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cichlidgold83
10-29-2005, 10:10 PM
Does anybody have any information concerning the breeding of ghost shrimp?
ballsmcgee1234
10-29-2005, 10:23 PM
We have a tank full of amano shrimp, not quite ghost shrimp, but I've heard ghost shrimp and cherry red shrimp are really easy to breed. Pet-shrimp.com has some good info about shrimp...
lizardfishman
10-30-2005, 7:45 AM
buy 5-10 and put them in a small tank with no substrate. only put 1-2 fakeplants in there for them to hide in. feed them w/e is small enough for them to eat. in a few weeks the bigger ones should develope eggs under thier tail. leave them i there for 5-7 days and then remove them to another tank so the fry dont get eaten. this tank should be setup the same way. after the eggs hatch remove the female and feed very small foods. i have gotten to the eggs under the tails stage and maby the hatching stage by the eggs got eaten by the fish in the tank.
Which type? If natania sp. try www.shrimpandcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Shrimp.htm?GhostShrimp.htm
and if one of the Palaeomonetes try www.thepufferforum.net/search.php?search-author=RTR&sid=4c51e1c246ae3a46bf31dc3bd2ba2bb4
and that should help.
Thats actually Kind of intresting, I never thought about breeding ghost shrimp, it would be like free shrimp for the price 5-10ish. Then you dont have to buy them again if you are sucessful, not a bad idea!
boredcpl
10-31-2005, 3:56 AM
might be more work and cost more then buying them.. what are they about 29 - 40cents a piece? it would be a fun project though
yourmylunch
10-31-2005, 9:18 PM
breeding them is easy its providing space to grow out the fry
i found its not cost effective when i can get them for .80 cents a dozen
i would try it for some desirable shrip
The hard part is keeping them fed at a smaller stage in life. When you buy them just buy all the females you can find. They are usually bigger and have green balls under there abdomin ( those are the babies.) you can use fry food, first bites and floating plants to help them grow. Filtration is extremely tough as well because they are soo small they get sucked up.
TaratronVaeVictus
11-02-2005, 8:40 PM
We've actually had fry in our ghostie tanks at work, which are all sponge-filtered and hold a good ton of java moss.
s4mula
11-02-2005, 9:58 PM
Are ghost shrimp the same as the feeder shrimp pet stores sell?
Greenwater Yup just turn off the filter and put in a bubbler lots of light give it a month or two and strain out the contents (i.e. many many shrimp)
Michael 125
11-06-2005, 9:03 PM
I've actually just recently thought of breeding ghost shrimp and bought a few dozen then separated the females with eggs and put them in a 20gal. They deposited their eggs and shortly after I removed them from the tank. The eggs hatched not long after and now there are a lot of shrimp.
FormulatedFire
11-08-2005, 8:33 AM
everytime i go to the lfs half of the shrimp i get have eggs on their stomach....my cichlids dont let them last this long but i'm sure they would hatch if i let them.....but is it really cost efficent to raise ghost shrimp....around me its 10 for a $1.50...wouldnt food for the fry cost more than that
Most home raised feeders are not cost effective, I have never found that to be the point, just raising them yourself is the thing I like.
yonk420
01-12-2006, 11:49 PM
the feeder shrimp that the pets store are called grass shrimp but they are the same thing as ghost shrimp.
all the ghost shrimp ive seen around me in new jersey cost about $.50 a piece so i want to try and raise them myself.
if anyone in jersey knows where i can get them cheep let me know
aquaboyaquatics
01-25-2006, 2:23 PM
They are the same.
aquaboyaquatics
01-25-2006, 2:24 PM
www.heavenlyfish.com sells them cheep. He is down by Trenton
Are ghost shrimp the same as the feeder shrimp pet stores sell?
Yep, feeder shrimp, ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, grass shrimp, and Palaeomonetes shrimp are all the same critters.
And your fish will eat them up all the same too!
myne just seem to appear
i sometimes see eggs under tails...
IceH2O
02-17-2006, 5:17 PM
It might not be cost effective but at least you know if you raise them that they aren't carrying any disease that you might end up passing to your main tank inhabinants.
If you quarantine them before you feed them to your fish you may as well get some babies out of it.
I plan on raising some myself. I'll let the adults have the babies then I'll move the adults to the fish tank to be eaten. Then I'll raise the fry and let the process go again.
ChrisGray
03-14-2006, 12:42 PM
my ghost shrimp have not been breeding but they are getting pretty huge.
im talking shrimp over an inch long and ive seen them fighting for floating pellets with my fish. they swim up to the top of the water and grab the pellets before my fish can
my ghost shrimp have not been breeding but they are getting pretty huge.
im talking shrimp over an inch long and ive seen them fighting for floating pellets with my fish. they swim up to the top of the water and grab the pellets before my fish can
Very cool, there are a couple kinds of ghost shrimp, some are fully freshwater but others require brackish ware to breed, I can't tell the difference.
foxypleco
03-15-2006, 3:17 PM
i origanaly bought about 10 ghost shrimp about a year ago and they have managed to sustain their numbers without my help.i suppose there are about 15 right now.
Don4921
03-17-2006, 10:02 AM
if using them for food it will take to long takes about 1 year to reach about 2 in ches
archie0222
04-21-2006, 7:20 AM
I buy mine really cheap($25 cents/dozen) here in the philippines and actually use the shrimps to clean my red bellies tank (dead fish parts and left over pellets) our shrimps here grow to about 2 inches and have placed some in my pond and think they are already breeding.
wab123
09-17-2006, 9:22 AM
are these shrimp the same as amano shrimp amano cost 4-8 on the intrananet
bmxer4ever
10-08-2006, 11:04 AM
Very cool, there are a couple kinds of ghost shrimp, some are fully freshwater but others require brackish ware to breed, I can't tell the difference.
I was thinking the same thing guppy, I was under the impression that most of these type of shrimps needed brackish water to breed... I've got about a dozen Amano shrimp split between a couple of tanks, but I've read they are hard to breed. Pity, because they can cost up to £2.00 each here in Glasgow, could make a few bucks if I could get them to do it!
Mosdefenate
10-08-2006, 1:55 PM
ahh i tryed it it didnt work out so well=( how come ghost shrimp cost so much else were, down here they are 10cents each or 10/$1
born2lovefish
10-08-2006, 3:45 PM
man! I can get ghost shrimp for 20 cents at one pet store and 50 cents at the other one just down the road.... Rip off city!
i can buy 50 for $7.00 here but still thought of trying to breed
WyldFya
11-01-2006, 1:43 AM
Down south I can get them 250 for $25. It would be worth the trip if they make it.
jpatz18
11-01-2006, 3:34 AM
i get them FREE and usually there all pregnant. i just go to the local ditch and go shrimpin!
WyldFya
11-01-2006, 9:44 AM
Haha, I'd be afraid of what I'd catch in the ditch here. All I'd find is a raccoon or a opossum. Hopefully not a bear.
HiGhTiMeZ
11-01-2006, 11:55 PM
can diff kind of shrimp breed with another kind?
like can ghost shrimp breed with cherry shrimp?
down south where or wiat how far south is down to an idahoan
plah831
11-02-2006, 12:00 AM
can diff kind of shrimp breed with another kind?
like can ghost shrimp breed with cherry shrimp?
no because they're different species. As far as I know, there aren't hybrid shrimps like there are cichlids and stuff. MAYBE shrimps in the same genus can breed, like Palaemonetes (ghost or glass shrimp) most likely with infertile offspring. But I've not heard of it.
edit: just searched petshrimp.com. The admin there has hybridized Neocaridina species with fertile results. Apparently those species must be very closely related. But ghost shrimp and red cherries are not, so those two in particular will not interbreed. Good thing, too, becuase I've got both in my community tank :D
HiGhTiMeZ
11-02-2006, 10:54 AM
ok thanks! ;)
Hello, Paula great post and 100% correct closely related species can hybridise. I think that the issue with a lot of fish and shrimps is that they aren't really so much a different species as a different color morph or local variety that some over eager taxonimist has just slapped a name on. It happens all the times with plants and they'll have their own name for 15-20 years and it will get retracted after there is enough re-search done on the plant/animal etc.
Anyway nicce seeing you over here as well.
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Max ;)
plah831
11-02-2006, 6:43 PM
Anyway nicce seeing you over here as well.
A.C. People we're everywhere we're everywhere!
Max ;)
hey, Max! We sure are. I'll try to behave myself over here ;) And not be TOO much of a post wh*re :nilly:
fishcatch22
11-02-2006, 6:47 PM
hey, Max! We sure are. I'll try to behave myself over here ;) And not be TOO much of a post wh*re :nilly:you've never been a post whore, plah! how can you say that?:screwy: