Breeding Ghost Shrimp
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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.
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.
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
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.ChrisGray said:
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.
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.
guppy;254800; said:
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!
