Information for people wanting to breed Cherry Shrimp - Page 4

vinnymac · 10-27-2005, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TheOtherGeoff

yes it may be hard to get rid of but if it grows then its all good. hey said it would be impossible to get rid of java moss and i got rid of all of it. so im not worried about it. Vince the next time you are going to throw some out lemme know and i'll take some. anyway- back on topic, no more thread hijacks.

Geoff, no problem. I'll ping you the next time I have a bunch to get rid off. I usually include it with shrimp orders as a bonus.

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Faust2001 · 11-14-2005, 06:42 PM

Has anyone tried feeding their shrimp the dried seaweed for sushi? I saw them at Wegman's and I'm curious.

vinnymac · 11-14-2005, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Faust2001

Has anyone tried feeding their shrimp the dried seaweed for sushi? I saw them at Wegman's and I'm curious.

I wouldn't do it for a couple of reasons:

1. It might be difficult to keep it on the bottom of the tank and it will break up and float all over the place.

2. I'm always weary of consumer products (food for humans) because it may contain chemicals or other non-invert friendly ingredients.

Besides, there are plenty of invert-specific foods on the market that are cheap and readily available.

gnatster · 11-14-2005, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Faust2001

Has anyone tried feeding their shrimp the dried seaweed for sushi? I saw them at Wegman's and I'm curious.

I feed all my shrimp some of seaweed that I picked up from Wegmans with no ill effects.

Snailpoo · 11-14-2005, 07:54 PM

Is an alkaline pH necessary for breeding? Most tropical tanks are slightly acidic, right?

Does the acidity change breeding behavior?

vinnymac · 11-14-2005, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Snailpoo

Is an alkaline pH necessary for breeding? Most tropical tanks are slightly acidic, right?

Does the acidity change breeding behavior?

I've keep my tanks at PH 7.6 and my cherries breed like crazy. I've never tried an acidic environment.

**uncskainch** · 12-30-2005, 05:52 PM

I can't seem to find an answer to this question elsewhere in the forum -- how big are newly hatched baby cherry shrimp?

I ask because my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank has little tiny slightly pinkish critters swimming around near the surfacce and landing/walking on the glass. They are too small to detect any sort of shrimp shape (I don't have a magnifying glass), but I'm wondering if they might be baby cherries.

I have had some hatch from my adult shrimp before, but not since I got the 2.5 gallon tank -- the original babies were from a cherry that was in my 29 gallon community tank, and I only found the babies in the filter and have no idea how many days old they were at the time.

Georgiadawgger · 12-30-2005, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by uncskainch

I can't seem to find an answer to this question elsewhere in the forum -- how big are newly hatched baby cherry shrimp?

I ask because my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank has little tiny slightly pinkish critters swimming around near the surfacce and landing/walking on the glass. They are too small to detect any sort of shrimp shape (I don't have a magnifying glass), but I'm wondering if they might be baby cherries.

I have had some hatch from my adult shrimp before, but not since I got the 2.5 gallon tank -- the original babies were from a cherry that was in my 29 gallon community tank, and I only found the babies in the filter and have no idea how many days old they were at the time.

I would say a couple days old baby cherry shrimp is about 1-2 mm long. But they should definitely have a distinct shrimp shape to them.

**uncskainch** · 12-30-2005, 06:03 PM

Thanks -- I'm guessing what I'm seeing is some other sort of tank critter, but I suppose time will tell. I have a female carrying eggs, so even if these little dudes aren't cherry babies, some will be on the way soon, I hope!

vinnymac · 12-30-2005, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by uncskainch

I can't seem to find an answer to this question elsewhere in the forum -- how big are newly hatched baby cherry shrimp?

I ask because my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank has little tiny slightly pinkish critters swimming around near the surfacce and landing/walking on the glass. They are too small to detect any sort of shrimp shape (I don't have a magnifying glass), but I'm wondering if they might be baby cherries.

I have had some hatch from my adult shrimp before, but not since I got the 2.5 gallon tank -- the original babies were from a cherry that was in my 29 gallon community tank, and I only found the babies in the filter and have no idea how many days old they were at the time.

Newly hatched cherries are approx 1-2mm in size. They are very small.

They look exactly like adult shrimp.

**NeonShrimp** · 03-10-2006, 06:03 AM

Thank you for your tips. I just moved my female RCS to a planted tank that has a sponge filter. I hope the hatching wiill go well and both mom and babies will come out well.

Thanks again!

leonpetty · 07-30-2006, 04:53 AM

I'm thinking about starting up a shrimp tank soon and I am trying to get all the info possible to start it out right.

I was wondering if anyone has mixed shrimp tanks that they use for breeding. I would like to try breeding cherries, crystal reds and ghosts. Do they eat each others eggs? Thanks!

tritan · 09-17-2006, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by jake

I used the hbh crab and lobster bites for over a year, then switched to Hikari crab cusine - didn't really see a difference, the hikari just became more available to me. Those seaweed selects are awesome... I dont' weight it down or anything... just tear off a piece of the sheet and toss it in. As it becomes water logged, the shrimp fiddle with it on the surface and when it starts to drop they just float with it down. A few minutes later and it's covered in shrimp. Omega One veggie rounds seem to be more popular than hikari algae wafers for my RCS... dunno what that is all about. More recently I've been using HBH Frozen food alternative with spirulina and they just go ape over it.

I've been adding vitachem to the water for the last few months as well. Not sure if it's making any difference yet.

Sponge filters are great, but those bubble-box type like from Lee's and Penn Plax work great as well. They're the green or transparent boxes you can shove crushed coral/filter media into and then an airstone drives the bubbles through a tube with creates the flow into and out of the filter. They come with a top but I leave the top off and the shrimp scavenge any edibles that get sucked into the floss. The kind with the airstone is much more gentle and is the one I'd recommend... not the ones that just shoot big fat bubbles up. Same pros as a sponge filter, but more easily customized.

In a larger shrimp tank ( 29 gal or more), any power filter will be fine with a Filtermax III prefilter. I find them at thatpetplace.com, among other places. They fit wonderfully on canister filter intakes, aquaclear intakes, and indeed every filter I've tried them on so far. I run a 200 gph aquaclear filter with that prefilter on a 29 gallon shrimp tank and it works beautifully. Even for smaller shrimp tanks, that prefilter fits an aquaclear mini just fine too.

Instead of trying to net shrimp when it's time to move or sell/trade some, I was told a trick and I've been using it ever since. Cut the top off a plastic soda bottle ( 16 oz, 20 oz, whatever), and flip it upsidedown back into the bottle. It might take some practice, but you'll get it so that it'll fit right after a try or two. Bait it with a piece of algae wafer or something. Sumberge it in the shrimp tank, letting it fill up with water. A few hours later, it should be full of shrimp. They go into the hole, but when they try to go back out they can't find it and run up the sides of the bottle and can't get out. You don't want to leave them in this trap overnight or for more than 4-6 hours as it is not subject to being properly filtered. Pull the trap out and pour them into a specimen container. Fill another specimen container with water from the tank and net them from the first one to the second one. Whatever shrimp you don't want, pour back into the tank from the first container. ( Don't want to use the trap's water for transporting shrimp as it has not been properly filtered already for a few hours and may have algae wafer debris in it) This method should prevent much of the netting damage shrimp are prone to, and save some stress.

Do you have a pick of how to make this trap. Another thing for filtering my LFS has had great success with a 20 gallon and a UG filter with powerhead.

TRDMCV20L · 11-11-2006, 11:27 AM

How important is water temp? Currently my water temp is about 79-80 without a heater/chiller. Later on in the year my temp will drop to about 75 or so, while summer time it will be about 85.

AnneRiceBowl · 11-12-2006, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by leonpetty

I'm thinking about starting up a shrimp tank soon and I am trying to get all the info possible to start it out right.

I was wondering if anyone has mixed shrimp tanks that they use for breeding. I would like to try breeding cherries, crystal reds and ghosts. Do they eat each others eggs? Thanks!

There's the possibility that the ghosts will eat RCS and CRS shrimplets, so I would leave the ghosts out.

12-30-2005, 05:52 PM	#52 (permalink)
uncskainch Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1) Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Carolina Posts: 659	I can't seem to find an answer to this question elsewhere in the forum -- how big are newly hatched baby cherry shrimp? I ask because my 2.5 gallon shrimp tank has little tiny slightly pinkish critters swimming around near the surfacce and landing/walking on the glass. They are too small to detect any sort of shrimp shape (I don't have a magnifying glass), but I'm wondering if they might be baby cherries. I have had some hatch from my adult shrimp before, but not since I got the 2.5 gallon tank -- the original babies were from a cherry that was in my 29 gallon community tank, and I only found the babies in the filter and have no idea how many days old they were at the time. __________________ 29 g planted community tank, 2.48 WPG, DIY CO2, Greg Watson ferts -- Tank Journal Here! -- 5 gallon planted Marineland 5 gallon hex with 15w 6500k CF, Excel, 100% flourite substrate -- RCS & male dwarf puffer -- Tank Journal Here! -- 2.5 gallon planted MiniBow w/10w 6500 k CF, Excel -- mystery snail & RCS -- Tank Journal Here!

12-30-2005, 06:03 PM	#54 (permalink)
uncskainch Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1) Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Carolina Posts: 659	Thanks -- I'm guessing what I'm seeing is some other sort of tank critter, but I suppose time will tell. I have a female carrying eggs, so even if these little dudes aren't cherry babies, some will be on the way soon, I hope! __________________ 29 g planted community tank, 2.48 WPG, DIY CO2, Greg Watson ferts -- Tank Journal Here! -- 5 gallon planted Marineland 5 gallon hex with 15w 6500k CF, Excel, 100% flourite substrate -- RCS & male dwarf puffer -- Tank Journal Here! -- 2.5 gallon planted MiniBow w/10w 6500 k CF, Excel -- mystery snail & RCS -- Tank Journal Here!

03-10-2006, 06:03 AM	#56 (permalink)
NeonShrimp Wannabe Me (View User Tanks) PTrader: (103) Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 1,376	Thank you for your tips. I just moved my female RCS to a planted tank that has a sponge filter. I hope the hatching wiill go well and both mom and babies will come out well. Thanks again! Last edited by NeonShrimp : 05-29-2006 at 08:22 AM.

07-30-2006, 04:53 AM	#57 (permalink)
leonpetty Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (4) Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 62	Mixing Shrimp I'm thinking about starting up a shrimp tank soon and I am trying to get all the info possible to start it out right. I was wondering if anyone has mixed shrimp tanks that they use for breeding. I would like to try breeding cherries, crystal reds and ghosts. Do they eat each others eggs? Thanks! __________________ In this hobby only bad things happen fast.

11-11-2006, 11:27 AM	#59 (permalink)
TRDMCV20L Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (1) Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Mililani, Hawaii Posts: 79	How important is water temp? Currently my water temp is about 79-80 without a heater/chiller. Later on in the year my temp will drop to about 75 or so, while summer time it will be about 85. __________________ "Algae are natures clean up crew. They are a lower life form, sorta like maggots on poop. They serve a purpose but not in our tanks." - m.lemay

11-14-2005, 06:42 PM	#47 (permalink)
Faust2001 Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (4) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Fairfax, Virginia Posts: 113	Has anyone tried feeding their shrimp the dried seaweed for sushi? I saw them at Wegman's and I'm curious.

11-14-2005, 07:54 PM	#50 (permalink)
Snailpoo Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (8) Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Manhattan Posts: 131	Is an alkaline pH necessary for breeding? Most tropical tanks are slightly acidic, right? Does the acidity change breeding behavior?