Ghost Shrimp about to have babies any minute now, Picture proof!

jawasnack

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Dec 8, 2010
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Just snapped this shot of one of the ghost shrimp that are always berried in the 36gal tank. (though I never see any babies ghost shrimp in that tank)

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Awesome shot!
 
Nice photo. Hard to believe that I've found countless websites and posts claiming that it's hard to breed these guys in the aquarium...LOL. Joke's on them.

BTW, if you ever decide you do want to breed them, I find it's best to move the berried shrimp to a well-established, planted tank with no predators that might eat the babies. Once she's released her offspring, I remove the mother shrimp from the tank as well. Seems to work out best. In the free swimming larval stage, those little buggers are FAST, but I think once they settle out of the water column and start crawling around, they're subject to predation by larger ghosties.
 
I just recently found some baby ghosts in my very heavily planted tank. That's an awesome shot
 
Nice photo. Hard to believe that I've found countless websites and posts claiming that it's hard to breed these guys in the aquarium...LOL. Joke's on them.
Yep. They're as prolific as any freshwater shrimp species. Given a happy home, they'll breed like bunnies.
 
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