FreshwaterTropical
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Will they without much help. The guy at my LFS was telling me that he had a bunch in his tank and has started to see some babies?
Ghost shrimp breeding
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abstract373
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what i understand is there hard to raise and need salt water to go threw there first cycle of life might be wrong on this but thats what ive been told since i go threw 100 a week....my fish eat them
Wyomingite
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They actually don't need brackish or salt water. It is hard to get them through the larval stage, though.
My ghost shrimp set-up was a 10 gallon with a sponge filter. It had a coupla pieces of driftwood, was overgrown with algae and had a good population of copepods. I started with 20 shrimp. Despite the females berrying up constantly, I only ever saw maybe three out of each 20 eggs as free-swimming larvae, and only one out of 20 made it to adulthood. I've read that the adults will eat the larvae and I didn't separate the females when they dropped, so I'm assumin' that's a big reason why I didn't have a higher survival rate. My colony died when I was on a business trip, so I didn't have a chance to experiment more and I haven't replaced them yet.
They're interestin' critters. Good luck!
WYite
My ghost shrimp set-up was a 10 gallon with a sponge filter. It had a coupla pieces of driftwood, was overgrown with algae and had a good population of copepods. I started with 20 shrimp. Despite the females berrying up constantly, I only ever saw maybe three out of each 20 eggs as free-swimming larvae, and only one out of 20 made it to adulthood. I've read that the adults will eat the larvae and I didn't separate the females when they dropped, so I'm assumin' that's a big reason why I didn't have a higher survival rate. My colony died when I was on a business trip, so I didn't have a chance to experiment more and I haven't replaced them yet.
They're interestin' critters. Good luck!
WYite
