hello everyone what's going on welcome back to my video i'm back with an update today and the main
topic today is that these two tanks in my shrimp rack have just been cycled and today i'm planning
to add some shrimps here i'm very excited guys you excited yeah so we're gonna choose some of
the best shrimps i have i'm planning to add some red galaxy maybe here and some black pinto shrimps
here so i'm gonna look around my tanks pick up the best shrimps and i'm going to put them in
these tanks yeah and before we do that i'm going to do some more updates for you or what's happened
in this past three weeks i'm sorry i didn't do a video for you so now i'm going to tell
you everything what's happening with this period of time so i managed to do two new shrimp tanks
and they're ready to fill this shrimp rack, my new shrimp tanks yeah i just finished i put the film,
what is called? like a frosted glass film at the back and they just passed the water leaking test
and they ready to go yeah so one tank is slightly bigger thank another tank the bigger tank is going
to go to the bottom and the smaller tank goes at the top here to replace this tank with orange
eyes blue tiger shrimp okay the first place i was thinking to completely close down this tank and
remove it and now i'm thinking like you know an extra tank is always handy and no matter how many
tanks you have guys extra tank is an extra tank. i have like now like 12 tanks and i still still run
out of space for my shrimps i'm going to show you here yeah so here i have some in breeding
box i have some mischlings which look like just normal typical crystal red crystal black shrimp
most of them yeah i must separate them from the main colony because i don't want them to mix
with another shrimps i was thinking just to put this tank somewhere and make this tank as like
another another cull tank like a cull tank of the culls right?! yeah and guys i have to move that
orange eye blue tiger shrimps there's not many of them left i don't know they're not doing very
well here anyway so maybe maybe they're not happy with low ph because ph is 5.4 still want to keep
them i don't want to to waste the tank for them so i'm deciding guys i've decided to move them
in my blue neocaridina tank over here which i by the way just did some haircut and tidy up it
yesterday all right then let's move this tank down and catch all the orange eye blue tiger shrimps
okay now i'm going to talk quickly about this filter here i made so as you can see
i connected hang on filters to undergravel filter box a little under gravel filter box
uh so it's oh well there's a shrimp there look at this poor shrimp uh i'm gonna catch her in
a second so wha what i'm talking about yeah yeah this uh this is not very good you know so
i just i found out there's a lot of downsides of this method i can tell you a few of them
uh the first thing is stop few times uh because uh some particles from the soil get inside the
motor and stop the water that's the one thing the other thing is when the power is cut off it's not
starting itself so you need to put some water inside so in order to start it that's another
issue and then of course it's less oxygenation of water compared to just the air pump filter yeah
yeah so there's a lot of downsides so i'm not quite happy about this method so i'm not
going to use it again i'm not recommending to use it so i what i'm going to do quickly
here i'll try to cut this pipe here and then connect another bigger pipe uh with the nozzle
uh put the airstone inside and then try to fix it yeah i'm going to clean this tank in a minute
i change the filter fill up with the fresh water uh probably get back some of this moss
so i put it almost inside the bucket then i check for shrimps definitely going to
be a few shrimps i'm sure little babies of the mistlings is waiting for for this tank
and then i catch all the blue dream streams and putting in neocordin tank yes stay tuned
i think i catch all of them it's about like just over 20 shrimps it's not many of them
i'm just gonna show you you see that stream i don't know it's just it's running a lot but
uh it has like a brown ring on a body so i think she's kind of sick or something
oh you can see it here yeah look at this so i think she's like sick or something
i'm not sure i've never seen them before it's like maybe a bacterial infection or
something yeah okay now we can acclimate them into neocaridina tank and while we're doing
this i'm going to finish with this tank and add these missions to this time here
okay i just finished tidying up the tank connected all the filter adding a little bit of moss yeah as
you can see is uh water flow is okay it's not very strong but this is very small tank and also you
don't need very strong water for an under gravel filter because the main function is to buffer ph
and the small airflow is enough to buffer ph basically here so this is a sponge filter and we
acclimate the shrimp the missing stream because i changed most of like 90% of water in this tank so
there is a completely new water so i have to actually make them again
and here we actually made this uh orange eye blue tiger shrimp as well nice and slowly
because the water parameters are completely different in this tank
and it's not ideal for them but this is the best i can do for them ph is a bit high but
they okay with the high ph the only problem is kh so kh is a little bit high for them so they
prefer zero key each year so the cage here is about six or something so but that should be okay
okay it's been two days after we put orange eye blue tigers here and mixed them with blue
neocaridina shrimp and today i decided to do first feeding and they look very hungry and very active
so the shrimps quite happy they don't mind the water parameters of neocaridina and you can see
they dominate the food the more orange-eyes blue tiger shrimp on the food than neocaridina that's
what i heard that if you mix neocaridina with caridina the carolina shrimp will be more active
and will outcompete of neocaridina with the food they actually quite match each other yeah looking
great here okay since we have another extra coal tank i think i'm gonna improve quality of this
tank and i'm not gonna call it cull tank anymore i think it's gonna be just a mixed tank so i'm going
to remove the ugliest shrimps from here um and all the remaining michlings which look like a normal
crystal black crystal restroom you can see they're still over there so i'm going to remove all culls
from here to my small tank okay i think i cached all mischlings which look like simple crystal
black shrimp and now i'm going to acclimate them quickly and put them in in our new tank
okay here is my new cull tank and i just released remaining Mischlings here i think there are about
70 shrimps here now it's quite a lot for this tank and i have to start selling them
so you see me doing this tank two days ago and today i decided to do first feeding
and you can see they all came out at the front to eat most of them so i'm quite happy with
this little tank okay we moved the tank from the top of the rack and we also have a space at the
bottom and we've got our tanks ready over here and already put the UGF boxes inside the tanks
they're all ready to install and all ready to cycle so let's put him inside the rack here
okay our tanks in place looking beautiful there is only two tanks left as a top tank
with neocaridina and an orange eye blue tiger and another cull tank which needs to be replaced as
well so this is the next project for me in about few weeks i'm gonna do these two tanks as well
okay this tank's ready for shrimps i just changed ninety percent of water
and i cleaned the front glass from algae lots of lots of algae inside are probably not gonna feed
my shrimps for about one week they have a plenty of food to eat in these tanks right now
also i'm gonna give you an update on the bottom tanks which are currently in cycle and i think
it should be around two weeks left to complete the cycle there is plenty of algae on the glass
lots of little creatures feeding on this algae and i'm going to clean the glass for you and
show you the movie magic trick here you go they look much better now
they are basically the same setup as i have at the top. two weeks left probably i'm going to add new
shims i'm probably gonna buy shrimps for for these tanks i have some shrimps in mind which i like
i'm not gonna spoil this in a future video you're gonna see the shrimps. i'm gonna put
in these tanks and now let's put the shrimps in these tanks now we're gonna catch all the red
galaxy shrimps from all my tanks this tank is has a lot of them probably around 20. so let's
feed them with the food so they all come out at the front and we're gonna catch them earlier
okay guys i catch them all at least most of them maybe
few more hiding but that's not a problem and they're all in this box here
look at them beautiful shrimp you know how many of them i count about 40
so that's insane 40 streams in this tank i don't know where they came from they came from probably
from one black galaxy i don't know why but in this tank it has a lot of a lot of red galaxies
they're very happy with the result 40 shrimps is a good number to start the colony
okay i'm going to check this tank as well i have a few galaxies the red galaxies in this
tank as well and i show you one i think it's over here this is very beautiful male has a
very good legs coloration as you can see so this one is probably going to be one of the best male
in the new tank and i also also decided to catch some of these red steel shrimps and mix them with
the red galaxies just to see what's happened and i hoping they can make some more red galaxies i
also have some of them buried so i'm gonna separate maybe two or three berried female
as well and putting in the red galaxy tank i just want to test how the baby survival in
the new tank to see how the baby gonna be look like after mixing them with the black galaxies
so this is the this is one berried female here i'm gonna separate i'm gonna net another two or three
so let's let's catch this shrimp from this tank as well i find another galaxy shrimp in this tank
but this looks like she is berried female and I'll probably gonna leave here in this tank just
because i don't wanna risk to lose the babies in the new tank we're gonna have two females of red
steel so that should be enough to check the baby survival rate now i'm gonna choose the shrink for
another tank and i like the shrimp like black king kong or black pinto shrimp so basically it's gonna
be like galaxy shrimp but without dots or like a king kong shrimp with a few stripes at the back
i choose the shrimps just because i like the look of this and the leg coloration should be very deep
black okay let me catch all the streams i like and you're gonna see what i'm talking about so
this type of shim i'm talking about um over here you see it's like a very very black
deep color with very very deep color legs and not much of the white so for example this shrimp with
a lot of white at the back i'm not going to choose so i don't like this type okay here they are i
caught them from my different tanks and they will look like black pinto shrimp most of them are like
galaxies without spots on the head or just the king kongs with a few stripes at the back
there are about 40 of them and this is a good number to start colony.
okay now let's acclimate them to the new tanks here you go i made the little shelf in front of
the tank and i'm acclimating shrimps to the new environment right now, it's important
guys to acclimate shrimps when you're moving them to another tank to the new environment
here we have some black pinto shrimp they are going into this tank over here
let's look at them yeah nice and beautiful shrimp, 40 of them roughly about 45 of red galaxy shrimps
here and they going into this tank and here i have some red steel shrimp
which i'm going mix with the red galaxies three of them are berried also this way i'm gonna check how
the baby survival rate in these tanks once we have a baby from them and also we're gonna see
how the baby look like when you cross breed red steels with the black galaxy shrimp okay i'm gonna
get back to you once i finish acclimatization and release the shrimp into new tank stay tuned
acclimation completed let's release our shrimps into the tanks
okay we've got our shrimps inside the tanks they look happy they start to eating that algae and
so as i mentioned i'm not gonna feed them for for probably a few days it's a lot of available food
inside the tanks right now so they have a lot of algae on the glass on the moss on the soil they're
gonna eat it for many days now so probably gonna share an update with you when i feed them first
time in a few days in my next video and guys when i cycle these tanks i recorded every step i did
and now i'm working on tutorial video on how to set up tanks with ugf filter box if you don't
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