Started To Breed Ghost Shrimp Today...

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LILTIM88

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May 13, 2008
Started to breed the Ghost shrimp, about 40 shrimp in a 10 gallon tank, Air pump, Pant. Few Females with eggs on there under belly.
 
PLEASE post how this goes. havent had the time to try it myself, however i hear its real easy. good luck....

i would love to mass breed these things for myself, as my fish can go through a few hundred weekly, easily. once my polys grow and i get more, i can easily see going through 1,000 a week :eek::eek: not that they have any nutrition, but their fast buggers and make the fish do some damn work. i always have a supply in my tanks :D
 
good luck.. lots and lots of plants are the key to keeping them getting eaten by the adults.. they breed pretty easy...

they are so friggin cute when they are about 1/4 of an inch long
 
March 14, 2008
Seems like the Ghost shrimp Love the Pant sitting inside, some are still running around the tank. One shrimp is dead. Have Pic of yesterday when first started will post them soon.

I will keep updates on how the shrimp are doing.
 
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Ive got a 10 gal that im currently breeding creek minnows and creek snails. its got a few sword plants and a 10gal wisper filter and water constantly at 83F degrees. good conditions to breed ghost shrimp?

and what do ghost shrimp eat? bloodworms?

please let me know. thank you
 
I will be interested to see how this turns out as well. I have a 10g setup that I dropped about 10 into and have not seen anymore since then. It has been at least a few weeks. I did not know that the parents eat the young though, so I will have to add more plants...maybe thats why I have not seen anymore in there. I figured I would wake up one morning and there would be like 100 in there..not yet though
 
Forgot to add, mine eat flakes I drop in. When the flakes hit the bottom they all come out and chow down. Pretty funny to watch actually...
 
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