How to Breed Shrimp: Three Things Every Tank Needs
If you are interested in buying shrimp, please check out my website where I only sell USA bred shrimp, snails, fish and plants. http://www.flipaquatics.com Every freshwater shrimp aquarium or tank needs these three essential things. Moss is an absolute essential to every shrimp tank. I use it in every shrimp tank that I have or at least the majority of my 140+ tanks. If you are interested in mosses, I usually have it in stock here: https://www.flipaquatics.com/product-category/moss/ The second most essential part of a shrimp tank is driftwood. The reason why is it provides plenty of hiding places for young shrimp (shrimplets). It will also leach tannins into the water which will discolor the water to a yellowish tea color although this will provide antioxidants to help with shrimp health. The drift wood will also provide surface area for biofilm to grow and micro organisms to flourish. I prefer Malaysian driftwood because it sinks immediately and decays very slowly. If you are interested, I sell some varieties of driftwood as well: https://www.flipaquatics.com/product-category/hard-goods/ The third most essential part of a freshwater shrimp tank is leaf litter. I personally only use Indian almond leaves or also referred to as catappa leaves. These break down providing micro organisms for shrimp to graze on. These are essential to baby shrimp growth because of the natural food always being present. They also leach tannis into the water like driftwood. I also sell these on my site here: https://www.flipaquatics.com/product/indian-almond-leaves/ Thank you for watching and please subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/lupdiesel
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love your videos. Here in korea we also use lots of mosses and drift woods but not almond leaves... Many people use some kind of peat instead of almond leaves arguing peat has much humic and fulvic things. I agree with that but in the point of view of promoting biofilm and micro bateria, i do believe almond leaves works way better.
So I've got plan to use almond leaves and i wonder that you pretreat almond leaves by boiling or sanitizing them before using.
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with the malaysian driftwood do you soak it in hot water before adding it to your tank or so you just let the brown stuff seep into your water? for a lot of new world cichlid the dark soften water from the wood triggers breeding.
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what is the white thing that the Moss is on
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You don't need leaves or driftwood. I've bred shrimp for a long time. All you need is the Moss. And NO predators. (No other fish). Also Amano shrimp fry won't survive in freshwater, so they are a HUGE pain to breed.
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See all the thumbs down...
Know why ?? ?
Because he like (Aquarium coop, guy),,,,,, Live in their.... SAFE SPACE.
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Hello, great video- I would just like to mention to everyone, because nobody can pronounce it correctly, cholla wood(a higher altitude desert plant) is pronounced
CHOI like soy but with a ch instead of a s + YUH so it's pronounced CHOYUH OR CHOIUH Depending on your location but is not pronounced CHOLA that is just dumb. -
I breed 2 red cherry shrimps and I got 7 see through shrimps. I'm glad my shrimp is pregnant again she will be soon having many babies as soon as possible.
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Do you supply to the UK? or is it just a us company?
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because I have a moss ball healthy my fish trim it
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are moss balls alright
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yay i live in malaysia so it would be easy for me to buy the driftwood.
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hey so is there anything i could switch the indian leaves out with ? ?
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where do i get the cherry shrimp?
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can i use peacock moss?
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How long does it take for the shrimp to start eating the almond leaves because I put one in 5 days ago and they seem to not be interested in it. Just curios, but it might be becuase I have tons of java moss and they love that more
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what substrate u use for these shrimp tank?
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love it awsome video, I have some Tangerine Tiger shrimp on the way, currently brred Cherry shrimp
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hi. can you supply to south Africa.
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Question...Where I live I can catch clear little shrimp in a canal, I want to raise and breed them as fish feed for my aquaponics tanks. I have tried it twice before and the baby shrimp ended up being eaten but the larger shrimp. I want to try and keep the whole feeding/raising process as natural and low cost as possible. Can you offer any solutions that will keep them fed and avoid them eating each other? also just wondering if you know a way to Identify these "wild" shrimp
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You are a sucker for buying things that are for sale. There is no proof what wood is best. NONE.
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