3 Step Plan To Stop Your Shrimp Dying - Dont Give Up

good morning beautiful shrimp people in today's video right I'm going to go through things step by step to show you what to do if you have dying shrimp in your tank right this video is mostly for people that have be shrimp tanks but this can also be applied to NE kinaa so if you want to stop your deaths then please like And subscribe because guys this will literally be one of the most important videos that you ever watch on keeping shrimp right so let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right guys but before we go into the how to fix all this stuff let's look at the sounds and what are the problems in the shrimp tanks in the first place right the the sign that you will see when something is wrong is the obvious one the shrimp will actually be dead right but I don't want you guys to get confused with one dead shrimp with the multiple let's call it multiple death syndrome as an example right I don't want you to confuse the two because one can be entirely different from the other it might not be linked right but if you have one dead shrimp for example in your tank one dead shrimp a month that is perfectly normal right shrimp are like us we all have different genetics we all have different conditions and yeah they they die just naturally like we do as well so this is more for if you have more than one dead shrimp in your tank for this type of scenario as an example you come into your room you see one day trimp right the next day you come into your room you see another dead shrimp and the next day you come into your room you see another dead shrimp or it could be multiple dead shrimp one day then there's a g and then there's multiple dead trimp the next day anything where you see this happening where it's a pattern this is something that you need to fix all right guys now that you can identify what to visually see a tank and identify the problem of something that you should change and what you shouldn't change let's get on to the next step of actually explaining why this happens in your tank okay guys to understand the solution that we're going to talk about you need to understand the problem in the tank in the first place right so let's start with b shrimp first because this is what I know the best and let's talk about the tanks in general what it is that's actually affecting the shrimp and what's causing them to die so in most cases with be shrimp the the thing that actually causes them to die guys is a build up of something right and this something is often linked to pH right so when we're talking about the first steps I want you to take this will be integral into our solution let's start with the so because this is where it all happens in the beginning right we have um we add this to our tanks we add our water right and in the beginning there's an excess of nutrients in the tank and this itself is enough to kill a lot of shrimp right so this is why you must cycle your tank you must make sure that you balance these uh excess nutrients out and uh this is where it's important to do things like water changes and stuff in the beginning because quite often these elements these fertilizers the levels will be quite high right and this this is where you will see tons of algae growth and whatever else right and in the beginning especially you need to understand that if you add your shrimp too fast like as soon as you set up the tank and put the shrimp in and yeah you're risking their life so please don't do it that way at least at least give it some time to start the cycle to deal with the excess of stuff and your tank should be golden this leads us on to the second part which can be a problem and that is over time right your soil's nutrients will start to be depleted right then things like your microorganisms and your walls will struggle because there's less algae your plants will start to struggle and then if all this starts to struggle you start to have a knocking effect where your cycle doesn't start to work as efficiently as it did before and then things like ammonium and ammonia start to become a problem so this of course leads on to our next issue and that is the active soils just simply don't last forever they don't last forever and you will start to see things like your ammonia starting to rise um your pH starting to rise and just in general your tank will start to fail and this is when you'll start to see dead shrimp and a be shrimp tank all right guys so now that you know the problems that are starting to happen in your shrimp tank you can understand them a little bit better let's dive into um how you can identify them as a problem in the first place right so uh you can use test kits to measure ammonia ammonium in your tanks and I did say two different words there ammonium and ammonia and uh the best way to do this guys is is just to grab yourself a taskit and measure it the problem with a lot of these tasket is some of them are not very accurate for ammonia and ammonium specifically but what you can do is uh check something in your tank which is very specific to B shrimp Keepers and that is your pH so that leads us on to step one if you are a b shrimp keeper this step is specifically for you if you're having a tank with lots of dying shrimp and you want to try and fix it the first thing you should be testing is your pH right so let's do an example of this in one of my tanks just so you can see me actually doing it and then we can talk about some of the solutions okay my beautiful shrimp farm let's do a pH test on one of my tanks right and this is a tank I think we're going to use for this demonstration today we're going to take approximately 5 mil and we're going to take our clean vial of water here and we are actually going to just rinse it you should always do this first I actually do this twice most of the time but I think once is okay sufficient you want to rinse your vial like this and then what you want to do guys is you want to get your little syringe or your pit and next you're going to measure 5 mil exactly now I'm doing this tank specifically because this is the tank that I'm having issues with right now and we're going to put it into our little VI here right like this see this there you go there's a are water in a little vow and then I'm going to take my Regent here my pH Regent now this is the one I like from Sarah because it is uh you only have to add a couple of drops of this and then you're able to see instant results right so I'm going to get a little bit closer so you guys can see and then we test it straight away so let's put our little drops in have to put four in and we're going to give this a gentle shake like this and what you're looking for here guys is the color of the water the color right so I can see looking at that already that this is yellow which means on my testkit here this little thing here if I can hold up nicely so you can see it's very hard to do this on camera but you can see it's yellow it's not Orange it's yellow and so that means our water is about 6 pH which is perfectly fine so if you do this and your testkit shows for example that you have a 6 and 1/2 pH this is at the point guys where um I was going to leave this later on the video where you would actually do a soil change in your tank so let's make this very very clear I'm going to put this up on some kind of writing somewhere here right these are the steps that you're going to take because I mentioned adding soil to the tank there and I don't want people to get confused that that's what we're seeing ready right so Step One is test your pH in your tank right and see what color the water is if it's below 6.5 then that is good that's a good thing it means that your tank is still pH stable and your soil is still working what that probably means guys as well is the the the issue that you're having in your tank is either too much nutrients in the water or your tank still isn't cycled properly if that was the case in your situation where your pH is fine right you're still having the odd dead shrimp and your tank is relatively new right what I would do guys is I would do a big water change and I mean a big one we're going to do at least a 90% water change in the tank right and this will be very evident if it works for you pretty much straight away you're going to do a big water change guys and then the next day you're going to look for dead shrimp if there's still if you still see this pattern of dead shrimp then you must do another 90% water changes so that's two 90% water changes that you're going to do in the course of two days and some of you will be saying Mark but won't that kill the shrimp that are in there well guys think of it this way right you're on a no win situation here where you're only losing shrimp anyway so you may as well try and fix it properly and the stronger shrimp in your tank will survive in general if your pH is fine and you follow the two steps I've just mentioned there right so check your pH do your big water change day one do your big water change day two by the time you get to day three your tank should be good to go right if if you're still having dead shrimp after this then it probably is a problem with the soil maybe not a good Cho choice of soil in the first place and that is something that you'll have to consider removing okay sh farm so let me give you an example of the the problems that we were talking about there in one of my tanks over here let me take you off the stand for a second and let's have a little look at this tank here now this tank is a Tropa Master cell tank and as you can see here guys it just has a lot fluff fluffy algae that is yeah it's never really went away and you can see that there's a little bit detrus and stuff in the bottom right this tank is struggling to take off right and I think it could be within excess of nutrients you can just see all the excessive stuff there right that's not what a tank should look like your tank should be cleaner like this it should have a lot of biofor stuff in the walls your plant matter should be doing better like this this could also be why this tank is not really taken off so well is because the plants are maybe a little bit too grow slow growing so we have to remove a lot of our nutrients right so I have to reiterate here that there's no dead shrimp in this tank but not really a lot is happening so we're going to kickart it a little bit we tested the ph and it was fine so the next step here guys would be to do a bigger water change right so we're actually going to do a good good water change all the way down here I'm going to use a scon and we're going to suck up all this muck here that's in the bottom as well and uh we'll fill it back up I'll try and get some of the soft hair algae off the sides too and we'll see how we go with this all right guys let's start by sucking up some of this waste here on the bottom started my scon let's get right into the corners hopefully we don't suck up these leaves and this is a good start here you want to clean the area in the front like this let's see these leaves get out the way and don't worry guys if I suck up anything that I'm not meant to here I will all check the I'll check the stuff before we are done and my thing is going a be blocked here oh there goes a snail so our front is very clean now right let's see we can start to suck off some of this stuff at the sides that I did so wrong get some of this lovely stringy Alie the tank is looking better already and we've only removed not even one bucket of water let's see if I can go above here and suck off some of this stuff here there's shrimp there you baby bombushka yeah so just doing this will help this tank great a little bit let me change the bucket and we'll come back all right let's take our water level down even further start to scon again see get all this rubbish that's floating around in the water column sucking all that soft stuff off the sides see if I can get any from the back here if I can reach there's a lot of mum in this already so it's probably in the case of this tank just been an excess of nutrients guys it's probably why this tank has struggled just a little bit right so this step here Will help us greatly yeah I can see there's a lot of ml in here for a new tankk it was uh kind of full already let's I get this down even further like so and don't worry guys this will do no harm to the shrimp that's already in here all right I would say that's probably about 90% right right let's get our new water back in I might clean that glass first because it's very dirty all right let's give this glass a quick clean and the glass is very green here so it's a good indicator that yeah this tank is just very nutrient Rich all right guys so let's add in our water turn on my little pump and I'm going to put this in just that random spe like this this is more than fast enough as long as I'm not disturbing the soil too much this is good to go all right guys so this tank is starting to look a little bit more like a shrimp tank that we want to keep our shrimp in instead of being a tangled mess of stringy mass of rubbish right so as you can see this tank should be much cleaner from now on in and it should also help with our nutrient overload that's probably happening in this tank so that was stage one of how to recover a tank that has excess nutrients in it if your pH is okay if your pH it is not okay guys unfortunately the only thing you can really do here is change the soil out so for that you should look at something like um going with a minimal setup or something like using an undergravel filter box as an example because these are two methods that are very very easy to change out so that is stage one of a recovery and that is do a big water change right and yeah guys it we've always been taught that doing massive water changes can be detrimental to shrimp well if your parameters match that go into the tank as close as possible the temperature ghk it doesn't seem to be a problem if you came back and your shrimp are all good right what I would do guys is just keep an eye on your feeding because all these little things that you do like adding extra food in these can all be contributing factors into why your tank has failed in the first place so at this point if your tank is still struggling right you've done your big first big water change and your tank is still still struggling the next day you're still having dead trimp then do another big water change another 90% water change and remember guys this big water changes the these are only there if your pH has uh still been stable all this time if it's risen then that's a different problem altogether so as you can see guys using pH as an indicator to test your tank to see if it's still actually able to uh provide the correct environment for your be shrimp is actually really easy to do you just test your water and then you're able to do your water changes according and uh if it's if it is the pH if it has went too high you need to change the soil this will solve all of your issues and guys the thing that I had a problem with with doing this was um I wanted to make this video all last week and um I couldn't find a tank to do it in because I'd moved house here less than probably what two months ago and I basically did a bigger water change on my tanks and I had tanks that are feeling like so you can see here you see this tank if you go back my old videos you can see I'll go over here so you can see what I mean here is that the red uh stickers used to be on here now they're now green and the reason that they're now green guys is because I tested the ph and the pH was fine that's the the main thing that you want to find in a Bach tank is the pH is still fine right and I didn't want to do the bigger water changes on these tanks specifically because I had baby shrimp in them and so what I did in the beginning when I moved here did the bigger water changes it has actually worked these time were failing before I've not changed the substrate the pH is good it's still holding the PH down so it just goes to show don't give up in the tank if the pH is still good so you get bad and you get good soils right and it's just something that you have to test through for yourself or you watch Channels like this on YouTube and you can see which soils work right so you can tell guys from my experience the ones that I keep on going back to because they work is aadama this orangey soil here it's a good soil and Ada Amazonia right V1 or V2 both of them works right and as you can tell guys as well I like to test other soils too across measurement PR just to see if what works all right guys as well I think this is probably something that we should consider possibly doing more often right before I moved here guys I never used to do such a big water change like this in my tanks and I can see a real benefit from it in the in the it cleans your excess of junk and nutrients and waste out the tank it could be hormones anything out of the tank and you're replacing it with good clean fresh water and yeah I can't see why we couldn't do this every month or two to just you know spice up our tank a little bit refresh it get your shrimp into better condition and it seems to work if you have cherry shrimp blue dreams whatever else um you can do this type of water change much much more frequently than you think you can right in my tanks back here I sometimes guys I do like 50% water changes every single week right so if you're having a lot of deaths in a Neo Carri in a tank what is probably is is buildup of um Organics in the substrate that you need to flush out right so you can use a gravel V and you can gravel out if you have loads of babies just do what I said before do a bigger water change and refill and see how you get on if you still have more dead shrimp do a bigger water change and refill and guys remember when I'm telling you to do this to make sure that your water is always matching from the water that goes from your containers your tub into the tank make sure you use de cloners make sure that you use aged water as well and all this stuff will help you a ton let's have a little list of our channel members here that support me through all these crazy shrimp shenanigans that we do if you've enjoyed today's video then please leave a like And subscribe and guys maybe watch another I don't know which side it's on because I always get it wrong right so let's point to both sides I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Marks Shrimp Tanks

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Length: 18min 48sec (1128 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 22 2024