Is Your Caridina Shrimp Tank Doomed to Fail? Avoid These 10 Mistakes

This is the first time I’m actually researching before I buy lol 😀

Good info, great video man. Gonna share this one.

Nice video. Two other mistakes I see in fb groups are disturbing the substrate, wich can end up killing your shrimp, and putting rocks in the tank that leach minerals and alter water parameters.

Great video, thanks for Tangerine Tiger info yo!

thank you

nice info

Hello I’m new to the hobby and I want to setup a new tank for red galaxy fishbones. Been doing research for about a week now. But I’m seeing so much varying info on the materials for them. Can you share a list of the materials or supplies I should get to properly care and setup a colony for them?

I have a few mature tanks but shrimps don’t seem 100% to me water parameters are good and they get berried so something must be right?? any advice. Thanks keep the videos coming

Nice video! 🎉I have a question about the soil. I have a cycled tank thats been going for two years now. Its a 36liter tank with gravel nearly sand looking type. Ph is around 7. I don’t want to ruin the tank by changing the substrate. I heard from a caridina breeder that it can be enough to have a little bowl with soil just to lower the ph in the tank. And then to poke around in it regularly. I wonder if you think thats a good way to go or if it somehow can be bad ? What are your thoughts ? 😊

I'm using the undergravel box method. I was using a lot of Aquario Neo product and thought of trying their active substrate soil... it was ok... PH crept up after 6mths. It's time to replace i thought. I'm cycling a box of ADA Amazonia V2 for 3 weeks now and wow, it's still having 0.25ppm of Ammonia. I wonder when will it be over and done with leeching Ammonia... lol.

Hello there i have had my caridina shrimp for one year now and i never put them with any substrate and just feed them algae wafers with lots of plants as well my plants dont even get substrate but everything is healthy if i were to complely change the tank to substrate do you think it would mess with the shrimp? sorry for weird question.

Hello, I'm planning to get a Corydoras with CRS soon, but I haven't really had that much experience with shrimp before, and usually use a very fine sand for my cories, so is there an in-between substrate or a way that I can keep sand but keep the parameters stable for the CRS, would help a lot if you respond in the next 2-3 days as I want to start the build this weekend. Thanks!

Do different strains of caridina (excluding sulawesi shrimps) need different care like water parameters and such? Say on a budget can I practice on some (let say) cheap bee shrimp culls? So care wise, is caring for fishbone/blue bolt different than caring for low grade obscure caridina shrimp?

Really looking forward to my first caridina tank. I have too much time on my hands waiting to get a work release while on short term disability so my mad money has disappeared? With that being said can I keep tangerine tigers in a caridina tank and at some point drip acclimate them back into neo tanks?

at 9:53 those shrimp look a lot like the ones i picked up and i’ve been wondering for a while now if it’s normal for them to look like this? i can’t find an answer anywhere

I was about try add some red bee in my care I try using active substrate but recently my ageing shrimp tank seems crashing, the plant start to rot and biofilm/diatom blooming idk what the reason it seems only this one had this issue. My questions is, are this normal when using active substrate or outside factor cause it (because my relatives kids playing around with my tank not long ago especially this particular tank) and should I cancel my plan to keep my red bee? My yellow and blue dream shrimp seems fine tho I only find one death shrimp this morning (probably due age since she is huge compared other)

Hi.. after tank is cycle... How much Water change is needed?

You do 5 % Wc every week??

Hi ray! I'm Jake, a Java programmer who's passionate about aquariums. I've created a free software for easy water parameter tracking, and I'd love for you to try it out and share your thoughts. Interested? I can send you the program link. Thanks a bunch! Jake