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  • 00:00

    Here's the unfortunate truth about keeping shrimp.

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    Sometimes, they die.

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    What's even harder to deal with is that sometimes, one passes away for no particular reason that

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    you can discern and the others do completely fine.

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    What's worse is when you have a buried female that passes away because that means all the

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    eggs on her swimmerets will most likely rot and die.

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    The good news is even without mama shrimp fanning the eggs, you can artificially do

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    this yourself and possibly save the eggs.

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    In order to do this, we use what's known as an egg tumbler.

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    Now, the good news is you can build this thing pretty cheaply.

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    I did it with some spare parts lying around my fish room.

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    It's quite simple, really.

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    You have an air pump, airline hose, an airline adjustment valve to allow different amounts

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    of air to go through, a clear tube, something to hold the tube upright, some netting on

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    the bottom to make sure the eggs don't fall through and allow water to flow up, and a

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    rubber band to keep everything in place.

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    Now, what this does is it pumps oxygen or air, whatever you want to call it at the moment,

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    into the tube which creates a vacuum that then gets filled by the water creating an

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    upward flow.

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    Now, this is important because as you can see here, we got a little demonstration.

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    Now, these are not shrimp eggs.

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    This is just a few pieces of carbon, but by being able to adjust the air rate coming out

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    of this hose, we can adjust the flow rate of the water coming through the bottom which

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    means the eggs will bounce up and down, much like you see the carbon right here.

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    That is how we can artificially tumble the eggs from a mama shrimp that has passed away

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    for whatever reason, allowing the eggs to grow to fruition and then hatch.

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    Although, we do our very best to keep our little buddies alive and happy, sometimes,

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    something happens and there's just nothing you can do about it at the end of the day.

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    That doesn't mean you can't do anything for the little babies, though.

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    What we're going to do is we're going to take mama shrimp out of the breeder net here, place

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    her on a flat piece of glass, and remove the eggs from her swimmerets.

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    Now, you might be wondering how to do this.

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    One important thing to note about the eggs on the swimmerets is they're on there kind

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    of like with glue, almost.

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    See, when mama shrimp has her eggs, it's like some sort of biological sticky substance that

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    keeps them bound to her swimmerets.

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    That's why she can fan them and swim around without them falling off.

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    Now, consequently or coincidentally, I should say, if mama shrimp happens to molt with the

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    eggs on her swimmerets, the molt will also keep the eggs, meaning mama shrimp will not

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    be able to take care of the eggs anymore.

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    That's another case in which you can do this particular process.

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    To separate the eggs from mama shrimp, one of the easiest methods of doing this is using

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    toothpicks.

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    This will give you a fine enough precision to separate the eggs from the swimmerets.

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    They'll probably come out in few bits of clumps but you want to separate them and try and

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    keep them as separate from each other as possible because you want them to bounce around in

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    here.

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    Let's go ahead and transfer this little tumbler into here and get the eggs off of mama shrimp.

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    Depending on the color of shrimp and how soon after death you find the shrimp, it's going

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    to be easiest to this on an opaque surface.

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    Now, I also have a spoon here because when I separate the eggs from the mama shrimp,

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    I want to put them on a surface where they are not going to fall off and I won't lose

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    them when I'm transferring them from this space over to the egg tumbler.

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    You have to be very careful.

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    You see there's a bunch of eggs and we just have to separate them.

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    Now, unfortunately, because I'm holding the camera, I won't be able to show you this particular

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    process but once the eggs are separated, we can go from there.

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    Now, as you can see, I have separated the eggs from the mama shrimp.

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    This process really isn't for the faint of heart.

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    You have to keep the shrimp very steady because the eggs are very sticky and they don't want

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    to come off of the swimmerets.

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    In order to keep a shrimp steady, what I do is I have to poke the toothpick through the

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    center of her body and use the other toothpick to apply some light pressure and scrape it

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    off.

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    Sometimes, you have to pick in between the swimmerets to get the last few but you should

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    end up with something like this.

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    Now, all that remains to be done is to transfer these eggs into the tumbler.

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    This is a very delicate process because you don't want to lose the eggs.

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    Now, like I said, I use a spoon when transferring from my work location in this case, it's not

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    like I've done this a lot, I'm still practicing myself, but you're going to want something

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    to make sure these little eggs don't go flying everywhere.

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    See how I've got a clump of eggs sticking to the end of this toothpick.

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    They are very sticky as I said.

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    This is just a quick little demonstration to show you.

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    Now, I've gotten lucky here with the stickiness that I have with the eggs.

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    I've already transferred some into the tube, but since I have a few more here, I'm going

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    to do something a little risky to show you how to get it in the tube, being very careful.

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    You want to pull the tube outside of the water.

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    What you'll do is stick the toothpicks in the water to remove them from the toothpicks.

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    You'll notice that they'll float for a little bit.

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    We give it a few minutes, they will start to sink down and when they sink down, you

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    should be able to see them down at the bottom here.

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    We really zoom in and at the bottom of the net, you see one's sinking down right now,

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    we caught and in this case, the net is not as tight as it should've been.

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    That's one thing you might want to consider is how close the netting is to everything

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    because you don't want eggs to fall down.

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    You want eggs to get in the net.

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    At this point, we've come to the process that requires the most delicate of precision, I

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    would say, which is adjusting the air flow to the little hole that we have up here because

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    if you adjust it too quick and too much air comes out, that little egg, the one you see

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    falling right down there will shoot right up out of the tube and then go floating around

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    somewhere else in the tank.

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    Now, the top of the tube is above the waterline at the moment.

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    Once all the eggs have sunk down, you need to have the top of the tube underneath the

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    waterline.

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    This is the point where people would add a top piece of netting as well.

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    As you can see, you got to be very, very careful because we've lost a few eggs because the

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    netting is not perfect.

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    Well, let's go ahead, start adjusting the water flow.

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    We've got very few bubbles coming up because, unlike the carbon, it does not take a lot

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    of water flow to move these eggs.

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    You can see they're just tumbling around in there.

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    As long as you keep them tumbling and they don't fall out like a few of mine

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    have done, unfortunately, then theoretically, the eggs should come to fruition because you

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    are now simulating what mama shrimp would be doing which is fanning the eggs back and

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    forth.

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    Now, there's good reasons for it.

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    If you don't know what the reasons are, it's worth Googling if you want to learn more about

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    how tumbling works, but you want to make sure it's a very delicate tumble.

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    Like I said, barely any bubbles and we're already getting on and getting them floating

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    around.

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    The process works so far and if we're lucky, we'll have baby shrimps in just a few weeks.

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    That is how to save the eggs off of a passed away, buried mama shrimp.

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    I hope this video helps you all.

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    Hope you did a little better of a net design than I did.

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    As long as you do that, I think you should be perfectly fine.

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    Thanks for watching, guys.

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    If this video helps, please give it a thumbs up.

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    It helps me a lot.

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    Don't forget to comment, rate, subscribe, show your friends, check out my other videos.

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    I got plenty of them and as always, I will see you next time.

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    Stay fishy.

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The example sentences of MOLT in videos (8 in total of 9)

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Definition and meaning of MOLT

What does "molt mean?"

/mōlt/

noun
loss of feathers, hair, or skin.
verb
(Of animals) to lose hair, e.g. on an annual basis.