Hair algae on moss in shrimp only low tech tank

[icom]

Originally Posted by Jag1980

The reason for starting this shrimp tank was to make some money with it.
My local pet store will buy them from me for $3 per shrimp.
Amano shrimp are $6 to $7 per to buy from them... I got 3 for my main tank and one died within a couple days..

Breed Amano shrimp would be nice

For cherry shrimp ?? the store here only wants to give me .20 ea for mine..

and I cant find Amano shrimp around anyplace or I'd buy some for all my tanks..

[RandomKayos]

Just a thought here but how often do you feed your shirmp? I had an issue in my Ghost tank with hair alge and after reading an excellent article about over feeding shrimp I cut back on feedings. Low and behold, the hair alge disappeared. Seems the Ghost Shrimp were getting lazy and waiting for food instead of foraging. Once they realized they had to work for a living the hair alge was back under control.
Also, excess food might be the cause for the nutrient imbalance that allows the hair alge to grow. Sort of a win/win for me.

[Jag1980]

Originally Posted by Homer_Simpson

Lol, I hear you and cherry shrimp are much easier to breed from what I hear. But if you are ever up for the challenge of trying to breed amano shrimp, here are a couple of useful articles.

http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm

http://caridina.japonica.online.fr/English/Elevage.htm

Thanks for the links. After reading about the breeding I think I will have to pass on that idea. I have no way to measure the salinity of the sea water and it will take about 5 months before they grow large enough to sell...
I like things that grow fast, and watching little shrimp take 5 months to grow... haha. I might as well just plant a oak tree and watch that grow

I'm waiting now on my Cherry shrimp eggs to hatch and see what happens with that. I might just try and find a good deal on some Amano shrimp and drop them in the tank, hopefully they wont eat the babies?

[Jag1980]

Originally Posted by RandomKayos

Just a thought here but how often do you feed your shirmp? I had an issue in my Ghost tank with hair alge and after reading an excellent article about over feeding shrimp I cut back on feedings. Low and behold, the hair alge disappeared. Seems the Ghost Shrimp were getting lazy and waiting for food instead of foraging. Once they realized they had to work for a living the hair alge was back under control.
Also, excess food might be the cause for the nutrient imbalance that allows the hair alge to grow. Sort of a win/win for me.

Interesting.
I feed just a tiny piece of algae wafer for 12 shrimp and take out anything un eaten a day later, then feed them again 2 days later. Or I drop a few pieces of Tetra crisps in the tank every 2 or 3 days.
see no left overs in the tank.

Snails don't eat this algae either?...

[Jag1980]

Washington state.
I would love to have your prices, then I could afford to buy more

[Jag1980]

Originally Posted by icom

For cherry shrimp ?? the store here only wants to give me .20 ea for mine..

and I cant find Amano shrimp around anyplace or I'd buy some for all my tanks..

I asked them a couple different time how much they would buy Cherry shrimp from me and they said $3 a piece.
They better give me that much since they sell them for $6 per shrimp.
I would hate to go in there on sell day and have them say; Oh.. sorry, I thought these shrimp where something different we can only do .25 cents...