I already have 5 Ghost shrimp. I have had them off and on in my main tank, as I buy them and they become meals and buy more...
This batch ended up with probably two males, smaller bodies, and one with a ton of babies that looks like she will drop them any time, the other berried that looks more like circles but they have already grown too so they seem to be getting longer and less like a circle, and one which had a little darker area there so maybe preggo.
This is in the 6.6 Fluval Edge, but my guppy fry born day before Easter are there so after being advised to get them out (Ghost Shrimp) it was the day Big momma and little momma were popping out babies. I make sure I am feeding small amounts through out the day, to keep them well fed.
I tried to get them out but the Edge isn't designed for getting shrimp out of a planted tank with some plastic plants with 17 fry swimming around using a bulky triangle shaped net with shrimp that don't want to get caught.....LOL
So now that the fry are easier to see I can try some more. I wanted to leave the two fat mama shrimp just in case they have their babies.
Good idea or bad?
Any other helpful ideas. There is a Cory in there too.
In my main tank I have a mixed peaceful community tank with the Filter shrimp and three Amano shrimp. So I can put the Ghosts in there, they will just need to stay away from my Spotted Raphael 5" cat.
The Amano shrimp I got to help clean the tank and really didn't intend to breed them.
Will the variant blue red crystal shrimp breed true or mixed babies? (I want blue Tiger, but too expensive and I have too little experience I think)
Anybody keep/raise the Blue Tigers...what experience level to keep, breed???
What else is blue, and easy to breed and reasonably price, I also like the the red and white ones, and I would probably like to have two or three kinds that wouldn't inter breed, is that possible? I haven't bought things online I have seen shipping is sometimes too much, we just don't have much for LFS.
I have to make a trip down to Denver, I will see if there are any stores in the vicinity of where I am headed.
So many questions, thank you all for the help.