How to Selectively Breed Shrimp - Improve the color & quality of your shrimp colony!
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I work in an aquarium store, thank you for the work and heart you put into your materials. I will use the acquired knowledge to improve the life of shrimps in Poland 🦐♥
Thank you for your kind feedback 🫶🏻
I’ve got an amazing cull tank! Didn’t like the idea of a skittles tank but wow I’m loving it
I didn't even thinking about selectively breeding where you take the lower color back into the old tank. Pretty smart.
Outstanding information!!
Informative as always!
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Great video on selectively breeding shrimp. I was just making a video on this topic, took a break and this video showed up on my feed. I love it
Thank you so much. I have been binge watching your video’s recently. You have some truly stunning shrimp 😍
Thank you Richard, once again your wisdom has served me well 😊.
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A man of your word! Awesome video!!
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Started with bettas. Now im getting more and more into breeding shrimp.
I started my cherrys with about 6-9 cant really remember, they've since split into high Sakura cherry, low sakura, wild/rili cherry, a few carbons surprisingly, orange sunkist, and low low grade orange/wild.
Needless to say, ive had to buy a lot of back up tanks to start each line and then for back ups on each line. But lord is this hobby addictive.
Keep going buddy, your videos are straight forward and you are always smiling, love that! Wish you all the best
Thank you so much for your kind words 🫶🏻
I'm planning on buying some Red Cherry shrimp but waiting for Java Moss to grow nice and lush 🥲
Thank you!
Btw i messed uo here coz i went to 2 fish stores and they both gave me very red shrimp lol i ddnt think of the male thing 💀
It happens 😉
My favorite way of culling is with with fried rice and stir fry 🦐🍤 😋
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I am trying to line breed my own red rili and blue jelly from red shrimp and keep picking out a few males from my other colonies to put in the breeding tanks to go with some great females. A couple days later I will spot a better male and swap them over. You are the chosen one! Father to a new chosen line! No you are not! I found another fella with a bit less red! He is the new chosen one...unless I find a better one!
And the cycle continues. :P
This made me chuckle. Would love to hear how your journey works out 🤞🏻
Very informative. Sir make a video on what we feed them or color enhancing
Will do 👍🏻
Just started with the hobby and learned so much already from your channel, I just did some selection in my cherry shrimp colony. Question: when do you determine with young shrimps if they have the full color this of course before they are ready for reproduction. Can you get a well colored shrimp from a mix high grade and low grade.
Hi. Thanks for taking the time to comment. To answer your question, yes you can (in theory) get any grade shrimp from any colony of shrimp. If you have a high/low grade colony, they will throw a mix of high and low grade babies 🦐
Awesome
Thank you 🙏🏻
Loving these vids, thanks Richard. Got my first dozen shrimp 2 weeks back, they're in with some juvenile guppies atm whilst i have a breeding tank cycling, hoping to move them across next week. Can you confirm what temperature and GH & KH levels are optimal please? TIA
They prefer water with pH levels of 6.5-8.5, GH of at least 6° (110 ppm), and KH of at least 2° (40 ppm). As for temp, aim for 72-76°F (22-24°C). With that said, they are usually really hardy are really forgiving of water parameters 👍🏻
Man I love that channel, straight to the point, no bs.
Is it true that if I breed 2 shrimps with different characteristics (lets say a red and a blue for the sake of the example) the offsprings are going to be grey ?
Yes, this can happen, but a portion of the babies may also reflect the colour of the parents, or be a new strain altogether
Right now i mixed an orange shrimp with some yellow neons and for now its beautiful because they cane out orange with a yellow stripe
They sound lovely 😻
@@FishKeepingAnswers yeah im just trying to figure out how to keep my fire shrimp hopefully breed them to stay with those traits
Those in your video are so deep red I'd dare say they are Bloody Mary neocaridina
They are 😍
Looking forward to doing this next weekend with 8 of my shrimp tanks 🙃
Wish me luck...
I must have over 1000 culls now in a tank of their own and honestly it is the most interesting tank!
So many odd genetics, it's like having a guilt free skittles tank that can mix genetics all they like! 🎨🖌
Probably a silly question but where could I aquire some of your shrimp?
I am looking to add some fresh genetics to my tanks and I would be honoured to buy some!
Hi. I shut down my breeding and selling operation in favour of making CZcams videos. There is a chance i will start back up, but not yet. Sorry 😕
@@FishKeepingAnswers no need to be sorry at all!
Completely understandable.
Amazing video ❤ can you put link of Amazon of the tubs that you use for breading? The ones that i am looking are very expensive, ❤ thank you
Hi. I will find the link. For now, Google Gratnells F25. They are the tubs I use 💪🏻
3:20 you should breed that one, and those similar to it, to see if you can get a white stripe variety in the future.
Also why aren't we trying to breed more colorful males as well?
Thank you 🙏🏻. I do plan to work on the males too 🥳
I'm thinking of keeping a water bottle with holes in the same tank and I separate the ones I don't want to breed, they can live .
Great information again. I have some very nice deep red shrimp. I have been sorting them according to colour. In new colonies, the young shrimp are often a wide range of colour, from pale to medium red. The young never have the deep red of the parents. As the young grow, they gradually increase in colour until some become the deep red of their parents. Is this the way it works, that they improve their colour as they age?
Yep!
Did you use cycled media from an established tank to get the new one safe that fast?
I didn’t. The clump of Java Moss I loved over will have more than enough beneficial bacteria to get me through the first week or so 👍🏻
Can I use this method to breed hardier shrimp instead of coloring? Like separate the bigger ones and the wild type to breed strong wild type
Yep. In theory you select for any trait, colour, hardiness, etc
Theoretically, if you have a large enough tank, you can have a predator to do the selection for you. You just need the environment to match the color/pattern of shrimp you want.
Theoretically.
Hi Richard, just curious as to why you didn’t drip acclimate the shrimp selected for the other tank for selective breeding?
Honestly, in my experience, drip acclimating Neocaridina Shrimp is a waste of time!
I have also losts of but they change thare color. I selected some and put another tank but unfortunately some go down thare color and change into white or transparent.
Hi Richard, should I keep red cherry shrimp together with red rili shrimp in one tank or separate them? I’m afraid their babies turn to low quality colour.
Hi. I would suggest two separate tanks, however Red Rili Shrimp are just a color variant of Red Cherry Shrimp, so in theory some of the babies will be Rilis, some will be RCS and some will probably be a hybrid of the two. If you keep both together, would love to hear how you get on. 🤞🏻
I'm new to the shrimp .. i have bloody Mary's that i added to my aquarium..
Only thing is they hide to much in the plant's
How can i tell the difference between male and female!?
There are a number of different ways to sex them. The sure fire way is when the female is holding eggs beneath her body. Other ways are the female is generally bigger and more colourful. She also have longer swimmerets than the male. Her body is also generally plumper!
How does it work with different colours? If I put blue and yellow shrimp, will I get green, or they will just end up brown anyway?
I’ve heard that you end up getting a mix of blues, yellows, a few reds and sometimes they revert back to brown after a few generations
Hey bro,
I have to decide which cherry shrimp should I buy, there are 2 sellers, Petstore they sell red cherry 5 for €24.99 and a private seller which sells €1 each.
Aside from the price, the difference also is in colour, Petstore colour is dark, opaque red and the private seller's shrimp are pale red with transparent parts.
Which one is good quality?
On the face of it, the pet store ones are better quality because they are darker. However, darker colour doesn’t necessarily mean better shrimp all round. If it were me, I would buy 10 from the private seller (which will set you back just €10) and keep them for
A few weeks to see how they develop. If you are not happy, get some from the pet store and either add the two colonies together, or rehome the original 10 and just keep the pet store ones. Just be aware, if ALL the pet store ones are dark coloured, they could all be female 👍🏻
@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you 😊 for your reply. I really appreciate it, going to buy from private seller makes sense.
Insanely red color🥰
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@@FishKeepingAnswers i just started shrimp keeping last Saturday,i hope i bred them as successful as you are,thanks to you're channel,im learning a lot
Would love to hear how you get on with them 🤞🏻
I read that male and female Bloody Mary shrimp have almost the same colouration
Could be true 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers It's because of the high grade is what I read. There is almost no discouloration between male and female and the offspring almost all are perfectly colored as well. Little need for culling
by selectively breeding can your shrimp change to a different color over time? (Ex. red to blue)
Essentially, yes, but your red colony is unlikely to through a random blue, but that is how new strains are developed. If you Google Neocaridina Shrimp Color Chart, there are lots of guides online that show how each color strain was developed 👍🏻
I bred 4 red shrimp at my friends house and over a 3 year period their descendants threw out every color and now although most are still red you can see most other colors in some of his tanks
Do you ship to the US?
Sadly we no longer breed shrimp to sell
Hello which company do you ship your shrimp with I'm struggling to find a good corrier thanks
Assuming you are in the UK, just use Royal Mail Guarantee Next Day by 1pm 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you
Sorry me again what are the dimensions of the boxes you use for shipping thanks
Do the shrimp eat fish eggs?
Nope 👎🏻
can culling in juvy state?
I am sorry, I don't understand the question. Happy to help if you can clarify 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers i think they're asking if it's a good idea to cull young/ juvenile shrimp
Look like you have a mayority of females in this tank. Needs some good looking to find the males. Is this intentional?
Yep. I like to keep 4 or 5 females to each male 👍🏻
@@FishKeepingAnswers where do the excess males go?
You could add them to a ‘cull’ tank.
How did you manage to count them? 😂
I just ask them to form a orderly queue and keep still until the count is complete 😉
How do you avoid inbreeding?
You can go many, many generations before inbreeding becomes a problem. If you start too see deformities in the shrimp, just add some more shrimp from a different colony 👍🏻
You are actively trying to achieve inbreeding. That is how colour lines are established, through close inbreeding aka line breeding. Unless you gather shrimp from the wild, the shrimp you will recieve from *any* breeder of a specific type will be closely related.
Inbreeding is only a problem if negative traits and/or deformities accumulate in a population. Shrimp have a primitive gene structure so it is basically a non-issue.
i love putting my inferior shrimps to concentration camps...i mean tanks