Red Cherry Shrimp Breeding journal.
- Thread starter CoryWM
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Question: To cherry shrimp produces eggs or baby shrimp? I know ghosts have eggs and they need brine shrimp, are cherry the same?
FavCatfish;2530583; said:
Cherry shrimp are born benthic...as miniture version of their parents, the larval stage is skipped.
Ben268;2534215; said:
So do the fry have a better chance of survival without feeding them brine shrimp after birth? I want to not have to hatch brine shrimp for the fry?
I know this thread is forever old but it looks like you're still active. Still running any shrimp tanks? Any good lessons learned on your journey?
This tank as since been torn down, and replaced with another tank. I did learn a ton about cherry shrimp though. I now have them in 3 different tanks.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible to starve cherry shrimp to death. I have 3 in a 25 gallon tank with no filter, and they have the deepest red color out of all of my shrimp. They're lucky to be fed once a month. Tank is also unheated. Inside my house
I have 3 in a 9 gallon with 5 mollies that are breeding. The mollies harass the shrimp quite often. however i now have shrimp babies in the tank with them and their babies...
I am also keeping them with a breeding pair of albino bristlenose. This population was up to around 100 or so. Then devoured by a dwarf crayfish the self cloning type. Now only a few remain in this tank.
They seem to be super hardy. Like a guppy. I had a customer come in last week with 3ppm ammonia, and still all her cherry shrimp lived that we had sold her before. I had always heard that these shrimp were sensitive. But from what I can tell. they'll live through anything, as long as they arn't physically eaten.
I'm actually planning to redo my desk tank again. As I miss having infinite cherry shrimp. Most likely going to be shrimps, and hetamorphsa? the dwarf livebearer.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible to starve cherry shrimp to death. I have 3 in a 25 gallon tank with no filter, and they have the deepest red color out of all of my shrimp. They're lucky to be fed once a month. Tank is also unheated. Inside my house
I have 3 in a 9 gallon with 5 mollies that are breeding. The mollies harass the shrimp quite often. however i now have shrimp babies in the tank with them and their babies...
I am also keeping them with a breeding pair of albino bristlenose. This population was up to around 100 or so. Then devoured by a dwarf crayfish the self cloning type. Now only a few remain in this tank.
They seem to be super hardy. Like a guppy. I had a customer come in last week with 3ppm ammonia, and still all her cherry shrimp lived that we had sold her before. I had always heard that these shrimp were sensitive. But from what I can tell. they'll live through anything, as long as they arn't physically eaten.
I'm actually planning to redo my desk tank again. As I miss having infinite cherry shrimp. Most likely going to be shrimps, and hetamorphsa? the dwarf livebearer.
CoryWM;3591366; said:
You manage to keep them in an unheated tank in Washington this time of year? I had just bought a heater that I later realized doesn't have adjustments on it so it just stays at 78, i was gonna take it back and see if i could swap it but if they can manage in an unfiltered tank in the washington winters...why bother right?
