breeding those little white shrimp

[Retuks]

is it hard to breed those little white overpriced shrimp at the lfs???

what can you feed them eternally to keep them breeding strong?? also, how often to they reproduce and how fast do they grow???

i wanna use a 15gal with an ac 50 to do this. i need quick food for my carnivores.

 

[Retuks]

bump. i wanna know this. i bought like 20 of them (looks like hardly any) and put a sponge on my filter that they all hang around on. whatever i feed my guppies they also eat when it gets stuck to the filter... but... why wont they breed? water temps always at 80 or more... and thats about all i know.

 

[Hoyo12]

Any pics of the shrimp? Need a better idea of what we are dealing with here.

 

[EmilyMarie85]

I think he MIGHT be talking about ghost shrimp

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

I don't do anything special, I just get a bunch and put them in a tank. Feed them a lot, and little shrimp just start springing up. This takes a couple of weeks, it is easier if you start with pregnant shrimp =P

 

[devder1]

sorry bro, ghost shrimp need a brackish period for the young to grow, they can breed in fresh but the babies are close to impossible to grow out

 

[Retuks]

i dont even get babies. ya i think im talking about ghostys.

are there any other quick-breeding small shrimp that can live in fresh? how easy to breed cray fish?

 

[GhostShrimpMan]

Yeah Ghost S. are easy to breed, but to keep the babies alive is difficult :/

Best of luck to you though :]

 

[minifoot77]

Try cherry red or snowball shrimp - smaller but much easier

 

[izzy_here]

I agree, Cherry shrimp would be the best bet for a food source. Just a little tip? Go forth and google, read up on keeping the easier dwarf shrimp. Cherry, Yellow and pearl shrimp are good species for a novice to start with. Cherry shrimp are the cheapest and easiest to find. Definitely check the invert section on Aquabid.
Padiwan cichlidiotI don't do anything special, I just get a bunch and put them in a tank. Feed them a lot, and little shrimp just start springing up. This takes a couple of weeks, it is easier if you start with pregnant shrimp =P

Quote from padiwan chiclidiot: I don't do anything special, I just get a bunch and put them in a tank. Feed them a lot, and little shrimp just start springing up. This takes a couple of weeks, it is easier if you start with pregnant shrimp =P End quote.

I've not heard of many shrimp breeders that have bred this shrimp. It's a lower order species. This means that it's young must go through a larval stage before becoming a juvenile shrimp. As opposed to (cherry, yellow and pearl shrimp and many others) higher order shrimp who's young hatch as miniature versions of the parents, there is no larval stage.

I am guessing that the shrimp in question was NOT a ghost or glass shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus). Which begs the question...what the heck was it?