He Turned His Kitchen into a SHRIMP BREEDING ROOM!

hey everyone how's it going hope you're doing well zenzo with tazawa tanks and today we've got a special treat we are at the home of shrimp lab USA this is Hugo here and he actually happens to live literally like five minutes from my house I could have walked here but I didn't want to walk uphill back home but it took me all of like four or five minutes to drive here so um never knew that you were so close but we've been communicating on Instagram for a while we've got a mutual friend so anyway he's nearby and he invited me to come over and film his Shrimp House so yeah welcome welcome to the house and we're gonna go inside and check out some really cool shrimp really cool [Music] foreign [Music] hey guys welcome so yeah we're here on Haight Street and uh in San Francisco where you normally don't have that big of an apartment but we lucked out with this Loft over here yeah um welcome man come on in super cool got a lot of plants the plants are all thriving from the shrimp and fish water that we're able to give them and uh it really makes the house super nice but once you walk into the kitchen this is my main shrimp breeding area so this is your kitchen this is a kitchen so whatever here's the kitchen part I can make breakfast and check out the shrimp here's the fish room part of the shrimp room part right yeah yeah I mean we keep a couple fish but we breed I breed and collect uh caridina shrimp and neo-carolina shrimp started with NEOS a few years back now and uh that just grew and grew and grew into now 24 breeding tanks and growing of doing I think eight different eight or nine different types of carradina plus the two neocaradina so we really expanded yeah it's my whole collection um and how many tanks do you have in this place because because it's not just you you also have a girlfriend that I have a girlfriend who actually I bought the original tank for her and of course and then I ended up falling so in love with it we were trying to get some biodiversity into a tank and then I saw these cherry shrimp and I was like wow those are cool yeah next thing you know I have uh I think now we're at 24 25 tanks including uh puffer tank over here uh it's like a graveyard for snails and then we have a couple little coal tanks for NEOS where I call it keep my NEOS cold hard otherwise I'll get clear babies which I don't want then you have that giant tank in the living room yeah we're still work in progress but we built the bonsai tree um it's got a combination of spiky and Thai Moss there's some britadellas in there um we have tetras in there we have a Molly a lot of shrimp in there actually that was not intentional I was putting coals in there and now when I look at it they're just babies everywhere which is kind of awesome it makes me happy and uh yeah so all together I think 24 25 tanks all right yeah so this is where I kind of built it all out um I have a piston pump uh closed loop air system that runs to all the tanks um I keep a water reservoir up top where I put my re-mineralized uh RO water and then that way when I'm doing water changes all I have to do is drain the water the water out into a bucket and then I can just turn these little knobs and fill all the tanks and control the speed that I'm filling them so not to stress out the shrimp but I uh for my more exotic shrimp I keep two tanks I keep a regular breeding tank and a grow out tank that way none of the babies can breed with the nicer breeders and I can choose pick and choose through there which ones I want to sell which ones I want to keep which ones I want to pull um so that's for most of the fancier ones then the ones that are more stable like the crystal blacks or the sorry pure black line the pure red line and the super Crystal blacks I only keep one tank of those and then I just pulled that tank and I just leave the babies in there to keep going um so that's kind of my process and why I have so many tanks and why I might need a couple more so how much time do you spend with your shrimp every day on average because you do have a job so you're I do have a job um but my favorite thing and the best part about it being in my house and in the kitchen is I make a little coffee or an espresso in the morning and I usually sit down here for a good hour or something like that in 30 minutes and just check on every tank look at everybody make sure everybody's healthy and happy and it's a great way to start the day I usually try and end the day about that too but their lights go off a little early like 8 30ish okay so about an hour hour and a half a day kind of a thing yeah hour hour and a half a day and then when I'm actually doing my water changes like one day every two weeks I'll probably spend a couple hours in here at a time and the only reason it takes me that long is because I really do I like doing it slow slow water changes and then I also like you know maintaining the tanks at that time and just kind of getting my hands dirty a little bit Yeah working on any other projects so let's uh maybe look at some of the different uh shrimp that you're uh breeding and keeping yeah all right so um so I will I'll follow you so you just tell me where okay so I have um I have the really popular boa shrimp which is a type of uh Taiwan Pinto now have also really popular red fancy Tigers now these things are like most people's favorites when they see them because they have the beautiful contrast and the stripes I had black snowflakes red snowflakes in this which are in other Pinto variation down here I have pure red line which is just white and red and it doesn't throw any other colors pure black line that's white and black but thick body black here's a grow out for the black snowflakes here's a grow out for the red fancy Tigers you have a system here got a system here this is a grow out for the boas and then these two are neocaridinas these are the only neocaradena tanks on the rack this one I'm actually resetting and I have a collection of moss in there that I didn't want to throw away so they're just kind of sucking up all the extra nutrients while um I put an ADA ugf box in the back and that 80 am is only it drops a lot of ammonia so I wanted it to suck it all up do a quick cycle on that we pan over here this is one of my favorite tanks these are all the babies from the red snowflake tank there's about a hundred in there a lot of the parents are in the back but this is a pinto Galaxy Tiger tank which is like a metallic tiger a black and uh White fancy Tigers which are crystal shrimp this guy's my worker and uh the Goldfish yeah my girlfriend's favorite Goldie in here there's some NEOS but this guy really I use for tank maintenance um you know new cycles that have two or a new police cycled tanks that have too much algae in them because we produce a lot of algae we want a little bit but too much will catch the shrimp up last two reading tanks are um these are Galaxy Tigers but red Galaxy Tigers they're quite beautiful and then this thing is thriving these are pure black line he's one of the original uh crystal shrimp and so I had to have those awesome breeder boxes with uh males this is actually a really small group of um ocean Blues which is a rare uh which is like a rare shrimp right now but there's only four so I'm waiting for another tank to set them up in and then we have Peach bolts in here uh sorry red Steels in here that are a byproduct of these guys and I don't want them breeding in with them but they're beautiful so um I run about 98 um air air filtration through it so they're all sponge filters um and then I also use uh what what we call an undergravel filter box so instead of under gravel filtering the whole tank I'll build a glass partition and then I'll put an undergravel filter in the back and so what I'm doing right now with that is I'm trying to lower the ph as low as possible and I have this buffering soil but the more water I pull through the buffering soil the lower the pH is going to get as well as it's going to be creating a biofiltration system and there's a lot of room in there and porosity for uh for beneficial bacteria to live so that combination is why I mostly go ugf and I've really fallen in love with that I have done a few of the Taiwan breeder style thin soil which is just like a half cup of soil to see um and I've also done thick soil what out of all of it I've realized that the undergravel built-in the filter even the long one like we have down here they'll cross the whole back of this best for carradina shrimp I've gotten the best breeding best responses out of that now I'm running all this I can move this and show you off a linear piston pump right that's connected and that runs this cool setup right here including the air stone in my water reservoir and all that and like I explained the water reservoir earlier that just really helps with water changes so I can do it a lot quicker I can just open up valves I have that ran all the way to everything that the carradena tank has that and then um I don't use any heating I just run central heating central air and I just kind of keep my house between 66 and 71 degrees and that's year round I get breeding year round um last thing is I run my lights for about 12 hours a day but I do do water changes every two weeks to keep my uh my nitrates and everything else down so I don't really deal with much um bad bad stuff growing in their allergies and whatnot um but for me that stuff is less important because most of my tanks are breeding tanks not showing tanks also so you know but this has been worked well for me that's great awesome [Music] all right well that was a lot of fun thank you so much for touring us around showing us your your shrimp tanks your 24 tanks and he's actually going to be adding some more tanks outside in the future so maybe we'll have to come back here and uh do another tour so um I guess if you guys have some questions some specific questions uh comment those down below because I do live so close it'll be very easy for me to pop over here and we can film like a more in-depth video maybe on karadina care or something like that and you guys know that I've struggled with shrimp in the past but I have had some thriving Neo so maybe it's time for me to hey you got help now I've got I've got some expert help here so I can dip my toe into uh to doing a little bit of carradina stuff so um anyway um what else where can people find you if they want to learn more about what you do or see your content yeah buy stuff so um I'm on Instagram and YouTube at trimlab USA all right I'll link that below yeah and then I also sell on on other people's bands so there uh shrimp groups and I usually sell on there or feel free to DM me if you're going looking for anything specific specific or particular and you do ship I ship throughout the whole us all right and uh yeah if you guys just have any questions about it too don't hesitate awesome awesome so uh yeah let me know Down Below in the comments if you have any specific questions you'll probably watch the video and maybe answer some and then maybe we'll do a follow-up video and with that check out this video over here that's more about shrimp we'll catch you on the next one thanks guys bye

Channel: Tazawa Tanks

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Keywords: Aquariums, Fish Tanks, Tazawa Tanks, Fish, fishroom, fish room, freshwater, fishrooms, fish tank, aquarium, fish rooms, shrimp tank, shrimp aquarium, breeding shrimp, shrimp breeder, neo caridina, caridina, caridina shrimp, neo caridina shrimp, neocaridina shrimp, neocaridina

Id: XLGwTEzej3A

Length: 11min 52sec (712 seconds)

Published: Sat May 13 2023