[ Sorry for posting this twice ] [ breeding ghost shrimp ]
Okay, first of all ,
you need your ghost shrimp, wherever you get them make sure you get like 40.
Some might have eggs already. And you have good chances of getting a male and female.
Put them in a well established tank and feed them good! Algae wafers, shrimp pellets, flakes ect.
If good water quality is maintained you should be okay, some people add reef calcium and iodine at half the recomended dose.
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When you notice a female ghost shrimp with eggs , [I wait a week first] remove female to seperate tank.
This worked for me ,, I placed the prego female shrimp in a ? 1/2 -1 gallon seethrough sterilite bucket, with large round pebbles/rocks on the bottom.
I added water from the tank she was in, I added duckweed , pond snails, java moss,
hair algae, hornwort, plastic floating plants. I continued to feed her good. Changing some of the water daily and replacing it with water from the main tank.
It was fall so the temperature slowed the whole process, so a week or two later I notice the eggs she'd been holding were perfectly formed tiny shrimps. I checked her every 5 minutes , then finally she was empty, no baby shrimp?
Well, the sunlight was shinning through the window and barely hitting the corner of the bucket. In the sunshine all ''schooled up'' was all the shrimpies..
I sucked em' out with a turkey baster[ watch out they jerk backwards very fast ,hard to catch them] ..
The tiny shrimps eat live infusoria for a week or so, finally after molting [sheding] however many times? They will walk upright instead of float upside down as they have been doing. Now they are ready for '' grown up food'' you could mix up food and crush it .
example,, in a plastic bag [a strong one] add , flakes, algae wafers, sinking and floating
foods/pellets, shrimp pellets, freeze dried krill ect.
-Close the bag, and roll over and over with a heavy weight[ or something ;} ]
until you have a fine powder, mix well, store in a old glass jar {miricle whip jar perhaps?}
feed at least 3 times a day.
Oh yeah,, while housing any creature in a small tank/bucket you should do daily water changes at least 20% . This includes mommy and baby shrimps.
Also ghost shrimp love eating live/dead pond snails. And they have baby shrimps all year long once mature [if a male and female of the same species are present]
Theres more but i've been typing forever.. Hope this helps someone...
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Sooooo..... Which spot should we get???
Okay, first of all ,
you need your ghost shrimp, wherever you get them make sure you get like 40.
Some might have eggs already. And you have good chances of getting a male and female.
Put them in a well established tank and feed them good! Algae wafers, shrimp pellets, flakes ect.
If good water quality is maintained you should be okay, some people add reef calcium and iodine at half the recomended dose.
----
When you notice a female ghost shrimp with eggs , [I wait a week first] remove female to seperate tank.
This worked for me ,, I placed the prego female shrimp in a ? 1/2 -1 gallon seethrough sterilite bucket, with large round pebbles/rocks on the bottom.
I added water from the tank she was in, I added duckweed , pond snails, java moss,
hair algae, hornwort, plastic floating plants. I continued to feed her good. Changing some of the water daily and replacing it with water from the main tank.
It was fall so the temperature slowed the whole process, so a week or two later I notice the eggs she'd been holding were perfectly formed tiny shrimps. I checked her every 5 minutes , then finally she was empty, no baby shrimp?
Well, the sunlight was shinning through the window and barely hitting the corner of the bucket. In the sunshine all ''schooled up'' was all the shrimpies..
I sucked em' out with a turkey baster[ watch out they jerk backwards very fast ,hard to catch them] ..
The tiny shrimps eat live infusoria for a week or so, finally after molting [sheding] however many times? They will walk upright instead of float upside down as they have been doing. Now they are ready for '' grown up food'' you could mix up food and crush it .
example,, in a plastic bag [a strong one] add , flakes, algae wafers, sinking and floating
foods/pellets, shrimp pellets, freeze dried krill ect.
-Close the bag, and roll over and over with a heavy weight[ or something ;} ]
until you have a fine powder, mix well, store in a old glass jar {miricle whip jar perhaps?}
feed at least 3 times a day.
Oh yeah,, while housing any creature in a small tank/bucket you should do daily water changes at least 20% . This includes mommy and baby shrimps.
Also ghost shrimp love eating live/dead pond snails. And they have baby shrimps all year long once mature [if a male and female of the same species are present]
Theres more but i've been typing forever.. Hope this helps someone...
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Sooooo..... Which spot should we get???
I just had alot of trouble obtaining any shrimp, so when I finally found enough at a local fish store, I bought 40 of them for around 6 dollars. I am still buying them and havent used any of the ghost shrimp i've raised as feeders . So at this point ''its not worth the hastle '' but I will never give up.
I could go on forever..
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Its cute, and amazing, I watch them zoom around in the sunlight catching infusoria! They swim like this and can jerk back quickly if frightened! ? I might also feed some crushed flakes? After a day or two [ this and all things can take longer /never give up!] the baby shrimp should molt, you will see the old shells/molts, I leave this in the grow out bucket/ glass jar, along with anything else that settles to the bottom. The tiny shrimps eat and live amongst it.
