I am looking into setting up a tank for breeding ghost shrimp or cherry red shrimp. does anyone have any experience in keeping fw shrimp in a tank with sand as a substrate? any replies are appreciated, thanx.
Ghost shrimp and sand
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I have ghost shrimp in a tank with sand and they seem to like it they like the little dent in the sand a rock left. How do you breed ghost shrimp?
well i've no experience on the topic and will soon find out i guess. i have heard that cherry red shrimp breed fairly easily and ghost shrimp occasionally, all i am doing to try and breed them is to place shrimp with eggs on the swimmeretts in the tank and hope the fry survive.
I have had ghost shrimp in my planted tank and they seem to like the sand alot. They actually spend quite alot of time swimming and feeding off the plants and hanging out on the taller plants near the top. I know that they molt and become very vulnerable after they lose the shell, and placing a very small piece of broken pottery to provide a hiding place is a good idea. I have never bred them but I have read of it being done. If you google ghost shrimp there are quite a few excellent links....cant remeber the exact one i am thinking of, but good luck!
I have also found if you go to a LFS and look at the shrimp many of them are already carrying eggs so you could just get them insted of trying to breed them. I have also found that they like flake food a lot I just put a pinch in my tank and when it sinks they have a field day.
I stumbled apon this site of breeding: http://www.shrimpcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Shrimp.htm?Shrimpfr.htm~mainFrame
I stumbled apon this site of breeding: http://www.shrimpcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Shrimp.htm?Shrimpfr.htm~mainFrame
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