Any successful shrimpers here?
I bought a tank and ordered all the food off Amazon now I need to find some good larva to spawn. Any recommendations?
Shrimp farming as passive income
Evan Garcia
Justin James
learn what the nitrogen cycle is before you do anything
i’m being 100% serious
>t. fish tank cuck for over a decade
Jose Adams
if you want to know more and aren’t memeing i will tell you everything you need to know to get going. though you won’t like the answer and probably won’t listen because it requires at least 2-3 months and patience before you even begin to think about adding your first shrimp
Chase Ross
I am not memeing I actually see the rate of return people gain off this
Brandon Wright
i gotcha and if you are good and get high grade shrimp imported from asia you can make some decent semi passive money
but before that i have to put out i care about aquatic life and their wellbeing
they are living creatures and at the end of the day happy shrimp nets you happy cash
so first you must learn the basics.
when you get your tank you need to put your substrate and plants in and fill it
i recommend as a beginner to go get yourself some blasting powder coal slag from your local tractor supply
tractorsupply.com
i’ve used this in multiple tanks and it works great
don’t fall for the seachem substrate meme right now
yes it’s good stuff if you know what you are doing. but you don’t so why waste your money
as far as plants you want java moss for the shrimp
those little fuckers love java moss
if you can’t find any locally at a local fish store you can always get plants on ebay
make sure you get a pest free listing or you could end up with a snail explosion in your tank (unless you want that, they do have uses such as feeding to pufferfish)
you are going to want some other plants
bacopa carolinia, anubias (needs to be attached to rock or driftwood not buried), duckweed (also known as tank herpies), java fern (also needs to be attached to rock or driftwood not buried), and amazon sword are all good choices
you will also need some driftwood in there as well and some indian almond leaves (the leaves you can add later
now for filtration
Bentley Martinez
filtration you can never ever go wrong with an air pump and a sponge filter
the bigger the sponge filter the better
something like this amazon.com
if you are doing shrimp you want one of those because shrimp love feeding and chilling on these filters
now for food they will eat flakes and pellets but what you really want is biofilm
bacter ae is the shit and will make happy shrimp
but then again we aren’t close to having those
let’s move onto lighting
all those plants i listed do well in low lit environments
i like the finnex planted plus lights however because of its 24/7 mode. it has the proper red spectrum plants need and it’s a set and forget light because it will emulate a 24 hour light cycle automatically
now let’s talk nitrogen cycle
Benjamin Hill
didn't shrimp.finance rugpull? who's still farming this?
Mason Bell
so you dropped your blasting sand in after rinsing it thoroughly and put your plants in. hooked up your bubble filter and have your nifty $100 light set for the time of the day
if you haven’t noticed this one tank has already expensive
don’t worry aquariums are the best way to take all your money and throw it into a fire
but we have more money to burn and don’t even have it ready for living creatures yet
let’s fix that
you need to buy yourself a master water testing kit. one with ammonia, nitirite, nitrate, ph, and preferably hardness as well (hardness tests are usually separate and really only need to be used once to have an idea of what your total dissolved solids is in your area). you will need all that. don’t buy strips you are wasting your time. i don’t care that one weird chick at the local fish store says they are fine. she is wrong. why are you listening to a woman?
then you need to take yourself to the dollar tree and buy yourself a gallon of pure ammonia. no scents, no surfactants, nothing. just pure water and ammonia
pippetes are also clutch. you can pick up 100 of them on amazon for cheap
now to move on with what we do with this
Eli James
Not OP, but good looking out fren. Would love to see some pics of your setup
Jason Gonzalez
i just realized i forgot one very important thing you need
super important
buy the biggest bottle of seachem prime
that will be your water treatment
you will use it every time you add water and do a water change
i honestly trust nothing else in my tank then seachem prime
not that walmart aquafina or whatever it’s called
seachem
prime
buy it
now let’s play chemist
Jonathan Cox
you need to bring your tank up to around 20 ppm ammonia. there are online calculators such as hamzasreef.com
good thing we bought those pipettes and those drop kits right. read the directions on the test kit a 5yo can do the ammonia one. once you bring your tank to 20 ppm let it sit for about a week. after a week test water. most likely you won’t see a change but after that first week you will be testing the water everyday until the cycle is complete. at about the two week mark your ammonia level will be dropping and so will your water level. fill it up, treat it with prime, and bring the ammonia ppm back to 20. now you will start to notice that ammonia will start dropping off really quickly. go ahead and test for nitrites. follow the directions and you should see them showing up on that test. this is good. if you made it this far pat yourself on the back. now at this point your plants might be hating life and you could do this either now or at the beginning but go ahead and buy some liquid fertilizer to make those plants happy. and keep filling that water to 20ppm ammonia. in about another week or 2 your ammonia should be dropping to 0. one of two things are going to happen with this. either your nitrites are through the roof or those are zero as well. if they are zero go ahead and test for nitrates. they should show up. most likely you have the former though and that vile is dark dark blue. go ahead and do an 80% water change and fill it back up with water, treat with prime, and bring ammonia back to 20 ppm. the next day do your ammonia and nitrite test. eventually, your ammonia should read 0, your nitrites will read 0, and your nitrates will be most likely blood red. congratulations, you have cycled your tank. you have the necessary bacteria to support life in that environment. pat yourself on the back
onto stocking
Cooper Morales
sorry idk why i replied to you on that last one
desu i don’t have a tank right now because i moved recently and it was easier to donate the fish to a local fish store then it was to transport everything
whenever i get another one up and running i’ll post pictures
Logan Ramirez
alright so you have cycled your tank time to throw everything in there right
wrong
if you haven’t noticed by now aquatics is a test of patience
what you could do is get some cardinal tetras, maybe 6 or so and leave it at that
you don’t want to crash your tank which new tanks are prone to do
don’t get neons they love to die, cardinals are way hardier and look almost identical
now before you go adding fish make sure you do almost a 90% water change and add prime to the tank maybe 12-24 hours before stocking. you have the cycle going but your nitrates are most likely through the roof and there is only 2 ways of getting rid of that. water change or a lot of surface plants. though there really is no substitutions for your weekly water change
you did buy a python water changer by now didnt you user
why am i saying tetras instead of shrimp?
because you are a beginner and let’s be real beginners fuck up
start by keeping them alive. maybe get some ammano shrimp (they aren’t the ones you want to breed sorry user) too to clean up any algae
you also want to get the tank established before moving onto the prize. with the fish added we aren’t adding ammonia anymore because the livestock are our auto ammonia factories now
keep them alive for a few months and remember to test your water every week if not twice a week for ammonia nitrites and nitrates. if your nitrates get too above 20 -40 time for a water change
Logan Green
newfag
Alexander Bailey
so we are at month 4 now in this endeavor
you are having fun watching your tetras swim and your ammano shrimp do ammano shrimp things
you sit there staring because it’s true zen that you have this little eco system that you created and everything seems to be going well
gratz user i’m proud of you
your tank isn’t fully established yet but you can most likely move onto your main desire, shrimp business
before you go on aquabid and spend $100 on 10 blue dream shrimp that you have been eyeballing let’s instead go to your local fish store and buy some run of the mill cherry shrimp (neocaradina). depending on what you have around you you might have choices between blue, red, yellow, orange......or they might just have red. don’t be afraid to ask if they can order other colors. if not then you gotta piss with the cock you got and get those red ones. get 10 or more if you can. due to over breeding they sometimes aren’t the most hardiest things in the world. you might have casualties. now introduce them to your tank and add that bacter ae. good shit. gratz user in like 6-9 months you’ll have shrimplets. they won’t sell for anything but now you have experience. now you can go on aquabid and try your luck on the asian market for some really dope shrimp to breed. good luck
Cooper Stewart
i started the whole meme
get fucked
Oliver Lewis
so it's you who is responsible for my financial ruin...
Andrew Cox
i just wanted advice on how lucrative shrimp farming was
Zig Forums‘s autism brought it to a whole other level
Landon Nguyen
Awesome thread. Thank you shrimp bro.
Kayden Parker
Good thread. Thanks.
I will quit my job and do this I think.
Matthew Powell
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Jaxson Rivera
This is extremely overwhelming I thought it would be easy as feeding goldfish. I have saved all your posts into a word document and will consult them before moving forward. It seems like your key point is getting the cycles down pat. I’ll have to perfect that
Angel Price
sorry to overwhelm but aquatics are kinda like that at first
the nitrogen cycle is the #1 cannot skip factor in any success with aquariums
i forgot to mention you’ll see “instant cycle” products on the market. i’ve tried them all for shits and giggles. they are all a meme and don’t do shit. don’t waste your money
Blake Hughes
What do they even claim to do? How the fuck could you instantly go through a cycle lmao. They’re baiting unaware people I guess
Eli Lopez
they claim to have the bacteria that you grow in the nitrogen cycle in the bottle that you can just dump in and skip all that. i was skeptical anyway because i’m sure sitting in a warehouse and being transported in a hot truck to then sit on a shelf for who knows how long would actually keep the bacteria alive even if it was in there
Jayden Long
Damn. That was a hell of a read. Wtf I love shrimp farming now
Levi Wright
>pajeets are shilling shrimp farming now
Jackson Torres
I will never shrimp farm but shrimp bro seems like a pretty solid dude. Good luck guys/
Dylan Fisher
now to answer your original question about how lucrative it is. well just go on aquabid and look for yourself aquabid.com
Caleb Williams
thanks user
i try to help people out in between shitposting
try to be the change you want to see in the world and all that
Carter Mitchell
was a fun read shrimpbro but I’m gonna stick with this as my passive income hobby
Oliver Reed
the indoor mushroom farmer is based too