1st time - Preparing for Shrimp babies

[acecat]

Is there any special requirements for the babies?


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[aquarium_Guru]

Not really keep them away from fish and they will grow I like to grind up algae pellets for them


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[acecat]

Mine is a community tank. So do I have to move the berried females to a floating hatchery?


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[aquarium_Guru]

Some will survive if you have a lot of hiding places if you move them to holding tank use water from aquarium and put some moss


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[ScotJudd]

Be wary of moving berried shrimp. They can discard the eggs if stressed. Better to put prime saddled females in a holding tank with a couple of males. I did this and am now selling the young on.
My other shrimp are in a community tank and enough babies survive to swell the colony, despite the best efforts of my tetras.


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[acecat]

Thanks aquariumGuru, ScotJudd.


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[acecat]

My guppy babies have survived so far. So, I'm hoping the baby shrimp will survive too.


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[aquarium_Guru]

Here are my shrimps they hide in the moss


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[aquarium_Guru]

Shrimp are with chili rasbora


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[acecat]

Finally the babies are here. They are really tiny. Thought I was looking at an unusually large Daphnia. Then zoomed up on it with my phones camera. Once I realized what it actually was, it had gone into hiding again. So, couldn't get a snap of it.


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[ScotJudd]

The best I've managed was at a few days old, younger than that seemed impossible.



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[acecat]

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