Hello guys and Welcome to Mark's Shrimp Tanks.
I just wanted to start of by saying a big big THANK YOU guys for the 12,000 subscribers.
I can't believe I actually have 12,000 subscribers.
It's been roughly a year since I started YouTube properly.
I was hacked in the beginning of August 2016
and previously before that, I didn't really do my YouTube channel very well.
I couldn't do it because I couldn't get into my YouTube channel basically.
So I just wanted to say Thank You, a huge thumbs-up from me for supporting me.
And what we're gonna do next guys is I'm gonna do the draw for the giveaway from last month.
So you will see that now.
[silly noise]
So let's get on with this draw, I'm doin' it old-school here.
I'm filming my actual screen, and here, up here you can see in the corner the name of the video.
This is where all your guys' names are in the comments.
We're gonna see who won the Triple Pack on the YouTube Channel, okay?
Good Luck to all!
Let's see... Who is it? Who is it?!
Kjell Söderlund, I know you very well my friend.
Congratulations, I will be sending you that Triple Pack very soon!
And now we're gonna go over to Facebook.
And this is the Facebook, um, edition of the same thing.
You have 154 comments on here.
*Hello Star Trek*
154 comments on here. So we are gonna go over to RANDOM.ORG
and we're gonna pick a number between 1 and 154 and that will be the winner.
So number 44 on this page is the winner.
So we have to scroll down, see who it was.
Who was it? Who was it? Who's it gonna be?!
44
Thomas Grini, Congratulations Thomas!
Let's see...
Let's leave Thomas a little reply "congrats you won"
Okay.
Let's put a little smiley on there for him as well.
A wee high-five. High-five Thomas, you won!
Okay so, that is the winners.
I wanna show you one more thing before we go.
If my computer, if it- Is it just frozen? Is it kidding me? When I'm recording...
It's not- There you go it's unfrozen. I don't know what it is that does that.
I think it's a Facebook thing where it freezes.
So Congratulations Thomas.
One more thing before we go guys is, on, in the Aquarium Shrimp Keeping group up here,
if you scroll down to where it says "Files" you will always have a reminder of what the current giveaways are, okay?
Running Giveways, I think Roger's doing his one next, but this is my one here.
Current Running Giveaway and it will have a link to the current Running Giveaway.
Congratulations to the winners!
And back to the other Mark!
And what we're gonna do now guys is we're gonna, um,
I'm gonna go over the big things I've done in my room, shrimp room.
Cause this is gonna be an update, I know it's maybe a few days early but it's...
I'm gonna do an update for September.
Just now. Just to kind of get it outta the way because I have a lot of content coming up.
And I need to produce better quality videos, I know this.
Okay so, let's get right into this I think.
We're gonna start on this side. You can see a huge difference in here.
No more moss wall. The mo- I still have the moss wall but it's just not in this tank.
And uh, let's go into it and have a little look I think.
Specifically what is wrong with this tank guys is um, the baby shrimp were just not surviving.
No matter what I did the baby shrimp wouldn't survive.
Um, I've tried putting young shrimp in here as well, and they will not survive either.
So that tells me there's something wrong either with the substrate
or something wrong with something in the substrate, as an example.
I know for sure it wasn't the filtration because this tank was over filtered.
Now it is even more over filtered than it was before.
We have a Pat Mini here with a mod that I've shown you in previous videos
with 1 sponge filter in the back corner over here, three here.
you can see all the sponge filters I have now in here.
I've done away with the Pothos one because I wanted to check to see if um,
If the Pothos was depleting the substrate basically.
I have seen other videos on YouTube where people have said
that it has killed their tanks by sucking out the nutrients.
And there is, I think there is a little bit of a nutrient deficiency in here,
because I can see this type of string algae, which is normally an indicator.
So what I've done here guys is I've used, um, BeniBachi Fulvic Grain.
I've put a few packets in here, into the soil, to give a more Humic Fulvic content again.
Um, you can see, quite clearly see the difference.
The shrimp themselves, I have had no deaths in here at all since the last time I spoke to you.
Um, there's not really much more to say about this,
but I can see a little bit of a difference in the biofilm build up on the glass.
So it could be that the Pothos has been sucking too much out if you get what I'm talking about.
Okay, you wanna go into the other tanks?
Let's see...
Oh, look at that one there. This is one of the Blue Bolts I got from Dennis Anderson.
I think you guys saw this the last time, and I've got a few Steels here as well . Absolutely beautiful little shrimp.
This tank's doing good, it looks a little bit barer than it did the last time.
Especially with the wood, because what I'm doing guys is this;
um, I'm trying to improve on the design of the tanks to the point where it is naturally filtered well.
Okay so, at the back here we have the Pat Mini with the double filter.
Every water change I will take one of these off, give it a little bit of a squeeze into the bucket and put it back.
And that's all I will do to the filtration.
The filtration in here come out here at an angle, hits this wall here and it goes in a circular motion, okay?
So, I want this to be like a, kinda like a vortex.
And I've done this specifically as well guys because I noticed,
when I was putting food in different places, um, it wasn't being spread out properly.
Doing it this way most of the food should go in or around this bush here, this Subwassertang right?
So the water flow will go like this, round and around in a circle,
and it will go in a, in amongst this area here in front of the Subwassertang,
because I've noticed baby shrimp love to hide in plants.
You guys will all know that as well right? So I will, I will be putting the food I put in here directly to them.
Okay, and it doesn't look that bad this new way as well.
I've done it in this tank as well.
And it actually helps to keep the tank a little bit cleaner because
um, a lot of the food will go and it will sit in this area here.
Sometimes it actually sits in the dish and I can siphon it out pretty easily.
Uh, the Orange Eye Blue Tigers are doing really really nicely in here.
This one's mixed. I have um, TangTai up here that has special genes, special genetics, I got from a friend.
There's a Pinto there, there's a TangTai there.
I haven't lost any more shrimp in here either.
It is a little bit hard to see them, there's some under here.
The food up today by the way guys is MineralStix (WHITESTIX) from Pure Nordic.
I will show you that at the end though.
Let's have a little look- Oh we have another tank here I forgot to show you.
Triops tank. You might have seen this by the time I've done this video.
I think this one might be coming out just before the setup video for this.
Just let me fix this thing, there ya go.
Uh, the little tank on the top has been... I would say a flop.
I, I am seeing things in there but I don't think they're Triops.
I think... at least one of them was, looked like, it looked like a Fairy Shrimp (Anostraca) guys.
And one was definitely a Daphnia.
You can see a lot of algae and stuff building up here so I think this one that we set up,
the little hatchery tank, following their instructions...
If I hold this up here, you might just be able to see the Daphnia, it's like pulsating around. See it?
And I can't actually see any Triops at all in here.
Um, by the time that you will have seen this video, I have actually done a setup video on this.
I'm not gonna go into much detail with this. This is a proper little tank I've set up for this.
What's quite interesting with this guys as well is the food I put in here was Pure Nordic's NUTRIDUST
and there's actually Mycelium, which is a fruiting body of fungus growing on the top here. You see it?
Just in that little spot there. This is an absolutely awesome food for shrimp.
See a little bit of it over here as well.
So it just goes to show, hopefully I'll have a good um, update on this tank for you guys, maybe in a week or so.
Because I'm actually ordering, um, more eggs from Triop Kings, and we'll put these directly into this tank.
Hopefully it's something you can see in the next video, okay? 'Cause it's looking a bit bare.
Uh, this is the... This was formerly the Cherry Shrimp Tank.
I actually caught every single Cherry Shrimp in here and now it is the Painted Fire Red tank.
Let's go down here and you can have a look at them.
I put some food in, just to bring them to the front, and you can see how dark red they are.
Some of them are almost black. They're absolutely beautiful little shrimp.
Now the snails in here, um, I think I have too many of them in here
and this is creating a problem with them eating each others shells.
Okay because the KH is 1 or 2 in here now but the GH is pretty high.
The last time I measured it was something like 16.
It doesn't seem to be affecting the shrimp at all.
Um
But the snails are not really getting any better, I noticed a lot of the shells are quite pitted.
I have a lot of calcium in here. I have Mineral Stones.
I have Cuttlefish Bone behind this piece of slate here, or tile.
And um, the snails are getting better but they're not getting much much better.
They're not as good as they should be so...
I think they might be cannibalizing each other's shells.
You can see that on them, there's a lot of white on a lot of them.
So we shall see if we can fix that.
Let's go over to here and have a look at the other tanks
This one is very very pretty now.
Pothos filter in the top.
Isn't that nice guys?
This is where a lot of the plants went from my other tank.
It has a little bit of sand in the bottom.
It has the moss wall here, which is really really cool.
Unfortunately it will not work. I'm trying to do it so you can kinda see a little bit.
Maybe not...
But it looks really really nice doesn't it?
Look at the plants. These are the plants I got from Roger Ellingston as well, the Bucephalandra.
Now this tank I would consider pretty low light in there.
But you can see for yourselves guys, it doesn't seem to affect the plants at all.
There's very little algae in here as well.
There's a ton of shrimp, you see them all over here?
I put some food in just at the corner here so you could see it.
Let's go on to...
Orange Eye Blue Tigers.
These are the ones with the shrimp... the... with the shrimps? [laughing] These are the ones with the stripes.
And these little guys are doing good as well, I have a berried female in here.
These ones are younger than the ones in the other tank.
There's also a Pat Mini Filter in the corner here.
I have the other sponges ordered but I just haven't got them in yet.
As soon as I get them this one will be converted to the double sponge.
But they're doing awesome.
It's nice to have a little bit of a variation with the, the Tiger-ish looking ones as well.
Over to the Cherry Shrimp.
These ones are pretty nice, aren't they guys?
For Cherry Shrimp they're pretty red.
These haven't been mixed at all with the Painted Fire Reds, these are my own Cherry Shrimp.
You can, you can tell the big stripes on the back, etc.
When you look at the wood you can see baby shrimp all over them.
This also has had a filter upgrade. It has the Pat Mini Filter in the back.
It's also important guys, to note, because I see this in some of your videos
where you have the Pat Mini Filter and you have the wrong sponge on it, okay?
You need to change the sponge over to the um, Shrimp safe version,
because a lot of the ones I'm seeing with this is that you have the sponges basically too coarse.
And the shrimp will be sucked into the filter.
You can get around this by putting a pair of women's tights over the sponge, that'll make the holes not so big.
K14's
Doing good. These ones are pushing out babies quite a lot.
I had one shrimp die in here yesterday but it's probably old age, because the shrimp was very very big.
Probably the end of it's life.
This tank is gonna be done... I know I said this in the last video.
It's gonna be moved but I'm actually really enjoying the growth in this.
So what I'm gonna do is, that plant that's dead center, the Hygrophila Sunset, I'm gonna cut that stalk off there.
I probably want to just clean the glass, drain it down, and put it up here into this corner.
'Cause I think this'll look nice with another light on it,,
and maybe I can get another 54 or 60 liter tank in this space here.
Let's go on to the Crystal Blacks.
Lemme just switch off this light over here.
These guys have went from strain to strain to strain.
I've actually got these for sale on my website now because they're breeding so well.
Um, What's also important, I should note when talking about my Crystal Blacks is
they have Taiwan Bee genetics.
So you will see one's like this, there's a Mosura Blue Bolt here.
Just in the gravel there you can see a, I think it's a King Kong wandering around.
And um, I do have quite a few different um, Taiwan Bees in here.
On the glass here you can see there's another little Panda, beautiful little shrimp.
On the glass over here you probably see I have left all the biofilm from the previous video,
because I'm, I see a lot of shrimp on this all the time.
Let's have a little look closer and we can view this.
Right here we have what looks to be a Wine Red,.
Up here at the end of my finger, there you go, is a King Kong.
This one looks like it's a Blue Bolt.
So you can see there's an advantage to having areas where you leave lots and lots of biofilm.
And I'm creating my biofilm guys with NUTRIDUST which is also a Pure Nordic product.
It's not an endorsement. It's not an ad. I'm just telling you what works for me.
Lovely little... What is it? Umm... Not a Wine Red.
Ruby Red, yeah that's what it is a Ruby Red.
It's not a Ruby Red Extreme because it has the white in the middle of the back.
Crystals are doing really really good as well.
Wonder if I, if I turn this one off, yep there you go.
This one is the same it's always been. There's just always lots and lots of shrimp in here.
They're pushing out the Taiwan Bee as well.
It also has another Pat Mini Filter added to the corner.
You might be able to see the difference with this sponge in this one it is much much finer.
Alright what's interesting about this tank guys is
I tried um, to make a video for Shrimp Versus Raspberry and I put a leaf in...
Here, let's have a look down here.
You see this leaf there? That is a Raspberry leaf. That one is about 2 weeks old.
That was a fresh one and they're still bit's of soft tissue on there.
Now this one is, up here, is also another Raspberry leaf.
This underneath by the way [laughing] is all duckweed that's managed to get under it and is helping it float.
um
This was a dried Raspberry leaf that was, I believe at least 3 or 4 weeks old.
I let it to dry naturally and I had a weight on top of it with a book etc. so it was super crisp dry.
I could break this like, I could crumble them basically, in my hand.
And uh, it's been in here for about 3 or 4 days and there's nothing really happening with it either so...
Shrimp Versus Raspberry Leaf was a complete and utter flop!
[laughing] I'm not even gonna actually even put it on YouTube,
but you will know not to try Raspberry leaves.
Let me show you one more thing before I go.
As I said to you today, the food of today was Pure Nordic's WHITESTIX.
Let's go over the ingredients.
Just to show you what's in it, because I think it's good for me to show you what I feed the shrimp, alright?
So this is not just a mineral thing, it has Kelp Algae, Wheat Protein, Calcium Carbonate.
Calcium Carbonate is good for, um I think it is good for a tiny amount of KH.
Spinach, we all know the benefits of Spinach, very high in Calcium.
Montmorillonite, again very high in Calcium.
Arctic Krill, Rice Flour, Moringa.
And what's this last one? Levisticum Officinale Oil. I have no idea what that is, we'll have to have a little look.
So there you go, there is today's food of the day. Pure Nordic's WHITESTIX.
I hope you've enjoyed today's video... If the camera ever returns to being non-blurry.
[playfully pleading] Please, please, are you going to let me finish my video?
I hope you enjoyed today's video and I'll catch you all in the next one.
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Happy Shrimp Keeping Guys!
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