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Old 25-02-2003, 09:19 AM
Dustin
 
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Default Amano and Ghost Shrimp

I bought 100 feeders to put in my 125 gallon. Im guessing around somewhere
between 25 and 50 survived the drive home / shock of the new tank..

The other day I seen a large female with many eggs, oh lord I didnt know
fry were possible. I could have a problem if thats the case haha. Its so
heavily planted I sometimes done see certain fish for days...... so Im
guessing their fry could survive in it.

Where do you get the Iodine? I should probably do that.

Thanks!

Dustin

"LeighMo" wrote in message
...
you can try it out though, around here ghost shrimp go for $.20 each so

$2
isn't really that big of an investment...


Heck, buy five or six and wait awhlie. You'll soon have more than you

know
what to do with.

that said I can't really imagine a ghost shrimp being predatory except

for
perhaps the smallest of fry possible...


They can kill livebearer fry. A fish as large as a neon tetra will

probably be
safe...if it's healthy. And be careful, sometimes macrobrachium shrimp

get
mixed in with ghost shrimp. They look similar, but have bigger claws, and

are
much more predatory.

also, has anyone had success breeding ghost shrimp?


Try to keep them from breeding. They're worse than guppies. I bought

five a
couple of years ago, and in a few months, I could've opened my own bait

shop.

There are only a couple of "tricks." One is that both brackish and

freshwater
shrimp are sold as ghost shrimp. For breeding, you want the freshwater

kind.
Freshwater ghost shrimp carry their babies until they are miniature copies

of
their parents, so you don't have to deal with weird larval stages or

anything.
Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell freshwater from brackish ghost

shrimp, so
you may be stuck with trial and error. (I have heard that if you see

females
with eggs, they are likely freshwater, but I don't know how true that is.)

The second trick is iodine. Ghost shrimp tend to turn white and die after

a
few weeks unless you put a little iodine in the water. Get the kind sold

as a
supplement for marine tanks, and put in one drop with each water change.

Other than that, raising ghosties couldn't be easier. Put some java moss

in
the tank, maybe, for the babies to hide in. And leave the detritus in the
tank; don't vaccum it out. Feed them ordinary flake fish food, and you'll

soon
be up to your neck in shrimp.


Leigh

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