Breeding Ghost shrimp?

[lotsofish]

How long until Ghost shrimp start having babies? I have 100+ in a 29 gallon with good filtration and aeration. I have ground cover and rocks setup for the young ones. A few of mine were pregnant when I got them but haven't noticed any since.

Kind Regards,

Brian

 

[Miles]

The fry are very hard to keep alive, and the parents usually eat them.

You need a tank with a ton of 'grass' type plants on the substrate, so the fry can find coverage.. They also only eat micro sized foods, so it can be hard to get them to eat. They are like the size of a flea, and barely noticable when newly born.

The best thing I have heard for a food source for the young is green water algae.. They will eat the microparticles floating around in the water column. I have also seen people use a mesh screen to divide the parents from the babies.. Similiar to livebearer breeding baskets, the fry would simply drop down to the lower part of the tank where they can't be bothered..

Hope thats a good start! We've had a few threads on it before, might want to try using that Search engine!

 

[guppy]

There are also two types, some require brackish water to breed

 

[mothernature]

sounds like your off to a great start.

You could try getting a small 10 gallon tank with a ugf to raise the baby ghost shrimp in. When you see a female with eggs put her in the 10 gallon then take her out after she releases the eggs, you ''should'' put way to many plants in there so she cant turn right around and eat her eggs as there coming out.
dont put any snails in as they will eat the eggs quickly, plus the algae will serve as a food source for the little guys. in order to get a good baby ghost shrimp food going , you should get a one gallon ugf kit you can buy one for $11.00 at wallmart. Set it up in a south facing window, so the sun is on it allmost all day, leave the lights on till late at night, I also have snails and guppy fry living in my one gallon infusoria tank. The tank gets dark green but there are clearly unicellular algae floating in there..as far as feeding the infusoria, thats another story. and go crazy with your fish food , crush it up really fine and the shrimp and infusoria will also eat some of this.

 

[WyldFya]

Also, make sure to use a sponge filter, as "normal" filters will suck the babies right up. I had floating plants in with mine, and they would breed, but the babies would run into the sides. I read somewhere that it is because the go toward the strongest source of light, supposed to be the sun, but in a tank it is the light. Well if you turn on your room lights, well all of a sudden the bright light is everywhere outside the tank. The babies would run into the sides and commit suicide. Its either that reason, or baby ghost shrimp are really vain.

 

[mothernature]

or you can use an undergravel filter, and keep up with water changes,,,
im at the point where i cannot buy any more filters ,i have to work around them,,
which means i buy alot of aquasafe

And about the running into the glass thing,,,,,, instead of housing the baby scrimps in a tank try a dark bucket,, i will be attempting to breed em' soon, i will let you know how it goes, you keep me posted to. Have you had any progress?

 

[rottbo]

you would have to use an undergravel filter with reverse flow otherwise it woould suck them into the gravel and they wouldnt survive and i wouldnt use one for this anyways sponge filter is teh only way to go

 

[dmarinko]

Do they breed?

 

[Miles]

Oh yeah and Crustaceans usually need a high amount of hardness, namely Iron in the water, in order for them to produce their hard exo-skeleton..

 

[MikeVance]

Good info, forgot about the hardness issue!