Breeding cherry shrimp !!!!

[dpfitness23]

I need help on breeding cherry shrimp.. What are your tips? and how easy is it? Can they be sexed? How many babies per female?...

[Hubert90]

Originally Posted by dpfitness23

I need help on breeding cherry shrimp.. What are your tips? and how easy is it? Can they be sexed? How many babies per female?...

Cherry shrimps will breed rapidly if the conditions are meet. Here's a really good link

http://www.planetinverts.com/Red%20Cherry%20Shrimp.html

[phatpaul]

Sexing is easy. The males are slightly smaller and less colourful than the females and the females have what looks like a white saddle on the back which is the undeveloped eggs. As in looking after them they are pretty easy I find, just do what you do to look after your fish pretty much

[dpfitness23]

thanks for the help guys ... Im breeding platys in a 75 thinking about throwing a dozen cherry shrimp in with them. And mate them

[Esoteric Backbone]

Platy's will eat the baby shrimp

[dpfitness23]

ill put a ton of java moss in with it

[dpfitness23]

so ive decided a dozen... How long til i have a hundred

[Hubert90]

One can't really tell. But if u do weekly pwc and make sure their requirements are met! It wouldnt take long!

[dpfitness23]

hahaha... nice... According to online you can house up to 150 in a ten gallon tank!.... Im not going to do that tho,,, seems like to much

[jimenezlee]

Hey dp, let me know if you have any luck, I put about a dozen in a 10g as well and I'm waiting for some babies... None yet though, it will be a week on Sun.

[Hubert90]

Here's a good link for shrimp guide!

http://www.planetinverts.com/Red%20Cherry%20Shrimp.html

[Terrance]

I have 40 RCS in a 29 tank. I haven't gotten my java moss yet, but I see tiny mircro shrimps at the top of my tank against the glass. They are eating stuff at the border of water line. I'm trying to get Java Moss asap though.

I also see one female trying to give birth. It seems like she was having a hard time. Its been day 2 and nothing has come out yet. She goes to the same spot to give birth.

[warthog76za]

Starting my Nano tank next week, ofcourse....all the cycling first but probably by August I'll be underway....want to start also with RCS and see how things pan out.

[jimenezlee]

Cool, please let us know if you're successful. I haven't seen any baby RCS in my tank yet, although I think I've seen them mating...

[Deckape]

Originally Posted by warthog76za

Starting my Nano tank next week, ofcourse....all the cycling first but probably by August I'll be underway....want to start also with RCS and see how things pan out.

Be safe

[momo]

this is for jim and DP,

IME shrimp are very prone to stress. when they get stressed they no longer reproduce. it took mine about 1 month after putting them in my tank to start breeding. also with plecos and java moss, make sure you have kinda like a ball of it, so its dense enough for them to hide in and the pleco's not able to gobble' em up