5 Things You Need if You Have Shrimp!

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[MullockHeap]

Glas Garten Bacter AE improved my breeding success by a lot. The powder means the babies don’t have to compete with the adults for food.

[MarksShrimpTanks]

Great advice mate for neos the only thing I would change is the title to reflect this. 👍

[igorgilza]

Foxtail or hornwort is an amazing plant!
It's one of the essential plants, in my opinion. Grows fast without high light, really helps with reducing nitrates and phosphates. It's also very common in the wild, you can see it in every water body here in Ukraine

[thetruthserum]

Great tips! As far as water quality, I recommend that anyone getting into shrimp get a GH and KH test kit with the liquid drops, and a TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) and pH meter in one, then test your tap water and see if it is within parameters or not. If it is within parameters, then that's great, if not, then get an RO unit from ebay for $120 bucks and then add the shrimp minerals and re-test to get your recipe dialed in before adding to the tank. With your sponge filter, make sure your tank is at least a month old (cycled tank) so that a healthy system is stable and ready to accept shrimp. A drip acclimation may help with transfer stress, as well as asking your shrimp supplier what their water parameters are, TDS, GH, KH, pH, Temp. Some like tanks with no gravel, but there is also shrimp specific gravel that helps to maintain the slightly acidic water that some shrimp prefer.

[Quebolas]

I think the coral helps the shrimp by providing them with calcium if the water supply happens to be low on it.

[Detlefroemisch]

Calciumcarbonat für Neocaridina. Kann auch für Caridina helfen wenn der PH Wert unter 5.5 geht. Aber nie Zuviel auf einmal.

[tropicaltanktv]

I'm always glad when I see Nick has a new video up!

[rhondafitzpatrick]

I love neocaridina, but I am a newbie, doing good so far. your videos have been great!

[Cleeon]

One of Nick best suggestions is, keeping the shrimps which match with your water.
Soft = caridina
Hard = neocaridina
And Nick, about lighting, that's because shrimps is cold blooded animals, they're rally on the light and heat energy surrounding them and keep it as energy for their metabolism and mating activities

[rickstarryt]

Been watching u for years didn’t no your shop was 8 minutes from me what are your open hours

[EvansWS]

Damn just in time!!! I bought 30+ shrimp and needed to see a video like this.

[okadahome]

Thanks for all the good videos.
Very educational.

One question are those detritus worms in some of the tanks? I have one now in my shrimp tank and not sure if I should remove it.

[zombi]

the light grows the algae and biofilm for sure

[bluepanther]

Hey Nick, just asking. I have had multiple tries at keeping shrimp in my 150 litre tank but after a week or two after I added them they all slowly died. I thought it might be the osmocote root tabs because that was the only thing that could’ve been wrong because I think I hear they have a bit of copper in them, it could also be not having coral but I have kept shrimp and bred them without it but had none of the root tabs that time. I did everything right, acclimation, parameters. So just asking for some opinions. Thanks a lot! Also love your videos ❤️❤️

[markfranklin]

Really good information for beginners so what is your advice on water changes on shrimp tanks TIA. Thanks for sharing

[bobhodge]

Ive seen in a few videos that you keep bristlenose catfish in with the shrimp, do the bristlesnose not eat the shrimp eggs?

[Kyddoemiko]

Excellent video thank you for sharing my biggest concern is the temperature range I find that if the temperature increases in the aquarium it shortens the lifespan of the shrimp. I need so much help in wanting to get rid of bba. Rudolph shrimp might be the only one to get rid of it.

[Twinkley]

Random question Nick…Is what you call foxtail in Australia the same as hornwort? Because your plant looks exactly the same as mine but It’s called hornwort here in the UK. 🤔I float it in all my tanks and tubs outside. It’s great for my fish, snails and Amano shrimp. 😃

[FaultAndDakranon]

I put snail shells in instead of coral.

[jimmyguitar]

What are the worm things on the coral at 2.58?