Ghost shrimp care + breeding

legendaryfrog

legendaryfrog

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Hi!.

coming back from church today, i stopped by the local petsmart, and to my delight, medium size ghost shrimp were only 15 cents each!

in response, i bought all 22 of them. Right now their in my 7.5 gallon planted tank, but they seem cramped. I would like to upgrade to something bigger, but in the mean time, is there anything i should know about these creatures?
 
well... you may have overstocked slightly, a general rule with ghost shrimp is to stock one for every 1/2G of tank if they are the only inhabitants.

they are no brainers to care for, they will eat basically anything that is, was or is going to be alive, and sometimes will eat hair/beard algae. great tank cleaners. they also work as good "canary-in-a-coal-mine" creatures, and are usually the first to die if something goes wrong. they are also temparate shrimp native to NA, b7ut can easily live in temps between 90-50 degrees F. they frequently breed in the aquarium, however most of the young will be sucked up by your filter or eaten by the other tank inhabitants.
 
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I usually let them in the tank and feed once a week, they breed from time to time and they get fed to the marine betta etc.
 
thanks. i probably wont buy a filter in that case.
 
legendaryfrog said:
thanks. i probably wont buy a filter in that case.
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no, you definelty need one, IME they won't take to kindly to excess of nitries/ammonia too well. try a sponge filter.
 
Look up El Naturel method on google or on aquaticplantcentral.com

That's what my shrimp tank is and you don't need a filter

It's essentially a LOT of fast growing plants and sunlight
 
breeding them IMO is a breeze.. i had 10 of them in my 20 gallon shortie tank with the baby guppies i was fostering to breed for feeders, and within a month i saw a few carrying the offspring, and a few weeks later there were lots of little ones! i did not supply any sort of intentional breeding area or home for the shrimp (other than the grass that almost covered the bottom of the tank for the guppies), and had no intention of breeding them, but seeing it was a pleasure! good luck!
 
I know this is an old post and all, but you might want to try sponge filtration in stead of a power filter since it is all air powered
 
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