Hi everyone! Welcome back to Shrimp Mania today i'm going to do another shrimp room tour
plus i have a mission today - I would like to create a new aquarium for blue bolt shrimp
and many of you noticed that I like to mix my shrimps and often when you mix Taiwan bees and
pinto shrimp together you can get some blue bolts as a byproduct so I have plenty blue
bolts in my tanks so today we're going to look inside all my tanks at the same time I'm going
to give you an update on my ongoing projects so without further ado let's get into it. And
we're going to start our tour with my shrimp rack and the tank at the bottom is the tank where i'm
planning to put my blue Bolt shrimps. This tank just been cycled and it's run on underground
filter box as all my tanks. I'm also planning to add sponge filter to this tank in the near future
and here is my next tank on the left and this is my cull tank hopefully this is the last video
you're going to see this time because i'm planning to close this tank and replace with brand new tank
and I'll move these shrimps to my other tank which i'm going to show you later. I have lots of blue
bolts miles here in this tank and some of them look very good very intense blue colors so I'm
going to separate the most intense colored blue bolts males from this tank and moving them to our
new tank. Here's my next tank and i featured this tank in my last video. If you saw that you already
know that I just bought black galaxy tigers and the shrimps doing great! I'm super happy
about them the tank is only one month old and the shrimps already start to breed. I have two berried
females here in this tank. Super happy about this! excited to see new babies. Beautiful shrimps and
they definitely worth the money i paid for them. Here is my next tank on the right and it's also
new tank it's only three weeks old and in this tank I'm mixing my pinto shrimps with mischlings
so basically here I continue my project when i mix simple caridina crystal shrimp with pinto shrimp
and now i crossbreeding f1 mischlings back with Pinto shrimps. i'm very excited to see how the
baby gonna look like and i'm definitely gonna share this result with you once we have a babies
here. And here is my next tank with the red galaxy pinto shrimp. If you saw my previous videos you're
probably familiar with this tank because i already featured this tank on my channel very happy with
this tank tons of babies lots of berried shrimps and you can see I have some black pinto shrimps
here as well. they came from red steel females originally they mixed with the black galaxies and
then i put them in this tank already berried now they hatched their eggs and they already started
to get berried again. They definitely boost this colony. I also added a sponge filter to
this tank to help with filtration and to polish the water because the under gravel filter box
they have a little issue sometimes they can cloud your water. I should have a few blue
bolt shrimps here in this tank as well so we're definitely going to separate them from this tank.
And now we're going to move to the tank on the right and this is my black pinto shrimp tank
this tank is also about three months old and the shrimps start breeding, I have about three buried
females here and now we're moving to the very top of the rack and here at the right hand side I have
a new tank which just been cycled and this tank is going to be my new cull tank, so my old cull
tank at the bottom going to be replaced with a new tank and all the culls going to move to this tank.
And now we're moving to the last tank on this rack and this is my only neocaridina tank
if you saw my previous videos you should remember that recently I moved around 20 orange eye blue
tiger shrimps in this tank and I'm afraid they all died so guys I want to be completely honest with
you and tell you the truth so i'm not perfect and i do mistakes as well i want to talk about
the problems in this tank quickly with you so as you can see this is quite heavily planted tank
and what's happened when the shrimp start dying i never seen the dead shrimps so take a look at this
tank what's the chance you find the dead stream here? is very little right? and if you look at my
tanks you can see that it's very easy to find dead shrimps is no problem. Every morning when I come
to my shrimp room when I switch on the light i look for dead shrimps and if there is a dead
shrimps I definitely take them out. There is a high chance I find them because there is a not
much place to hide in my tanks when your shrimp died and you left the body inside the tank so it
starts to decompose pollute the water then another shrimp die and then it's more pollution so this
can be caused a chain reaction. I had a comment from somebody he commented that my tanks look
boring and i totally understand there are not much stuff inside my tanks and I concentrate mostly on
the shrimp well-being and in the plant and tanks your shrimp is going to be hiding quite a lot and
you're not going to be able to see your shrimps very often it's not ideal for me because i prefer
to see my shrimps not my plants and if something bad happened, like in my case with orange eye blue
tiger and your shrimp start dying you might not be able to react quick enough to save your shrimps
and that might cost you losing your shrimp. So i believe that if your goal is to breed your shrimp
as maximum as possible is better not to mix shrimp keeping and aquascaping. I remember when i started
this hobby many years ago i put lots of stuff in my tanks and my tanks were very busy. I didn't
get much success with my shrimps until i start keep my tanks simple and if you look at the big
breeders setup you will see that they don't have many plants and they don't have many stuff inside
their tanks. Don't get me wrong i know that the plants suck up your nitrates but too much plants
will create some issues and i believe that it's better to keep it simple. And this aquarium has
another big issue. Aave a quick look at this sand at the bottom of this tank. This tank is two years
old and there is a lot of waste built up here. The substrate become very toxic and can be one
of the reasons why shrimp start dying and it's a very common issue in old tanks and that's the main
then replace it with a brand new tank for Caridina shrimp. And here i have my smallest tank where i
keep my michelins which look like a normal crystal black shrimp. can you believe that most of the
shrimps came from one single crystal black female? this is amazing they already start to breed here.
And now we're gonna move to another side of the shrimp room where i have few tanks on top of
the cabinet and we starting with this tank first which is 90 liters volume. I just did a haircut
to this tank and i removed a lot of moss, i only left a little bit of flame moss and some of the
moss on top of the coconut shell and cholla wood. This is supposed to be black Pinto galaxy shrimp
tank but since i introduced some blue steel and red steel females here, by mistake i also
introduced some blue bolts as well. They start to make me a lot of different type of babies.
Take a look at those babies here in this tank, so many of them. lots of blue bolts babies here as
well. They like to hang on the glass and eat that tasty algae so you can see this glass is a little
bit patchy so they eat most of the algae from it and i'm a little bit worried that they eat algae
a little bit faster than its grow. it's a good idea to reduce the population of this tank because
once this baby will grow up it's going to be definitely overpopulated slightly. I very excited
to see how many blue bolts we're going to get from this tank. okay now let's move to the next tank.
it's the same size tank as my previous tank with the same filtration - two underground filter
boxes either side and one sponge filter in the middle. This is my mixed tank where I try to keep
very interesting males with the good patterns and all kind of females and i also want to separate
some of the blue shadow pandas and few blue bolts from here. So I don't want to leave any blue bolts
in my other tanks except of my blue bolt tank. And here is my next tank. It is 40 centimeter
cube which approximately 50 liter volume, i guess. it has the same filtration - Asian
style under-gravel filter box with sponge filter and in this tank i keep my mixed shrimps again
the same as my previous tank. Basically the first time in my life i have more shrimp tanks than i
needed so that's why i'm thinking to keep few shrimps here just to make some biofilm
and keep it running and then in the future i might use it for cross-breeding projects
or might buy a new shrimps for it. In this tank we still have few blue bolts even I don't have
any blue steels and blue bolts in this tank I still got some blue bolts from crossing shrimps
with each other. So i'm gonna remove all of them from this tank as well. And now we're moving to
my last tank it's quite small tank which is approximately 35 liter about 10 gallon tank
in this tank i'm trying to improve quality of my black pinto galaxy shrimps. The main goal for me
is to get the shrimp with the good spots on the head and with intense legs coloration as well also
known as a spider legs. So I'm trying to create a shrimp with a good spider legs with the good spots
on the head and I'm still working on the fishbone pattern at the back because most of the shrimp
has a good leg nice patterns on the head but they don't have fishbone so this is going to be
my future goal. Here i have few blue bolts shrimps as you can see and i'm going to take them out
from this tank as well now let's get all the blue balls out of the tanks and see how many i can get.
Here you go guys i took most of the blue bolts from all my tanks and we have now
93 lovely blue bolts here. unbelievable so many blue bolts in one box. I have six male
shrimps from my cull tank. they're all looking nice very intense color and in another box i
have mix of babies and berried shrimps. I have six berried blue bolt shrimps they originally
crossed with pinto shrimps so I hope they're gonna give us more blue bolts or if they give us
something else I don't mind. And now I'm gonna drip acclimate them and release them in new tank
Some of you might say that these blue bolt shrimps are not pure line because they came from the mix.
I'm aware of that and it doesn't bother me at all.
If they throw out a few pinto or panda shrimps for example i wouldn't be complaining about this.
I have tons of fun mixing my shrimps. it's very exciting and full of surprises. You never know
what you get and sometimes you can get shrimps with very interesting patterns from your mix.
Thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next one!