Amano Shrimp Breeding Diary

[MHunt]

I've decided to attempt to breed my amano shrimp as they seem keen to produce eggs on a regular basis. My first main attempt started yesterday when I caught a shrimp which was carrying eggs and put her into a holding tank till she released the larvae. Now I'm not sure if it helps at this stage of the breeding but she released the eggs overnight. This could be a coincidence or she could have done it in protest to being moved. But never mind, I fished out the eggs I could and put them into a bottle hatchery containing full sea water 1.030SG. That's where i'm up to and I hope to document my success or failure here to try and demistify the problems surrounding the breeding of these invertibrates.

There are a few articles which I have pulled my methodology from which i'll try and find again and put the links to here to add background to what I'm doing.

 

[iSnail]

Looks like she didn't appreciate the move

Not sure about hatching the dropped eggs in salt water but worth a try I guess Good luck.

 

[NoRp]

last time i tried this i brought 10 shrimp 2 differant tanks and equip. then the shrimp never got beeried lol i still have around 8 of the shrimp to this day and never been berried. so good look your allready futher than i got.
i also remember reading a diary i think on this site where the person got quite far could be worth a serch.

 

[iSnail]

My 4 females (I have 1 male) have not stopped carrying eggs Perhaps I'm feeding too much

 

[~T~]

I've decided to attempt to breed my amano shrimp as they seem keen to produce eggs on a regular basis. My first main attempt started yesterday when I caught a shrimp which was carrying eggs and put her into a holding tank till she released the larvae. Now I'm not sure if it helps at this stage of the breeding but she released the eggs overnight. This could be a coincidence or she could have done it in protest to being moved. But never mind, I fished out the eggs I could and put them into a bottle hatchery containing full sea water 1.030SG. That's where i'm up to and I hope to document my success or failure here to try and demistify the problems surrounding the breeding of these invertibrates.

There are a few articles which I have pulled my methodology from which i'll try and find again and put the links to here to add background to what I'm doing.

I tried to hatch cherry eggs like this. Are you areating them?

One of my amanos is berried just now, I think i'll try raising the eggs too. I have a little bowl thats had a population of brine shrimp living in there for almost 6 years(seamonkey joke xmas present). All I do is top up the water and drop in the occasional pinch of food. If I see any amano zoes I'll dump them in there.

 

[MHunt]

Well so far there's been nothing, I'm aerating the hatching bottle with a steady flow of bubbles from an open ended air line, no air stone as I don't want to turn my hatchery into a protein skimmer! I think I'll have a shrimp with eggs soon as the males we going crazy tonight so one of the females must be releasing pheromones and is ready to produce eggs again, I think I'll wait till they look nearly ready and i'll put her in the breeding tank to drop the eggs, larvae. Then we try again!