NANO SHRIMP FOR PROFIT TANK: I Made Over $1,200 PROFIT In Just 2.5 Gallons This Year. Tips & Tricks!
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A video with my tank preparations and assumptions when starting this project, last year:
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Setting up the tank and water parameters/ cycling the tank without a filter and much more info.
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This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
I’m tempted to play again with my smaller tanks. But my small tanks are busy with my mini-mycology projects.
I have no secrets to share but a food I use is Bacter AE by Glas Garten which they state add important microorganisms, amino acids and enzymes. Which improves water quality and aid to create bio film.
My shrimp population exploded after using it. I don’t use it a lot because it does create a good amount of biofilm, 😂 which I learned early on.
Good advice :)
I had white wizard snails which look quite similar to the blueberries except they are white with a pinkish body. Also livebearing but they make 5-8 babies at a time.
I saw that you had chilli rasboras with your shrimp could you please share your water parameters? I wanted to keep those two together but from what I found online chillies need a very very soft water while shrimp need some solids to make sure they can mold successfully
So I keep everything 6.5-7 ph tds 120 or so and kh 5 or 6 gh 7 or 8. Temp 75- 78 or so in the room and it works well with chili's, most rasboras actually ( the sundadanio axelrodi). Cpds and ruby tetras can work too.
Have you made fish and shrimp food out of duckweed? That could generate some income
Yes I have. They'll eat it if nothing else is around, but don't "love" it lol it's 55% protein though!
Wow, you got blueberry snails! Super jealous.
Yeah they are having a few babies a month between the group right now...so hopefully in 6 months I'll have a colony to sell from a few a month
Hi Alex I have just started an asellus aquaticus (aquatic isopods) culture. Have you had any experience with them? I purchased them from Philip’s fish works (I’m in California ), I have looked into buying them but they seem regionally locked to the UK in terms of importing. Do you know if they are illegal/ invasive? I’ve tried to look into it but am coming up with nothing. If nothing else I think you would enjoy them, they do well with neocaridina permitters and like a rubble style tank with leaf litter and hardwood. Best wishes you to and the fam.
Oh very cool 😎 I've seen them around. Some people feed them to axolotls or just keep them on their own too. Cali may have odd local laws that restrict them, but thus far they're not federally illegal ... yet. So it's cool that you got a hold of them.
@@Fishtory Thanks for replying with the neat info. 🙏
Hey I really liked your video! I’m surprised your shrimp do so well with the brightwell substrate, as I thought it would have lowered the water hardness. I’ve had my neocardinia shrimp in water with a KH 2 and GH of 5 and they didn’t do well, even with using shrimp envy mineral. Although I’ve found that where you get your shrimp make a world of difference.
I’m starting up another colony in a 20 gallon with RODI water, I may have to set up a 5 gallon similar to this setup!
I also have to check out those fish! As I’ve never been comfortable putting schooling fish in anything so small but they look like they may be able to thrive in it long term!
Yeah it's a bit of a balancing act but I started prepping tanks this way plus crushed coral more or less, when I was keeping tang Tigers and crystals with neos to see If I could keep all 3 lines in one 10g :)
And yes, the sourcing and the shrimp lines makes the difference. Aquatic arts has great colors... garden of Eder shrimps has the most lines of any one person....outside Asia? 350+ and his neos have not been so well culled for color lately ( they're still good genes over all though). But for consistency on any neos...the in store bred shrimp from Indianapolis ( aquaticarts.com ) are the way I will always go. They have spent 10 to 15 years working on some of their neo and babaulti caridina lines. But if you wanna see a ton of types of shrimp, video toured the garden of Eder shrimp house...it's insanity lol
That’s pretty cool! I’m glad you’ve gotten the water parameters so dialed in you’re able to use brightwell. Keep it up
Maybe you should move your shrimp empire to Australia. Shrimp prives are still crazy high here, even for a basic af red cherry from some unkown line can be $7.95. Once you start looking at cobalts or even red rillis the prices skyrocket
Yeah the USA was like that until maybe 4 or 5 years ago too.... get the money while it's flowing!
I just ordered from aquatic arts a breeder pack of yellow gold back shrimp for my 2 in half gallon and they sent me pregnant females with a bunch of tiny babies , no botanicals or free food, I had to buy the food. Wish me luck!
Hmm did you order the breeder Pack? If so email me your email and the order receipt and I'll make sure they send you the food and botanicals
@@Fishtory it's alright next time I'll be sure to give them your info.Thanks though Alex!!
Thanks Alex! Great info. I need to start rehoming some red cherries. I’ve moved them into every tank I have (8 now) originally from my 55. Started with 12 initially and they’ve exploded into hundreds in just under 8 mos time. Time to get $$ or lfs credit!
A few weeks ago I started a tank with only blonde orange eye blue tiger shrimp from LRB. Trying my hand at these as a step up from neos. Hope they take off too. I do finagle their water parameters. My well water is crazy hard as well as high ph/kh/gh/tds. Currently using rainwater/well water ratio. Any advice other than @170 tds? More/less water changes, etc? Current cond: 10 gal, unheated(@72 deg), sponge filter, rock pile, guppy grass, pearlweed, Ramshorn snails, feeding bacter ae, hikari crab cuisine , algae wafers. Wish me luck!
Now, bout those blueberry snails….gotta have em😂😁☮❤🐠🦐🪴
Less water changes is better. Keep nitrates below 20ppm ...zero is ideal. Otherwise. Sounds great. His shrimp are hardy and usually handle a wide range of parameters :)
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you and your expertise. Hope you had a wonderful Easter😊☮❤🐠🦐🪴🐇@@Fishtory
Thank you so much Alex! I appreciate you and your expertise! Hope you and yours had a wonderful Easter😊☮❤🐠🦐🪴🐇@@Fishtory
Add some blueberry snails and such that dont mess with shrimps and breed them aswell for extra longterm profit understood, also my blueberry snail shot out a baby in the last few days
Where did you buy your blueberry snail? I’m having a hard time finding them
Moonlight aquatics online is one of the only people I've seen with them.
@@Fishtory thanks
You are able to sell close to retail price because of the brand you've created around your channel. People would rather by from you than from a cheaper unknown seller. Otherwise I think you'd only sell at 1/3 of retail price or so.
Do you ship shrimp or just sell local?
Sometimes I sell em, more wild species and unusual stuff to lobbyists, because I just can't beat the prices that garden of Eder shrimp and quality of aquatic arts or some other online sources
I believe it was here where I saw the hint about the use of aquachar for increasing pH. It really did the trick - thank you!
So Glad to hear it! I love keeping just a piece of two in every tank, in case there's a swing too
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I have a spare fluval flex 15 gallon and a 3.7 gallon maybe I'll give this a go
Why not :)
Bottom grill looking clean brother! Keep it up man love your work
Thanks bro! I appreciate your supportive words a ton
will u be at the gsas auction this year?
Great tips , tricks and I do love anything for improving my heavily fed colonies 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐🍥
Wonderful!
I’ve had different types of shrimp & the fricking things just die every time you fart or cough but I have no problems keeping any other fish or critters & I’m a hobby chemist, biologist, & geologist, so I know what I’m doing. I love the shrimp and I can keep them regarding income. It’s just too much stress because they just die way too easy & are just so freaking sensitive. Yes, of course I have the soil substrate with a nice Lexan caravan tons of plants and wood and on and on supporting closed ecosystems & I do not use chemicals such as medications.
Gets better after the tank has been set up for like a year+
Also the small tanks one mistake spells disaster, did a water change on my 2.5, and removed all the frogbit so my Lilly could grow, crashed my entire colony
Left a small piece of broccoli in my other 2.5 for a day longer than I meant, rocked my other colony
Largely tho if you use something like Bacteria ae and getting them fed, their numbers start to rocket pretty quick and outpace deaths
Stupid auto correct. It was just supposed to say “sand cap with” not lexan caravan. My tanks are also all over one year old.
What are your water parameters?
If you knew what you were doing they wouldn't die.... just saying...
Shrimps generally die new when sold from mass breeders or most big box stores. It's super rare that you find a supplier that has done their due diligence to prevent them from being super stressed during travel to where non of them die.
Neocaradinas are extremely easy once you understand that keeping "perfect" parameters means virtually nothing when keeping these guys. You are attempting to get a colony started, not attempting to keep the same shrimp you got from the store, or imported to you. All it takes is a tank that you know is established and just keep trying a batch of 5 to 10 until you see babies and that's when the colony really starts.
I have had groups that all survived after the acclimation, and I have had groups that all died during the acclimation. There's nothing you can do to prevent stuff like that from happening other than reporting the DOA and trying again.
🤔 Thanks Alex, I love how baby colored shrimp look like confetti! Ha ha! But I have a dozen green neons that are acting like aggressive hunters, I can't tell if they are pregnant or fat from eating shrimp cocktail every night? And how can I blame them when their flakes are so close in color to a bloody mary? Has anyone else seen this?
Yeah if it fits in their mouth, it's food sadly...and new born shrimp are very tiny
I'm in Denmark - so maybe not applicable, but I have been selling RCS from a 30 litre tank (not high grade) and I don't find much demand for them. About 0.6 dollar.
I got another 30 litre tank with Blue Dream, that are ready for sale. I expect a bit over 1 dollar for them, and I'm curios about the demand for them 😁. Your yellow ones a little over 2 dollars.
So here you can get very low grade yellows for 2 to 4 dollars but nice yellows or blue dreams are 6 to 10 bucks at a store still. I think in Europe you'd need to be breeding caridina and or sulawesi species... and selling them to the pet keepers and not wholesale to stores... for me, I know enough local fishkeepers that if I change 6 each and 5 for 25, I can sell 300 or 400 a year or so
What kind of water do you purchase. What is the additional link to see how to do this.
If desperate or spawning lake sulawesi or caridina shrimp lines, I'd buy distilled water for 5$ for 5 one gallon jugs...and add the specific minerals. However tap water works fine with neocaridina lines usually.
Thanks Alexander love all your informative videos. Wish I could buy shrimp and plants from you.
Maybe one day! If you are in the states, I sell plant packs and shrimp once in a while to viewers spring thru fall.
Hey Alex, cheers from my fish room in Chicago! appreciate this thoughtful and pragmatic video. Curious where you actually sell your animals. i know you don't online so I'm guessing local swaps? Honestly, I'm just curious. But i do think your "brand" has some currency :)
Totally. You are correct that the channel helps a bit. If nothing else- people seem to get into bidding wars over items I bring more than the average listing.
But I sell via Facebook messenger mostly. Local groups that I'll post a photo of the plants or shrimp in and then just say "DM me if you want to chat about buce portions" or " I've got 30 ready to remove. Message me " under a photo of shrimp.
Also I go to fish shops and chat with people, and mention I sell xyz if the shop doesn't have them in stock lol.
Thanks for your support 🙏
Well-earned respect :) @@Fishtory
Awsome ❤
Cheers from France
great video I added lotus pods to some of my black water tanks and what a pain in the butt to get them to sink. I glued boulders ( small small stones ) and boiled them and it took over a week to get them to finally sink. BUT worth it
Haha yeah they take weeks otherwise too!
Thought that was an arowana in the thumbnail.
I have a lot of shrimp and I do not feed them, they multiply like crazy!
You don't need to feed them in a big enough planted tank
Wow I may need me a 2.5 gallon shrimp tank ❤😅 I need blueberry snails! Where did you get them ?
Moonlight aquatics
Please do more of these videos❤
Sure, any ideas on what you would like next?
I absolutely love your content I have a question… if you don’t mind// do you sell your shrimp yourself or do you sell it to local stores or do you ship them out? I do have a plan to come up to seattle here in about a week and I would love to buy some from you if you’re available…. and of course I know you might get this message after I come and go from Portland to Seattle but I’ll make a special trip just to get shrimp from you lol. anyways, I love your information it has helped me a lot in the hobby keep it up, blah blah blah.
Sure email me when you are in town alexanderjwilliamson@gmail.com and I'm sure we can work it out. I usually just sell our trade to fellow fish keepers. Sometimes fish that have tons of babies, I'll sell those
@@Fishtory I will absolutely email you later on this week. I’ll get everything figured out in my head on what I actually want so I don’t send you a whole bunch of emails lol…
Finally!!! You sure did it.
Excellent video. Going to hit the setup video now too🧐
Have fun! Thanks 😊
Thank You Alex !
Do blueberry snails need a male and female or do u just need one to make baby snails?
Juan there isnt much research on them i have some and tried my best to research and the answer is, yes you will need either a male and a female or a female who previously had a baby and learned how. Most of thr time the males will have a larger right antenna
@Slawsers yeah I had a female that had a baby after she was apart from males for 2 months... and had 2 babies over the next 2 months. But I don't know how long this can continue for. I'm guessing it's like guppies somewhat.
@@Fishtory yeah true, odd snail I'm not used to snails with such different breeding, makes them more exciting when you find a baby!
Awesome advice, cheers Alexander 👍
My pleasure!
Where do you find blue berry snails?
They're brand new to the hobby and science hasn't even given them a Latin name yet.
Very cool! Cheers man.
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for the video
Thank You brother.
I want to do this ❤
It's a fun and low maintenence way to do Shrimp breeding
Great information
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it
So you say with 100 tanks like that, I will make $120,000 a year, right?
You cant sale them easily
If you have the customers!
That $120,000 a year that someone got excited about does not understand that’s not how it works. Shrimp 🦐 must be the most sensitive little critters I have ever kept. Alex will attest to the fact that your tanks will regularly crash so the math does not work the way you think. You should definitely try it though because you brought it up so there’s nothing anyone can tell you that you will not believe unless you experience it yourself so yes try to make $120,000 a year on 100 little shrimp tanks & see how you go & let this channel
Know how you went.
Extreme few people have the experience, know how & understanding Alex has. Even if you do exactly everything, Alex says to the word it’s not physically possible for anyone person to control all parameters at all times of all aquariums. As long as you’re prepared to have lots of tanks crash & lose lots of money & time then you eventually you might be successful but no you can not just get 100 tanks & make $120,000.
Go ahead & try it though. Let us know how you do. Good luck.
Wow hater much? Just because you suck at fishkeeping doesn't mean everyone does. My tanks have been going for 2 years without any issues besides algae. My favorite lfs does over 3k a month in shrimp sales alone. Obviously his colonies are raised in bigger tanks. But he's had the same exact bloodlines for over 10 years that all started from groups of 50. His colonies never drop below 300 to keep genetics strong. Shoot he makes a few hundred a month on his culls alone, selling them at $2. So don't go criticizing someone for asking a question. Acting like you're some know it all or something. You sound like NOTHING but a clown that can't keep their tanks in order.
Yeah... it took lots of attention and effort to even keep one tank this way... let alone trying to multiply the system and worst yet....flooding your local market and dropping prices.
For a comparison in central Europe:
Decent quality shrimp are €1.5, €2 is pushing it.
A 16W light would cost close to €20 a year.
Not as great but still worth it if you enjoy it.
Moss however I feel like I can keep selling if I could produce more.
mostly 250ml bottles for €10 (8.5 ounces)
Overall I find fish are cheap and energy/supplies are more expensive making it harder to make a profit.
What about frozen food? I feed my shrimp some blood worms and dahpnia, just because they seem to like it more.
I think in Europe you'd need to do this with a fancy caridina. Here we still have 5 to 10 dollars per neo at retail shops.
Our energy is also much cheaper than most of Northwestern or Central Europe