Cherry Shrimp With Eggs.

[Liam]

I have read that they usually have between twenty and thirty eggs so not sure why there are just five. Maybe the water or food is not ideal for them. Still was a nice surprise to see the eggs, have the shrimp a month now so don’t know much about them yet. Not even sure there are any males all eight look similar, with long covers over the swimmerets, will know in a few weeks if the eggs hatch. Nice little critters I think.


and an otto pic that I like.

 

[RadaR]

Very cool. Maybe this will persuade you to try breeding them? Mr G has got a great thread on here.
Cool pics

 

[littleme1969]

In my experience of keeping these they are pretty easy to sex once you get it The females are really bright pink/red and slightly larger...while the males tend to duller more of a redish brown in colour. You have done well to get eggs So the conditions for them must be ideal I would put the small number of eggs down to the fact they have just been rehomed and are still settling in.

 

[three-fingers]

Very cool. Maybe this will persuade you to try breeding them? Mr G has got a great thread on here.
Cool pics

Cherry shrimp are much easier than that! So you have no excuse . As long as the baby shrimp don't get eaten by the fish in the tank then your good, but if you want to set up a separate breeding tank just make it the same as the one their in now. Cherry's don't need marine or brackish water, and the baby shrimp are just very small versions of the adults so don't need any special feeding with phytoplankton .

 

[Liam]

Thanks for the feedback, They are in a 5 gallon with some crystal red shrimp and nothing else, I covered the filter intake so if any shrimplets arrive they should survive. I think I saw one egg fly out as she was fanning them, when I was taking the pics, so maybe she is dropping them the eggs are so tiny its hard to tell, the babies must be tiny, hopefully will see some sometime. I haven’t seen her in a couple of days, or if I have she is eggless, they have lots of moss and wood to hide in so I only see a few at a time. Yeah they are much easier to breed than amanos the babies are born just like miniature adults and don’t need brackish water.

 

[tetraman]

Sweet! I was thinking about getting some. How sensitive are they?

 

[Liam]

Tetraman, they seem pretty adaptable in terms of water conditions, a clean cycled tank would suit them, a temperature of between 20 and 24C seems fine, they seem okay in soft or not very hard water. The only thing that makes them unsuitable for many tanks is their size. In this pic they are not fully grown, but are bigger than the size they are usually sold at, the ramshorn snail is average adult size, so most community fish would be able to kill them and very few fish are safe with the babies, ottos wont eat the babies but most even very small fish would. The small tetras like rummynose and cardinals could probably eat them at this size especially if they had just moulted. I haven’t had them long so am no expert.

 

[piper]

My cherry shrimp have also breed. I have only seen one survivor though as my fish arn't really suitable to keep these small size shrimp