My First Caridina Shrimp Tank - BIG Changes - New Brightwell Shrimp Soil

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Жыл бұрын

Making some needed changes in my first caridina shrimp tank.
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@user-nl3ln1ub7p Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. It was the funniest video about the content of shrimp.👍🙂

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Funny?

@user-nl3ln1ub7p Жыл бұрын

@@MarkShellyAquatics In a good way.

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

@@user-nl3ln1ub7p ok lol, not really my intention, but glad you enjoyed lol

@user-nl3ln1ub7p Жыл бұрын

@@MarkShellyAquatics I love your videos. I look with pleasure.

@Smalltimetanks Жыл бұрын

New tanks are always fun he he he my scuds won't go away ha ha waiting on scud trap in mail lol

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this one is way different than my others, figuring out something new.

@mariosshrimptanks Жыл бұрын

Great video Mark. really excited to see what the ph will look like maybe a few weeks after introducing it to the tank once it's buffered it nicely. Overall, great way to do it. I bet you're glad you made it easy to swap out those bags otherwise it would have been a pain to remove the soil manually

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Yeah, real glad especially since that ista was so horrible, with that stuff its time to change out soil just as tank is getting established. Hope to get a year out this brightwell, it sure is nice at setup.

@arcticwinds6125 Жыл бұрын

Brightwell is great stuff, 1 to 1 1/2 year of life, some tell me 2, but I change even 1 1/2 years like clock work, no issues, and no ammonia leach, so you can add it into an established tank. No issues.

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Thats great to hear. That was how I ended up with that ista stuff, no ammonia, I dont want ammonia so I can change out the substrate like I did, only thing being really planned on switching out a couple bags at a time, but that ista stuff was used up so fast and started going so quickly I just wanted to get rid of it. Glad I went with Brightwell.

@Thomas.Saunders Жыл бұрын

I'm always so scared to mess with substrate in an established shrimp tank. Wishing you all the best of luck with this tank.

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I set this whole thing up to work with the filter bags. Original plan is to only swap out a few bags at a time, but this ista soil is pretty crappy and I wanted to get rid of it.

@dodgedavidson197 Жыл бұрын

Looks good

@alantooth48 Жыл бұрын

The bright will Rio is definitely the best I've found It holds it 5.5 - 6.0 for a couple years now for me

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Awesome, seems to be doing good so far, thanks for the info 👍

@pelhamsaquatics Жыл бұрын

Comment at the end🙂👍🏻

@muhamadfazliehafizie7231 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

👍

@TMBRACK 8 ай бұрын

I don't think lava rock is a problem I think the high flow depletes the substrate fast according to shrimp mania

@MarkShellyAquatics 8 ай бұрын

So far the bright well has been holding close to 5.0 since I did these changes, the ista stuff was going downhill after 3 months. Think this video was 4 or 5 months ago. I dont think the lava rock had much to do with it either though, brightwell is definitely a much better soil.

@RWAquariumPages Жыл бұрын

such a great video. i do agree that the rocks do do something funny with the water. i found my caridina tanks without lava rocks do better, maybe it's a plecebo effect. I've been told the easter soil ph 5.5 is so so, but i can;t get brightwell here, so i'lll stick with the proven tried and true og, ada amazonia.. Speaking of whihc, i just ordered 30 more mesh bags, will fill them up and swap some substrate, been using this method for the past 3-5 years and glad to see others doing it also,! cant wait for your next update! my red fancy tiger tank is going nuts, took out 100 3 months ago and have over 150 babies now, these breed non stop, but the patterns are from super high grade to non presentable, so i;ve got to cull better

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Yeah man, its my first venture into caridina, but feel like I've done everything about a good as I can, lol so I'm blaming the ista. Think Shrimp Mania was having deaths in one of his tanks with it. Seems like its only 100% the first 3 months, after 6 months its time to start removing it. I was really pleased with the first step of brightwell, see how good it does and how long it lasts. Brightwell seems pretty dang good, no cloudiness, no tds, and ph went down immediately. Woke up this morning to a bunch of molts, no deaths, and a couple more berried females. Really hoping to get production of caridina down, so then I can worry about culling and grades lol. Have plans to get at least 4 more caridina tanks

@RWAquariumPages Жыл бұрын

@MarkShellyAquatics that's awesome to hear. Don't stop at 4, hehe, I'm trying to figure our my limit when it's too much, currently have 22 tanks but bought 12 more but hesitant on setting them up

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

@RWAquariumPages going to take down my 110 gallon stock tank guppy pond I have had going for years and years, way before I ever owned a shrimp lol. Going to try to do a rack of 8 or 12 20g long tanks. 4 will be for caradina, others, well I make my living breeding neos, but still wanna spread my wings with caradina. Just wanna get it all figured out before I drop a fortune on good shrimp.

@Car0linaPh03nix 11 ай бұрын

The substrate might have lasted longer with a thicker layer

@MarkShellyAquatics 11 ай бұрын

All the substrate was in the filter

@user-qc7rp8xs4f Жыл бұрын

Great video!! I’ve been looking through website looking to pick up a few things. Do you have a set shipping day?

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

I ship on Tuesdays and Fridays.

@ljsshrimp Жыл бұрын

I have brightwell in all my caridina tanks

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Do you like it?

@ljsshrimp Жыл бұрын

@@MarkShellyAquatics yep had my first caridina about year ago and got this. I got babies in all my caridina tanks about 6 now. You dont have to worry about the ammonia leeching you have with some other soils. Grant Eder has it in most of his tanks and said some have lasted for years without changing soil. You got the right size too, you want XF or Fine so babies doing fall through. The shrimp will pick up the little balls of soil and feed through them. Think my pH sits around 6.2

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the no ammonia thing is huge with how I wanna run my caradina tanks, just trying to get a method down before I go too far down that hole with the caradina

@pelhamsaquatics Жыл бұрын

Dang it! I forgot to hit send again…😂 it sure is a mystery about the ph spikes, I think overall this is a success mark🙂👍🏻

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

@pelhamsaquatics its just the ista stuff is horrible. It did keep ph down, but after 6 months it is toast, why the tds is creeping back up. Seems like most people say that stuff is only 100% for 3 months, by 6 month its past its prime, and its fully depleted by 9 months, pretty bad. Others have said they just don't get the best breeding with the ista on top of its short life span. And when I added it when I first set the tank up, my tds went from around 120 to 250 and that aint gonna work with shrimp in the tank.

@Glen-Andrew Ай бұрын

Ista was the 1st soil I used. It's definitely the soil, it's done after 6 months. Looks good, works for a short time. Not great

@MarkShellyAquatics Ай бұрын

I switched to brightwell and ph has been perfect, but still not having a lot of luck. Ista started getting to 6.5 in 4 months for me.

@Glen-Andrew Ай бұрын

I've found a trade supplier here I can get Brightwell from. I've been using ADA Amazonia, Environment Soil and SL Aqua Black Soil

@MarkShellyAquatics Ай бұрын

@@Glen-Andrew think I will try SP aqua next

@Glen-Andrew Ай бұрын

Slightly higher ph 5.8 to 6 I'm getting on SL but my galaxy's breed like crazy on it. If it ain't broke and all that

@daedric-7898 Жыл бұрын

The substrate has to be changed at some point?? And with caridina shrimp do you have to fill the whole tank with Ro water and then remineralize it all?

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

At some point it. You mix water in separate container and then pump into tank, I drip it in with a float valve.

@daedric-7898 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkShellyAquatics I loved your way of keeping the substrate in bags for easier removal! I will be copying that if I ever have a go at caridinas! At the moment i'm a begginer with shrimps, so I'm starting out with neos :) I did an oopsie and added cherry shrimp to a new planted tank that was only a week old, also got them without knowing anything about shrimp... Surprisingly they did amazing and started breeding within a few weeks (they were mature when i got them), I started out with 6 cherries and now there must be like 30+. I think i might be just lucky because there has been no casualties I fell in absolute love with these critters and have been doing alot of research in how to care for them :D

@MarkShellyAquatics Жыл бұрын

@daedric-7898 I had kept planted tanks for years and thought shrimp would be fun to try, did neos for 6 years before trying caridina

@daedric-7898 Жыл бұрын

@@MarkShellyAquatics I will be taking advices from your vids, love the way you explain things very easy to understand :)

@pelhamsaquatics Жыл бұрын

1st😀