Different Shrimp in one tank?

M

mmm_unit

AC Members
Nov 30, 2008
58
0
0
Question: Can you have multiple breeds of shrimp (red crystal, blue, tiger, amano, ghost, etc) in the same tank?

I would imagine the answer would be yes, but I haven't seen anyone on the forms with tanks like that.

And then if that's a yes, would the shrimps still mate accordingly? Or would I have hybrids?


I'm interested in transforming my current tank into a shrimp tank and moving everyone currently in there to a new bigger tank.
 
most shrimp have multipule forms before becoming full grown shrimp and most of those need brackish water. i know cherrys don't but amanos do. i don't know about the others
 
Some shrimp will breed and produce ugly forms. Like the red cherry and the banana yellow shrimp, they will become a brown like the wild form.
 
oh that sounds interesting though.

so it's a pretty safe bet to have them all together?

or what's the reason that I see many aquarium hobbist have only one type per tank?
 
the reason most shrimp are in a species tank is to stop cross breeding and forming hybrids

you could keep shrimp from differant genus in the same tank tho
 
You'd have to look at the genus of the shrimp you are getting. Most of them are either neocardinia, or cardina. You can keep two ( one of each genus) in one tank. If you keep more than one, they will likely cross breed end you'd end up with a bunch of ugly "wild" types. Amanos are prety hard to breed since they need brackish-saltwater for thier larva to grow. Tigers, crystals, bumblebee's are all Caridina and will cross breed. Cherry's and snowball's are neocaridina
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
AquariaCentral.com
Top Bottom