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)
Breeding Ghost Shrimp
- Thread starter cichlidgold83
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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.
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.
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
if anyone in jersey knows where i can get them cheep let me know
Yep, feeder shrimp, ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, grass shrimp, and Palaeomonetes shrimp are all the same critters.s4mula said:
