Cherry shrimp

lokel said:
can you put cherry shrimp in with bettas? are there any requirments for keeping cherry shrimp?
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Generally no. I've had some level of sucess when introducing fully-grown adult shrimp with a betta that never made the shrimp=food connection, but it's hit and miss at best. with a passive enough betta and the right tank setup you can do it.

Keeping them is just down to feeding them and keeping the tank clean. They're like ottos in that they're high-volume low-nutrient eaters. They eat basically any kind of veggie-based fish food. Just make sure it contains *no* copper (read nutrient labels). I feed mine stuff like the hikari sinking wafers.

You can have something like 100 juvies in a cycled 10G without bioload problems. But they are very sensative to nitrite/nitrate poisoning, so planted tanks are better than non-planted, and regular WC's are a must. They also get stressed if they don't have things to walk on/climb/grab, so don't use a bare tank.

If you weren't trying to start a breeding colony, I'd say that 10 is probably plenty for a 10G.
 
oh and what about breedin these guys? How often to they breed? Do you need like a special setup or are they just gonna do it?
 
No special setup.....they'll just "do it." Their young also drop to the substrate and develop, unlike ghost shrimp, so you shouldn't have to worry about filtration problems......................you might not want to gravel-vac too often, though.
 
Deffinantly don't want to use a HOB filter for young, it'll suck them up real quick. Once the babies do the hatching thing they're basically miniature free-swimming versions of the adults. They don't move very fast, and they are very small, so having an unguarded HOB will cost you several (not a problem with adults). I use one of those big hydor sponge filters that sits in the middle of the tank.

It works great for several reasons. They love to climb on it, and I can drop food on top of it and not have to worry about trying to vac it out of the substrate later, just vac it off the filter.
 
Except nobody knows what benthic means. Free swimming just means they swim around the tank without requirements. And yes, Cherry shrimp can and do swim, they don't just crawl from place to place. They'll be swimming at a stage where they're still small enough to be sucked into your HOB.
 
NinjaPirate said:
Deffinantly don't want to use a HOB filter for young, it'll suck them up real quick. Once the babies do the hatching thing they're basically miniature free-swimming versions of the adults. They don't move very fast, and they are very small, so having an unguarded HOB will cost you several (not a problem with adults). I use one of those big hydor sponge filters that sits in the middle of the tank.

It works great for several reasons. They love to climb on it, and I can drop food on top of it and not have to worry about trying to vac it out of the substrate later, just vac it off the filter.
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hey do you have a link for one of those sponge filters?
 
NinjaPirate said:
Except nobody knows what benthic means.
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Benthic = bottom-dwelling......like crabs, lobsters, crayfish, ghost shrimp.
Suppressed larval development means that the young emerge as little adults. All metamorphosis has taken place inside of the egg and the young emerge ready to act like adults.........feeding mostly on the ground. If you have plants and the like in your tank, they shouldn't do much, if any, swimming. They don't feed from the water column and there should be plenty of food for them on the bottom of the tank or on the plants. You can get a sponge filter.......probably not necessary but it couldn't hurt.
 
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