neocaridina or cardina shrimp

[Meg0000]

Hi, I decided I was probably going to do shrimp breeding in my 10 gallon tank. I heard that caridina shrimps where hard to keep and I am not even sure I could breed them in 10 gallon... Would that be possible? Also my water is on the softer side (PH:6.8-7 GH:3-5). What would be better cardina or neocaridina shrimps?

 

[Essjay]

Red cherry shrimps are usually quoted as being the easiest shrimps to start with. I have them and my water is similar to yours. I used to have mine in a 45 litre tank (12 gallons) and when I had to close the tank I moved the shrimps into my main tank. I caught over 90 of them, from adults to newly hatched babies. And I hate to think of how many babies I didn't find.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Red cherry shrimps are usually quoted as being the easiest shrimps to start with. I have them and my water is similar to yours. I used to have mine in a 45 litre tank (12 gallons) and when I had to close the tank I moved the shrimps into my main tank. I caught over 90 of them, from adults to newly hatched babies. And I hate to think of how many babies I didn't find.

How many did you start out with? How long were they in the tank before you moved them? Sorry for the probably useless questions, just curious

 

[FishGuest5123]

I had neocaradina, red cherry shrimp. I attempted to take them to the lfs. I took over 100 in less than a year. Started out with 17. When I got home, I found 3 babies and a berried mother so I filled the tank back up. I have over 20 again now in about 2 months time.

 

[Essjay]

How many did you start out with? How long were they in the tank before you moved them? Sorry for the probably useless questions, just curious

I've looked though my notes a bit more thoroughly.
I originally bought 10 shrimps.
27 July I found the last female dead and discovered baby shrimps in the QT.
20 September, the shrimps were now big enough to count - there were 10. Two of the largest shrimps had developed saddles - 9 weeks after they hatched.
5 October, one of the shrimps with a saddle was now carrying eggs (berried)
14 October I moved half of the shrimps to their future home, leaving 5 in the QT including 2 berried females.
22 October I noticed one of the berried females was no longer berried, did a water change and found 7 baby shrimps in the bucket.
27 October - the second berried female was no longer carrying eggs. I also found a shed skin with half a dozen white eggs inside - were those infertile?
23 December - moved all the shrimps from the QT to their proper home.

In total I moved 21 shrimps from the QT. 10 of these were shrimps born on 27 July and 11 were born to the two females from that first batch.

 

[seangee]

I'm afraid I don't keep such meticulous records. I also bought 10 - on-line in my case. 3 of these died in the first week and the next 4 or 5 weeks I was anxiously counting shrimps and watching the progress of the berried girls every day. Then a couple of weeks of even higher anxiety. The berries had gone and I could see no shrimplets. And suddenly one day my tank was full of shrimplets.

 

[Essjay]

I don't usually, I mainly just keep records of what I bought and when. But after the problems with the shrimps I bought dying one by one, I started making notes to see if there was any correlation between deaths, water changes, which type of food etc and I just kept on going