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It's good that you don't wave your camera back and forth, back and forth and make people motion sick like 99% of shrimp keepers.

Shrimp keeping is so so different from fish keeping and been loving it so far, started out with 6 and now there are several dozens of them.

Great video again. I keep my breeding colony in a 24x12x12in on the kitchen counter. People often comment on how dirty it is, as it has a thin film of algae over most of the glass. That is by design. The shrimp seem to farm the algae. Maybe they can't strip that final thin layer, but they tend to spend most of the time on the glass grazing the algae like cattle or ants maybe. I feed mine 6 days a week, and I use the algae as a guide as to the size and frequency of the feeding. More algae on the glass, cut back on feeding, maybe fast for a day. Less algae up the food. They will eat most vegetable scraps, and any kind of fish food, they are not at all fussy. I like to throw a half an eggshell in there once a month, washed as well as I can to remove all the gooey liquid. The shrimp absolutely go nuts for it, and they seem to eat the stringy film on the inside of the shell. and I guess they eat the shell as well, because I never fish it out. I figure it will supply them with the minerals they need to construct their own shells....and it certainly hasn't done the shrimp any harm. The tank has been spitting out shrimp for 3 years now, and has been a nice little earner. Those shrimp breed prolifically, to the point I have to cull some occasionally (they outbreed the market), and have inadvertently created a colony of shrimp in my peacock tank.....you never see them but they are definitely living in the rockwork and the plants I have recently introduced should provide some additional habitat. And I guess the shrimp will provide both entertainment and some light snacks for the fish. I intentionally introduced a colony to my 3ft community tank, with guppies, kuhli loaches and bristlenose. It's a heavily planted tank, and the shrimp are thriving. I'm sure some get picked off, but they are definitely producing more shrimp than are being eaten. I often see babies picking over the substrate, totally exposed and they seem to be left alone for the most part. The bristlenose do an exceptional job of cleaning the algae from the glass on this tank, so you don't see the same grazing behavior on the glass of that tank. I also keep a backup colony in a 5 gal, and they breed in there as well. So they aren't too picky about the size of the house they are in. That said, they don't breed prolifically in the 5 gal, and that colony sustains a relatively stable number of shrimp without me having to intervene, so I would suggest a larger tank if you want to actually produce excess shrimp to sell. Anyway, keep up the excellent work Jason!

3:52 that's a cool yellow wild type!

I've been looking for an animal to take care of and I clicked this video and every thing you mention is perfect for what I can provide. This may be a sign.

They don't initially sound very exciting to keep but my shrimp tank is one of my favorites!

Great care video! Really enjoyed it. Congrats to your boys on their successful breeding project!

I had three very small guppies in my aquarium with my shrimp and assumed everything would be fine because they were too small to eat the shrimp, but they were large enough to harass females in an effort to peck away the eggs they carried. The moral of the story is "No fish is too small to be a threat to your shrimp."

Shrimp with guppies do great. I keep my shrimp with guppies and Plecos.

Shrimps are so underrated. I love them. Thank you for that informative video. 😊

Excellent vid and good shots! :)

For what it’s worth, I keep my cherries in a 20 gal with 15 neon tetras and a honey gourami and they are breeding like crazy. The tank is heavily planted and there are rock piles so that might be making the difference.

I kept my shrimp in my densely planted tank and it's a success! They cleared the algae, detritus and they kept breeding.

classic neocaridina shrimp. love their beauty

Probably the best video I’ve seen to date on this subject

Thank you for the uploads you have inspired me to start my own KZfaq channel 🙏🏽 I now have 25 Red Cherry Shrimp and a few are pregnant 🤩✨

Great info all around! My cherry shrimp really like boiled spinach and eating the micro-organisms that result from catappa leaves breaking down. Dwarf water lettuce is another great floating plant for surface area.

full of solid info as always!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Gotta love shrimp!!

Great video! Always learning something here keep up the awesome work!

Love anything related to shrimp. Great information here. Your cherry shrimp are beautiful too.

I always enjoy your videos they are packed with awesome info

The timing on this video is awesome! I just converted a previous used 29 into a Neo-cardina Blue Dream shrimp tank. At the Champaign fish auction I bought a dozen shrimp and a bunch of Endlers Livebearers. I just turned down my heater though after watching this video since my tank was at 82, so fixed that.. TY :)

I plan to breed my own shrimp one day, I just need to get a hold of reputable sources online so I can pull stock from them occasionally boosting genetic diversity. I may even try outcrossing to re-invigorate lines.

I love finding the baby shrimp in my tank! They are so small! Barely thicker than a strand of hair.

Great info Jason! Awesome video! Than you for sharing!!!

Here wishing you guys the best in your collaborations. The cherry shrimp are fun species I have a ton in most of my tanks. Little clean up crew.

Good info in this video. You guys do great work. This weekend I had a little surprise batch of baby Ghost shrimp and that tank they were in had a crack form from being old and used. Luckily it wasn't fully through and I caught it so I panicked and went and bought a small top fin engage 5 gallon to setup as a specific small shrimp tank for them. I have about 10 of them and they all seem to be really happy in that little tank. 👌

the shrimplets are so cute!!!

I finally got some 🍒 shrimps for my daughter! She's 10yo now

Have one shrimp tank... planning more! Great video!

Great video, thank you!

Great info once again!

I love my 10 gallon Cherry Shrimp tank. I do a 10-20% change weekly, and have basically a big ball of Christmas moss and then a pile of lava rocks. Mine stay at about 75, PH 7.6, TDS around 250. Of all of my tanks, it my GF and families favorite tank, they love looking for the shrimp babies!

Great job Jason, I’m trying some orange shrimp that I got from Flip Aquatics!

My betta lives peacefully with three amanos and I'm going to try to start a small cherry colony with him and the amanos :D Thanks for the vid it really helped!!

Great information. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby

Definitely a good video! I'm planning on getting some Blue Dream neos after I get my 29g cycled. I'm basically planning a giant nano tank: just some neos and phoenix rasboras. It'll be my first community tank ever! I've been a complete betta specialist up unto this point. Plus, the 29g will be my first fully planted tank too. I have all of my plants and such coming in this week, so I'm really excited!

you got a new subscriber! great channel

Great video 👍

Glad I came across your channel. My local fish keepers won't give up their sources and they don't breed their own shrimp and they always only have cherry or Sakura orange and of course PetSmart has "assorted fancy shrimp". I have been wanting amano shrimp. They are not here. Will be ordering through flip aquatics once the weather gets warmer I have learned that my albino Cory's eat the babies and they out complete the shrimp for any substantial food. If I drop a wafer or block in the Cory's swarm it and the shrimp they to bix the Cory's but can't hurt them to get to the food. The only guy that beats the cory us my massive mystery snail

Never been interested in keeping shrimp, unless, they are of the eating kind. :)) Very informative video tho'.

This channel is awesome

Wonderful video

Iv got a community tank 4ft bow front 1 bristlenose pleco, guppies, cardinal tetras, armarno shrimps, and now some cherry's thanks for the vid

Great video! I’ve got a 40 gallon that I was going to use for cherry shrimp,it’s been set up for about 6 months with just plants (a lot of them). So, it’s an established tank but not cycled. After watching this video I think I’ll move my bristlenose in there.

I feed mine spinach, pollen powder, dandelion leaves, zucchini, nettles, green beans, bananas etc and they love it

Ordered some Black Rilis from Flip, they're about an hour away, which is nice!

My beta fish just died and I kind of want to learn and research about different aquatic creatures I could keep in his old tank. Been thinking about snails and shrimp! This video is super helpful 👍

great video

I think I’ve found a use for my spare 10 gallon tank, it’s got some hornwort, and a few spare water hyacinth, perfect breeding tank for cherries and rams horn snails...

Nice vidéo!!!👍

Love my neos

Love the video. I had started a shrimp colony a few months ago and this video answered the majority of my questions. They are now currently thriving, and I’m getting ready to start selling them to local stores. Do you have any tricks for separating the larger sellable sized shrimp from the babies? Heavily planted tank with many obstacles.

I just used the water from my old bigger tank

I have a 15 gal tank. I took my time before adding shrimp letting the plants grow. I saw very little when I added the first 10 RCS, mistake as I added another 10. It was not too long before they were everywhere. I have Frogbit as a floater and they seem to be having shrimp acrobatics on the roots, fun to watch. Tank mates 10 Boraras micros, I don't think they eat any so tiny. 4 Neon Tetras they spend all day hunting swimming at 45% looking at what is moving. Only rarely have I seen them make a successful dive. But the shrimp are breeding well.

I usually put guppy fry as soon as they born. Give them 3 to 4 weeks then place the fry with my breeding fry tank.

Jason sweet shrimp setup. You’re boys made the right decision, you can 👀 the fruit of there labor. So many awesome 👏.

6:30 (Or maybe a little earlier) There’s a shrimplet descending on your tank’s plants in a quick shot.

Have my first neocardia shrimp breeding tank a 30gallon with featherfin rainbows

Thinking the new used ten will be a cherry shrimp tank Professor.

I change 10% once a month and have crazy breeding

Thanks so much for this enlightening video! I would also really appreciate your help with 2 questions I have: how do I create a well established tank? For example, I want to start a cherry shrimp tank but I'm not sure when to introduce them to the tank because it would be brand new. Should I cycle the tank and wait for some algae to grow before putting them? As for my second question, do they have to have live plants and if so, what are some easy plants for beginners? Tysm!

I'm curious as to what that plant is with the long narrow leaves around 1:02 & it looks different than guppy grass. Thnks & I love your videos, very informative.

I gotta heavy planted 20g it's giving me baby mystery snails, WCMM fry and I tried a new food.. now I have 30-40 cherry shrimp!

Sooo for me in Wisconsin that can’t get my room over 65 a heater will be needed

I keep 2 cherry shrimp in a 20 gallon tank with some other bigger fish and they have never been eaten. I honestly believe that shrimp should get a tank for a 10 gallon

need some

Shrimple care guide

Thanks for the video. I am currently waiting on a shipment of 20 red cherry shrimp from Flip Aquatics. How would you say is the best way to acclimate them before adding them to my aquarium?

In regards to your subject about decorations, how do you feel about bare bottom tanks, or under gravel filters? In your video, it looks like youre using gravel. What about things like fluorite, or fertilizer type substrate?

I'm getting some cherry shrimp soon. 😊 I've had Amano's for a while (the fact they don't breed in freshwater suited me for my intro to shrimp) and now I feel like I'm ready to try cherries. I've checked their compatability with my fish and my water parameters, as well as giving my filter a thorough 'going over' for shrimp-proofing and I think we're good to go. 😊

Hey Jason, great video. My gH is at a 180. WHOA! What can I do to get it to the 7-15 gH you recommend?

Funny how you were lucky enough to find a use for morning wood repashy. I tried it and all of my fish ignore it and same for shrimp even weeks later. I even seen one ride shrimp briefly ride on it then say words like "yuck! broccoli!" and it moved on cuz better things in life lol. But I have seen my shrimp go after rotifers and even chase down live moina 😅

i have a 10 gallon and i wanted to know the max capacity of it was?

Thanks for the tips, can you breed both shrimp and guppy in the same tank?

Do you guys have a pygmy corydoras care guide video? I’m a teen currently and i’ve been thinking about housing some of them in the 10 gallon I have but want to learn more about their needs before I set up the tank. Honestly, i’m kinda expecting a 10 gal tank to be too small for them, but I want to put myself to the test and try to care for one of my favorite freshwater fish.

nice info!! would shrimps do okay in a fake planted aquarium?? it does has plenty of decors and hiding spots. Also, I do have a 10 gallon that has LIVE plants in it, but it has internal filter that hangs on the back. would that suck up the shrimps? or do i need to use a different filter?? thanks...

Learned that all colored Neocaridina shrimp are just line-bred from Red Cherry Shrimp. I'm thinking about starting a 5 gallon Jade Green Shrimp Breeding Project to compliment my Clown Killifish Project.

Nice video! Great project for your children. You did forget to mention one of the best fish to keep with your Shrimps: The Dwarf Otocinclus / Otocinclus affinis Steindachner. Everyone knows them as the Otocinclus fish. They belong to the Loricaridae Family of fish. Genus is Otocinclus Cope. They grow no bigger than 1.5 inches. Very good algae eaters. Yes they have teeth, but behind their suckers. Best also school.They eat algae off of plants and glass, and basically never eat meat, or Shrimps. I’m no ichyologists, but I do read! I enjoyed watching. Thank you for sharing!

love your videos what temp.should they be. JD

I got some platy fry in with them, will they be fine for about two months before I can move them to the big tank?

It’s been a long time since I’ve had fish or aquatic pets and I didn’t know anything about water hardness or what not and I still don’t tho I’m sure you have a video about that stuff would be helpful to go over what that stuff is for like true newbies

Will cherry shrimp feed on hair algae?

Do you think I could breed ramshorn and pond snails in the same tank with these shrimp.... for food for my 🐡🐡🐡

I sneak into people's fish rooms and drop oscars in their shrimp tanks.

How offen you change the water and like how many % est. And do you top up the water level between water change ? Thanks

How long would you recommend a tank be cycled for shrimp? The current tank that I have that I’m considering keeping shrimp in is a 20 tall, but it’s been established about a week ago so I know that won’t work 😅

I am cycling my tank with with just a plant set up atm It's a 25gallon I may decide not to add anything else to the tank I am planning on adding blue dream shrimp! I am so excited, i find the colour so breath taking ! It will only be shrimp for 6-8 months to let the collany build I ordered 16 Will that be enough to get started ?

What about the orange bee shrimp. Petco had it at 80.*. I bought 3 and 2 survived the night.. I’d rather keep the. At room temp like you do with he RCS. What do you suggest for OBee’s?

We had amano shrimp and they moulted all the time , with this many shrimp, do you have this issue? How do you remedy it?

I used to buy rcs and they would always die or hide forever. Finally gave them their own tank and 3 became hundreds.

Did you use distilled water or any of the shrimp minerals or just start them in a tank that was well conditioned from previous fish?

Will a 15 gallon tank be sufficient for single species shrimp? The one I have it's an Aqueon 15 gallon "long" it's pretty much a 20 gallon tall but half the height.

How do you vacuum gravel without sucking up the shrimplets? Or do you just don’t? My gravel looks like it needs to be cleaned, but I only have 10 shrimplets in my whole tank and I want to keep them lol.

Im a newbie fishkeeper with neon tetras and blue shrimps in the same tank. If i drilled some holes into driftwood would that be ok for hiding?

Will pearlweed and java moss be suitable for them?

Using ro water with salty mineral for shrimps? or using tap water with dechlorinator for shrimps ? Which would be better?

That shrimp on the right at "06:05" just gave up on life lol

Getting some pumkin shrimp from a local hobbyist soon.