I have an amano only tank and they have tried to breed but the larvae only live a few days because they're in freshwater and I'm not trying to breed them.
@northwestlife2794 I feed mine a mix of frozen food, hikari crab cuisine, fresh veg, bottom pellets, repashy and whatever drops to the bottom. I also have cuttlebone and crushed coral for calcium in the tank.
I normally leave about an inch of space between the water line and top of the tank. However I found my Amano shrimp walking around downstairs. For context his tank is upstairs in my bedroom. So there’s a fun story to be scared of now.
I put my crayfish in a new tank, and I guess he didn't like it...I found him down the stairs on the other side of the house. He lived! My wife and daughter labeled him dead, but I put him in the water, and slowly as he ejected air he slowly came back to life!
Yeah same, mine snuck out and took my car at 2 am to go smoke kelp with the boys. I go to drive to work in he morning and there's mollusk shells and everything all over the floorboards. Caveat emptor!!!
Imaging being such a legend in the aquarium world that they just start calling your favorite shrimp your name instead of whatever everyone used to say.
Great video! I would say to call them zoeae and not larvae as they are a form of freeswimming plankton when they hatch. I've actually been successful at breeding them and it's not as hard as you would think. It's all timed out at pretty reliable pace. 15-20 days after being berried eggs will spawn. Then about 30-40 days in saltwater until they morph into a juvenile Amano and can go back into freshwater. 32-35ppt salinity. 23-25⁰c. Seed a tetraselmis phytoplankton culture into the tank 2 days after hatching. 15 days later add marine Rotifers to the tank and then feed tetraselmis every few days to keep the water slightly green. When in the zoeae stage they swim backwards and are phototaxic. When they morph into juvenile amanos they wil change from a reddish hue to almost transparent and start swimming forward. At this point they can go back into freshwater. Anyone wanting an in depth look into the whole process check out Avatar Aquatics on RUclips.
I keep chili’s in my community aquarium with sparkling gouramis, honey gouramis, kuhli loaches and amano shrimp. They are so awesome I cannot stop increasing my number of them because I love their schooling behaviour so much ❤
I love Amano Shrimp. I have one that jumped out of one of my tanks one night and crawled the long arduous journey to my kitchen where i foundit the next morning. It was covered in dust other floor things. I thought it was dead but when i wnet to pick it up it twitched so i rinised it off quickly and dropped it back into my tank and off it went. I have no idea how long it was on the floor but it would have been a few hours at least. It's still going strong a year later.
i used to have a pair but 1 of them died. it's a joy watching the survivor. i have to stock up again on them. the amano actually made me want to do some red cherry shrimps husbandry
I guess MD has a method of dripping water into shrimp before introducing them into a tank. Is there anything specific we should know regarding adding shrimp in general to an aquarium. Ropey McRoperson was sure putting on a show through the entire video. That was cool. 🙂 And from the retired teacher in me: larva - singular, larvae - plural. But you knew that! Thanks, Matt!
I got 4 tanks that are different water parameters and the 2 in the sun run a lot hotter than the one on the floor that gets most the aircon. I plop shrimp from one to another all the time and they are fine!
Love my amanos. They were the first things I added to my first tank after plants. A couple of the ladies are now pretty monstrous! Nothing has tried to eat them either so far - including thick-lipped gouramis and bolivian rams. Lost one recently due to jumping (rimless tank) Some of my plants now grow out of the water, so always a risk.. It's a shame they can't breed in freshwater - the ladies are often full of eggs.
Great info on amanos! I have 2 it's fun watching them swoop in and steal food from tank mates. They're not afraid of anything! They just grab the food and carry it away as fast as their little legs will swim! Oh I also thoroughly enjoyed watching your rope fish in the background! Enjoying your channel!
@Fish Shop Matt Thank you Matt! Yeah they are quite rare even in the US I've heard. Luckily I manged to pick some up from my local Maidenhead Aquatics 😎
Good morning Matt! My son has been trying to get me to add shrimp to my community tank. I was never interested til your video... I may need to reconsider 😉 thank you!
Amano shrimp are near bulletproof. I've seen them kept in a tank at 32°C and they looked absolutely fine. I keep mine at 28°C and they thrive. Peaceful, great clean up crew and are usually fine with most "nano" tank fish (betta and smaller)
Yeah agreed I've got a few customers who have them in very warm discus tanks and they do fine. Except one tank where the discus now believe they're dinner unfortunately! ❤️
I'm watching, and near the current on the corner, there is a fish idk what kind. A ribbon fish? A rope fish? I thought it was the plant growing and moving there, but no! It whisked off and pushed up. Beautiful! What is it? Thanks for good knowledge Ps. I just read some comments, and it appears it is a rope fish. Very cool.
I know this is an older video but, I put large amano shrimp in my turtle tank and constantly found (until the turtle decided to eat them all) small Amano shrimp popping up. They may populate better with a salt water switch but mine definitely reproduced in fresh water. Not in large quantities but in a decent quantity for sure.
I can't believe how many videos I watch about keeping fish when I don't own a tank.... Childhood flash backs I guess. Hopeful of getting a tank next year though, so love this type of video. Prepare for lots of newb questions when it happens! Best wishes.
I have to laugh. I just watched the fish file video on the ropefish, and Matt couldn't see one to film. But during this video, there's a ropefish swimming back and forth and up and down the tank, most of this video.
Such an amazingly timed video, I bought 10 Amano’s yesterday, along with 6 otto’s as the first part of fish stocking my first first aquarium (125L & fully planted too). Currently trying to decide between Glowlight tetra’s or Glowlight Danio’s. Very informative as always and not drab like other info vids - awesome work, keep doing what you’re doing!
Very good, Matt. I have 10 Amano and enjoy them quite a bit. Good to hear you present about them. Breeding Amano.. maybe a solid project for retirement? Thanks!
Very informative thanks, I put 4 in my 5g betta tank, but two were eaten, I saw the empty shell of one, others disappeared. ObVs. Now I realise it was just a shed because I moved them into my crs tank and they love it more and are more visabe and don't feel threatened, so non were eaten at all! They were just constant hiding.not sure to try it again as I struggle with algae in the small beta tank 🤔 I've got a surplus of bristle nose plecs so put a juvenile lemon in there at the moment, but a temporary measure as tank is too small for adult plec.
Great video!! I found your channel through MD. I'd like to add that I've had great success at breeding amano shrimp. Tried twice now. First go around we ending up with over 100 adults. Second time around I collected larva/ eggs/ babies from 3 baried females and ended up with over 500. They are about an inch long now. Have plenty of pics from when they were released up until now. Just not sure how to upload pics onto here
Thanks!! Never saw a video about amano shrimp before. I was one of those who thought my shrimp was dead. I'm not a fan of the nasty skin laying around my tank.
I've heard accounts of people having them live 10-12 years. That's pretty impressive if true. I have 6 in a 10G, and they are fun to watch. Every time I see my guppies swarming around a berried female, I wonder if she's dropping and they are snacking.
Dude! That was a lot of info brought to me in an understandable way... I love the History Lesson of Origin, and that you keep it coming in real-time speech... Keep it up Matt! I've been looking to get some Shrimp for my tanks, but I have wondered which to get... I love the colours of Cherries and the other colour strains, but Amano's have also been on my radar too... Now you have made me realise that I need these little critters... I just wonder about mt water peram's... I have a very high Hardness of water where I live... Off the scale on my test strips (I know that they are not accurate for the most part)... But if I had you to answer one question, it would be this... Do Amano Shrimp do well in hard water? Love this vid, and keep them comming!
Love to se "The fish/shrimp files" you are a great educator. Thank you for the great content! A question for you. You talked about bio-load are low with shrimp. It made me think about all the different calculation methods for deciding fish per volume of water. How much fish can I put in a aquarium. What is your go to method for deciding the fish load?
Thank you! I'll be totally honest I find that there is a flaw in the majority of the aquarium fish load calculators. My go to method is adding little and often livestock wise, building it up over time and keeping an eye on your water quality and waste in the aquarium. Eventually you should get to a level where everything is happy and you are happily keeping up with maintenance. Ultimately it's all about your filtration, planting, maintenance regime, feeding and much more. Get to know your aquarium and be sensible.
@@FishShopMatt Thank you, for your reply! That's what i have been doing. But according to every calculator and troll on the internet I'm slightly overstocking even though my parameters are good and fish seem healthy.
Excellent video Matt! Been watching MD for a week or two and realized that RUclips hadn't suggested any of your videos to me yet. So I went looking and here I am. Im going to be getting back into the fish keeping hobby after probably about 6 or so years out of it. Going to get back starting off fairly small but want to do a planted tank this time. Just a simple 20-30gallon or so, a few platies, cory cats, and plants. Mayyybe a betta but not sure yet. Mostly just platies and albino cory. I'd had ghost shrimp in the past but wanted to try a shrimp that's a little larger and was interested in Amanos mostly due to their size. From what I can tell they seem to be the largest of the commonly available shrimp species. Now that being said I'd really like a shrimp colony that can self sustain so honestly i'd prefer some cherries, blues, crystal reds, or something. My question is which of the more colorful shrimp will be the largest in size and least likely to become easy snacks? I realize babies will need to depend on their survival instincts and hiding places but as I said i'd like to have a group that can self sustain. Any ideas? Also i'm here in the states of that helps. North central Texas, specifically. -Shane
Excellent timing! I bought my first trio of Amanos yesterday, a recommendation from Maidenhead Aquatics in Cwmbran. Thanks for yet another informative video; I look forward to seeing more from the fish files series.
Keep it up man. This could be one of the best freshwater aquarium channels on RUclips
That is high praise indeed, no pressure hahaha. ❤️
Totally agree with you there Jon 👍🏻
It already is ❤❤❤
I have 5 amano shrimp that are 10 years old and still going strong. Love your channel!
wat if they mate. will u transfer pregnant female to sea water?
I have an amano only tank and they have tried to breed but the larvae only live a few days because they're in freshwater and I'm not trying to breed them.
What do you feed your shrimp?
@northwestlife2794 I feed mine a mix of frozen food, hikari crab cuisine, fresh veg, bottom pellets, repashy and whatever drops to the bottom. I also have cuttlebone and crushed coral for calcium in the tank.
I normally leave about an inch of space between the water line and top of the tank. However I found my Amano shrimp walking around downstairs. For context his tank is upstairs in my bedroom. So there’s a fun story to be scared of now.
Oh wow, that's not ideal! 😂❤️
Wow, thats literally my fear, why I'm scared to keep shrimp. Glad to know my fear isn't irrational lol
I put my crayfish in a new tank, and I guess he didn't like it...I found him down the stairs on the other side of the house. He lived! My wife and daughter labeled him dead, but I put him in the water, and slowly as he ejected air he slowly came back to life!
@@Boja23 omgosh Lol confirmed I do not want shrimp 🤣
Yeah same, mine snuck out and took my car at 2 am to go smoke kelp with the boys. I go to drive to work in he morning and there's mollusk shells and everything all over the floorboards. Caveat emptor!!!
Love how your "water snakes" / eels are out an about during this take when they are normally in hiding as soon as you try to catch them on camera. :)
Imaging being such a legend in the aquarium world that they just start calling your favorite shrimp your name instead of whatever everyone used to say.
I have grown to really enjoy your fish files. It's fun to see what species you will highlight next. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy them! ❤️
Very informative again, you're such a wealth of knowledge ..... Love your videos
Thank you Lorraine, lovely of you to say! ❤️❤️❤️
Killing it, I did wonder about why they are hard to breed... and now I know :) I enjoyed seeing ropie in the background swimming around 😄
Thank you! ❤️ More to come from ropey soon! ❤️
Great video! I would say to call them zoeae and not larvae as they are a form of freeswimming plankton when they hatch.
I've actually been successful at breeding them and it's not as hard as you would think. It's all timed out at pretty reliable pace.
15-20 days after being berried eggs will spawn.
Then about 30-40 days in saltwater until they morph into a juvenile Amano and can go back into freshwater.
32-35ppt salinity. 23-25⁰c.
Seed a tetraselmis phytoplankton culture into the tank 2 days after hatching. 15 days later add marine Rotifers to the tank and then feed tetraselmis every few days to keep the water slightly green.
When in the zoeae stage they swim backwards and are phototaxic. When they morph into juvenile amanos they wil change from a reddish hue to almost transparent and start swimming forward. At this point they can go back into freshwater.
Anyone wanting an in depth look into the whole process check out Avatar Aquatics on RUclips.
Great content, as usual! I need chili rasbora and glass catfish files!
Oooo I've got a good group of chillis in at the moment I'll try and get working on it soon! ❤️❤️❤️
I keep chili’s in my community aquarium with sparkling gouramis, honey gouramis, kuhli loaches and amano shrimp. They are so awesome I cannot stop increasing my number of them because I love their schooling behaviour so much ❤
Ropey McRoperson is majestic! ;)
I love Amano Shrimp.
I have one that jumped out of one of my tanks one night and crawled the long arduous journey to my kitchen where i foundit the next morning.
It was covered in dust other floor things. I thought it was dead but when i wnet to pick it up it twitched so i rinised it off quickly and dropped it back into my tank and off it went.
I have no idea how long it was on the floor but it would have been a few hours at least. It's still going strong a year later.
my amanos loved bubbles so much they felt the need to get out and walk around haha
Awesome! One of my favorite things is the "Fish Files". Please do more, and thanks Matt.
Thanks, Matt! Waiting for one on Neocaridina.
i used to have a pair but 1 of them died. it's a joy watching the survivor. i have to stock up again on them. the amano actually made me want to do some red cherry shrimps husbandry
I guess MD has a method of dripping water into shrimp before introducing them into a tank. Is there anything specific we should know regarding adding shrimp in general to an aquarium.
Ropey McRoperson was sure putting on a show through the entire video. That was cool. 🙂 And from the retired teacher in me: larva - singular, larvae - plural. But you knew that!
Thanks, Matt!
I got 4 tanks that are different water parameters and the 2 in the sun run a lot hotter than the one on the floor that gets most the aircon. I plop shrimp from one to another all the time and they are fine!
Fantastic thanks FSM ( love the T shirt too )
Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
Great job mate. Another sweet video. Thank you
Thank you! ❤️
Love my amanos. They were the first things I added to my first tank after plants. A couple of the ladies are now pretty monstrous! Nothing has tried to eat them either so far - including thick-lipped gouramis and bolivian rams. Lost one recently due to jumping (rimless tank) Some of my plants now grow out of the water, so always a risk..
It's a shame they can't breed in freshwater - the ladies are often full of eggs.
They're brilliant aren't they! I'm always amazed at how big the females can get. ❤️
Amano eat Hygrophila polysperma. :) Even with other food around :P And I noticed they seem to love buces...
Great info on amanos! I have 2 it's fun watching them swoop in and steal food from tank mates. They're not afraid of anything! They just grab the food and carry it away as fast as their little legs will swim! Oh I also thoroughly enjoyed watching your rope fish in the background! Enjoying your channel!
Thank you! I do like watching the arguements that happen between shrimp and fish when it comes to feeding time! ❤️
You do a great job on explaining the subject 💯🤘👍✌️ thanks for sharing
Amazing as usual! I'm still patiently waiting for the Turkana Jewel Cichlid Fish Files 😉
I've been compiling info on these guys. They have only been widely available to us recently so was building my knowledge. But hopefully soon! ❤️
@Fish Shop Matt Thank you Matt! Yeah they are quite rare even in the US I've heard. Luckily I manged to pick some up from my local Maidenhead Aquatics 😎
Love these really good to learn about the fish in my tank keep up the good work 👌
Thank you! ❤️
Thanks for this information! I have never heard a talk on Amano Shrimp. I love them and plan to add more of them to my tanks!
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge with us Matt. Fantastic video. Would they scavenge fish eggs? I’ve always presumed they would ❤🦐🐠🌱
Thank you! Yeah if they can get to them I would expect them to eat them quite happily. ❤️
Good morning Matt! My son has been trying to get me to add shrimp to my community tank. I was never interested til your video... I may need to reconsider 😉 thank you!
😂❤️ glad I could help!
Hi Matt, another great video, looking forward to your Rice Fish files. Thank you from NYC
Thank you buddy! ❤️❤️❤️
Awesome info. Thank you ❤️🇦🇺
Thank you! ❤️
U should make a podcast u have such a relaxing voice
That’s my amano breeding plan in the bin then! Thanks for the heads up!
wow
Great video Matt! Love the videos and the method of presenting information in a fun way, much love!
Thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I’m Marion, thanks for the vid this morning, 5 hour drive to be fair but I will come one day xx
Watching from Portland Oregon. Matt you are a legend!
Another great video thank you! Really wish we got Amano Shrimp over here in Australia.
Amano shrimp are near bulletproof. I've seen them kept in a tank at 32°C and they looked absolutely fine. I keep mine at 28°C and they thrive. Peaceful, great clean up crew and are usually fine with most "nano" tank fish (betta and smaller)
Yeah agreed I've got a few customers who have them in very warm discus tanks and they do fine. Except one tank where the discus now believe they're dinner unfortunately! ❤️
I'm watching, and near the current on the corner, there is a fish idk what kind. A ribbon fish? A rope fish? I thought it was the plant growing and moving there, but no! It whisked off and pushed up. Beautiful! What is it?
Thanks for good knowledge
Ps. I just read some comments, and it appears it is a rope fish. Very cool.
Thanks Matt, have 4 Amanos imma tank, they are so cool! love your channel and positive character
I know this is an older video but, I put large amano shrimp in my turtle tank and constantly found (until the turtle decided to eat them all) small Amano shrimp popping up. They may populate better with a salt water switch but mine definitely reproduced in fresh water. Not in large quantities but in a decent quantity for sure.
Love the fish files. Great work, Matt!
Nice, thanks for the info!
Thank you! ❤️
Ive got some fully grown Amanos with a fantail goldfish. They peacefully coexist. My goldfish is territorial but it doesn’t bother the Amano shrimp.
I can't believe how many videos I watch about keeping fish when I don't own a tank.... Childhood flash backs I guess. Hopeful of getting a tank next year though, so love this type of video. Prepare for lots of newb questions when it happens! Best wishes.
Amazing news, you know exactly where I am for any info you need. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for the information. I doubt I would ever try breeding them, but you have fed my curiosity.
I really enjoy this channel. I wish I had a great fish store near me.
Great video although I was totally distracted by Ropey mc ropeson 😂 who was having a great time during the video but brilliant factual vid thanks 🙏
amanos are epic. great to own for various setups
Absolutely! ❤️
I had them once, they all ended up dried up behind mij tank 🫣 I’ll just keep it with my Bleu Dream shrimps 😂
Oh no! I've not had any of mine jump yet but I have known it in the past if things chase them.
Loved seeing the rope fish swim across! Good topic, lots of good information.
How cool are they!!!
Awesome channel, I love the fish files.
That's one beautiful aquarium tank; I hope you have it on a permanent livestream 😚 Somewhere
Most informative Freshwater channel on RUclips. None better in terms of actual care information.
Most helpful n one of the funniest fish channel, the other funny one surely Matt n Md... channel haha 😂
I have to laugh. I just watched the fish file video on the ropefish, and Matt couldn't see one to film. But during this video, there's a ropefish swimming back and forth and up and down the tank, most of this video.
Keep the thumbnail with the shop live photo, it will work crazy. All the best 😁
Another great video. Love the species profile vids.
Thank you! More to come! ❤️
Great job Matt. Now I now why I haven't had any baby amano shimp,
Always wondered what happened to the eggs.
😂😂 very informative video yet again 👏 👌
Hahahaha yeah they're annoying when you see them filled with eggs and nothing appears! ❤️❤️❤️
@@FishShopMatt 100%
Nice informative video, I do love Amano Shrimp, far and away my preferred choice of algae eating species in the fresh water planted tank.
Thank you and I totally agree! ❤️
I’ve got two nano tanks with one cherry shrimp and they just had some babies and my other one I got my first black relly
Matt are you going to do a spotlight on Mystery snails? Nerite snails? Watched all your videos so far. Thanks for keeping us informed in the US. 😁
Awesome content! Bamboo shrimp for the next shrimp files👀?
Definitely on the list!
I wish there was a fish shop like yours near me. The closest thing I have is a chain pet supply store.
That's a shame, fingers crossed you find somewhere one day! ❤️
Paramount to everything you mentioned. Name your amano Detlef Shrimp. Love your content, keep it up!
Very informative. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for info. Better than Google. Keep it up!!!
Yeah, I gave up trying to hatch out my ammanos and left them in my big tank and got Snowball shrimp for my nano instead. 🤣
Yeah you made the correct decision! 😂❤️
Best species guides on RUclips!
It's cool to see you upload more regularly and the videos are getting better each time 👌
Hi Matt
Hey James! 👋👋👋
Thank you Matt! I've been looking at amanos for cleanup crew in the tank im about to do. Still a noob and I've only had ghost shrimp.
Such an amazingly timed video, I bought 10 Amano’s yesterday, along with 6 otto’s as the first part of fish stocking my first first aquarium (125L & fully planted too).
Currently trying to decide between Glowlight tetra’s or Glowlight Danio’s.
Very informative as always and not drab like other info vids - awesome work, keep doing what you’re doing!
That's amazing timing hahaha. Thank you for the kind comments!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Matt, really enjoying these “fish file” reviews. Thank you 🙏
Omg! The eel in the background is stealing the show!
Very good information!
Hey Matt !!!! Great job on the Channel.
Can you do plecos next ?
Good work, loving it
Very good, Matt. I have 10 Amano and enjoy them quite a bit. Good to hear you present about them. Breeding Amano.. maybe a solid project for retirement? Thanks!
Very informative thanks, I put 4 in my 5g betta tank, but two were eaten, I saw the empty shell of one, others disappeared. ObVs. Now I realise it was just a shed because I moved them into my crs tank and they love it more and are more visabe and don't feel threatened, so non were eaten at all! They were just constant hiding.not sure to try it again as I struggle with algae in the small beta tank 🤔 I've got a surplus of bristle nose plecs so put a juvenile lemon in there at the moment, but a temporary measure as tank is too small for adult plec.
Great video!! I found your channel through MD. I'd like to add that I've had great success at breeding amano shrimp. Tried twice now. First go around we ending up with over 100 adults. Second time around I collected larva/ eggs/ babies from 3 baried females and ended up with over 500. They are about an inch long now. Have plenty of pics from when they were released up until now. Just not sure how to upload pics onto here
Great video, I keep Darwin algae and Darwin red nose shrimp, both very closely related to the Amano’s
Awesome content and confirmed things i thought i had worked out through google searches. Thanks Matt.
Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️
@@FishShopMatt are you planning to do the same for neocardinia?
@@MrAarthorn yeah hopefully some point soon!
Good job.
Hi Matt great video. "Avatar Aquatics" made a video about amano shrimp breeding. they test how fast the fry can go from fresh water to salt water.
Oh that's cool I'll go check that out! ❤️ Thank you! ❤️
Thank you mate!
loved it
Thanks!! Never saw a video about amano shrimp before. I was one of those who thought my shrimp was dead. I'm not a fan of the nasty skin laying around my tank.
Love this video ❤
👍🏻👍🏻
I've heard accounts of people having them live 10-12 years. That's pretty impressive if true. I have 6 in a 10G, and they are fun to watch. Every time I see my guppies swarming around a berried female, I wonder if she's dropping and they are snacking.
Dude! That was a lot of info brought to me in an understandable way... I love the History Lesson of Origin, and that you keep it coming in real-time speech...
Keep it up Matt!
I've been looking to get some Shrimp for my tanks, but I have wondered which to get... I love the colours of Cherries and the other colour strains, but Amano's have also been on my radar too...
Now you have made me realise that I need these little critters... I just wonder about mt water peram's... I have a very high Hardness of water where I live... Off the scale on my test strips (I know that they are not accurate for the most part)... But if I had you to answer one question, it would be this... Do Amano Shrimp do well in hard water?
Love this vid, and keep them comming!
I have a cichild tank with snails... but i'm considering amano shrimps as well.
Thank you as aways
MD brought me here xD
Welcome! 👋👍
Can you do a whole fish shop tour tank by tank dont care about the length of the vid. Much love bro
Love to se "The fish/shrimp files" you are a great educator. Thank you for the great content!
A question for you. You talked about bio-load are low with shrimp. It made me think about all the different calculation methods for deciding fish per volume of water. How much fish can I put in a aquarium. What is your go to method for deciding the fish load?
Thank you!
I'll be totally honest I find that there is a flaw in the majority of the aquarium fish load calculators.
My go to method is adding little and often livestock wise, building it up over time and keeping an eye on your water quality and waste in the aquarium.
Eventually you should get to a level where everything is happy and you are happily keeping up with maintenance.
Ultimately it's all about your filtration, planting, maintenance regime, feeding and much more. Get to know your aquarium and be sensible.
@@FishShopMatt Thank you, for your reply! That's what i have been doing. But according to every calculator and troll on the internet I'm slightly overstocking even though my parameters are good and fish seem healthy.
Excellent video Matt! Been watching MD for a week or two and realized that RUclips hadn't suggested any of your videos to me yet. So I went looking and here I am. Im going to be getting back into the fish keeping hobby after probably about 6 or so years out of it. Going to get back starting off fairly small but want to do a planted tank this time. Just a simple 20-30gallon or so, a few platies, cory cats, and plants. Mayyybe a betta but not sure yet. Mostly just platies and albino cory. I'd had ghost shrimp in the past but wanted to try a shrimp that's a little larger and was interested in Amanos mostly due to their size. From what I can tell they seem to be the largest of the commonly available shrimp species. Now that being said I'd really like a shrimp colony that can self sustain so honestly i'd prefer some cherries, blues, crystal reds, or something. My question is which of the more colorful shrimp will be the largest in size and least likely to become easy snacks? I realize babies will need to depend on their survival instincts and hiding places but as I said i'd like to have a group that can self sustain. Any ideas? Also i'm here in the states of that helps. North central Texas, specifically.
-Shane
Thank you Matt, why shrimps are trying to escape (water quality is Ok according to the quick test)? Could it be the reason the wood inside the tank?
Excellent timing! I bought my first trio of Amanos yesterday, a recommendation from Maidenhead Aquatics in Cwmbran. Thanks for yet another informative video; I look forward to seeing more from the fish files series.
Thank you! You definitely won't regret having them in your aquarium, very hard workers! ❤️