Three weeks ago, one of my amano shrimp berried. Panicking, I search through the internet to learn as much as I can about them. That's when I found your video. I've learn so much in such a short period of time, allowing me to hunt down what I need and set up the spawn tank and salt water tank. My first spawn is now 4 days old, and 2 more batch of eggs incoming. Hopefully it goes well and they grow up healthy. Thank you.
Where are you???? 7 months since last video. Please keep going! I'm an environmental science teacher and enjoy your enthusiasm and excellent teaching method. You do a great job! My Bachelors degree is in biology with emphasis in zoology and I'm learning how to breed aquatic organisms. Please post some more.
We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. You make this look so easy and so far, because of your videos, it’s been pretty easy for me to. So thank you so much for this contribution!
I got 4 amano shrimp two years ago an they're all still doing great. Two males and two females, who I see berried all the time. I've even caught them dropping their eggs twice. I didn't realize they hatch right away, I thought they needed salt to hatch at all. Very informative, and it looks like the salt reader is the only piece of actual equipment I'd be missing if I wanted to try breeding.
These videos have really helped me out! I have my fourth batch and finally got them to fresh water! Three failed batches, but slightly changed the set up each time according to recommendations you talked about. I’m still slowly moving new morphed shrimplets, but the first to be moved are nearly a week old and thriving. Very excited! My conclusion: you aren’t doing the hobby right if visitors aren’t questioning you about possibly having some kind of illegal lab set up. I have bubbling green, glowing bottles (plankton), oddly placed lights, many small storage cups, pipets, bubbling bottles with odd specs (rotifers) and all the tubing running across the room 😂 it has been quite the journey.
Orson Welles Clap 👏. Bravo. You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. This is one of the better videos I’ve ever seen on Amano’s. I agree and truly believe green water is the key to successful high quality aquaculture. 👍🏻
I have been trying for a year, without your knowledge. i now have nano algae and rotifers. and eggs about to hatch. You are very generous with your experience. Your photography is impressive.
grat video I've managed to get few to morph back in 2018 and trying to repeat the process now with 5 batches ps. good advise on transferring females after 4 weeks to separate containers, morphed shrimp colour and rotifers 👍
Absolutely wonderful 🥰 I have watched all episodes about Amano shrimp breeding, but this one is like most compact and it's containing some info new info about schrimps... Few schrimps survived the last hatch... After more then 30 days they didn't transformed yet... But now I think I know why. Thanks man, I will try it all over again until I will succeed.
My amano shrimp named Ebi has unexpectedly berried and is currently 20days plump. My shrimp raising journey is close to embarking for the first time ever and with your video to guide me through it. Many Thanks
I watched your long version presentation and started to breed the amano shrimp. It is very helpful! But I lost my first batch because of bacteria attack around day 10. Now I’m trying my second time with a new batch, I am now using a salt water tank with better filter system with cloth on the inflow to prevent them being sucked to the filter. Hope this time will be better!
Beautiful work!! I love how easy you make it look. I love how you can force the berried mamas to drop their young by mimicking a rushing river. Yeah, I think I'll make room for a setup. Not sure how how I'll get live phytoplankton. That looks like the hardest part.
This is my first video of yours to look at. Excellent. Subscribed as a result of the wonderful content. Now I am going to look at everything else you have posted.
Nice video. I can imagine the hard work you put in to show this magnificent results. I have experience breeding betta, guppy, cherry shrimp and I've tried to breed amano shrimp a few times in 2014 but failed miserably every time. The amano babies always survive for 3-5 days after I transfer them into salt water and then suddenly they just all died off. I was suspecting the water quality and food source were the main culprit for the sudden crash. Soon after that I get too busy with life and gave up fishkeeping completely until I started a planted tank again this year. RUclips algorithm brought me to your channel while I was researching about pet shrimps and your video really make me want to challenge breeding amano shrimp again. May be I will also use your method for some other brackish water species such as nerite snail and bamboo shrimp when I get the chance.
Shrimp dying around 3 days usually indicate a food issue, as they start to feed around then. Hope the next time you try you will have success! Thanks for your support
This is great! Trying it myself. Have everything setup, it's been 18 days since they Amano has been berried. Have her in a spawning tank for over a day now. She kicked off a few eggs but none have hatched and she's still holding onto most of the eggs. Going to keep her in the spawning tank for another few days and see if she properly spawns. If she gets the eggs of but they haven't hatched, any ideas? Edit: finally have some zoeae. About 20 so far.
I have larva but even after 44 days they have yet to turn into the final stage. Have been feeding all the things you say not to do plus algae scraped from other tanks. Not sure if I should continue with this breeding experiment or not. I had to guess at the salinity and don't have easy access to the live foods you mentioned. Will give them a bit more time to grow and may in the future try it again. Thank you for the details on your success!
30g of salt in 1 liter freshwater will get you to the concentration you need, and if you get rotifers from Carolina biological they send you tetraselmis to feed in a separate tube (even a single rotifer will completely comsume a colony of phyto). You can start from there and see how this changes things
@@erick6102call all ur local fish stores to see if they sell live phyto, if they dont, then buy a container from online.... You gotta get the phyto to get a good start for this project. That sets the tone. The babies need a good chance and it starts with the safe nutrition. Between that and the salinity you will have confidence and the fish will be doing well.
Incredible and sad at the same time. Incredible that you have been successful and sad as many Amano keeps will not be able to breed these great shrimp.
Hey, I'm still a noob in aquarium stuff. I have 2 amano, and just today I saw a juvenile crawl along some plants. I was surprised, since I never really tried to have them breed specifically, but it was a pleasant surprise. Never put them in any salt water too. It just appeared. I don't know if the fish will eat it. I don't know if they ate it's sibling. I don't know if it haven't been eaten already. I just was surprised, so I wanted to check out how it has even happened. All I want to say, the circle of nature persisted, even if not in the ideal conditions.
This has been an amazing video for me to follow along and make an attempt at breeding Amano, so thank you! I'm following your directions as closely as possible, but around day 17 it just seems that they all start to die. Where at days 10-15 I see over 100 easily, at around 17 the numbers drastically shrink and by day 20 there seems to be none left. Any ideas why the numbers might fall off so quickly around 15 days in? I am using only a 2 gallon glass container. Water quality maybe? Thank you again for a great video!
@@mindbodyandsoulhealingdang, this scares me. Ill make sure i get these rotifers. I have a 5 gallon tank, lots of bubbles tumbling, and a lot of phytoplankton keeping the tank light green. I wouldnt wanna do all this effort and them die after 15 days.
hello what do you use to make seawater? RO or conditioned tap water? im assuming some caco3 and mgco3 (more present in tap) would be needed for molting.
I have 2 large white (snow) amano shrimps in my tank and I just noticed one of them is fanning eggs. I got lucky and got a pair, unbeknownst to me. I'm panicking as I know the babies need brackish water but I don't have any experience. Your video was very informative!
hi quick question, do you leave morphed baby ships in main breeding tank for few days after final morph or you put them in separate jar but with same water? Thanks
They are left in the saltwater for a few days after morphing just so I don’t have to catch them constantly. That way I can just catch as many as I can every few days
My Zoes still dying after 2 weeks. That´s the second time getting them to live 2 weeks. Before was even less. Wondering if they dont like my tetraselmis sueccica that I feed them every other day with my own grown plankton from the refrigerator. Or do the bacteria take over and kill them? 1st 50% water change after 7 days and another after 14. Keeping the container in a darker part of the room and have not given any extra light for plankton. My zoes were still white/gray after 2 weeks. That meaning they can/do not eat enough of the plankton provided. Will they not eat plankton in the dark? :)
Hi, first of all nice video's! I was wondering if you ever tested the difference in growth rate and survival rate when using only Nannochloropsis or using only tetraselmis?
Do you know how long Amano can last in the saltwater after their last morph? I am asking because I have them from two females in one tank, the first batch is going to morph in a few days and it would be easiest for me to wait for them all to grow and keep changing the water to non-salty on the entire tank. Yet that would mean they would need to be able to keep in salt water for +- 3 weeks. Not sure if that's going to happen.
Do you put a water heater in the tank with larvae? I feel like mine were so slow to develop and around day 10-15 all died off... sad... I was hoping for at least one... Today I am spanning my baby mamas again, now I wrote down all the instructions day by day... waiting for my water refractor to arrive... I went and got some Pacific Ocean water, would like to check that first before I do anything with it. Also, do you have a 2-5 gallon tank for your larvae? For each batch? Thank you so much for sharing! If you don't mind to respond I would appreciate any information. Thank you!
I am 3 days in. 5 gallon tank. 29-35 salinity. Light green water. Live phytoplankton. Q1 fluval air pump. M100 fluval heater. Tank at 74f, air on full blast. So far so good. Biggest problem is fluctuation in salinity.
I tried to breed them 3 times before, but without success. The NO3 and salinity go up, and when I do water changes for them, most of them die and I do not have a good way to do water change with the fries. The longest I have had the baby shrimps alive was about 1 week. Thank you for the video, I may try again with your method. I will prepare some green water. Before, I only ground pellet foods to feed, it is not a good food source and polluted the water
Is there any way to tell when the eggs are mature enough besides counting days? I have to 2 females about 10 days apart and I can't tell a difference between them.
I saw 4 berried amanos in my tank. As expected, I started googling and the results were "impossible to breed" until I found your channel. Your videos are very detailed, clear and provide a lot of extra information which I find very interesting. Many thanks! Just curious, "Bamboo shrimp" are also considered "impossible to breed". Do you have any plans on giving them a try?
@@AvatarAquatics Looking forward to it! I have 3, for almost 2 years now. They are all females as far as I am concerned. Will get some males -- hopefully-- soon. For some reason, males are hard to come by here in The UK.
@@AvatarAquatics They require water similar to what you provided in the video. If you ever make a video on successfully breeding them you'll be the first in the world to do so.
@@bluebowser3347i love how bamboo look. If i buy a bunch and they berry then ill just copy what he did with the amano. I figure it cant be much different. Regardless its worth a try if they do the saltwater thing.
Nice video! I am currently using tetraselmis as food for the amano zoes, but the phytoplankton just falls to the walls and bottom after one day. Any tips to keep them suspended? I have a sponge filter in the corner of the container (3 gallon container), bubbling at 'rolling boil' rate
Increase light, and get rid of things on the bottom that may catch the current and trap phyto. Some will be on the bottom that is fine, just need to make sure it is clean and not decaying
@@AvatarAquatics Thanks for the advice! Btw i saw that you have both tetraselmis and nannochloropsis under the microscope, is tetraselmis always less dense than nannochloropsis? I never seem to be able to get that dark green coloration in my tetraselmis that I see for your nannochloropsis in your past videos
@@farty1940 no, they should both be very dark for mature cultures. tetra can’t compete as well as nanno and grow slower so I try to culture them separately, but almost always accidentally cross contaminate. You should increase your light strength or add more fertilizer than normal. Then wait a few extra days than usual to see the mature culture
@@AvatarAquatics Ah ok let me try that! I have also turned up the air pump for the sponge filter, is there any bubbling rate that may be too much for the zoes? I'm worried if they may get bombarded to death by the bubbles XD
Hi @@AvatarAquatics , do you have any tips to spotting/catching the morphed amano shrimps ready to be transitioned to freshwater? I have trouble seeing through the water and I do not have rotifers to help clear up the phytoplankton to increase visibility
Question, im in seattle for the weekend and i could bring ocean water home, but my amano just got eggs so she wont be ready to force eject them for 19 more days. Do u think the ocean saltwater will be good enough for the hatchlings even after its sitting around for 18 days at my house in a 2 liter??
I wish I could do this as amano shrimp are so expensive where I live at £10 each and only live about 18 months from adult purchase. But I know my husband would never allow me to set all this up to breed my own :(.
You can wait around 3 days to switch to saltwater. Make sure to have a little 24h lightsource near your tank so larvea wont lose orientation and lay on ground.
I am trying exactly like you say, 3 days ago, i replaced half of the water of my 20l breeding tank with freshly mineralised osmosis water but the shrimp mamas just keep hiding under the coconut with their eggs with them. Seems like i have to wait for them to release the eggs by themselves. Any suggestions?
Hey i just put my amano in the 2 liter w bubbles. I got saltwater ready. So when she sheds the eggs do they hatch instantly or do i wait for them to hatch before putting em in saltwater? Also, i ended up buying saltwater from a fish store but the water isnt cycled. Will that be okay?
Haha funny video, yeah I have dwarf rasboras and they saw a freshly born neocaridina shrimp for the first time, like when it s barely as big as a tiny grain of sand, and you know what it did guys? It went "I wonder what this tastes like". If it can fit in the mouth, depending on how fish were raised obviously since most develop habits, they will eat most things that they can if hungry. I am 100% certain even my otocinclus must have muched a few in their lifetime 🤣 Otocinclus see a snail I freshly crushed and it's like I rang the dinner bell, they are there sucking all the juicy stuff. Dont mix any fish if you want max survival rates for shrimp.
@@AvatarAquatics at the moment I am growing my 4th batch of Amano zoes and this time they have succeeded to live 2 weeks. Started with around 30 zoes and now counting just 4. Yesterday did a larger water change, added tetraselmis and food for plankton. After that population seems to have crashed. Day before that there was 12 zoes. That brings me to my question - how much food do you give to plankton when giving only 1-2h of light a day? May too much f2 affect amanos? I use a f2 solution ordered from amazon and been succesfully growing plankton with that.
@@Eestieluseneses there is a high attrition rate regardlsss of if you “did everything right”. But in my opinion, you should bump up the light to 12-16 hours a day or LED plant light(not sun). I don’t add ferts directly into the tank, but I do use it for my phyto. Happy Thanksgiving!
@@AvatarAquatics I mean how does the phyto grow in the tank then? That does not add up to me but I am also not an expert :) Wiil try that. Happy Thanksgiving!
@@Eestieluseneses oh, I usually have a separate bottle to grow phyto in where I add a lot of fertilizer. Then when I am ready to set up my zoe tank, I pour in a bottle of that, usually a mature culture that is rich green and still have some ferts inside. Once they are in the tank, they will consume the nutrients the zoeas generate, but I ~generally- don’t add more ferts. I have before and it has worked, and I used miraclegro water soluble fertilizer instead of f/2 and I find that it works just as well
Not much different than culturing brine shrimp but it is too much of a hassle, have you tried simply keeping the adult shrimps in brackish water with some algae and see if any baby shrimp manage to survive? I'm sure it won't be anywhere near as productive as this intensive method but a few shrimplets once in a while would be pretty good for much less effort.
Im attempting this process starting tonight. My amano had eggs for 30 days. I put her in a clear salad mixing bowl tonight and have bubbler going full blast. She has been hugging the bubbler rock all evening. I bought 2 gallons of saltwater from l.f.s. and a 5gal tank. Tomorrow i will buy live phytoplankton from l.f.s. and 3 more gallons saltwater and get them to squeeze a filter sponge into a bag for me. Fingers crossed. I will edit this post to maintain the updates. At this point my chief concern is if she wont release the eggs. Second concern is the water temp of the bowl being too low (70 is room temp here).
@@AvatarAquaticsi woke up and the eggs were out of her in the bowl. I woke up at 10am. I put the eggs in the salt water 5gal. The eggs look clear, not green--does that mean i waited too long? I went to the fish store and got live phytoplankton. 5.5oz i added half to the tank, and put a light on it. Im gonna try to grow the other half in a bowl w air pumping. I do see some sperm looking organizms in the salt water, they arent wiggling. Is that okay? My biggest worry at this point is that i waited too long to move the eggs. What do you think? Also, my lfs said they dont have that organizm u said to feed them after the phytoplankton. None of the lfs's around me have it. What should i substitute with if these make it that far? Also, i see clear eggs clumped together in the tank. Does that mean those are eggs that didnt make it? Or cpuld they still hatch?
@@kmlumd44 rotifers can be ordered through Carolina biological - brachionus rotifers come with a tube of tetraselmis (aka platymonas). The sperm looking organisms, if you found them in the releasing tank with the female Amano shrimp and eggs, is the live babies. The eggs should look clear or gray not green. The rest should hatch out sporadically if you keep them in methylene blue and vigorously bubble them like an egg tumbler
@@AvatarAquatics I put a very strong water pump on a bar that extents the length of the 5 gallon and it's running on max power. I wouldnt know where to get methyl blue on short notice. Do u think im good? The sperm/fry don't move but i see them in the current. The remaining eggs are white or grey and theyre together in clumps. The water is light green from phyto and i have a seperate culture running with light and bubbles to grow more phyto. Ill order rotifer from where u said and introduce it how u said. At this point im just nervous about whether the fry will live since i dont see any movement. Is that normal though? When should i see movement for certain in your opinion?
@@AvatarAquaticsjust an update--theyre moving. Ill follow it with the flashlight and it floats dormant then suddenly u see them flip around. So the first stage should be good. Next i gotta water change. Ill follow up then.
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In my humble opinion, I would say that if you've ever achieved breeding Amano shrimps, then you've really made it in the hobby.
Three weeks ago, one of my amano shrimp berried. Panicking, I search through the internet to learn as much as I can about them. That's when I found your video. I've learn so much in such a short period of time, allowing me to hunt down what I need and set up the spawn tank and salt water tank. My first spawn is now 4 days old, and 2 more batch of eggs incoming. Hopefully it goes well and they grow up healthy. Thank you.
Hope it all went well.
How did it go?
Good luck 👍 hope all goes well ❤ it
How was it
2 years later.... How'd it go?
You have single handedly destroyed algae problems in aquariums across planet Earth. An amazing contribution.
Where are you???? 7 months since last video. Please keep going! I'm an environmental science teacher and enjoy your enthusiasm and excellent teaching method. You do a great job! My Bachelors degree is in biology with emphasis in zoology and I'm learning how to breed aquatic organisms. Please post some more.
He says you can DM him in the description.
I appreciate all teachers, y’all are heros!
We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. You make this look so easy and so far, because of your videos, it’s been pretty easy for me to. So thank you so much for this contribution!
Wow this is a HUGE contribution to the hobby, keep doing what you do. 🙂
I got 4 amano shrimp two years ago an they're all still doing great. Two males and two females, who I see berried all the time. I've even caught them dropping their eggs twice. I didn't realize they hatch right away, I thought they needed salt to hatch at all. Very informative, and it looks like the salt reader is the only piece of actual equipment I'd be missing if I wanted to try breeding.
The most completely video I ever seen ‘bout Amano Shrimp breeding and developing. Top video
Having a video on this subject that I can understand easily makes me so happy, because I’ve been wanting to breed Amanos myself. Wish me luck!
These videos have really helped me out! I have my fourth batch and finally got them to fresh water! Three failed batches, but slightly changed the set up each time according to recommendations you talked about. I’m still slowly moving new morphed shrimplets, but the first to be moved are nearly a week old and thriving. Very excited! My conclusion: you aren’t doing the hobby right if visitors aren’t questioning you about possibly having some kind of illegal lab set up. I have bubbling green, glowing bottles (plankton), oddly placed lights, many small storage cups, pipets, bubbling bottles with odd specs (rotifers) and all the tubing running across the room 😂 it has been quite the journey.
Orson Welles Clap 👏. Bravo. You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. This is one of the better videos I’ve ever seen on Amano’s. I agree and truly believe green water is the key to successful high quality aquaculture. 👍🏻
Thank you. Just moved six to my freshwater with a few more to go.
I have been trying for a year, without your knowledge. i now have nano algae and rotifers. and eggs about to hatch. You are very generous with your experience. Your photography is impressive.
good luck!!
grat video
I've managed to get few to morph back in 2018 and trying to repeat the process now with 5 batches
ps. good advise on transferring females after 4 weeks to separate containers, morphed shrimp colour and rotifers 👍
Absolutely wonderful 🥰 I have watched all episodes about Amano shrimp breeding, but this one is like most compact and it's containing some info new info about schrimps... Few schrimps survived the last hatch... After more then 30 days they didn't transformed yet... But now I think I know why. Thanks man, I will try it all over again until I will succeed.
My amano shrimp named Ebi has unexpectedly berried and is currently 20days plump. My shrimp raising journey is close to embarking for the first time ever and with your video to guide me through it.
Many Thanks
How did it go?
What happened?
A very detailed explanation and helpful fo kickstart the breeding of amano shrimp which hv been considered impossible..bravo.......🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Just love your video's, so much research went into this video's, thank you very much for all the information.
I watched your long version presentation and started to breed the amano shrimp. It is very helpful! But I lost my first batch because of bacteria attack around day 10. Now I’m trying my second time with a new batch, I am now using a salt water tank with better filter system with cloth on the inflow to prevent them being sucked to the filter. Hope this time will be better!
Beautiful work!! I love how easy you make it look. I love how you can force the berried mamas to drop their young by mimicking a rushing river. Yeah, I think I'll make room for a setup. Not sure how how I'll get live phytoplankton. That looks like the hardest part.
Very nice video. You present this complicated DIY project in a clear and concise manner and the microscope video of the baby amanos is awesome
May I ask how much rotifers are you adding and the frequency? Thank you so much for sharing, your videos are so helpful
This is my first video of yours to look at. Excellent. Subscribed as a result of the wonderful content. Now I am going to look at everything else you have posted.
I found a super blue amano shrimp at my lfs. I'm trying to breed it to make more.
Nice video. I can imagine the hard work you put in to show this magnificent results. I have experience breeding betta, guppy, cherry shrimp and I've tried to breed amano shrimp a few times in 2014 but failed miserably every time. The amano babies always survive for 3-5 days after I transfer them into salt water and then suddenly they just all died off. I was suspecting the water quality and food source were the main culprit for the sudden crash. Soon after that I get too busy with life and gave up fishkeeping completely until I started a planted tank again this year. RUclips algorithm brought me to your channel while I was researching about pet shrimps and your video really make me want to challenge breeding amano shrimp again. May be I will also use your method for some other brackish water species such as nerite snail and bamboo shrimp when I get the chance.
Shrimp dying around 3 days usually indicate a food issue, as they start to feed around then. Hope the next time you try you will have success! Thanks for your support
This was so much work I don't know if I'm ready to breed these shrimp lol.
Awesome tutorial! It's so challenging, I might try to breed them one day just for fun
Bravo.Thanks a lot for sharing
Special thank you for making this video. I started breeding amano shrimp!
This is great! Trying it myself. Have everything setup, it's been 18 days since they Amano has been berried. Have her in a spawning tank for over a day now. She kicked off a few eggs but none have hatched and she's still holding onto most of the eggs. Going to keep her in the spawning tank for another few days and see if she properly spawns.
If she gets the eggs of but they haven't hatched, any ideas?
Edit: finally have some zoeae. About 20 so far.
Bonjour ,
Alors , du coup ça a foc tonné ?
Vous avez put les garder ?
Merci .
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Thank you so much for making this video and giving me the confidence to go through this process and create and nurture life safely!
Great job and a great video thanks for sharing 😊👍✌️
Wow this is amazing information, thank you! You have my sub 😊
Amazing effort!
amazing and informative video , thank you!
The best on RUclips.. Thanks so much!
Excellent advice Sir.
Do you have video on rotifer culturing? Thank you for sharing.
Keep up the great work. 👍👍👍👍
I can make it for the Amano playlist
@@AvatarAquatics
Thank you Sir
such a hard work , thank you so much for sharing ^^
I have larva but even after 44 days they have yet to turn into the final stage. Have been feeding all the things you say not to do plus algae scraped from other tanks. Not sure if I should continue with this breeding experiment or not. I had to guess at the salinity and don't have easy access to the live foods you mentioned. Will give them a bit more time to grow and may in the future try it again. Thank you for the details on your success!
30g of salt in 1 liter freshwater will get you to the concentration you need, and if you get rotifers from Carolina biological they send you tetraselmis to feed in a separate tube (even a single rotifer will completely comsume a colony of phyto). You can start from there and see how this changes things
@@AvatarAquaticsso if I collect seawater from the ocean, growing phytoplankton in there will eventually fail if there is rotifers in the ocean water?
@@erick6102call all ur local fish stores to see if they sell live phyto, if they dont, then buy a container from online....
You gotta get the phyto to get a good start for this project. That sets the tone. The babies need a good chance and it starts with the safe nutrition. Between that and the salinity you will have confidence and the fish will be doing well.
@@erick6102by definition what youre saying is 100% accurate.
Great video, about how many shrimp do you raise per batch?
anywhere from 10-60 in a 3 gallon, more if I use a larger container
Incredible and sad at the same time. Incredible that you have been successful and sad as many Amano keeps will not be able to breed these great shrimp.
Great job dude. Impressive
Hey, I'm still a noob in aquarium stuff. I have 2 amano, and just today I saw a juvenile crawl along some plants. I was surprised, since I never really tried to have them breed specifically, but it was a pleasant surprise. Never put them in any salt water too. It just appeared. I don't know if the fish will eat it. I don't know if they ate it's sibling. I don't know if it haven't been eaten already. I just was surprised, so I wanted to check out how it has even happened. All I want to say, the circle of nature persisted, even if not in the ideal conditions.
Next: Nerite snail breeding.
Great video. Saved
How many rotifers do you add at day 16? And what do you do if 2 amanos are ready to lay eggs but only 1 does it over night?
Truly vidio bro nice video this thing actually works 🥰🥰🥰🥰💀
yep, did you succeed too?
What equipment do you use to take the microscope vidoes?
This has been an amazing video for me to follow along and make an attempt at breeding Amano, so thank you! I'm following your directions as closely as possible, but around day 17 it just seems that they all start to die. Where at days 10-15 I see over 100 easily, at around 17 the numbers drastically shrink and by day 20 there seems to be none left. Any ideas why the numbers might fall off so quickly around 15 days in? I am using only a 2 gallon glass container. Water quality maybe? Thank you again for a great video!
Did you ever receive the answer? Mine do the same and just die off...
@@mindbodyandsoulhealingdang, this scares me. Ill make sure i get these rotifers. I have a 5 gallon tank, lots of bubbles tumbling, and a lot of phytoplankton keeping the tank light green.
I wouldnt wanna do all this effort and them die after 15 days.
It seems like water quality could be an issue, or with only 2 gallons the salinity could be fluctuating too much, or both.
Great video , I'll keep trying...
thanks for all the information!
hello what do you use to make seawater? RO or conditioned tap water? im assuming some caco3 and mgco3 (more present in tap) would be needed for molting.
I have 2 large white (snow) amano shrimps in my tank and I just noticed one of them is fanning eggs. I got lucky and got a pair, unbeknownst to me. I'm panicking as I know the babies need brackish water but I don't have any experience. Your video was very informative!
They need saltwater not brackish
Is there any documented amano larva survival in freshwater? I can swear there’s a shrimp in my tank smaller than any I’ve ever bought.
Excellent video mate
hi
quick question, do you leave morphed baby ships in main breeding tank for few days after final morph or you put them in separate jar but with same water?
Thanks
They are left in the saltwater for a few days after morphing just so I don’t have to catch them constantly. That way I can just catch as many as I can every few days
Hey,
did you acclimate the Brachionus to your salinity oder did you just throw them in and they survived?
My Zoes still dying after 2 weeks. That´s the second time getting them to live 2 weeks. Before was even less.
Wondering if they dont like my tetraselmis sueccica that I feed them every other day with my own grown plankton from the refrigerator.
Or do the bacteria take over and kill them? 1st 50% water change after 7 days and another after 14.
Keeping the container in a darker part of the room and have not given any extra light for plankton.
My zoes were still white/gray after 2 weeks. That meaning they can/do not eat enough of the plankton provided. Will they not eat plankton in the dark? :)
do i have to use RODI water to make the salt water or can i use tap water?
Hey which air pump is that pro-3 brand???
well done man
Is it necessary to feed rotifers to the larvae, or are they capable of thriving off of phytoplankton for their whole larval stage?
Hi, first of all nice video's! I was wondering if you ever tested the difference in growth rate and survival rate when using only Nannochloropsis or using only tetraselmis?
really just depends on which one is easier to culture for you, they both work well. nanno can be cultured in freshwater, but tetraselmis cannot.
Do you know how long Amano can last in the saltwater after their last morph? I am asking because I have them from two females in one tank, the first batch is going to morph in a few days and it would be easiest for me to wait for them all to grow and keep changing the water to non-salty on the entire tank. Yet that would mean they would need to be able to keep in salt water for +- 3 weeks. Not sure if that's going to happen.
Congratulations! I am on day 4...again.
Where did you buy your rotifers?
Carolina biological
Do you put a water heater in the tank with larvae? I feel like mine were so slow to develop and around day 10-15 all died off... sad... I was hoping for at least one... Today I am spanning my baby mamas again, now I wrote down all the instructions day by day... waiting for my water refractor to arrive... I went and got some Pacific Ocean water, would like to check that first before I do anything with it. Also, do you have a 2-5 gallon tank for your larvae? For each batch? Thank you so much for sharing! If you don't mind to respond I would appreciate any information. Thank you!
I am 3 days in. 5 gallon tank. 29-35 salinity. Light green water. Live phytoplankton. Q1 fluval air pump. M100 fluval heater. Tank at 74f, air on full blast. So far so good. Biggest problem is fluctuation in salinity.
Is an airstone too much flow for the babies?
Thank you so much!!:D
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support😊
I tried to breed them 3 times before, but without success. The NO3 and salinity go up, and when I do water changes for them, most of them die and I do not have a good way to do water change with the fries. The longest I have had the baby shrimps alive was about 1 week. Thank you for the video, I may try again with your method. I will prepare some green water. Before, I only ground pellet foods to feed, it is not a good food source and polluted the water
Is there any way to tell when the eggs are mature enough besides counting days? I have to 2 females about 10 days apart and I can't tell a difference between them.
Can i save mysekf thr cost and colect saltwater? I know the coast doeswmt have
I saw 4 berried amanos in my tank. As expected, I started googling and the results were "impossible to breed" until I found your channel. Your videos are very detailed, clear and provide a lot of extra information which I find very interesting. Many thanks! Just curious, "Bamboo shrimp" are also considered "impossible to breed". Do you have any plans on giving them a try?
if they ever berry for me hahaha, got a pair but no eggs yet
@@AvatarAquatics Looking forward to it! I have 3, for almost 2 years now. They are all females as far as I am concerned. Will get some males -- hopefully-- soon. For some reason, males are hard to come by here in The UK.
@@AvatarAquatics They require water similar to what you provided in the video. If you ever make a video on successfully breeding them you'll be the first in the world to do so.
@@bluebowser3347i love how bamboo look. If i buy a bunch and they berry then ill just copy what he did with the amano. I figure it cant be much different. Regardless its worth a try if they do the saltwater thing.
Nice video! I am currently using tetraselmis as food for the amano zoes, but the phytoplankton just falls to the walls and bottom after one day. Any tips to keep them suspended? I have a sponge filter in the corner of the container (3 gallon container), bubbling at 'rolling boil' rate
Increase light, and get rid of things on the bottom that may catch the current and trap phyto. Some will be on the bottom that is fine, just need to make sure it is clean and not decaying
@@AvatarAquatics Thanks for the advice! Btw i saw that you have both tetraselmis and nannochloropsis under the microscope, is tetraselmis always less dense than nannochloropsis? I never seem to be able to get that dark green coloration in my tetraselmis that I see for your nannochloropsis in your past videos
@@farty1940 no, they should both be very dark for mature cultures. tetra can’t compete as well as nanno and grow slower so I try to culture them separately, but almost always accidentally cross contaminate. You should increase your light strength or add more fertilizer than normal. Then wait a few extra days than usual to see the mature culture
@@AvatarAquatics Ah ok let me try that! I have also turned up the air pump for the sponge filter, is there any bubbling rate that may be too much for the zoes? I'm worried if they may get bombarded to death by the bubbles XD
Hi @@AvatarAquatics , do you have any tips to spotting/catching the morphed amano shrimps ready to be transitioned to freshwater? I have trouble seeing through the water and I do not have rotifers to help clear up the phytoplankton to increase visibility
Question, im in seattle for the weekend and i could bring ocean water home, but my amano just got eggs so she wont be ready to force eject them for 19 more days. Do u think the ocean saltwater will be good enough for the hatchlings even after its sitting around for 18 days at my house in a 2 liter??
Set up your tank now, throw on a light and sponge filter you’ll be okay
Is it crucial that the rotifers are live? Can you provide freeze dried rotifers as long as the excess are cleaned out in a water change?
One of my big takaways from his vid is that live food is cleaner. Dry food causes bacteria that kills the fry.
@@kmlumd44 agreed
Nice Mate
I wish I could do this as amano shrimp are so expensive where I live at £10 each and only live about 18 months from adult purchase. But I know my husband would never allow me to set all this up to breed my own :(.
How long can Armano live in Saltwater? Can they fully grow in Saltwater?
You can wait around 3 days to switch to saltwater.
Make sure to have a little 24h lightsource near your tank so larvea wont lose orientation and lay on ground.
If u got water tumbler bubbling going on they wont be able to.
I am trying exactly like you say, 3 days ago, i replaced half of the water of my 20l breeding tank with freshly mineralised osmosis water but the shrimp mamas just keep hiding under the coconut with their eggs with them. Seems like i have to wait for them to release the eggs by themselves. Any suggestions?
Need to get a baseline of how long it takes to release babies, usually 14-17 days after berried.
Hey i just put my amano in the 2 liter w bubbles. I got saltwater ready. So when she sheds the eggs do they hatch instantly or do i wait for them to hatch before putting em in saltwater? Also, i ended up buying saltwater from a fish store but the water isnt cycled. Will that be okay?
if you're early there will be a mix of hatched eggs and unhatched eggs when she sheds them from under her. uncycled is mostly what I use
When you return the famle back to her main tank, do you climatise her?
I threw her in, she was fine.
Does this work for Australian Amano shrimp?
It likely does. Someone did raise them in a salt environment. Took 2 months. Might have to search for the paper
Haha funny video, yeah I have dwarf rasboras and they saw a freshly born neocaridina shrimp for the first time, like when it s barely as big as a tiny grain of sand, and you know what it did guys? It went "I wonder what this tastes like". If it can fit in the mouth, depending on how fish were raised obviously since most develop habits, they will eat most things that they can if hungry. I am 100% certain even my otocinclus must have muched a few in their lifetime 🤣 Otocinclus see a snail I freshly crushed and it's like I rang the dinner bell, they are there sucking all the juicy stuff. Dont mix any fish if you want max survival rates for shrimp.
What is in that cup that’s in your blue dream tank?
aragonite for minerals
@@AvatarAquatics oh ok
Ain't done nothing but throw them in a jar of green water with an airline and my Amano shrimp have exploded in numbers...
Now do micro crabs!
start nerita snail breeding project
I need some help. I got 3.5% salt in my water, tried 2 times to Hatch. After I go to bed and sleep for ish 7 hours they are dead when I wake up.. Why?
Wrong salt? Wrong concentration.
How do these guys even survive and reproduce in the wild?
One day i'll bread Amanos, but for now i'll stick with my neos
But will they also grow and live when only feeding on tetraselmis? I mean not to feed them rotifers as they grow?
You will get less to survive
@@AvatarAquatics at the moment I am growing my 4th batch of Amano zoes and this time they have succeeded to live 2 weeks. Started with around 30 zoes and now counting just 4. Yesterday did a larger water change, added tetraselmis and food for plankton. After that population seems to have crashed. Day before that there was 12 zoes. That brings me to my question - how much food do you give to plankton when giving only 1-2h of light a day? May too much f2 affect amanos?
I use a f2 solution ordered from amazon and been succesfully growing plankton with that.
@@Eestieluseneses there is a high attrition rate regardlsss of if you “did everything right”. But in my opinion, you should bump up the light to 12-16 hours a day or LED plant light(not sun). I don’t add ferts directly into the tank, but I do use it for my phyto. Happy Thanksgiving!
@@AvatarAquatics I mean how does the phyto grow in the tank then? That does not add up to me but I am also not an expert :) Wiil try that. Happy Thanksgiving!
@@Eestieluseneses oh, I usually have a separate bottle to grow phyto in where I add a lot of fertilizer. Then when I am ready to set up my zoe tank, I pour in a bottle of that, usually a mature culture that is rich green and still have some ferts inside. Once they are in the tank, they will consume the nutrients the zoeas generate, but I ~generally- don’t add more ferts. I have before and it has worked, and I used miraclegro water soluble fertilizer instead of f/2 and I find that it works just as well
Mine laid the eggs but they aren’t fry
Not much different than culturing brine shrimp but it is too much of a hassle, have you tried simply keeping the adult shrimps in brackish water with some algae and see if any baby shrimp manage to survive? I'm sure it won't be anywhere near as productive as this intensive method but a few shrimplets once in a while would be pretty good for much less effort.
Im attempting this process starting tonight. My amano had eggs for 30 days. I put her in a clear salad mixing bowl tonight and have bubbler going full blast. She has been hugging the bubbler rock all evening. I bought 2 gallons of saltwater from l.f.s. and a 5gal tank. Tomorrow i will buy live phytoplankton from l.f.s. and 3 more gallons saltwater and get them to squeeze a filter sponge into a bag for me.
Fingers crossed. I will edit this post to maintain the updates. At this point my chief concern is if she wont release the eggs. Second concern is the water temp of the bowl being too low (70 is room temp here).
good, keep me updated. you can try and put her in a water bath to the correct temperature.
@@AvatarAquaticsi woke up and the eggs were out of her in the bowl. I woke up at 10am. I put the eggs in the salt water 5gal. The eggs look clear, not green--does that mean i waited too long?
I went to the fish store and got live phytoplankton. 5.5oz i added half to the tank, and put a light on it. Im gonna try to grow the other half in a bowl w air pumping.
I do see some sperm looking organizms in the salt water, they arent wiggling. Is that okay?
My biggest worry at this point is that i waited too long to move the eggs. What do you think?
Also, my lfs said they dont have that organizm u said to feed them after the phytoplankton. None of the lfs's around me have it. What should i substitute with if these make it that far?
Also, i see clear eggs clumped together in the tank. Does that mean those are eggs that didnt make it? Or cpuld they still hatch?
@@kmlumd44 rotifers can be ordered through Carolina biological - brachionus rotifers come with a tube of tetraselmis (aka platymonas). The sperm looking organisms, if you found them in the releasing tank with the female Amano shrimp and eggs, is the live babies.
The eggs should look clear or gray not green. The rest should hatch out sporadically if you keep them in methylene blue and vigorously bubble them like an egg tumbler
@@AvatarAquatics I put a very strong water pump on a bar that extents the length of the 5 gallon and it's running on max power. I wouldnt know where to get methyl blue on short notice. Do u think im good?
The sperm/fry don't move but i see them in the current. The remaining eggs are white or grey and theyre together in clumps. The water is light green from phyto and i have a seperate culture running with light and bubbles to grow more phyto.
Ill order rotifer from where u said and introduce it how u said.
At this point im just nervous about whether the fry will live since i dont see any movement. Is that normal though? When should i see movement for certain in your opinion?
@@AvatarAquaticsjust an update--theyre moving. Ill follow it with the flashlight and it floats dormant then suddenly u see them flip around. So the first stage should be good. Next i gotta water change. Ill follow up then.
Im still scared to try lol.
why make saltwater if u can get them from the sea?
I live far away, and It can be cleaner. But that is an alternative if you filter it
Apparently I mixed 30g aquarium salts into 1 litre of water and it killed all the amano fry after I transfer them right after they hatch.
aquarium salt is not the same as saltwater mix. I recommend getting Instant ocean brand I mentioned in the video.
I sent you a message on Instagram. about the amano shrimps. please reply to my message