Do shrimp breed in your tank?

beviking

beviking

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Do Amano, Cherry (Neocaridina denticulata sinensis), and other shrimp breed in your aquarium?
How many should I buy to assure breeding? I'm thinking at least 6, maybe 10. Provided the lfs guy wasn't blowing smoke and can get me the afformentioned shrimp, I'll probably get two species with hopes they'll proliferate in my 90g. Is there a good chance of this happening? It would be so awesome to be able to tell that R know-it-all that T I have shrimp R to give him! :dance
 
And he might even accept them... :laugh:

Amano reprodution in my display tanks is iffy - some tanks to which I know I have not added any shrimp in years still have some, so either they have bred or they live much longer than projected (the 29 I see from the computer was set in '98 and still has shrimp).

Cherry Reds seem pretty easy, but I lost a lot (all the babies and some adults) during my post-op recovery. Low nitrate/whatever - meaning high water quality - is apparently not a hollow threat. One of the folks on the shrimp list calls them "roaches". But do lots of partials to keep the water clean.
 
beviking said:
Do Amano, Cherry (Neocaridina denticulata sinensis), and other shrimp breed in your aquarium?
How many should I buy to assure breeding? I'm thinking at least 6, maybe 10. Provided the lfs guy wasn't blowing smoke and can get me the afformentioned shrimp, I'll probably get two species with hopes they'll proliferate in my 90g. Is there a good chance of this happening? It would be so awesome to be able to tell that R know-it-all that T I have shrimp R to give him! :dance
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I initially bought about 30 japonica for my 50g planted tank and even though the population has dropped off significantly thanks to my angels and several dwarf cichlids they still proliferate and every so often I see the tiny babies darting about and there are always small japonica past the fry stage in my tank.
 
i have a 10 gallon with 4 japonica in it. they are crazy lil guys zoomin all around, they cleaned a coating of brown algea off a rock teh size of a baseball in about one day! i tryed intruducing a female betta but she immidatly tryed to eat all of them! oh by the way this is hans i got banned
 
RTR said:
And he might even accept them...
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Wow! I wonder if he would accept the exorbitant shipping/handling fee!? :laugh:


Pleco_Poop said:
...oh by the way this is hans i got banned
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That statement makes me laugh for some reason. I mean physically laugh, not laughing at you. BTW, how does one get banned?
 
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"Cherry" shrimp are the only FW shrimp I have phyically witnessed to breed in captivity.

Amanos will produce fry (is that right for shrimp?) but according to everything I have read raising them is a major pain in the a$$.
 
Pleco_Poop said:
oh by the way this is hans i got banned
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:OT: hans, i wouldn't admit this is you. If the nice people here want to let you back thats great. I've always found you to be quite humorous, but some of us are more sensitive and you should try to be nicer to those people, or just don't talk to them.
 
gonefishin said:
:OT: hans, i wouldn't admit this is you. If the nice people here want to let you back thats great. I've always found you to be quite humorous, but some of us are more sensitive and you should try to be nicer to those people, or just don't talk to them.
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Yeah really, you'll probably get banned again for saying that. I mean the purpose of banning someone is so they don't come back, not so that they have to create new user name. Eventually the log will show your IP adress and you'll be kicked again.

I personally had no problem with you hans, but when you talk back to the elders and repeatedly share wrong info with the community you're going to get labelled as a troll.
 
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