Hi Mark - my ammonia was 0; my nitrite was 0; my nitrate was 0!!!!!!! couple weeks of ghost feeding & adding beneficial bacteria!!! So I resorted to a cooked prawn tied up in a bit of nylon stocking and popped that into the tank - finally my ammonia is rising so waiting for the nitrites to kick in!!! then the nitrates - at least this way I know it is cycled...........thanks for video - hopefully I can follow your tips and not murder any shrimp when I get them!!!!!! Kay
Great video as always 😀👍 I agree with all that you said. My observations is that thank may be cycled after 4 weeks, but it's better after 6-8 weeks. Also it's worth to remember to add livestock partially, not all fishes at a time. This way we give some time to good bacterias to adjust to a higher bioload. Happy shrimp keeping! 🦐💕🦐
Hey Marion! Really glad you found the channel and that it's been helpful. Good luck with your betta and shrimp tank! If you have any questions or need some tips along the way, feel free to ask. We’re here to help! 😊🦐
Hi Mark, I found your video really informative. I know you posted it quite sometime ago. I’m not sure if it’s over feeding as I’ve been told I’m not feeding them enough as I only feed them every 2 sometimes 3 days and they always come for food. Today when I fed them none came for food except my Bristle nose catfish. I saw hardly any shrimp but one red baby swimming around. I have quite a few pest snails so I wasn’t sure if they have been eating the food. It’s about a 20L planted tank. So I’m going to try extending my light timer as it’s winter here now and turning the heater up higher as well
Hello Rose, yes you sound like you know what youre doing, I would lay off the feeding again until they start coming for it otherwise your just polutting the tank.
Not sure what’s happened. I tested my water. Ph, Ammonia, Nitrites & Nitrates all perfect. Cleaned my hangon filter as it was quite gross and filled with algae so maybe that could have been something. But found most of my shrimp hiding behind the rocks when they are usually active. Took half the algae wafer out and had to keep removing the snails off it as the shrimp started to come eat it. Found one dying one and a tiny baby that was dying as well 😢 but the algae wafer I put in every few days is only the size of my pinky finger nail. I also have a sponge filter along with the hangon filter. But my Anubis plants have started yellowing and have got some holes in them so wasn’t sure what that could be or if that could affect the shrimp.
hi yusri here cape town south africa, like the cray you have unfortunately it's illegal to have crazy in cape town but further up South Africa you can keep them kind of silly if you ask me and if you have any crays you cannot sell them but you can swap them according to some story I heard through the Grapevine go figure.
@@MarksShrimpTanks is causes the substrate below the sand to become anaerobic and breaks down mulm much like a septic tank would. Father fish's channel goes deep into this idea, he also harks the benefits of introducing as much microfauna/flora from natural sources like rivers to emulate natural systems
@@MarksShrimpTanks I understand! It's a very different style of doing things, I'm am currently doing it this way and my shrimp are happy, nature provides! The idea is to create a full eco system in the tank starting from the smallest life and having a large amount of bio diversity to keep all the baddies in check, every bad bacteria or parasite has it's own bad predators that you can introduce just but maxing out the amount of life.
Hey mark, I'll try to make it short but I would love to hear your opinion I've set up a new 10g tank about a month ago. nothing too crazy, lots of low Tech plants, some wood and a nice, already 90% cycled sponge filter, I've also put some mineral balls which had a good reputation online (grey ones, could look up the name if needed) 2 weeks ago, after making sure the tank was fully cycled with some guppies in it (which of course I took out) I purchased 15 nicely colored cherries and drip acclimated them to the tank Fast forward 2 weeks, there was almost not a single day without a shrimp dying, 90% of them died to the white ring of death (failed to molt), there was also a good amount of good molts around the tank so I dont know what made them try to molt again My main theory is of course stress, but I dont know what can cause it, it's been two weeks, the water parameters are good, the tank is cycled, lot's of plants and hiding places Im down to 4 left and I just can't find a cause as to why they all failed to molt, I would love to hear your opinion as to what the reason could be Thx (:
@@MarksShrimpTanks can I feed off his comment he never replied but I’m almost having the exact same Problem My Ph is about 6.8-7 the kh is around like 60-80 ppm it kinda changes between water changes because Arizona water has a lot in it. The kh was way higher like the GH which is over 200ppm but as the water has sat in the tank it’s gotten lower to that 60-80ppm. 0 nitrites. 10-15 ppm nitrates it’s a heavily planted tank. I’ve had the tank for over 4 months now with shrimp in it and it sat before with no Shrimp for like 3 months used gravel from another tank that has a lot of fish in it and ghost fed the tank for the 3 months so almost 7 months I’m in and I thought by now ide be looking at a bunch of baby shrimp but I’m just replacing the dead ones I pull out. Plz help I’m like $800 deep I don’t want to give in but I don’t want to waste anymore
Purchased 4 cherry shrimp and put them in my planted tank, which I've had for a couple months, with a few tetras and zebras that are doing great. They all died after only a few hours of being in the tank. Then I got 4 more and acclimated them using the drip method over the course of 3 hours and then put them in the tank. Same thing, death after a few hours. No idea what's up. My water is clear, the strip test looks good, and my fish are fine.
i can only think of 3 reasons rn a)there r heavy metals like Cu,Cd,Ag or Pb in ur water even tiny amounts is enough b) problem with ph or general hardness c) the fish have something to do in here altho chances r very less since considering the time of death but i wouldnt suggest to keep shrimps with zebras(they r evil)
Thank you for responding!!! I do have a question. I have a 10gal tank which started out a comunity tank . Five small fish and amano shrimp. Everything was great. Deep substrate, lots of plants. Really nice tank. Shrimp all over the place. Then I started seeing this bright green algae. It got worse and worse. So i transferred the fish to my 75gal tank . Tried to transfer the shrimp. I was planning on dismantling the tank , and start over. But every day there were more shrimp . So I decided to leave it to them. Control the algea as best I could . Lately I have noticed that the shrimp don't seem to be reaching adulthood. There must be a couple of hundred of them. They get mature enough to carry eggs . But 90% of them are babies. What's wrong with this picture? The ones I moved into the 75gal and the betta tank died. I know this is a long story, but I wanted to paint a clear picture!!! Any advice would be truly appreciated Marion
Hello Marion, I see this in my Neo tanks too and the only thing that helps is doing larger water changes every week like 30 %, in my tanks ive also started using a scoop of prime pre mixed in some tank water and then added it to the tanks.
Hey mark, i made your powdered shrimp food and i was wondering how much i should feed because i cant seem to gauge it, i have a 10g with 50 small cherry shrimp
Hey mate, were those Columbian Ramshorns in the first few clips there? I've always fancied keeping them but heard they're tough on plants. Is that right in your experience?
Yes Columbian Ramshorns if not feed enough, green/veg they will have no choice but to eat plants. Sinking tablets (both meaty and veg/algae based) can be given, along with catfish pellets, flakes, various small frozen fish foods and fresh vegetables.
i have 3 tanks , one of them cherry shrimp will NOT survive more than a few weeks , in the new tank they within weeks went from 5 to about 40 . The only difference is that tank has an aquasoil the others are just sand ( labelled shrimp safe ) . Odd thing is ghost shrimp are currently doing well in the death tank .
Rushing the nitrogen cycle is the one thing I see and hear people get wrong a lot (also at pet stores), so it's nice that you make a point out of it. However, I do think that a new tank void of any living creatures can never be completed and ready for shrimp/fish after as little as one month. The bacteria need a certain amount of time for division and multiplying, and one month is simply not enough for both colonies to establish and stabilize. Aim for two months minimum. One can think of it as, first month for the first bacteria colony, and the second month for the second bacteria colony. Assuming one still ghost feeds and keep the right temperature, and light cycle. The key to success really is patience, however boring that may sound, as there is no reason to rush this. I also hope that people and pet stores stop using 'sacrificial fish' when starting a new tank, thinking it may go faster. The poor creatures.
I am doing my shrimp tanks very fast nowadays with no shrimp loses, key for me is understanding that you have a NEW SETUP and you treat it accordingly with feeding and the bioload of the animals you add.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Indeed! And that also shows how experienced people can do such a move. People who are new to the hobby, or lack the knowledge, will not be able to do that. And my previous comment was tailored towards how many YT videos are targeting new shrimp/fish keepers, who simply can't yet make the assessment of what works and not.
@@MarksShrimpTanks hey I was just wondering about over feeding and how to know when they have had too much. I have some Amino shrimp I put in my tank yesterday and I fed them but they have been eating for at least 3 hours. Should I take the food off them ?
Hello Marks, is it possible ammonification more than nitrification in an old tank, and make the pH go up? If it is, should I put nitrifying bacteria or EM into the tank regularly?
Hi Mark! I am planning on keeping some pinto shrimp in a 10g. However I want to have an aquascaped tank as it'll be a display tank so I want to use a different substrate. I was wondering if installing a canister filter full of buffering substrate would work in buffering the water? I also assume it would be easier to change it out when it stops working. Just an idea I had, what do you think?
Hi, Mark. I went along and made up a 16L tank and shrimp have now tank off. Thy are cherry shrimp. I found a very deep red coloured female and I want to know how to I breed more of this lovely deep red one? Most of them are the ones with the stripe, or a little lighter red, but this lass is gorgeous! I hop I can find hr again. The tank took off after I watched and learnt from you. I have a light and little plants gone nuts. Just something growing on the filter that i might gt rid of, but plenty of alga, and you s a lot of tiny babies, adults and in between like they are flying around in there and sitting on windows/walls or anywhere really. At first I thought they looked a bit like spiders, but now I can appreciate them more Not sur how to slow them down, but I do have another 16L set up that had a fish, and a few small shrimp and blow m down thy had babies! No joke. My fish died and the shrimp are happy to be in there. Do I just half the population between the two, or do thy need a bigger tank? Thanks so much for your hands on videoes, and tips.
I never had such old tank syndrome problem but I don't have 1000 shrimp in one tank. you might want to keep a empty plastic garbage can or plastic tube filled with your old water & filter it with a sponge filter if the room temp is heating all the tanks then you don't need a heater in the garbage can. Then you always have a place you can remove your inhabitants till your ready to re home back in your tank or elsewhere. bushy nose pleaco are no problem at all and live a long time. That little one looks like a female. I've seen small males with a beard already down the center of their head.
I have about 50 shrimp and will lose one every month and they don’t seem to be breeding anymore, iv had the tank up for years, plenty of plants and wood.
If the aquarium is old and has a thick substrate, there may be hydrogen sulfide in the substrate. Press something into the substrate. If bubbles of foul-smelling gas come out and the substrate is darker, then it is hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide reacts with oxygen, causing the water to be depleted of oxygen. In this case, fish and snails stay more often at the top of the tank, shrimp die and do not reproduce. Solution - clean the substrate, change a little more water than usual and increase aeration for a while. In contact with oxygen, hydrogen sulfide quickly forms water and non-toxic sulfur oxide.
Hiya mark , please can you help me , I am not sure but I think I have seed shrimp in my tank with lots of baby shrimp is it safe or is it a good thing?? I can’t see 100% if they are seed shrimp or baby shrimp, mainly on glass in light.
Nice one Mark. Short, and no BS
Thank you Tater 🦐
Hi Mark - my ammonia was 0; my nitrite was 0; my nitrate was 0!!!!!!! couple weeks of ghost feeding & adding beneficial bacteria!!! So I resorted to a cooked prawn tied up in a bit of nylon stocking and popped that into the tank - finally my ammonia is rising so waiting for the nitrites to kick in!!! then the nitrates - at least this way I know it is cycled...........thanks for video - hopefully I can follow your tips and not murder any shrimp when I get them!!!!!! Kay
Hi Mark, simple and right to the point, thank you from NYC
Thank you for watching my friend 👍
Great video as always 😀👍 I agree with all that you said. My observations is that thank may be cycled after 4 weeks, but it's better after 6-8 weeks. Also it's worth to remember to add livestock partially, not all fishes at a time. This way we give some time to good bacterias to adjust to a higher bioload. Happy shrimp keeping! 🦐💕🦐
Hi Mark . So glad I found your channel. Thank you! Going to try and save my betta tank with my shrimp.
Hey Marion! Really glad you found the channel and that it's been helpful. Good luck with your betta and shrimp tank! If you have any questions or need some tips along the way, feel free to ask. We’re here to help! 😊🦐
This helps me a lot! Thanks Mark!!!
Happy to help!
Very informative Thanks! I’ve been neglecting my feeding as I move shrimp to new tanks. So much for them to eat in the tanks with new substrate 😃
👍 Great tips Mark
Thank you Mark 👍🦐🌿
5:04 wow! have you got any full videos showcasing this tank? what a beast! with all the shrimp on him :') adorable
They are in a lot of the shrimp room tour videos. 👍
@@MarksShrimpTanks Thanks Mark :)
Love the b roll
Hi Mark, I found your video really informative. I know you posted it quite sometime ago. I’m not sure if it’s over feeding as I’ve been told I’m not feeding them enough as I only feed them every 2 sometimes 3 days and they always come for food. Today when I fed them none came for food except my Bristle nose catfish. I saw hardly any shrimp but one red baby swimming around. I have quite a few pest snails so I wasn’t sure if they have been eating the food. It’s about a 20L planted tank. So I’m going to try extending my light timer as it’s winter here now and turning the heater up higher as well
Hello Rose, yes you sound like you know what youre doing, I would lay off the feeding again until they start coming for it otherwise your just polutting the tank.
Not sure what’s happened. I tested my water. Ph, Ammonia, Nitrites & Nitrates all perfect. Cleaned my hangon filter as it was quite gross and filled with algae so maybe that could have been something. But found most of my shrimp hiding behind the rocks when they are usually active. Took half the algae wafer out and had to keep removing the snails off it as the shrimp started to come eat it. Found one dying one and a tiny baby that was dying as well 😢 but the algae wafer I put in every few days is only the size of my pinky finger nail. I also have a sponge filter along with the hangon filter. But my Anubis plants have started yellowing and have got some holes in them so wasn’t sure what that could be or if that could affect the shrimp.
hi yusri here cape town south africa, like the cray you have unfortunately it's illegal to have crazy in cape town but further up South Africa you can keep them kind of silly if you ask me and if you have any crays you cannot sell them but you can swap them according to some story I heard through the Grapevine go figure.
have you ever tried capping the substrate with sand? father fish goes into great detail on the subject
capping it for what reason?
@@MarksShrimpTanks is causes the substrate below the sand to become anaerobic and breaks down mulm much like a septic tank would. Father fish's channel goes deep into this idea, he also harks the benefits of introducing as much microfauna/flora from natural sources like rivers to emulate natural systems
yeah thats not for me, I can see to many issues with it like the wrong things getting into the tank.
@@MarksShrimpTanks I understand! It's a very different style of doing things, I'm am currently doing it this way and my shrimp are happy, nature provides! The idea is to create a full eco system in the tank starting from the smallest life and having a large amount of bio diversity to keep all the baddies in check, every bad bacteria or parasite has it's own bad predators that you can introduce just but maxing out the amount of life.
Hey mark, I'll try to make it short but I would love to hear your opinion
I've set up a new 10g tank about a month ago. nothing too crazy, lots of low Tech plants, some wood and a nice, already 90% cycled sponge filter, I've also put some mineral balls which had a good reputation online (grey ones, could look up the name if needed)
2 weeks ago, after making sure the tank was fully cycled with some guppies in it (which of course I took out) I purchased 15 nicely colored cherries and drip acclimated them to the tank
Fast forward 2 weeks, there was almost not a single day without a shrimp dying, 90% of them died to the white ring of death (failed to molt), there was also a good amount of good molts around the tank so I dont know what made them try to molt again
My main theory is of course stress, but I dont know what can cause it, it's been two weeks, the water parameters are good, the tank is cycled, lot's of plants and hiding places
Im down to 4 left and I just can't find a cause as to why they all failed to molt, I would love to hear your opinion as to what the reason could be
Thx (:
what are your parameters ?
@@MarksShrimpTanks can I feed off his comment he never replied but I’m almost having the exact same
Problem My Ph is about 6.8-7 the kh is around like 60-80 ppm it kinda changes between water changes because Arizona water has a lot in it. The kh was way higher like the GH which is over 200ppm but as the water has sat in the tank it’s gotten lower to that 60-80ppm. 0 nitrites. 10-15 ppm nitrates it’s a heavily planted tank. I’ve had the tank for over 4 months now with shrimp in it and it sat before with no Shrimp for like 3 months used gravel from another tank that has a lot of fish in it and ghost fed the tank for the 3 months so almost 7 months I’m in and I thought by now ide be looking at a bunch of baby shrimp but I’m just replacing the dead ones I pull out. Plz help I’m like $800 deep I don’t want to give in but I don’t want to waste anymore
Hi Mark, what are the shrimp @4:40 the tricolour one on top has/is superman 🤩mega nice
these are rili I breed from painted fire red shrimp
Purchased 4 cherry shrimp and put them in my planted tank, which I've had for a couple months, with a few tetras and zebras that are doing great.
They all died after only a few hours of being in the tank.
Then I got 4 more and acclimated them using the drip method over the course of 3 hours and then put them in the tank. Same thing, death after a few hours.
No idea what's up. My water is clear, the strip test looks good, and my fish are fine.
i can only think of 3 reasons rn
a)there r heavy metals like Cu,Cd,Ag or Pb in ur water even tiny amounts is enough
b) problem with ph or general hardness
c) the fish have something to do in here altho chances r very less since considering the time of death but i wouldnt suggest to keep shrimps with zebras(they r evil)
Did you end up finding out the cause just curious and what did the test strip test for?
Thank you for responding!!!
I do have a question. I have a 10gal tank which started out a comunity tank . Five small fish and amano shrimp. Everything was great. Deep substrate, lots of plants. Really nice tank. Shrimp all over the place. Then I started seeing this bright green algae. It got worse and worse. So i transferred the fish to my 75gal tank . Tried to transfer the shrimp. I was planning on dismantling the tank , and start over. But every day there were more shrimp . So I decided to leave it to them. Control the algea as best I could . Lately I have noticed that the shrimp don't seem to be reaching adulthood. There must be a couple of hundred of them. They get mature enough to carry eggs . But 90% of them are babies. What's wrong with this picture? The ones I moved into the 75gal and the betta tank died. I know this is a long story, but I wanted to paint a clear picture!!!
Any advice would be truly
appreciated
Marion
Hello Marion, I see this in my Neo tanks too and the only thing that helps is doing larger water changes every week like 30 %, in my tanks ive also started using a scoop of prime pre mixed in some tank water and then added it to the tanks.
Hey mark, i made your powdered shrimp food and i was wondering how much i should feed because i cant seem to gauge it, i have a 10g with 50 small cherry shrimp
I use a pinch every other day in my neo tanks
Hey mate, were those Columbian Ramshorns in the first few clips there? I've always fancied keeping them but heard they're tough on plants. Is that right in your experience?
Yes Columbian Ramshorns if not feed enough, green/veg they will have no choice but to eat plants.
Sinking tablets (both meaty and veg/algae based) can be given, along with catfish pellets, flakes, various small frozen fish foods and fresh vegetables.
yes dont get them if you want to save your plants they eat everything.
@@MarksShrimpTanks haha thanks man. Message recieved.
i have 3 tanks , one of them cherry shrimp will NOT survive more than a few weeks , in the new tank they within weeks went from 5 to about 40 . The only difference is that tank has an aquasoil the others are just sand ( labelled shrimp safe ) . Odd thing is ghost shrimp are currently doing well in the death tank .
You dont need aqua soil with cherry shrimp that the issue right there.
Hello mark! When using plants to assist in filtering nutrients from the water, what are your top plants for that? Thanks-Jeff.
for shrimp tanks its floaters, I like salvinia the best, grows fast and has short roots.
@@MarksShrimpTanks And use lots of nutrients.
Rushing the nitrogen cycle is the one thing I see and hear people get wrong a lot (also at pet stores), so it's nice that you make a point out of it. However, I do think that a new tank void of any living creatures can never be completed and ready for shrimp/fish after as little as one month. The bacteria need a certain amount of time for division and multiplying, and one month is simply not enough for both colonies to establish and stabilize. Aim for two months minimum. One can think of it as, first month for the first bacteria colony, and the second month for the second bacteria colony. Assuming one still ghost feeds and keep the right temperature, and light cycle. The key to success really is patience, however boring that may sound, as there is no reason to rush this. I also hope that people and pet stores stop using 'sacrificial fish' when starting a new tank, thinking it may go faster. The poor creatures.
I am doing my shrimp tanks very fast nowadays with no shrimp loses, key for me is understanding that you have a NEW SETUP and you treat it accordingly with feeding and the bioload of the animals you add.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Indeed! And that also shows how experienced people can do such a move. People who are new to the hobby, or lack the knowledge, will not be able to do that. And my previous comment was tailored towards how many YT videos are targeting new shrimp/fish keepers, who simply can't yet make the assessment of what works and not.
@@MarksShrimpTanks hey I was just wondering about over feeding and how to know when they have had too much. I have some Amino shrimp I put in my tank yesterday and I fed them but they have been eating for at least 3 hours. Should I take the food off them ?
Hello Marks, is it possible ammonification more than nitrification in an old tank, and make the pH go up? If it is, should I put nitrifying bacteria or EM into the tank regularly?
yes for sure, I am not really sure how well bacteria works for redusing this stuff, sorry for the late reply.
Hi Mark! I am planning on keeping some pinto shrimp in a 10g. However I want to have an aquascaped tank as it'll be a display tank so I want to use a different substrate. I was wondering if installing a canister filter full of buffering substrate would work in buffering the water? I also assume it would be easier to change it out when it stops working. Just an idea I had, what do you think?
yes it should still work just keep an eye on the ph 👍
Hi, Mark. I went along and made up a 16L tank and shrimp have now tank off. Thy are cherry shrimp. I found a very deep red coloured female and I want to know how to I breed more of this lovely deep red one? Most of them are the ones with the stripe, or a little lighter red, but this lass is gorgeous! I hop I can find hr again. The tank took off after I watched and learnt from you. I have a light and little plants gone nuts. Just something growing on the filter that i might gt rid of, but plenty of alga, and you s a lot of tiny babies, adults and in between like they are flying around in there and sitting on windows/walls or anywhere really. At first I thought they looked a bit like spiders, but now I can appreciate them more Not sur how to slow them down, but I do have another 16L set up that had a fish, and a few small shrimp and blow m down thy had babies! No joke. My fish died and the shrimp are happy to be in there. Do I just half the population between the two, or do thy need a bigger tank? Thanks so much for your hands on videoes, and tips.
windows in ur fish tank?😶
I never had such old tank syndrome problem but I don't have 1000 shrimp in one tank.
you might want to keep a empty plastic garbage can or plastic tube filled with your old water & filter it with a sponge filter if the room temp is heating all the tanks then you don't need a heater in the garbage can.
Then you always have a place you can remove your inhabitants till your ready to re home back in your tank or elsewhere.
bushy nose pleaco are no problem at all and live a long time.
That little one looks like a female.
I've seen small males with a beard already down the center of their head.
that is a good idea, it wouldn't have to be in use ether, just fill it up on emergencies or something.
@@MarksShrimpTanks Exactly
I have about 50 shrimp and will lose one every month and they don’t seem to be breeding anymore, iv had the tank up for years, plenty of plants and wood.
If you can get seachm puragen try that in a little pouch near the filter, its made a difference for me.
Lots of wood can cause your water to become too "soft" over time
If the aquarium is old and has a thick substrate, there may be hydrogen sulfide in the substrate. Press something into the substrate. If bubbles of foul-smelling gas come out and the substrate is darker, then it is hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide reacts with oxygen, causing the water to be depleted of oxygen. In this case, fish and snails stay more often at the top of the tank, shrimp die and do not reproduce.
Solution - clean the substrate, change a little more water than usual and increase aeration for a while. In contact with oxygen, hydrogen sulfide quickly forms water and non-toxic sulfur oxide.
Hiya mark , please can you help me , I am not sure but I think I have seed shrimp in my tank with lots of baby shrimp is it safe or is it a good thing?? I can’t see 100% if they are seed shrimp or baby shrimp, mainly on glass in light.
i don't worry about seed shrimp at all .
It too late😢
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