Saddled Rcs Never Any Eggs??

[Wmc2009]

I've had my shrimp for almost 3 months and I have yet to see berried females. I always see them saddled but they never end up actually reproducing. I know it's not an issue with water quality as I test and change it weekly. The tank temp stays between 76 and 78. I have a digital thermometer added to my setup to ensure accuracy. I feed them a variety of flakes,algae wafers, bloodworms (very few), and blanched zucchini/cucumbers ( on occasion ). It's very frustrating because everything I've read says they breed like cockroaches, but I'm not having that issue. I don't know what I could be doing wrong. Any ideas? Do males take longer to mature than females?

Edit: the tank is 29 gallon and houses only snails/shrimp rcs,fire painted rcs, blue bee, and Malawa

 

[Wmc2009]

This is a picture of the setup.

 

[aluka]

are you sure you have males?

Sometimes colonies takes awhile to start up. if they are new you might have to give them few months.

 

[Wmc2009]

I'm almost positive I have males. I'm just worried im doing something wrong and that's why I haven't seen berried females by now.

 

[aluka]

when i moved my cherries from their old tank to this new one. They took almost 2 months to get berrried again. Even tho they were a breeding colony before. Just give it some time.

Make sure your tank is cycled, ph is over 7 (they can be under 7 but they breed better over 7), gh 4+. Do small water change, too big of a water change will shock them each time, 10% a week.

 

[Wmc2009]

when i moved my cherries from their old tank to this new one. They took almost 2 months to get berrried again. Even tho they were a breeding colony before. Just give it some time.

Make sure your tank is cycled, ph is over 7 (they can be under 7 but they breed better over 7), gh 4+. Do small water change, too big of a water change will shock them each time, 10% a week.

Okay thanks for the advice. I was just worried I was doing something wrong. Tank is definitely cycled. I upgraded to a 55 and needed something to do with the 29 gallon that had been running for over a year. I actually seeded the new one with stuff from this tank. So I decided on shrimp. No one warned me they were so ADDICTING.

 

[Khuligirl93]

Beautiful tank. Looks like shrimp heaven to me! Im sure you'll have a nice big colony pretty soon

 

[Wmc2009]

Beautiful tank. Looks like shrimp heaven to me! Im sure you'll have a nice big colony pretty soon

Thanks. I put a lot of time and money in it. And yesterday while feeding I noticed one of my fire painted cherries is berried!!!! Ive been seeing a lot of molts on the java tree since i added it to the tank. So I guess shes been hiding. Lol I'm sure my roommate thought I was nuts by how excited I got over what he calls nothing but "water bugs".