Skittles Shrimp Tank - Can Mixing Different Color Shrimp Work?
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...find out more about the shrimp color line.
I breed the black color line. For example, Bloody Mary (Red), Blue Diamond (Blue) and Black Sakura (black) can be kept together without the wild colors coming out.
The offspring are all black/onyx , blue or (bloody mary) red again.
Just got my first group of neo shrimp yesterday! They are orange rili. Hope to see babies one day. Your videos were a huge part in swaying me to try shrimp breeding!
I love Orange Rili Shrimp 😍
3:33 we have actually learned this diagram at school with Mendel's peas
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YAYYYY more videos please!! I love your videos it’s the reason why I have a tank full of shrimp and nano fish! ❤❤❤
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Becouse of you i started a shrimp breeding project a week ago. Thanks for your amazing videos❤️
That’s great to hear. Would love to hear how you get on 🤞🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers i do have one question. They are in for 4 days now and are constantly eating on the plants, probably some biofilm. But i put a spirulina wafer in yesterday but they didn’t eat it so i removed it. Is this normal becouse there is enough food for them in the tank? I have a group of bloody mary shrimp by the way, they are juvenille.
This information is actually incorrect. Shrimp have to carry two copies of the recessive gene for that colour to be displayed. Therefore in your chart, it wouldn’t be 50/50 unless you knew for sure that wild type carried that gene. The chart you showed works for incomplete dominant genes though
Signed up for the course now! And I've made this youtube-channel for my aquariums only (before I only used my channel for my dogs, but it got more and more aquarium-related videos there so I decided to have one for this topic as well 😁)
I've just moved to a better apartment, where I can have a few aquariums. I'm planning for 2 or 3 "big" ones, but you've inspired me to have some for shrimp only as well. First step however have to be one of the "big" ones running, because now I have a nano-aquarium for both some small fish and shrimps and that doesn't feel right even though everyone seem happy.
Hi. I have subscribed to your channel. That is a beautiful white Betta. 🫶🏻
@FishKeepingAnswers Oh, thank you! ❤️ That Betta is living in the pet store where I work, but I'm thinking about buying him. I think he's stunning. The only thing I'm worried about is whether it will be possible to have any other inhabitants in the same aquarium as him. I would love to put him in a 50L aquarium together with some shrimps and maybe some more fish, but I want everyone to be happy and to survive 😅
Well i have mixed shrimp in my tank, i have now some black and brown babies, some red, some blue etc.
Why not M&M tank?
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great video on skittles tank and very well explained why they revert to wild type after a bunch of generations. I had by accident a skittles 2.5 gallon tank before, i bought a female green shrimp to breed with my male and the babies were all different colours, i let that colony breed out and got all sorts of different colours. eventually after a while they all reverted to the brown wild type. but skittles tank is very fun to look at indeed! keep up the great work
Thanks for your feedback. It really is appreciated 🫶🏻
love the vids keep it up, a good idea for "skittles tank" is females only =)
My agar agar food mix is a hit 🎉
Iv had a shrimp colony for about 3 years now it started with cherry and rili then threw a lot of wild type browns now I'm getting cherry rili and snowball shrimp along with brown but the wild type are getting less for some reason
Did u culled out some brown and kept the red ones?
@@KAMJKJ i did move some brown ones into another tank but they threw out some really good quality young so now I just leave them too it apart from adding a few fresh ones I buy just for genetics
Hi Richard, great stuff and well said. Bty, you can call recessive genes as "hidden". 😊
Very true!
Started off in the hobby by buying a set-up off Craigslist - so naturally was sold wild-type neocaridana as “ghost shrimp”. I love them anyway but curious if it’s worth introducing colored shrimp from LFS? FWIW I’ve had two egg hatches and saw at least one blue baby hiding in my moss!
What rocks do you use in your tanks? I’m getting sorted to set mine up but need recommendations for rocks 😊
Hi, quick question about one of your previous video: what aquatic plants should I buy for my 20 gallon aquatic pea puffer fish tank, with ember tetra and cherry shrimp? Also, any lighting I need or specific substrate? How often should I clean my tank with your suggested plants and the help of they cherry shrimp?
I know you didn't ask me, but I'll reply anyways :p Don't clean it too much or too often. Most times you will do fine with any kind of substrate, as long as it's a layer that's thick enough. Just make sure that if you buy an "active soil", don't put in shrimp or fish the same day. Those types are dangerous for fish/shrimps in the beginning, but really good for plants (however, you don't need them for your plants).
What I do with my aquariums is that I have a test for checking the water quality and test it about once a week. If everything is fine, you don't need to do water changes or clean the tank. And the more plants you have, the easier it is to maintain a good water quality.
I don't have lids on my aquariums, so some water disappear, but the only thing I have to do is to refill it a bit now and then. Never change the water. I have a lot of different plants, some growing fast, some growing slow, some low and some tall. And I have floating plants as well. I keep both fish and shrimps. The fish are happy and the shrimps are happy and breeding, so it seems to do well :)
Skittles for me
I started out with all the colors....now I have a bunch of browns...😂
Yep! 🤣
Do you know where we can fetch a guide showing every shrimp "official" colors and the names hobbyists gave them ?
So that I'd know when I have a very special shrimp that I need to try to breed.
I am not sure of the original source, but you can certainly check out a good guide on this Reddit page.
www.reddit.com/r/shrimptank/comments/krhu5b/neocaradina_davidi_breedingcolor_transition_chart/
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What's weird about my skittles tank is all the babies either come out red or blue so far
Better that than wild brown colour 👍🏻
If it's a matter of single allele dominance, wouldn't two brown shrimp also be capable of producing red offspring? With the brown allele being dominant, you can never know whether a brown shrimp is homozygous or heterozygous - and if two heterozygous brown shrimp mate, then there's a good chance of F1 containing homozygous recessive red shrimp.
Hi just bought a clump of java moss dropped it into my tank and it just made a mess tiny bits floating everywhere, please help.
Best thing to do, just leave it alone. It will settle and start to grow. If it goes brown, just leave it longer, it will come back. If you want to you can collect it into a small clump and weigh it down under a small rock. Either way, give it time 👍🏻
your explanation of that Punnett square made me sad.
that square described two heterogenous brown shrimp resulting in 75% brown babies and 25% red babies.
Definitely don’t be sad. Was just trying to offer a simple explanation 👍🏻
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Totally understandable, but in its simplicity it was slightly misleading. When you mention that breeding two brown will always yield brown fry, that isn't necessarily true. If both brown parents are heterozygous (one color allele for brown, one for red - I used "heterogenous" originally and that was the wrong word - oops) they'll still appear brown but 25% of their offspring will still be red.
Can i keep kuhli loach with shrimp?
In my experience, yes
Keeping some mixed colour shrimp alive will be enough for me breeding / babies way off lol
Keep at it. You will get there 🤜🏻
No deaths as yet think I might have got it right this time
With your help sir
Can red cherry shrimp and sakura orange shrimp do fine?
Better you keep their sakura orange shrimp, and separated the red cherry into another aquarium
Can i keep one male and one female of every color? I'm new to this btw
You can, but keep them together and the blues will breed with the reds, and the yellows will breed with the blues etc. obviously, insert your own colours as applicable 👍🏻
Hi Richard I'm sorry but I need help. I have a colony of yellow cherry shrimp in a tank with bristlenose plecos and guppies they've been in there for about 2 months and they recently started dieing well 3 have died in the past week could it be the heat wave in south africa my tanks reached about 29°c for the past few days and drops to around 25°c at night. I've plugged out the heaters and the pumps with motors and are only running sponge filters at the moment need help please
I have a Skittles tank i Gues cause i have red orange and yellow shrimp together 😅
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Can anyone recommend a shrimp forum / page ???
If you use Facebook, have you checked out Marks Shrimp Tanks?
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, last night all zooming about alot looked like fun at first then 2 hours later I kinda worried . . .
Removed alot of duckweed I'll add airstone today . . .
Your eyes should be in the top 3rd of the frame. Dead center just looks... off. Great content though! Cheers :)
I have a skittles tank. I have a red cherry that actually has a gold back and a shrimp that is green Jade on the top half and yellow on the bottom half 😂
Sounds like a great combo 😂
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That's an odd take. The natural shrimp polluting the man-made gene pool.
Nature finds a way 🤷🏻♂️