long term shrimp keepers... how long do your shrimp live???

[Magnum Man]

I get that the temperature makes a big difference... all my neo breeder tanks are kept at cooler temps... but I think they breed faster at warmer temps, but I've been keeping those tanks, in the low 70's F.

adding them in with "tropical" fish is supposed to be possible, but seems to shorten their lives...

I'm assuming most shrimp species have similar life spans???

I had Amano shrimp in a tropical tank, for around 2 years before that colony died out... but they were added as jumbo's so they were probably 6 to 12 months old??? when they came here... this being, IMO important info, since they don't breed in normal aquarium set ups...

I have several cherry shrimp in my Hillstream tank, that seem to be thriving ( that is a cool water tank, in the low 70's F. ) if they are breeding, I'm sure the babies become a food source for the fish in that tank, but I regularly see the bright red adults in the tank...

AI ( internet ) say's neo's typically live 1-2 years, but can live up to 5 years, quite a range which is most like temperature related...

curious if any members here are long term shrimp keepers, and can add to this???

 

[Essjay]

It's a tricky one. That dead shrimp - is it an elderly one or one that has only just reached adult size? I can't recognise individual shrimps to be able to tell.

All I can say is I got my first red Neos in 2013. I had these red ones in a separate tank but moved them into my main tank a few months ago. The colony is 12 years old but I have no idea how long the individual shrimps live.

 

[gwand]

My colony is three years old. I recognize one particularly large red neo that is at least one year old.

 

[Naughts]

I'm assuming most shrimp species have similar life spans???

I suspect not, my group of amano's are over 5 years old with no losses. IIRC @Essjay had a 7yo amano.
My neos are an established colony (some tropical, some temperate). It's possible there are long lived individuals but I'd guess they have a shorter life than amanos.

 

[Essjay]

It was 6 years rather than 7. But still along time.

 

[Magnum Man]

I guessed the shorter lifespan of my Amano's was due to the "tropical" temps, and having no way to guess the age of "jumbo" shrimp

 

[Donya]

AI ( internet ) say's neo's typically live 1-2 years, but can live up to 5 years, quite a range which is most like temperature related...

I'm definitely not a freshwater shrimp expert but Crustacean life span estimates are not entirely straightforward. The same weird distribution of 1-2 years but up to a much larger number could be said for many hermit crabs, true crabs, and saltwater shirmp, for which one of the more common reasons for death in an aquarium is a bad molt or being fatally attacked/injured during a molt, which is not really the same as death from old age. Bad molts aren't purely enivornmental either - it includes a decent amount of behavioral stuff like crawling into too tight of a protective space, or in the case of shrimp in particular, injuring their soft bodies during the dramatic backwards exit.

 

[MaloK]

Yes, they can multiply slowly and live long, or multiply really fast and have shorter life.

But they keep the maximum density allowed anytime.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have had amanos live for a fair number of years. I used to buy them in fairly large numbers as imports when I was helping Rachel O. save 1/2 day tp pick up incoming orders on Sundays to New York City.Nack then her daughters were younger. We were/are friends and I could buy what I wanted as long as it was a minamal number. Sometime she and I would split a species. She had earned which specied to buy from which country at which the Transhipper shopped.

Sp O was buying amanios in anyhwhere from 50 to 100 at a time when I needed tp buy. They useually came in the 3/4 tp 1 inch range. O do not buy often because the lasted a long time. I had a dedicate tank into which I could put anubias with algae one them and take out one to put in its placce. This 50 gal. tank ran for at least 5 years before i had one of my self made disaster and manage o accidentally put water with bleach into their tamk and a zebra pleco tank under it (lost 23 zebras ).

On the Zurich zoo site it says"

Life expectancy

8 years

https://www.zoo.ch/en/yamato-shrimp

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I just did a quick fly through on Rachel O'Learys Youtube abd watched her most recent vid from 3 weeks ago. In she talked about discovering some amanos in a tank that were a sirprise. She commented that thye had to be 5=6 years old as she has not acquired any new ones in that time.

 

[MaloK]

Mine did not live that long, But they where so big... They could never hide that long, loll.

 

[MaloK]

Mine did not live that long, But they where so big... They could never hide all that time, loll.

 

[Sgooosh]

I get that the temperature makes a big difference... all my neo breeder tanks are kept at cooler temps... but I think they breed faster at warmer temps, but I've been keeping those tanks, in the low 70's F.

adding them in with "tropical" fish is supposed to be possible, but seems to shorten their lives...

I'm assuming most shrimp species have similar life spans???

I had Amano shrimp in a tropical tank, for around 2 years before that colony died out... but they were added as jumbo's so they were probably 6 to 12 months old??? when they came here... this being, IMO important info, since they don't breed in normal aquarium set ups...

I have several cherry shrimp in my Hillstream tank, that seem to be thriving ( that is a cool water tank, in the low 70's F. ) if they are breeding, I'm sure the babies become a food source for the fish in that tank, but I regularly see the bright red adults in the tank...

AI ( internet ) say's neo's typically live 1-2 years, but can live up to 5 years, quite a range which is most like temperature related...

curious if any members here are long term shrimp keepers, and can add to this???

My bamboo shrimp live real long, they're going for 2+ years!