Breeding Shrimp

[fall-apart-dave]

Well, I am looking at breeding shrimp as live food for my Turtles. But what shrimp can breed in captivity? I did a search and found that cherry shrimp, acording to this site, breed easily. But have heard from elsewhere they are very hard to bred in captivity...

I am also thinking about breeding mollies for the same reason... Can anyone offer me any advice? I have found the breeding livebearers thread and that has proved useful. I would ideally like to breed both shrimp and guppies in the same tank...

 

[luque]

guppies are easy, basically put 6females and 2 males etc and you should get fry.

Not to sure with the shrimp tho

 

[fall-apart-dave]

Any advice on breeding shrimp then? Am going to look for a small aquarium to breed guppies but would like to breed shrimp in there eventually too?

 

[shroob]

Red cherry shrimp are meant to be the easiest to breed, I am currently doing so now, though I have to say mine arn't proving that fruitful at the minute, started with 10, got 14 now. (Though that can be put down to my inexperience, the smallest purchase size imaginable and poor m/f ratio - 8 males 2 females). Now I have 14 shrimp, I can see atleast 4 big saddled females, so I am hoping for a population explosion soon.

 

[fall-apart-dave]

Lucky girls! Right, I'll give red cherries a try then...

 

[MeanHoney]

I think cherry shrimp are easy to breed. I started with 10 or 12 and after 3 months, I probably have 50 or more. It's impossible to count them!

 

[fall-apart-dave]

Which cherry shrimp? Have so far found four with different scientific names (Red Fire cherry shrimp, cherry shrimp, red cherry shrimp etc).

 

[joecoral]

Which cherry shrimp? Have so far found four with different scientific names (Red Fire cherry shrimp, cherry shrimp, red cherry shrimp etc).

those are common names
i would imagine they are all neocaridina denticulata

 

[shaz3271]

cherry are easy, just be careful when cleaning the tank, young are so small it took me weeks of wondering where all my young were going, sadly up the syphon tube ,


i started with thirty i have sold around 200 and have 200 or so now.

Sharon