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As the ambiguous title says, I'm newly old. Or oldly new? Oddly new seems the best description. I have frequented these forums, in the past, mostly interested in shrimp. Life conspired and I cut back on my shrimp breeding, and all thing pertaining to it. I've recently become more focused...

That is odd. Years of selective breeding was required to create shrimp that would breed true vivid color mutations, now common among captive bread shrimp. IMO, these are two most probable causes, 1. Shrimp in your tank were interbred with a yellow variant, at some point. 2. There is...

I first built a system to breed brine shrimp as a test bed for rearing Macrobrachium scabriculum. Their young hatch in brackish water and grow in decreasing levels of salinity. I was able to get about 60% of my brine shrimp to mature, but it takes work. I had three 'hatcheries' (two liter...

Wow, that's a high volume of water to change once a week. With a healthy tank, I do a ~30% to ~40% once a month. Fertilizers are safe, when used carefully, and correctly (no double dosing). I do recommend getting copper testing strips though, just to be safe. Once you've established that...

The molting process is easy to miss, particularly when there are many hiding places, for the shrimp to use. Shrimp, or any invert that molts, feels the most vulnerable, just after molting. There are indicators when a female is ready to molt. With most dwarf species of shrimp, the female will...

I've handled many a shrimp over the years. As long as you're careful, the exoskeleton of the shrimp is very resilient. A ruler outside the tank is OK, but the camera needs to be perpendicular to the tank glass, and is highly susceptible to reflections and flash. I used to do it that way, but...

Start by feeding them powdered algae. You can buy it, or if you have a mortar and pestle, you can crush algae wafers. Since the brine shrimp are extremely tiny when they hatch, the wafers need to be finely crushed. As they age, add crushed fish food (flakes or whatnot) to the algae. Only add...

That's interesting. In all the years that I've kept shrimp, I've never seen an Amano shrimp larger than two inches. Can you post pictures? FYI, due to the refractive properties of water and glass, I measure shrimp or crayfish by netting them and using a tape measure.

Warmer water will decrease the time it takes to hatch. It will also decrease the life span of all shrimp living in the tank. This may not be a real problem, if you've got a young breeding colony. Personally, going higher than 80 degrees, for long periods, isn't advisable. For most of my...

Ghost shrimp sold in N. America are almost always Palaemonetes paludosus. They will reproduce at room temperatures 70 to 80 degrees. I don't know where the cold water information came from, I've never read that. They are a very hardy species. Your picture is of a fully developed shrimp, so...

Yep, Amano shrimp can reach up to two inches. Dwarf shrimp is a bit of a misnomer. Most people equate dwarf shrimp to mean diminutive, or small overall in size. This is incorrect. Dwarf, in this instance, is referring to the size of claws, relative to the overall size of the shrimp. So...

They may have died of old age, but it seems to me that you've noticed multiple deaths, in a short period of time. This is unusual. How familiar are you with keeping shrimp? They are much more susceptible to nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia than fish are. You mentioned that you placed them in a...

You should go to www.petshrimp.com and search the forums there for information about iodine and shrimp. There has never been published scientific proof, that adding iodine, of any type, helps shrimp in any way. If you feel it works for you, great. The majority of the shrimp breeders I know...

I'm glad you found some. -Should I plan to remove the lesser males once I can sex them? --or move a lesser male and a female to another tank ? That is totally up to you. If you want to maximize the number of offspring, then you should do the following; Have 1 adult male w/2 adult female...

Often freshly hatched brine shrimp is used. That's what I use to rear my M sabriculum with. I also use them with M. lamarrei lamarrei larvae. Even though their larvae grows in freshwater only, they still love to devour newly hatched brine shrimp.

The only species of shrimp that I've seen make a burrow is Macrobrachium kulsiense. Ghost shrimp, Palaemonetes paludosus is more of a swimmer. They seem to enjoy swimming more than walking about to get their food. You may use distilled tap water, as long as it has been treated with a water...

The difficulty you'll have with metabolization experiments, you need to have complete control over when, and what they eat. So you've got a dichotomy. You'll need a cycled tank (environment that will produce algae/food for the shrimp), and you'll need to know the approximate caloric intake of...

Very beautiful setup. Be cautious with which species you put in there. Many are notorious for shredding live plants. That's why I tend to stick with plastic plants with my crayfish. Good luck!

Yep, any shrimp will see the larvae as an easy meal. BTW, pacalan, did you ever have any success rearing bamboo shrimp to adulthood?

According to my wife, I reenact ancient history, my childhood. Playing with R/C trucks & helicopters; also keeping creepy crawlies in tanks, I just used mason jars as a kid.