Red Cherry Shrimp LOVE These 10 Foods! 🦐
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2025
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It's cool to see your perspective on bloodworms after the recent drama! Thanks for the video!
You are welcome. I try and bring experience without the drama 👍🏻
Brilliant video extremely interesting, I'm thinking of adding cherry shrimp to my aquarium this video has helped immensely. Thanks.
Hey, that’s great to hear. Thanks for taking the time to let me know 🫶🏻
Great information. Thanks.
You are very welcome 🫶🏻
New to shrimp keeping. Thank you for the advice.
Welcome to the hobby 🫶🏻🦐
Here in NorCal , I have tons of oak leaves. Will do.
I knew immediately who you were talking about with the bloodworms😂 he hurt his reputation real bad with that video
Agreed 😕
I'm the kind of person who not only loves variety but prefers variety over quantity. I'm also an adventurous yet excruciatingly picky eater. So coming up with various foods to play with and feed my shrimp and critters is super fun and exciting!! Excellent video, sir, and a much appreciated follow up after your recent content! 👍🙏❤️
10. I'm curious how often you refresh your botanicals. I add a chunk of botanicals every few months in all my tanks, plus whatever I'm playing around with for plants, scaping, etc. However I don't care for their appearance in my current setups so I tuck them along the back wall amongst the taller plants. Some inevitably get moved closer to the viewing angles anyhow. I'm also trying for frequent 20-30% water changes in my main tank with shrimp to combat the tannins (among other things).
9. I've noticed fruits and veggies don't do well in smaller tanks. They foul the water and it seems like critters don't quite finish the food, even if you don't remove leftovers - it sits there for scud and other microfauna to feast on. Veggies do okay in very small amounts in 20+ gallons (76+ liters) in my experience.
8. I use algae wafers every few days to make sure my pleco gets his needs taken care of since the abundant ramshorn snails already keep the walls bare of algae (6. cannot seem to get any good algae growing!!). But the shrimp seem to enjoy picking at it for a couple hours till it crumbles away, and it's fun to see the 2 species kind of interact.
7. Holy moly I don't think I've really heard of feeding pet shrimp cocktail shrimp! 🤣 I love it, plus I eat shrimp a lot.
5. I'm intimidated by gathering stinging nettles, those plants are no joke! Plenty of bad experiences with stinging plants in the Midwest USA. Don't think I can add that to my list 😣
4. Had to pause for crushed flake feed 🤔👍 Only had about a tablespoon left in the bottle I inherited with a pleco and a tetra, so I used the thick end of a chopstick to mash up the flakes. Let's see how my shrimp ladies do! 🤣😉
3. My current staple food is what my LFS uses, these moist brown pellets, some float while others immediately sink, landing on plants if they're in the way. Everyone but 1 fish absolutely love this food (think it intimidates the wee scaredy fish)! Seems to have the good load of animal and plant proteins that was described, and a fair amount of calcium too, though I wouldn't try it alone for shrimp. They take way longer than the average wafer to break apart unless they're being tossed around (some shrimp like to party), plus the pleco seems to enjoy sucking on the pellets. It's also very affordable 🫰
2. Ahh Repashy, ye olde nemesis! Looked up tips for making it, gonna try again but I think once I'm out I'll try agar agar (heard about it from a previous post of yours, sounds perfect). I'd like to add things like crushed foods and ground eggshells, and I like to use cute little molds, but neither seem to be Repashy friendly.
1. Oh my, RUclips shrimp keeping drama! Adore the way you pronounce “controversy”, had to watch at least 3 times to figure out how to imitate it. 😜😆🥴 So long as it isn't Rick @ Shrimply Explained, between his website and RUclips content, I'm thoroughly impressed with his scientific research and comprehension skills! I love feeding blood worms slowly, so I don't overfeed and can watch all critters enjoy eating them. Seems like many other things on your list - if the source is good, the final product is good. If what the blood worms are eating and their environment is good, then they should be fine to feed shrimp, right?
I thought people defrost frozen worms because it seems uncomfortable for our tiny tropical critters to swallow something nearly frozen, not because people are worried about the liquid they come in! 🤣 Seems like an utterly absurd reason whose logic was founded in myth or mishandling. 🤔 I'm now vaguely curious about this other shrimp keeper's experience.
Wow! I think this wins the award for the longest YT comment I have ever received. I have set aside a couple of hours next Tuesday to read through it 😂
On a serious note, thank you for continually supporting my channel; it means a great deal to me. Also, Rick @shrimplyexplained is an awesome source for info because he uses real science to answer questions, whereas I just use fish room science, which isn't very sciencey at all 🙁
I have never had an issue with bloodworms, my freezer is stocked with Hikari. I have a huge colony of cherry shrimp in a 2.5 gallon and I'm feeling nervous about moving them to my new but seasoned 5.5gal. Thanks for your videos they have helped me to enjoy my red cherry shrimp immensely. P.s. I got some repashy from one of your videos and the shrimp go crazy for it!
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time to share! I'm really glad you're finding value in my work. 😎
I really like this guy and his channel
Thanks 🫶🏻
I regularly give mine tubifex worms, they swarm that stuff! They also break tiny pieces off so my little exclamation rasboras can catch it in the flow.
I also feed tubifex worms, but they have such a bad reputation online (mainly from people who have never fed them), so I left them out. The trolls don't need me to give them ammunition 🤣
Frozen Brine Shrimp is my shrimp's favorit choice.
Great choice of food 👍🏻
Excited to add prawns and nettles to my shrimps diet. They get more variety than me 😂
You know you’re hooked on this hobby when your shrimp eat better than you do 😂
When are you going the post breeding shrimp for profit pt 3?
I am currently working on ‘Breeding Shrimp for Profit in 2025’ 💪🏻
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Would you conisder testing out Bacter AE? Its apparently a powdered food that boosts the production of biofilm in out tanks, and wont spoil the water quality because it is not directly a food but more nutrients for biofilm growth. This would work similarly to the crushed flake food strategy, but without the risk of harming the water quality.
I don’t have anything against it; I just haven’t found the need to use it yet. I might give it a try at some point, and if I do, I’ll definitely share my thoughts!
@FishKeepingAnswers Thanks!
how long should we leave blanched veggies in our tank?
Something soft like cucumber, probably not too long as it will break down quickly. Vegetables like cart that are a bit firmer can be left for longer. If you see the food is breaking down, take it out before it pollutes your water 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks!
What would you recommend feeding my Cherries in my community tank without having my fish eat the food first?
This can be tricky. I would go for a sinking food and consider feeding it after the lights go out 👍🏻
I tried putting alder cone in my shrimp jar but I took it out when I noticed it was making the water tea colored. I thought about boiling them first to remove the tannin, but will the shrimp still like them after that?
Most botanicals will release tannins into the water unfortunately. Boiling might help, but adding carbon to your filter will probably solve the problem 👍🏻
Great video as always! Have you ever tried instant Baby Brine Shrimp? I found the babies grow quite quickly on it when fed similar to crushed flake food.
I haven’t but I will look into it. Thank you as always for your support 🫶🏻
Great video, as always.
TDS meters. Have you tried them. They are cheap to buy on amazon. I personally dont get nitrates as i have fast growing plants so nothing to tell me a water change is needed. One of my tanks water. Which reads 539 ppm. My tap water is 225 ppm. I also have a Ro tap water that is 32 ppm. Obviously, just topping up with tap water has raised the hardness to a very high level. I guess topping up with Ro water would help. Think ill do a few small water changes over the next few weeks to get it back to tap water level.
Could be good to do a few experiments with tanks with high levels vs low levels or an idea for a new video for you.
Great video's m8, you got a sub
Looking to start with few shrimps soon ,
You said you sell in uk 🇬🇧, where what's the Web name ?
I'm in Bristol
Hi, welcome to the channel. It’s good to have you. Unfortunately, we no longer breed to sell. I have had good luck recently buying from tropco.co.uk. 👍🏻
How about black worms? People have that in flake foods my phantom plecos and discus love black worms
Shrimp won’t eat them live, but I suspect they would if the worms were dead
@@FishKeepingAnswers ...not live, blackworm flake food. company's process them dry them just the same trust me look into it
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Good quality video. Again, in my experience, they don't eat all that much. If you don't want to breed for profit, I'll advice to not feed shrimp at all. They are doing completely fine and breeding just on the biofilm and fish poop. That way, I have less uneaten food laying on the bottom for extended periods of time, so I don't need to use a filter
Thanks for sharing your thoughts; I really appreciate you taking the time! 👍🏻
I think one secret is to have at least a reasonable food web in your shrimp tank.
Shrimp alone might require some input but if you add in some snails then you start to create a food web that will cycle. Add some detritus worms or blackworms plus a few nano fish and suddenly you're looking at a much more complex food web which will cycle nutrients around and create a means to buffer any swings in nutrient parameters.
I'm planning on growing kang kong in the top of a shrimp aquarium at some stage. The idea is that kang kong is a fast growing aquatic/verge plant that is high in nutrients and it produces leafy greens that break down readily. The idea is that the kang kong will soak up the excess nutrients to begin with and then I will be able to use that as feed for the shrimp and other critters in the tank, who will create nutrients for the kang kong to continue growing.
The only foreseeable problems are that kang kong leaves break down quite rapidly so overfeeding could cause rapid swings in nitrates, that the kang kong will quickly become overgrown (not such a big issue but still), and that kang kong doesn't have nutrients that are good for iridophores as far as I'm aware (but this is a very scientific and high-end aquarist concern and it's outside of the scope of creating a small-scale complex food web in an aquarium which is mostly self-sustaining).
@jessl1934 hi. Interesting idea about the Kang Kong, but it seems to me that it might serve as a fifth leg for a chair, you know? Also, a food web is not required, just leave a planted tank for 2-4 weeks for the biofilm to grow at you're good to go. Btw I didn't know that blackworms can live in an aquarium. I collected resurrection jars from different water bodies in my area and only got copepods long term, no worms(( although detritus worms appeared in my tanks by themselves as hitchhikers
Was curious if you were going to mention the bloodwork controversy aha 🪱
Yeah, thought I would touch on it. I don’t agree with Nick on this one, but didn’t see the need for me to wade in. He’s a good lad. He’ll be ok 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers i appreciated keeping fish simples explanation, and losing a few clown plecs would be heartbreaking, so i understand his fear, and also my concern with bloodworm is who tests and regulates the frozen bloodworm? How is it transported? and where from? what is the water quality? does it stay 100 percent frozen from production to shop? All quite concerning, and if you've ever smelled your fingers after wafting a bloodworm cube into a tank, you'd know it honks.
I think the problem arose for Nick from powerfeeding to bulk up to breed, so i think if you feed sensibly with a mixed variety of food then you'll be ok. I do keep 6x pea puffers and they were only fed bloodworm at the shop, but now eat ramshorn and bladder snails as well as bloodworm, also, the gammarus (scud) colony originally in the tank was wiped out, then the misfit shrimp colony (wild, black and oddballs) was also wiped out by the puffers, but they leave the few endlers alone - they are voracious eaters and will learn to adapt their diet to what's available. Regular water changes are a must with pea puffers..... I regularly add my cull shrimp to the puffer tank, and they all vanish in a few days
of all the food i feed my shrimps, standard flakes and algae wafers seem to go down the best