How to Breed Shrimp: Substrate, How Much and What Kind, Choosing the Right Substrate for Shrimp
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Shrimp Keepers,
It is yet another Shrimp Saturday. Today I want to talk about some great tips on substrate. By the end of the video, I want you to know what is the best substrate for a planted shrimp tank and what is the best substrate for an inert shrimp tank. We will talk about what inert substrate is, how much to use and where to get it from. We will also talk about buffered shrimp substrate like Fluval Shrimp Stratum, Brightwell, ADA Aqua Soils Amazoninia, Malaya, and Africana.
In this video I share some great tips to help keep a buffered tank going without breaking it down. I also share another shrimp breeders opinion on substrate.
Try some of these methods out on substrate for shrimp tanks and let me know your feedback. We are in this together and learning together. Keep it shrimple :)
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man you have planaria in your mishling shrimp tank 14:09
Flip Aquatics - Will the shrimp interbreed if you keep lots of different types in same tank ???
What is consider the most expensive Red Neocaridina Shrimp? Red Sakura? Fire Red? or Bloody Marry?
Keep it shrimple
Rico Suave always my friend 😀
Rico Suave, Very Punny
I'm from Mexico and it is really hard to find crystal or other exotic shrimp types... But once you do, the shrimp are surprisingly hardy because of bad handling water parameters of the breeders.
A year ago i added 25 crs to a pond with no filter (except water plants) and just soil substrate. I found later that only 5 survived so I left them there... after one year they are now a pretty big colony of 300+, and I don't do anything but water top offs (ro not re mineralized) and they are a pretty hardy strain.
The only thing I use to buffer ph is a small lair of crushed lime stone and they are doing great.
Now once a month I am adding more limestone to try and reach ph of 8 to make my shrim alkaline resistant.
Temperatures in cancun are mostly stable but get up to 30 - 35 c on the summer. On the winter down to 17c... Never the less I don't use chiller nor heater on them.
It is a great experiment and I suggest you try it. Hoping to make one day crs as hardy and temperature resistant as cherry
Best regards
Roberto Dauajare do you have a video of This?
yeah, plz do a video or take pics
Yes please i wanna see as well
I love his attitude, it's like he's high on shrimp
like?
I just finished messing with my tank and copied your setup. It's genius!
I put the fluval stratum on a shallow rectangular clear container and put it at the back of the tank and have all the plants in it. Then I put a very thin layer of plain black sand as the flooring. I get to enjoy sand and the stratum at the same time without the mess. Its awesome now. Thank you!
You inspired me to build a tank and buy some blue velvets. The company sent me 10 or 11, and one random baby Sakura :) I'm waiting for them to breed. You've taught me a lot! Just wanted to say that.
Very well done. I had to watch a couple of times but understood what you were saying.
Hey there, thanks for this older video. I needed a good explanation on how to make a buffered substrate last longer, now I know I can add GH back to my RO water and leave out KH, so my ADA Aquasoil will last as long as possible! I have a tank I'm going to keep at quite a low PH using a buffered substrate, driftwood, and peat moss (if I need it). Thanks, love your vids!
thanks for the comment and feedback :) appreciate it! glad the video helped
That video DID help, but I just realized that I am super unsure about one thing. If I do up my RO water to have 0KH and add it to my buffered ADA substrate tank (trying to crank PH low on in), what is preventing my water from easily fluctuating wildly in PH? Does the ADA or buffered substrate itself add to the KH to prevent that?
Simply Betta Oh the joy of buffered substrates. I've been looking for an answer for this for a while, and have never been able to actually get a detailed answer for what these substrates actually do in a technical way. The concepts are relatively simple, but the devil is in the details as they say. By adding RO water, you're not adding KH. KH is a measure of the carbonates etc available to neutralize acids. The only way to have an acidic pH is to have an acid in the water. Acids are continually released by fish, shrimp and biological processes in the tank (filter bacteria even), and as you point out if left unchecked they'll continuously drive the pH down. As a result, the substrates have to be releasing some acid, but at a controlled rate. I've never used them myself, but there must also be something that prevents the pH from going too low (some sort of slow release carbonate?). I've used pure peat substrates 8" thick with RO water and had a pH stay happily at 7 with lots of plants, so it just shows that there's a lot to this whole thing.
Thank you for these videos you pretty much got me into the hobby single-handedly
Really helped me understand the substrate thing better. Thanks
Lol. I’m still watching. I appreciate you guys and a lot of the other RUclipsrs. Are used to do a lot of fish years ago and there was a lot of trial and error in learning, it’s a lot easier to sit around and watch a couple dozen videos with your experiences and advice. I’m thinking about starting up again with one or two shrimp tanks now.
The snow storm missed us in the Chicago South Burbs! Gonna start up a 40g breeder when the weather warms up because I'm gonna stock it with those PRL's you have. Just need the warmer temps for shipping!
I love the "Captain Kirk" lighting across your eyes at the end of this video! Thanks for sharing!
Love all your vids and your genuine no bs informative ways. Thanks for sharing!
This really helped clarify things for me. Thanks a lot for taking the time to post this!
Hey man, I’m new to Shrimpin, and I’m really enjoying watching some of the RUclipsrs giving out excellent information. I’ve heard everyone talk about flip aquatics so now I’m on your page. I’ve been watching them for a couple days now. I had to laugh when you said you were a little scatterbrained, because you were definitely moving about 100 miles an hour. But that’s OK just made me watch the video twice. Lol
Keep the videos coming, your expertise is invaluable to those of us who are new to the craft of keeping shrimp.
Still listening. Enjoy that snow day!
The Fish Nerd it was awesome haha nice relaxation for sure!
I am still watching can't wait for more.
Sakura Haruno thank you :)
Greetings from Poland!!! I watch Your videos more than often!!
Poland! Greetings from the USA :) thanks for watching!
Thank you for all you do
Stayed to the end, enjoy your off day
Greg Gaines thank you brother! hanging in there till the end is a task haha I always get sidetracked
I wanna be a shrimp Breeder, but I'm still watching video and learning and would love to learn from you before jumping into it , I'm in seattle .
Love the videos, just did a substrate swap on my Taiwan bee tank today. I made the full conversion to controsoil in all my shrimp/planted tanks. Love the growth and buffering capabilities. Enjoy that day off my friend!
thanks for the advice. I am about to set up some more 20's in my own shrimproom and your advice really helped me with my new tanks. THANK YOU Diesel.
watching you for years love this video thanks buddy
Watched until the end of the video. Great info as always. Running an inert and buffered tank now. Bought my crystals from you and they're doing great! Cant wait until they grow up.
Happy holidays, have a great day off .Thx for all the info and your time
Loving your videos, just got my first Red cherry shrimp babies.
Keep the videos coming. Love watching your channel. Getting a couple shrimp this Friday, you have inspired me to tackle the scary world of shrimp keeping. Thanks. Good luck with the business and the adventure of being married, it is not as bad as some people make it out to be.
Still here, love you videos, lots of great info. Enjoy your snow day off!
Christine Carbonell thank you for the compliment and comment! I had a great snow day :)
Almost 2 years later, still hanging in there.
great informative video Lup hope your day off is a nice one :) listened to the end :)
Dwain Kitchel it was an amazing day off haha thanks for the comment my friend :)
hey mate, I like very much your videos. You are doing great !!
Pedro Gómez thank you Pedro :) I appreciate it
Still listening.....good video. Thanks
Nice video Rob! Thanks for sharing!
Greetings from Norway and big thanks for a good quality channel. It's a helpful channel and I'm recommending it to people I meet here in Norway who also keep shrimps. It's inspiring to see how good you guys have made the shrimp hobby in the states and I'm hopeful that we can make the same community here in Norway
Thanks for the video!! Glad I watched this I was considering getting the other Black blasting substrate from Tractor Supply that you had previously suggested and will now stick with the sand. Keep up the videos.
Great video
No need to reply immediately, always enjoy life, it is far to short... keep up great work... celabrated 16yrs married this yr... listen to "understand" not to respond, communication is key...
still watching!! great video
Still listening :) Thank you for the videos.
Big fan keep shrimping and loving life!
Thank you for the info i wondered about the tubs and this answered it
Nice video!
Good video man, very informative :D
I made it to the end! I know it's a year and a half after you posted - I just found your channel through aquarium co-op and I'm really enjoying it!! I've kept neocaridinas a few times with varying success rates. I'm looking forward to starting up again with your advice!! Love your videos 👍😊
Always watch till the end !!!
AGUILAR3 much love! I appreciate the loyal viewership :)
i watch all the vid.i still dont know why.i dont have shrimp or fish, but i enjoy the vids . thank you for your time. always use the K.I.S.S. plan . keep it super simple.
Nice video. Watched it all the way through!
Casedog13 thank you :) dedication there haha
Great tip on the black diamond sand being potentially bad with the petroleum cleaning agents. Was trying to decide if I should get it instead of fluorite black, made the decision so much easier now!
I have a 75 that I started out as a compost dirt rock substrate and that was around four plus years ago and the plants, shrimp and fish are all doing good and the water parameters are all good. I am running two large canister filters that I clean once a month. So I am all for live substrate. Oh and the plants over grows the tank so that about every two months I got to cut almost a half a grocery bag of cuttings and plants from that 75g. tank.
Thank you sir ..you gave me inspiration..
Love the tips and tricks!
love watching till the end bro!!!!
Emilio Maldonado thank you brother! I appreciate the dedication
Still listening, great vid Rob!
tou her thank you my friend!
I am droppin' my comment,Duder. I want to try my hand at shrimp breeding to make a few bucks. I had a business a few months ago that sadly fizzled out after over a year. Just trying to keep myself occupied doing things I love. Fortunately I have a good women that supports me in everything I do.
ADA is one of the main substrates over here in Europe. There are a few others on the market that are, if not as big, they are close as well as a few that are coming out of a few countries in Asia that are making their make on the scene.
My Crystal Reds came from a tank that had a pH of 7,1. The substrate wasn't buffering anymore, I did hem in my tank how is buffered so,
I'm convinced that how longer we keep shrimps in tanks how better they can handle different kinds of parameters.
enjoy your day off 👌 and thanks for the video.
greets from the Netherlands
I know that this is an older video, but thanks for always providing great info. One of these days I will successfully breed crystal reds. :)
great video. keep up the great work.
John Salsbery thank you my friend! I appreciate that!
still listening, cool idea about switching out the buffering substrate when it 'depletes'
I'm married too and in we had a baby boy 5 years ago and just had another one. I also work and I'm a college student plus I have 4 fish tanks lol. So, I feel ya! I bet you are still busier than I am. I have no idea how you do it but I love ya and you're doing great. Keep doing what you're doing!
Lots of good info here 👍
Steenfott Aquatics Bob! hope you're doing well brother
Enjoying uour shrimp vids, im jyst starting with shrimp. Red cherrys.
Great video. I was just editting this week's video on substrate for planted tanks and hit on alot of the same points on inert vs buffering. glad to see i am in the same track....hahaha.
i am going to reshoot to add a touch about shrimp because i talk about them in an upcoming cleanup crew vid. But i am going to add a link right to this vid in my substrate ine because you cover it so well too.
Love the vids! Always watch to the end. Any chance you will have orange Sakuras soon? Even culls?
Congrats on your marriage. Great feeling. Video was very informative. Lots of info. Planning on a 20 gal shrimp tank in near future (tomorrow or yesterday), so I have a lot to digest. Now, where do I start???????
I go to my local Ace Hardware store to pick up pool sand it comes pretty clean I am critical about what goes in my tanks so I still rinse it using just a hose and a five gallon bucket
...love your videos...mahalo...
Love your videos!
10k is coming real quick
Safox I'm so pumped up about 10k! it's been a big year
I also use pool filter sand (I first heard about it here!) Many of the national hardware store chains carry pool filter sand on their web sites with free in-store pickup. I use Ace Hardware and order it to a store a mile away.
Another thing I add to my shrimp tanks is a pile of stones. To add hiding places for the babies and to trap food for them. About a year ago I wanted to get rid of a jar of tumbled stones (the kind you put in the bottom of a vase.) At the same time I was looking to add something to my shrimp tanks for the kids to hide in. It works well with my royal blue babies swarming all over and in between the stones. Survival rate seems to be up.
Really helpful!!!
Great clip. Thanx 😜
Made it till the end man lol. Just found your channel too, nice vid and tanks. This time of year is definatly a juggling act for family guys. I just keep telling myself, few more days n its over lol. Going through the buffer struggle myself. New to the bee shrimp, have 10 cbs sss (sold to me as anyway) Love em so far. My tap is jacked up here. We have RODI unit we run for other applications. I usually mix tap back in to add some kh/gh. But cant with these guys. I use ADA Amazonia in my high-tech 90, love the stuff. Buffers me down to like 6.8👍👍👍 Keep Peruvians an gbr's in there so works perfect. My wife uses stratum in her beta breeding madness. It only drops PH to 7.2. That's a big difference as you know when it comes to caridina cantonensis especially in reguards to breeding. As we all know, a low stable PH can be a struggle at times. I'm fighting a losing battle it seems with what I have going in there now substrate wise. I have some fluorite in there with RO I buffered down with seachem alkaline buffer and acid buffers, using equilibrium to get me to 6gh. But it slowly creeps from 6.6 back up through the week. So I agree with you seems as though for the shrimp the best all around 2 are ada and stratum. I'm currently waiting on aquasoil or maybe brightwell when I order next. So do you have any experience with a product called salty shrimp kh/gh? Ive been thinking abourt going that rout. Happy new year, subbed
Watching this video with a 200L tank with 3 year old Amazon soil all on the bottom wishing I saw this video 4 years ago
Nice shrimps! I think I will learn a lot from your videos. I see you have many tanks set up that all looks the same. I know its a bit off topic, but could you maybe make a video on how you set up your racks and tanks? What special equipment do you need to get the system going? Any multi tank filters in place? Thanks.
thanks for the malaysian drift wood suggestion on your other video, i have 2 pieces now and they love it. also you might want to look into lava rocks, it might have been due to the driftwood being new/no algae film stuff, but they still are all over it and it is very porous.
your videos are great! keep up the work! I wish i could get some of those shrimp! No worries we are still listening, stay safe in the snow, we've got flooding and rockslides here on maui. Any suggestions on breeding ghost shrimp? I have Opae which are almost like ghost shrimp and would love to breed them. Thanks in advance!
thanks for the vid! I was looking at substrates without returns on the quality... Of course everbody praises ADA, but for the other substrates i had no info. Plus it's good to learn that i don't have to use active substrate to breed neocaridina :) Indeed, all the active substrates i can buy are brown/black, and i wanted a clearer substrate to have a bit of variety in my tanks...
amazing shrimp cool
Thanks Jeff!!
Love your work right to the end! If pool filter sand is ideal, how can I create an aquascaped (planted) tank that I won't ever have to break down?
Root tabs.
Wow, very respectful. Your great man and I hope you have a incredible day today. Let me know if you do wholesale accts also.
Great video, you lost me a few minutes in haha! That is okay though I'll be rewatching this and your other videos a lot over the next few months. My son and I are setting up two 10 gallon shrimp tanks, we've had really bad luck with shrimp in the past (PetSmart shrimp!), but they were so interesting while they lasted and really added depth to my heavily planted 60g. I think my tank's low PH was killing them, it always drops to less than 5 (planted, lots of wood, sand substrate) days after a water change bumps it up to 7ish. It would be amazing if I could get a stable colony in my big tank but going to try 2 dedicated little tanks in the meantime, it might be we just have a brown thumb for shrimp :P
I hung in through the whole video! LOL but seriously, any opinions on EcoComplete?
crazy good
good video! when are you having some blue velvet back in stock?
Question, what plant is that at 6:20 in your video? You said it was one of your crystal tanks.
Watched till the end! I like your vids a lot & what you're all about. Vids can be a tad long, but its all good.
Thanks for all you do!
5 years old, so interesting if you reply. Maybe somebody else will.
Anyone ever use peat moss to aid in buffering? I am trying it now. My tank is cycling first with, snails, then plants, and ghost shrimp. I have temporary limestone and active carbon for this process, and am up to my second stage with plants, whilst still boosting the ammonia levels after the first cycle with snails. It will be interesting to see how low the ph will be once stable. The deep substrate is 7 inches, with an inch of peat.
What if you combine both methods - have a shallow layer of substrate, and a container of substrate? You will get bacteria colonizing the shallow layer, and you can replace the tupperware whenever the buffering capacity is used up?
Is there a follow up video with the ADA Tupperware method vs 1/4 ~ 1/2 inch bottom method? What were your observations? Do you have a preferred method you're using today? Thanks for the vids man!
when replacing half of the ADA exhausted substrate, do you get an ammonia spike that can affect the shrimp?
LupDiesel, what shrimp species has given you the most issues? Love your vids!!!!
Sorry if this is a dumb question…. But if you have a planted tank (with a buffered substrate) how do you replace everything every two years?
I set up a tank this past weekend...but I did dirt and gravel. Just not looking like I wanted. So I bought an 8.8lb bag of Fluval. Going to redo it this weekend. Nothing in the tank except dwarf hairgrass so...should be alright.
I still need to figure out what shrimp to get. I want something that pops against the darker color
I am setting up a 2.5 gallon shrimp nursery and was thinking about doing this plastic container method similarly. However, since i want this to be a little showpiece on my desk, i was wondering if it would be possible to fill a plastic container that is about 1" deep and would cover about 1/4 of the base of my 2.5 cube. I would fill the container with Stratum and the surrounding area with flourite black, then place some rocks around rim of the plastic container to hid the rim. would 1/4th of stratum substrate be enough to bring the PH down for crystal red/blacks ? Currently i run stratum in a 5 gallon and have a consistent ph of 6.5.
I prefer this shoe box method rather than spreading soil loosely it saves time for maintance
Could you please recommend a breeding tank size for a beginner..? I still can't figure out perfect size because I have a small space in my place..
So neocardina aren't so compatible with fluval stratum?