How to Keep and Breed Taiwan Bees - Part I

Thank you all for watching the first part of How to Keep and Breed Taiwan Bees. I hope you enjoyed this video and took away something new from it. I tried to explain what I thought was most important to help you succeed in keeping Taiwan Bees.

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[Spaztek]

I am going to write this in case it helps someone else.

1st part

I have spent alot of money on shrimp and never really been that successful, my main problems were a couple of shrimp dying per week and them never reproducing ...not even getting berried.

I use ro water with salty shrimp and i was even getting to the point of dripping in water changes over days to try and stop the deaths to no avail.

I was now convinced this wasnt water related in the way i thought it was but it was in another way ....i was over feeding.

I changed my routine to one i saw on this channel months ago, feed on MON/WED/FRI at a ratio of half a pea sized piece of food per 20 shrimp .

On the days off i feed a tiny amount of bacterial food, pencil tip size.

As soon as i did the above all my deaths stopped.

2nd part

This was really simple as i had noticed a general lack of micro fauna in my systems...i increased my light times to 12hrs a day from 8hr. This will be different for everybody but this worked for me.

I did this to try and encourage more algae in my tanks because i read somewhere that shrimps food in the wild is 70% algae.

Well it worked, the bottom of my tanks are crawling with life now, the first week after i changed everything i had 10 berried CRS/CBS mischlings.

Of which nearly all of the babys survived :)

[dunghuynh]

Hi Det aqurium i always enjoy watching your vids sometime i learn a thing or two keep up the good work and see u on the next vids.

[dalejones]

Great videos. Can you recomend a couple good books for information on identification, description, breeding and care?

[Kobalt]

DETAquarium I have a question, are shadow panda made with CBS or are the bbk, or both?

[ChasiubaoYumYum]

that's so cute to watch when they all swarming at one spot LOL!

[MASSAquariums]

Very nice informational video. Two thumbs up

[miatumutch]

Thanks for the video! Are you from Georgia? I'm from Texas and you sound very southern!

[mollyschnurbusch]

do you have a forum that is your go-to for shrimp information?

[roshandsouza]

I got some red cherry shrimps, crystal reds, fire reds, orange shrimps...I put them in the tank as soon as I set it ..

they seem to be doing pretty fine

[JohnT]

How do you keep getting a good supply of rodi water without getting a system for it? I been keeping sakura shrimps using only tap water with good success since they are very hardy but i want to go into a more expensive species like the taiwan bees so i guess tap water is out of question now

[pedro]

Nice video can't wait for da next

[lukeosborne]

can you do a video or share some info on the subject of running c02 in a shrimp setup ?
proes, cons, if its ok or harmfull would be very interesting as its a bit of a grey subject

[javierhnb]

Congrats for the video. I am looking for info about blue panda taiwan bee. I want to know genetics issue, how to breed different Taiwan to get it? Do you have any info to read, any link to study this item? Thank you

[nanceusmc]

You mention the substrate lasting for a year or so. My question is, how can you effectively switch out the used up substrate after a year, without forcing your tank to have to recycle?

[liallmedina]

Great video man! What tanks are you using here? Are they custom or can you buy them? Thanks

[Neokun]

Great video with lots of useful information, thank you. I'd love to get me some Wine Red shrimp, they're simply amazing. I just fear the additional effort compared to my Neocaridinas. Well, may be some day...

[Jlui]

What do you think about Controsoil still? still a good substrate to use? Amazon has a sale right now for 3L bag for $15 shipped.

How long has the controsoil last you? (still buffering?)

[iydsdq]

Hi what's the ideal temperature to keep them?

[Kashif]

Anyone keeping Bees please reply. I have a heavily planted tank having Taiwan Bees. My GH is 5. KH 0-1, TDS 140-150 Temperature is 72-74 usually. No Amonia or no3 or no2. I use Distilled water reminilized with Sl Aqua blue wizard. However my pH is 7 and it is not going down. Will my Taiwan Bees breed in such pH? They haven't breed yet and I have them now for like two months. In your experience will they breed in 7 PH.