Breeding Shrimp for Max Profit! Tips & Tricks. How to Price, Grade & Sell Shrimp. Nano Tank Big $
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- Breeding Shrimp for Profit! Tips & Tricks To Make The Most Money Off Your Tanks, Be it Nano or Big! selling neocaridina, Caridina, Babaulti and tiger shrimp for a profit. Dwarf Shrimp make incredible aquarium pets, for kids, beginning fishkeepers and advanced hobbyists alike. i want to show you how to get the most money possible when selling your shrimp. be it to local fish clubs, local fish stores or online. it's all about knowing the market, being honest, and creating scarcity in the way you grade your nano shrimp. Remember, beautity... and the price they are willing to pay- are in the "eye" of the beholder!
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Culls aren't always rubbish! I once got a bag of 6 wild green swordtail culls in a local fish club raffle. Took them home, grew them out, entered one in a public all breed tropical fish show, and took home Best of Show trophy with that beautiful creature!
Oh I agree. I've started lines with culls even. Just takes time:)
I got some lowest grade cherry shrimp (completely translucent) for free lol. I put them in a trial tank, and several months later voila! I have blacks, browns, reds, more colorless etc. It wasfun to see all that genetics play out and realize I can keep shrimp without heater or filter in front of a window.
Right on! They were probably culls from a once decent red line, in that case. Thats a great way to do it!
@Alex Thanks for sharing the way you grade and sell your shrimp. Hope you're continuing to stay safe and well. Looking forward to the next stream.
Of course, my friend. I hope you have a great week also
@@Fishtory Glad to hear you're doing well. Have some fish on their way to me. Setting up a 20L for QT tomorrow.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and putting so much effort into this video. Probably the best I’ve seen! I’ll re watch it and take notes next time!
Blessings to you and your family 😊
Aw thank you very kindly. Im glad you enjoyed it. Have a great weekend. Cheers!
Making your costomers give you there prise is a good way to make them feel stupid if they don't know the market. Ether they go low and feel greedy or they go mid hi and feel that they payed to much. In my mind the seller should allways give the price there willing to sell for.
I totally agree if they don't know the market. I was mostly referring to making a barter / trade or package deal with other hobbyists when i said that, i suppose.
I guess Ive always given a 3 price structure based on grade A, B and culls ... usually selling mostly 60% B's and maybe 30% A's
With 10% wanting culls for kids or nature scapes.
@@Fishtory that's a good clarification. I agree that a barter or auction situation especially in a club or similar is a different situation.
thank you so much for the info! Very helpful!
Excellent video great information! Last couple of years my local aquarium gives me credit. We have no local clubs unfortunately!! Thanks , Alex
Sorry to hear that! Maybe try online selling, if you want to reach other areas? A new website like Etsy for fishkeepers is coming out in a few months, and I bet it would make it easier for you to sell. "Vivvy". They'll announce more info soon.
Also aquarium coop has a 10$ online aquarium club for chatting and talks ..I'm trying to do one for free, with monthly expert guests...but it's still obviously never the same as being somewhere in person.
Best of luck!
Very informative video! Thank you for sharing your experience and opinions. I'll be watching this one again.
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Great video. Great info. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
No problem lil Bobby! Thanks for watching
This was fantastically informative, thanks Alex!
Wish Ireland had the market for shrimp that other places seem to have.
First video of yours I've watched. You just got yourself another subscriber.
Thank you kindly. This isnt even that good of a video haha. I hope you enjoy the others as well. Cheers and welcome, mate!
Good video, I like these coloured neocaridina,
That's awesome man thank you for sharing, makes me want to have shrimp again here in Down Under Australia.
You're near all the Sulawesi shrimp species too....and psuedomugils! 2 of my favorite critter families. Cheers mate.
Great video Alex I'm getting some shrimp in the mail next week 😁
Thanks for the great info Alex..
Any time- thanks for watching and commenting
Love the Blues. I’d name that pale Blue ‘ice cube blue’ 💙
Ooo I like that. Thanks for the cool name idea!
Great info.thx
NICE, thanks for the information.
Thanks for watching!
This video was great!! You just got another subscriber!
Why thank you kindly 🙏 welcome!
Very informative!
I'm glad it was of use to you!
Thanks. Great video .
I appreciate the sentiment. Thank you!
Another great video! :)
Another great comment :)
Interesting to see how the market works over your way regarding shrimp, cheers for the info Alex.
Do you guys get a nice selection of species since taiwan and Hong Kong are so close? Or are a lot of them banned species?
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium , they are all pretty much banned. We only have what got here years ago or ‘magically’ appeared available.
@@aquariumplantman i love magic... especially crystal (balls) and blue dreams
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Thank you very much Cooper! Cheers
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Welcome to the community! Glad to have you Herr
Nice
I think you could call the culls from a blue dream tank blue diamonds? It looks like they are the grade below blue dream in the chart you showed in another video
Shrimp expert!
Great and informative video as always, any chance on a video about culling? Like at how old can you decide if a shrimp is a cull and how much to cull on average.
I have one already if you search my older videos. I also discussed it in a video called "how create your own line of shrimp"
I cull at about half an inch in length (and ignore age)
Booked an appointment with the eye doctor after watching this
Best of luck!
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Thanks!
@@Fishtory Y w. :)
Very well spoken. Very knowledgeable info. Thank you so much. Trying to get my grandson into the business, because of his illness, he needs to work from home. What would be really cool is it we knew your web address or somehow to reach out to you. I live in Kentucky but my grandson is in New Smyrna Beach Florida just below Daytona Florida.
Sure alexanderjwilliamson@gmail.com
I had to start doing the same thing... between CZcams, fish and plant farming in a 10x9 bedroom and graphic design side gigs I can make around 3,000 to 5,000 a month (which is good since rent or mortgage for a 2 bedroom 900 square foot house is 3k Even in a less nice neighborhood in town.
Hey guys, spirit of the law here...
I had bought a group of cherry shrimp at a local auction. Put them in a tank with wild type guppies and let the water go green. When I cleaned the tank the last few days I ended up with low grade cherries and a lot of solid dark red/brown and not much of anything between those colors. Apparently the dark red/browns are called chocolate . Waiting a few days to see if they lighten up in color now they aren't in green water.
Yes. You can make them sound extra fancy and label them Shoko Shrimp.... meaning chocolate also lol
@@Fishtory , Cool, nice to know.
@Fishtory I am confused, I thought you mentioned not to use a name already established in the hobby?
At 10:00 are these malawa or neocaridina?
At 21:00 how to make these translucent type?
10 minutes are 2 neocaridina a crystal sky/crystal blue and a double blue rili, then on the left are 2 Malawa natural tan/clear shrimp.
21 minutes they are found in the wild mostly translucent when in rivers on gray or light color stone, darker substrate and selective breeding as well as their mood dictates how translucent a malawa is.
Take care!
Thanks for another great video. Hope you are staying safe.
Question, are the red riding hood neos?,and if so arent you risking mixing them and painted fire reds?
Yes, and yes .... i want to see what they mix like for starters, but also- all the female red riding hoods are already pregnant via their own strain of males... and 2 painted fires are also pregnant via male painted fire males (before putting them all together). So there is only one RRH female and 2 PFR females that I'll allow to potentially "hybridize ", and then theyll be moved to their own respective tanks
@@Fishtory I thought you may be experimenting. Stay safe
Hey alex"👋" Ive been going nuts with social isooation but decide to go out yesterday, because one of the lfs was having a closing out sale...stocked up on some fish food and got some larger fish while i still could. I got 3 angels and 3 spotted silver dollars(apparently from Singapore) but the noses are a bit rubbed off on the silver dollars I'm assuming from being in a tank a bit too small for them at some point. I'm put the silver dollars into my 125 is there anything I can do to help heal up their noses a bit other than the usual proper water parameters and keeping it clean?
Also great video wish I could find shrimp up here other than in my own tank, going to have to sell some now that I'm the only local source.
Um id do a salt dip (google whichever style you want ...a quick one though)... then get some tannins in the water for them...eventually theyll heal and i think your assumption is spot on.
@@Fishtory thanx Alex I've already got some catapa leaves in the tank, I'll do a quick salt dip next👍
25:00 Did this with Flip Aquatics, wouldn't recommend. They showed off painted fire legs, and sent me mid grade crap and called them important after the fact. Not even in their description that all their cherries are imported. I thought they bred them.... really bummed out by their quality.
Now they gotta deal with seeing me talk shit about their shrimp in every video I see them in now. It's what happens when you don't list you shrimp right and then have excuses when you point them out.
Well they once were all locally bred and sourced, by LRB , Han Tran and Rob himself for the first 3 years.... the last 2 or 3 years everything has changed...and I no longer work with them at all (even for gifted or free animals/product). So I understand your position
@@Fishtory LRB still still breeds him from what I thought? Or does he import now with his cherries?
Hi, if I were to home breed some fish, normally what are the difference of price ( interns of percentage ) between retail price and the price local aquarium willing to buy from me ? Understand that it is different in each country, but just a rough estimation
Usually the store will pay 1/3 or 33% to 25% (1/4th) of what it retails for in USA stores. So a 10 dollar fish whole sales for $3.40 to 2.50 depending on the store, the fish and demand v. Supply.
If you can sell straight to consumers you only need to breed 30% as many fish hehe
Hello, I need some advice please. I have been keeping red cherries in a 38 gallon for about two years And they bred like crazy and I never sold any. Had thousands of them and recently been selling a lot. How should I make sure I don’t oversell so the colony keeps breeding? When I feed they come out and cover almost all the bottom of a 38 gallon. Probably about 300-500 would be my guess Am I safe to keep selling 20-30 at a time a every week or so?
Yeah I would say, always keep 75 to 100 adults... and sell the juvenile/ almost grown ones... (inevitably you'll miss some and they'll become adults too) then you also cut down on competition between siblings... 2month old vs 4 month old shrimp will fight over food a lot. You've undoubtedly seen them 'steal' food and swim off with it lol.
But with that size colony...as long as you have quite a few plants or stone pile hiding spots, you'll Likely never run out, at the 20 to 40 a month count... if you can, sell em to consumers and not stores ..you make so much more and it sort of self-limits how much you depleat the colony.
Best of luck!
@@Fishtory Awesome! Thank you so much for the advice! There seems to be a lot of demand here in the Bay Area in California. I have been selling a lot to hobbyists. I will heed your advice make sure about the adults. I have been trying to sell mostly juveniles with some adults mixed in when I sell them and some culls lol. I always think I am depleting too much but when I feed I alway see many, many more. Thank you again for the advice and quick answer!
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Yo I bet you have sold it, but that blue black shrimp you have in video...do you have a website for specific culls?
I don't anymore, unfortunately. I only sell locally
i seen some Planaria in your tank, what do you do to treat this?
A product called "no planaria" if they get out of hand... if you see 2 or 3 at a time at night, it's usually okay to just remove them with a pipette or turkey baster... and cut back on food or use a feeding dish so you can wash it out after
Is it okay to keep different colour shrimps together in a tank?
Health wise- yes.... but within several generations you lose the defined colors and they turn clear, brown and speckled
Where I live, only 1 store sells cherry’s. they sell from $6 aud each. With a waiting list.
Whoa
where you live?
@@youngtrama1 Central Victoria Australia
Do you have a heater in the tank ?
Not this one
Do you think adding shrimp on a white gravel tank let you know if you have a good quality shrimp?
Yes...it lets you see color consistency much better (blotches or rili / line genes)...also if you turn the lights out and then check at like 3am- theyll be the lease vivid and for 20 minutes or so they wont color back up usually
Excellent thinking and great point by the way!
Take care
One last question that I’ve had for a while that you might be able to know. Will a Bloody Mary shrimp become translucent if but in white gravel or will it keep its dark color since it’s a higher quality shrimp?
@@poseidon00709 it stays darker...looks more rusty brown if anything
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium thanks I appreciate you taking the time to reply
Hi. I really want to breed shrimp for profit and saved some money. I kept shrimp sometime ago, but they died slowly. Never had any test kits and now willing to invest on them so that I can have a small breeding business. Which test kits should I get? And are the shrimp mineral necessary?
Please help.
I usually buy bacter AE and or pollen granules for my shrimp babies...and then simply use fluval stratum shrimp and fish substrate, using 1 cup of crushed seashells/or crushed coral for every 10gallons of 7.0 neutral water
Hey does anybody know the name of the moss/plant at 2:44
Susswasseetang aka round pelia ...its amazing and can be made dense with co2 and trimming or nice and loose just floating freely.
Perfect for fry and shrimp and I have a great video on The History of Susswasseetang (also spelled Sußwassertang )
I will watch that right away. And thanks a lot for giving this amazing reply really appreciate it!
Are you not worried about the planaria in there? I was under the impression they can prey on baby and moulting shrimp
They sure can... and if there were more than a handful, I'd use "no planaria" from Japan and kill them. But they went away on their own as I cut back the food
@@Fishtory gotcha. I'm going that route with mine, ordered no planaria just in case but I'm trying to starve them out first.
what would you call that blue one that you liked? all blue dreams?
Yeah all blue dreams technically
You could call it a high or very high grade blue dream.
I hope this doesn't cause to much debate but has anyone considered using the culls of the culls for a poultry supplement? Like injured, really bad color, bad moults ect? Right now I think the price of earth tone mixes/ wild type, whatever are still so much that the bio availability still wouldn't be cost effective, but it would also be a handy tool for selective breeding if you didn't have the extra tank space or readily available market.
I know a lot of folks who use them for fish food, or reptile food, yeah. So im sure chickens would love them hehe
How do you find female shrimp? I bought 10 ghost shrimp hoping for 1 female and got none
Ghost shrimp don't sex the same way and need salt water to usually start showing off their ovaries and eggs ;)
Cherry shrimp, caridina, babualti and all other neocaridinas are freshwater
Would like some help getting shrimp
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What TDS is your tanks?
100-200 generally
Will the eggs drop down in the undercarriage even if they don't get fertilized?
No... or rather, not for more than a few hours likely. Usually neocaridina shrimp and caridina shrimp have a male insert a little donut shaped sperm pack at the exit of the female's ovaduct lines... so thats the "🔑key " that will unlock her saddle...so then she releases her saddled eggs and each one has to rub on the donut of sperm, thus before exiting her ovaduct tubes she will have already made sure they're fertilized...usually if an egg js misshapen or damaged, she'll just lay it on the ground or eat it for the vitamins and calcium.
Always remember if you see your shrimp dispersing it’s eggs sprinkle some salt into your tank, it will basically activate the eggs
I kind of like the "marbled" blue guys. Not much of a fan of the blue guys in general though. I feel like you hv to hv light substrate to make them really pop. And I'm def a fan of the dark soil, or my teenage self super emo tank w black gravel and black back and only black and white fish😂.
I can totally understand that
I would like to buy some
Where do you live, and which species
How’s that purple strain coming along?
Lol dead ennnnd.
@@Fishtory well shoot haha. Another question. Any luck with tangerine tigers? I live in Texas. The water here is hard. I’m wanting to raise shrimp down here but extremely hesitant.
There are worms in your tank watch out go to 9 min there is it crawling on the ground
Yes planaria. From over feeding. I just cut back feeding and they go away... or I get some scarlet badis to breed in there and move the shrimp babies out
I'd be scared to have angels in with my shrimp. Mine are pro shrimp eaters
Did no one else notice the planaria in the tank
There's definitely some in there...when i see it, i just cut back on feeding and they'll go away
#blindlyscooping lol
Do you do this fulltime? Or are you able to support yourself selling shrimp as a fulltime job?
I do graphic design and art commissions, but usually make almost 1000 a month from the hobby and selling fish, shrimp and plants- + CZcams
@@Fishtory thank you for responding! I'm preparing to start breeding and hopefully selling shrimp and snails. Spoken with a few local fish stores near me and they expressed interest in buying shrimp from breeders with the same water parameters as them & their customers (no brainer). Super excited to get more into it. Have to get more tanks and have them cycled and seasoned for them first. Hate the waiting 😅 thanks again for the reply and thank you for this video. It was very helpful
No problem. And good luck to you too! I do also do skype/zoom/phone consulting about aquariums/aquarium business and aquatic plants + marketing, logo work and branding (I've combined all my jobs into one consulting specialty haha).
Id you have a question or two ill always try my best to answer them. But if you want to chat in depth just let me know and we can set something up. There's a lot of ways to save money with shrimp (like filtration or heaters + much more) , and other things that you should actually spend decent money on (substrates and additives to water if anything other than neocaridina or malawa shrimp).
Also, id just warn you, that you probably won't be able to beat asian sources for neo shrimp (if your lfs can find them currently, that is!). Selling to individuals is where it is at, for sure. And bundling things like catapa leaves and bacter ae bought in bulk and portioned out as samples etc.
I have a shrimp playlist with more info and hope you may find some more of what you're looking for, while you scour youtube.
Take care and thanks for dropping a line
if a male shrimp doesn't impregnate a female, will she still drop her eggs from her saddle?
She may, but theyll drop completely to the ground as she moves them. But more often, she will re-absorb the nutrients for the next time
@@Fishtory I love this stuff. Thank you.
@@jasonstouderim honored. Cheers. To aquarium nerds!
Are those planaria? Brrrr
Yup my Panda loaches eat them as live food daily
Bro that is planeria slithering on the glass
Yup killed it with "no planaria"
Hey bro, First time seeing your video very informative on many levels. Do you sell shrimp...interested in blue dream & bloody mary....website ?? Thanks
Thanks. I dont sell online since id run out all the time, but i do sell local to seattle... otherwise i highly recommend aquatic arts breeder packs of neocaridina shrimp and use FISHTORY15 for 15% extra discount... also garden of eder shrimps is lower prices and lower grade but still nice enough to establish a good line with some culling