Amano Shrimp Preganant?

[DarkEntity]

Is this shrimp pregnant?

just noticed this shrimp looking rather funny compared to the rest. looks like it has eggs or something.

 

[frozenbarb]

Is this shrimp pregnant?

just noticed this shrimp looking rather funny compared to the rest. looks like it has eggs or something.

yep its pregnant but amano has a low chances or it hatching since it needs saltwater

 

[three-fingers]

Yep, I second the pregnant vote , They will hatch in freshwater, but will need to be transferred over to salt water if you want them to survive. Feeding them is pretty tricky too. But it is possible to raise the young shrimp if your interested.

 

[DarkEntity]

o well, if they need saltwater there outta luck lol

i dont have a spare tank i can use, i was going to put her in a plastic breeding chamber

 

[Galedav]

you could put her in the camber , put some gravel in the bottom and a pplant then add some salt to the water (cant be chlorinated) take her out when theyve hatched, have a laugh

 

[iSnail]

errrrrm............... don't do that. You'll kill the mother shrimp. The adult Amanos live in fresh water. It's only the newly hatched larvae that need to go into salt water (i.e. after they hatched in fresh water).

 

[three-fingers]

Also, a breeding chamber has the same water as the tank, so putting salt in it would effect the whole tank .

A breeding chamber is no where near big enough for raising amano shrimp zoes...the mother produces a lot of them.

You would need some sort of filteration or at least aeration too .

 

[GoldLenny]

Are there any predators in the tank where it is at?

I don't know if I would call it pregnant.. but it is definitely holding eggs under it's tail. I always considered "pregnant" to be an internal thing. Shrimp carry their eggs with their back legs and you will see them constantly moving the eggs around to give them fresh water and O2... kind of like juggling them around under their tail.

I don't add salt to my Cherry Shrimp tank and I just started with them and there are a couple holding eggs already. Everything I've read says to just let them hatch in their current tank... as long as there aren't predators that would eat them.

EDIT - see next post by Bloo

 

[Bloo]

Here's my topic on breeding Amano Shrimp

Both those links are not about Amano shrimp. Despite the authors thinking so. The people who wrote those articles must have mistaken Ghost shrimp for Amano. The zoes (baby "shrimp" do not hatch fully formed as those links indicated. They hatch as miniscule pinpricks that look nothing like shrimp - and stay that way until they morph between 7 and 10 days. See my photos and all the links in my thread that will lead you to other attempts of breeding true Amano shrimp. So no - you absolutely cannot add sea salt to the tanks with the adult. It's far more complex than that.

 

[GoldLenny]

Also read over this thread which was started after Bloo's.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?act=ST...=0#entry1273918