Freshwater Shrimp Aquarium

Freshwater aquarium housing Red Cherry, Crystal Red & Black shrimps. Hope you enjoy this video.

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• freshwater
• aquarium
• fish tank
• cherry
• red cherry
• shrimp
• cherry shrimps
• sakura
• fire shrimps
• crystal red
• crystal black
• SAE
• aquascaping
• aquascape

[WillyChoi87]

Hi, I have a 6 gallon tank and I got 7 red cherry shrimps. I have set up the aquarium, add some bacteria, plants a piece of wood to start it off and let it all filter for a day. The next day, the shrimp doesn't seem to be looking for food or eating from the plants and them all the shrimp went into hiding except one and I saw him to seems like its grasping for air then collapsed. When I change the aquarium and turn the heat up to 80, looks fine until they went into hiding... should i be worried?

[Aquaticstory]

@WillyChoi87 Hi. I can't pin-point to you the exact problems because there are afew possibilties. 1st, cycling period of 1 day is too short eventhough bacteria is added. I suggest the next time u start an aquarium, cycle it for at least 5 days. 2nd, wood add may not be suitable or may hv harmful content. Or wood is too 'new', releases too much tannin into water. 3rd, When change water, use aged or de-chlorine water. Temperature seems fine. Please take note of NO2, NO3 and PH.

[556todd]

what type of plants are they?

[Aquaticstory]

@556todd

Hi. These are Japanese Hairgrass. You may wish to check out our other videos whereby Japanese Hairgrass is being introduced. They are good carpeting plants for foreground. :)

[spearman481]

What was that red and white striped shrimp? It is cool!

[Aquaticstory]

@spearman481

Hi. Yes, it is a shrimp too! Crystal Red Shrimp. You can check out our other video on this type of shrimp.

[Pop12646Okami]

@Aquaticstory cycling for three days is still too short, you know. My tanks take at least a month to cycle through, give or take ten days, even WITH added bacteria. The biggest problems could be cycling issues and acclimation issues, not to mention that the tank is too small, and the fact that the tank is new and has no algae. Shrimp are mostly scavengers, and they need a bunch of live plants and a lot of algae to survive. They take to live algae better than algae pellets.

[Aquaticstory]

@TenrouFang

Hi, it is ok to mix if your tank is heavily planted tank or if the tank is not for breeding purpose. Tetras may just eat up baby shrimps as they are tiny enough to fit into their mouths.

[TenrouFang]

Do you think it would be ok to keep some shrimp like these with Neon Tetra's? I have a 15 Gallon tank currently cycling, but I'm unsure of what I could mix together. 

[pokemonarceusiscool]

Well shrimp are really easy to take care of how many gallon is your tank..