The Secrets to Breeding 1,000's of Cherry Shrimp!

J1/241 Station Rd, Yeerongpilly QLD 4105

[OneMoreTank]

One thing to note is the temperature does have a big impact on the sex of the baby shrimp. One study found they are 50/50 male/female at 23°C. 3° hotter resulted in 80% males and 3° lower resulted in 80% female. Temperature also had an impact on how fast they hatch but it wasn't as significant. So ideally I would keep them at 23°C or lower to get more females and grow the colony faster (plus the females are nicer!)

[MaybeTiberius]

i can confirm: shrimp LOVE flow. in my small 7 gal tank, i m using a patmini pump with modified sponges to it and it blows. you can see all the plants waving in the flow and its pretty strong current, so much so that at first i thought it might be too much.

but turned out, they love that. sometimes on certain times of the day, they literally gather up, and then climbing up the glass in a line as if they wait for the roller coaster up until they are directly in front of the pump and then they let go and got blown away around the tank and 10 seconds later they are right at it again to get blown away. its kind of bizarre but they keep doing that.

[juliemcgugan]

I started out with 8 halocaridina rubra and within a couple of years, I literally had thousands! Put them in a tank with a deep coral-based gravel bed and left them alone, other than giving them a toothpick-amount of spirulina powder. Once the numbers were up, they were much livelier, fed better and much more sociable with each other. At one point, when I had too many for the tank, I had to slowly acclimatize them to fresh-water from the brackish water that they breed in, because I didn’t have any more tanks to expand their living environment. They stopped breeding entirely, in fresh-water. I then converted them back to brackish-water, as I prepared to sell them and sold every last one of them, including bonus packs of babies, over the next 6 months, at a price that rivaled the stores in my country and made myself a fair amount of money. That money is saved, so that in future, if I find them in my new country, I can afford a brand new tank and any necessary equipment, in order to set up a new breeding system again.

[jiim]

I had minimal aeration in my tank when I started and I rarely saw my shrimp. Now that I added an airstone for something else they are out and about a lot more. I think it is a combination of more oxygen and flow, like the rocky streams they are found in the wild.

[Michael-ixwo]

For me, I believe that this video was the best I have ever watched as yours. I enjoy the shrimp and you hit all the most information that does make keeping fish simple 👌

[dane]

Its like every time I get something new in the fishroom you seem to do a relevant video 😂 thank you!

[PilotsPitstop]

what are those pretty plants that look like coral? or little anemones or worms?

[bensimpson]

honestly love this video and the fact you are correcting information you previously put out there. you dont see people update users on their changed opinions in the freshwater space. see it alot in reefing due to the rapid advancement. but then you have really great aquarists like father fish who cant get his head around anything new and doesnt change his opinion on anything and his way is the only way. you are always updating people one what you learn and sharing your experiences. as for flow they definitely appreciate streamlike flow but do not like turbulence which many people dont differentiate. i didnt until i settled in to reefing. the turblance will pin baby shimp in pockets that dont provide for their needs and just generally bashes them in whirlpools. consistent flow is great though.
and the whole thing about neglecting them is the best advice i did end up down to next to no shrimp i only feed if i want to bring them out for grading. i dont do water changes i just top off with RODI. keep making this video as each one is slightly different and demonstrates your growth as well as the growth in the hobby

[mrbrown]

Acclimation is a must, but be careful you don't go too far with pH to soon.
Make sure you check the water they're in and don't change more than 1 score in 24 hours.

[TheJoshman]

I found this video very useful and informative. I do want to mention the pH scale and how you mentioned the dissolving of the crushed coral is backwards. Otherwise I've learned my tap water will be perfect for water hardness

[davidvento]

The “drip acclimation” method is the way I’ve always acclimated my more delicate freshwater species as well as all my saltwater fish and invertebrates, sometimes over a 2 - 3 hour period. The rule of thumb that has worked well is to double/triple the amount of the original water they’re in (in the acclimation bucket.) I’ve never lost an animal to shock or disease related to acclimation.

[chicagorc]

i bought 5 cherry shrimp and started with a 5.5 gallon and a 10 gallon. i put all 5 in the 5.5g and they blew up! i started putting them in the 10g and soon had to start a whole 38g. after 6 months there were thousands in the 38g! i didnt know what to do so i put it up on craigslist and some guy came and bout all 3 tanks for like 500$. Shrimp are so easy to breed and very worth it

[bettasmoscow]

Thanks for your videos. They're the best I've come across. Good luck and I look forward to your new works.

[Diaa.Khalifa]

The golden information here that everyone should stick to is that don't ever make and noticable change, whatever the change you want to do make it in very slow rate, let's say if you wakeup and found the heater is off and temperature is 12 degree, don't freak out, raise the temperature to the normal temperature in 3 or 4 days not in 3 or 4 hours.
Every change make it in very slow rate ever if you are moving from the worst conduction to the optimal conduction, because the optimal 1st rule is the change rate

[dougandersonza]

Do you mind sharing your water parameters of one of your shrimp tanks for reference pls. Like ph, gh, kh, tds... thanks Doug

[celticbarry]

I have a 125 litre tank in Scotland, it is very soft water here, almost like pure water. I bought 25 red cherry shrimp on Tuesday last week, I think I got 27 or 28 and added them to my tank with platys, corys, cardinal tetras and a honey gourami.

After 1 day I added a teaspoon of calcium carbonate that I dissolved in a glass of water first, it turned the tank to like watery milk looking for a few hours but the shrimp seemed to settle better after it. It's been 10 days i've had them now and they mostly stay inside my java moss, I counted about 12 in there 2 days ago and I don't see them out much, occasionally I see 1 or 2 on wood or around the filter but half or most have survived at least 10 days so far which is a good sign. I haven't seen any dead ones either so most if not all might still be alive.

I feel like they are maybe more hardy than people think. I am interested to see how they deal with water changes and stuff though, as I do 50% water changes and they are pretty hectic as I refill with a hose like blasting water on top and the temperature may change a couple of degrees.

[marlonallansupetran]

I started with 7, now I have a colony of I don't know how much. I even moved them around when I rescaped my tank, they are super hardy. Those that are not coloring up well I feed them to my saltwater puffer.

[scorpion]

I've found hundreds of baby shrimp in all my cannister filters and they were quite happy

[MARKSAQUATICS]

Nick you'll find in your mixed colour breeding tank the colours will start to dull down and eventually they'll revert back to wild colouration.

[nathanwhughes]

I love cleaning the canister filters in my two big community tanks. (About twice a year)I have to dump them in a bucket and let the crap settle. Then I net all the shrimp that grew up in the filter housing. I have sponges on my intakes so the only way they get into the canisters is when they are tiny babies.