the way back. You can check it out on the Ep I did on Cherry Shrimp breeding, I do a few things I haven't seen done before that work exceptionally for me, and there is even some legit prawnography as I caught a couple in the act :) Anyways, keep up the good work mate.
I had Ramshorn snails in a planted pond in Thailand- and they bred like crazy but if I reduced the feeding they ate all the plants!! They were savages!!
Love this video❤️thanks Cory you are a fantastic teacher!
Hey Corey:) I have been a long time subscriber and it’s awesome to see you &your channel explode. I know this video was a while ago and you don’t have this tank but I am wondering what you used to run PH and TDS wise in your shrimp tanks. Thank you for the years of info and entertainment, lol I’d love to buy you a taco some time, keep on keepin on👍
this was realy cool and taught me a lot more then just how to breed shrimp.Keep up the good work .👍
Your amazing. I love listening to your golden valuable advice. Thank you so much
i like how there are a bunch of snails. Gives me more confidence in my own tank.
Thank you Corey been waiting for this video!!
Hi Corey,
Greetings from Australia!
Just wondering, is it still as effective to have sponge filters without the lift tubes, as I noticed some of the sponge filters in your tanks didn't have lift tubes in them. Just wanted to know if I should bother with lift tubes with my sponge filter setups
Thank you and keep up the great content brother!
Awesome video co-op I’m starting up a channel at the moment that will have all sorts of aquarium content on it at the moment I’m documenting my experience with breeding crystal red shrimp, So far it has been awesome and a lot of fun. I have a lot more content coming keep up the good vids !!!
Great set up! Picked up some good tips, thanks man =)
Corey appreciate all your videos! They have been more then helpful. I'm out in Cleveland but I hope in the near future I can come out and see your store. Thanks again for the pro tips and can't wait to see what's coming up next.
Absolutely loving this channel, immediately subbed and turned on notifications. Thanks so much for sharing all this awesome information!
I'm glad you appreciate my content. Thanks for subscribing!
Continues to give me ideas....thanks man!
Corey, you are my go to for everything fish related. Definitely the GOAT, but I don't believe that shrimp eat poop. Shrimp and snails are definitely scavengers but I don't believe from my research anything actually eats fish poop.
Daily Dose! Daily Dose! Daily Dose! It was my crack before Christmas. I need it!
Excellent description how to seed an Aquarium. That's the easiest and fastest method how to stock a tank after 2-3 days (slowly, of course - but really fast).
Can you explain what you said "contaminated" the moss?
I'm always struggling to grow moss (java, christmas, riccia...) in various of my aquariums and the only one where it slightly grows is my highly filtered stream tank. Or maybe make a guide about moss? Species, how to grow it.... if any fish eat it (I suspect that happens in my big tank).
Thanks for all your videos! Super helpful content, wish I had a fish shop near me with someone as passionate as you. Most fish sellers I deal with seem to just know the bare minimum for the job or check an iPad to answer my questions.
I recently picked up 6 cherry shrimp to put in my 5 gallon betta tank. I didn’t realise in advance that the more red coloured ones are usually females. Within two weeks my tank was full of babies! Thankfully it’s pretty well planted and had about 5 survivors and now I’m seeing another new batch of babies! Do they ever stop?!
They don’t seem very good at cleaning up leftover fish food. Wondered if you had any suggestions for a good bottom feeder to pickup food debris that can go with the betta. I was considering a few panda corys as they’re small.
You can check out the tank im talking about in my latest “Diy resin aquarium ornament” video if you get time. Thanks again for all the top content!! ✌🏻
Always enjoy your vids!
By far my favorite video so far Cory! I have a ten gallon with about 10 cherries, with two or three berried females. So happy😄 I also love those platies. Could you possibly tell me what they are called and where you got them?
+Neon Tetra Aquarist fireball players and Igor them on aquabid
I started a five gallon tank on my desk two months ago. Started with six neon tetras, live plants, and two cherry shrimp.
Now I have six neon tetras, 100 snails, and probably 20 baby cherry shrimp.
Ahaha. The joy of snails. Have you tried Seachem Flourish? It dealt with my pest snails and didn't harm my mystery snail or RCS.
Nice video as always Cory!
Nice Thank you i am looking to populate my few tanks with shrimp, fish and lots of plants. I am just getting started. Hopefully i can find enough moss to fill half a tank (10 gallons) to get started. Then get shrimp to reproduce. I have two 29g, a 20g and 10g. I am hoping to get each going with reproduction to eventually mix with each tank. Buying substrate has been costly, and putting off getting into co2. Anyways thanks for the great helpful videos.
Love!! Question....what larger fish do well with cherry shrimp, nerite, guppy/endler and plecos?
What an awesome video. So informative and not full of bullshit. 👍🏻
Thanks Corey! Do you use a heater?
This is day one of reading about pet shrimp
Well? Its been 11 months. You start yet?
I have tried a few times but they don't live. I would love to have a tank with only snails and shrimp, but the shrimp won't cooperate.
Zom Bee Nature which shrimp did you start with and did you make enough research? I think the easiest for start is Cherry. I have mine for over a month and they are doing very well. Just shrimp and snail tank.
@@BRUH-xz1zp I have tried Cherry Shrimp, Neocaridina, red ones, blue ones, orange ones, and yellow with a white stripe down the back. The ones that don't die immediately might last a couple weeks and then disappear. The water here is very hard, 350 to 450 officially by the water company, too hard for a color kit to work since the level is above the highest level of the kit. Even pet shops have told me not to bother testing hardness, it's very hard. And to not ever try the other kind of shrimp, Caridina or the other kind, they refuse to even special order them for anybody because they are impossible to keep.
@@ZomBeeNature try seachem water regulator
can you do a video on culturing blackworms?
Thank you for these videos, they are always insightful 😊 awesome!
what do you recommend for temperature, and do you worry about pH? How about adding catawpa leaves and alder cones? Love your sponge filters by the way, converting my whole fish room to them with the ziss airstones gradually.
i am working on a shrimp aquarium atm, i was wondering how do you keep up with the shrimp that unfortunately dont make it in an aquarium that has a lot of moss?and other then water changes do you need to vacuum the tank? also Thanks really enjoyed the video a lot, very helpful.
Nice Cory, always focusing on the Eco System first. It is good to know, that there is an alternative way. I would like to try sometime a Show Tank at the same time a Guppy and Shrimp breeding tank. I think there is a way to make it work. Thanks.
Great video, can I mix guppy, cory and shrimps?
Great video, can you make a walstad dry start video, with pool filter sand or black diamond blasting salt? Not sure if you want to avoid showing cheap alternatives, but there are a ton of videos out there. Think yours would be better than what is out there currently though
I show cheap alternatives all the time. I don't make that video because I believe it is leading people in the wrong direction. Walstad tanks are great for people who understand plants. Most people blindly follow that tank style and have very poor results. Most plants are water column feeders, So you get people who load their tank with stem plants and then get poor leggy growth after "doing everything I was told". In general I'm not convinced that something like easy green or another good quality fertilizer is more expensive than buying dirt, sand, etc. Any gravel plus a good quality fertilizer and plants are much easier for most people, with exception of heavy root feeders.
Do you vacuum the gravel in your breeder tanks? I don't know how you would go about vacuuming the gravel with that many fry and shrimplets!
Great video 👍
Real good info , and love those eco systems
0:17 what’s the song called?
Very informative, thanks
So as long as you have:
68-78F
Plants (preferably moss)
decent surface area
and thats it? Confirm this, it seems too easy!
Will endler livebearers eat fry? If I try to breed them too?
I love this video! And I have a 3 gallon with cherry shrimp. And it did have amono shrimp at the start. But then I found out amono shrimp need much more room, so I moved the amonos to my 29 gallon, and in my 3 gallon, I have I think 5 cherry shrimp left. And I want more, and I don’t know if I should wait for them to breed, or just buy more. What would you do?
I have a very well established 30 gallon tank with a small bristle nose and about 13 adult shrimp I'm trying to breed. It's a no water change tank just top ups once a week. Full of live plants so much vegetation you can't see the back of the tank. But I'm having no luck breeding these shrimp. I'm Startin to think I have all of 1 sex or something. I do check water parameters every few days and nothing really changes. Gonna try adding another 10 this weekend see what happens. Would you recommend also buying some small fish? I do feed the tank (for the pleco mostly) there was a ton of algae in the tank a month ago but since I added floating plants the amount of algae went from 100 to 0 pretty much. Should I maybe add more light to grow some algae back?
What kind of light you use?? Also, how do you grow algae?? I never had that “problem” in my tanks.
i just got some cherry shrimp and my betta grabbed one and threw her across the tank and i realized it’s a pregnant shrimp so i put her in another container and i’m crying now 😭
I test my bettas on my ghost shrimp, which are big and aggro and tend to teach my bettas not to mess around. That said I am still dubious about keeping my cherries with even guppy fry, I have none to spare lol
I wish I could like this video twice.
Are you using sheets of sponge as a divider in those tanks on tops?
Hi Cory, I would like your opinion on how to deal with vorticella on my planted tank. I have been cutting off the part of the plants with vorticella clusters but the critters grow back faster than I can remove them. I don’t see any vorticella on my shrimps yet but the vorticella growth rate is concerning. The plants are 2 month old, I have had red cherry shrimps and neon tetras in for a month. It’s a 12 gal long tank with sponge filter, water is clear but a bit dull. I suspect I have too much bacteria in there feeding the vorticella? My air pump is old, so maybe not enough aeration. I stopped feeding the fish the last 2 days.
Thank you so much for posting this!