The Complete Fairy Shrimp Guide (hopefully, help me fill in the blanks!)

[sugarbyte]

Very cool set ups you have there. Thank you so much for sharing In your opinion what are the ideal temperatures for hatching/raising fairy shrimp? My room runs pretty cool in the winter so I'm wondering if I'll need a heater.

[auban]

to be honest, im not sure. back in north carolina the temps would get over 100 degrees and the fairy shrimp survived in a tub in full sun.

my guess is that redtails like warmer water, somewhere around 75 degrees, but will tolerate very wide ranging temperatures. i know they can survive for a week without the temp ever dropping below 100 degrees...

at the same time, they live much longer in cooler waters. my suggestion, try to get them on green water if you can. if you cant, just find something that works and stick with it. i have never met any two people who raise these things the exact same way.

[Rob in Puyallup]

Cool thread. I used to catch fairy shrimp in a pond near the local junior high school when I was a kid. They'd show up in late winter. Would have them in coffee cans and jars in my bedroom.

Could be fun keeping them now...

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[auban]

a quick swipe of the live food culture. if you want to keep them as pets, something that works pretty well is raising them in a tank with green water and then moving them to a clear tank so that you can enjoy them. there are dero worms, black worms, redtail fairy shrimp, moinas, daphnia, and ostracods in this mixed culture.

http://s1242.photobucket.com/albums/...224_223624.mp4

[hdbikersbabe]

I just wanted to add to this forum. I hatched red tail fairy very easily and love watching them. I had a ton of them and the water looked terrible so I changed the water and lost many of them. Tonight I was looking at the shrimp and noticed babies. Now I ciphered them out and don't think any were eggs, however even so I thought the eggs were to be dried out before they would hatch again. Well something is definitely happening with my lil tank of RTF shrimp. Oh and they absolutely LOVE the nasty water. Not sure when I will change it again.

[Mortis]

By red tail fairy shrimp do you mean Thai fairy shrimp ? I didnt know they had self sustaining colonies

[hdbikersbabe]

I have no idea about their colonies. I thought they only hatched. As far as the "kind" I purchased red tailed fairy shrimp from a website. They do have the Thai Fairy Shrimp too. I just purchased them to hatch them and watch them. I like water fleas better. At any rate when I did a water change there were babies. I thought the eggs had to dry out and then re-hatch. Oh well just learning stuff, which is good for me.

[sugarbyte]

Hey guys,

I've finally hatched my fairy shrimp. I set it up last night and they're already swimming around today! I just made some yeast 'soup'.

Here's a photo of my little hatching bowl that I got from the dollar store. (sorry you can't see the mini shrimps! they're too small now)

[Robotguy]

I've been checking out the thread since I just picked up some redtail eggs to help feed my finicky Scarlet Badis. I followed the instructions with a few eggs, then decided to throw a few eggs in a small bowl I had planted with Glosso, Hygro and Blyxa the day before.



I didn't hold out much hope for the bowl because I used Amazonia and it releases a lot of ammonia in the beginning, but WOW! They really took off. After 12 hours I could see about 6 wiggling dots. The next day (36 hours) there were about a dozen. The following morning there were almost 30 and this afternoon (4 days) it looks like there are around 60. They seem to be all different sized, perhaps from hatching in waves. I've been giving them a couple drops of yeast-water each day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4mLI0pLY0

The bowl I followed the directions with only has a couple. In another day or two, I'll siphon some out of the planted bowl to feed to the Badis.