Ghost Shrimp!

[puddle_inc]

I've been trying to breed ghost shrimp forever and i finally got the tank good enough that they finally started to breed! I'm actually down to like 2 or 3 >_>

so i'm surprised, now of all times, one has eggs. i always thought i kinda saw these small white specks in my biggest ones tail area. and i just saw it today, FULL of green eggs. and there big eggs and a couple are hanging on her tail area, below the rest of the eggs. are they going to hatch like tonight? they seem to be as bigg as they could get.

and now that i've finally got them breed, can the babies of this interbreed? or do i have to get new ones every time? how many could i expect? like a ratio? thanks!

 

[Liam]

Most shrimp carry eggs for up to a month less in higher temps. If the eggs are fertile she will continue to carry them and oxygenate them with her "swimmeretts" the baby shrimp hatch on the mother then drop from the egg into the water. Dont know much about Ghosts there are lots of species not all of them can breed sucessfully in fresh water. Hopefully they will hatch, good luck with them. I guess you would need a few new ones to widen the gene pool if the babies survive.
Congrats on the eggs

 

[puddle_inc]

i add uniodized salt for a type of white fungus i had an infection of in 2 of my tanks. but isn't uniodized salt good enough to make it slightly saltish water for them? i didn't think they lived in all saltwater. so lets just hope it works. but what about the few eggs that are hanging near the bottom? would they possibly be ones that are hatching and thats why there down there?

 

[Aprilia997]

When I caught them in the southeast they were found twenty miles from the nearest saltwater so I would think they could easily breed in pure freshwater.

 

[Liam]

It depends if they are a freshwater species or not, if you dont know I wouldnt add the salt. If they were bought from a feeder tank, if you live near the sea the chances are greater that the shrimp will have been collected from river estuaries. I belive things get much more complicated for brackish breeding shrimp. Those that live in estuaries near the sea usually need salt water, the ones here in London are brackish. The eggs hanging down would hatch at the same time as the others. Ghost shrimp hatchlings go through a larvae stage then grow into tiny copies of their parents.

 

[three-fingers]

I've been trying to breed ghost shrimp forever and i finally got the tank good enough that they finally started to breed! I'm actually down to like 2 or 3 >_>

so i'm surprised, now of all times, one has eggs. i always thought i kinda saw these small white specks in my biggest ones tail area. and i just saw it today, FULL of green eggs. and there big eggs and a couple are hanging on her tail area, below the rest of the eggs. are they going to hatch like tonight? they seem to be as bigg as they could get.

and now that i've finally got them breed, can the babies of this interbreed? or do i have to get new ones every time? how many could i expect? like a ratio? thanks!

Cool! Do you know the pH of your tank and id your water soft of hard?
I'm thinking about trying to breed ghost shrimp but it will be in a planted tank with an acidic pH and i have soft water .
So i may have to try a more suitable type of shrimp like cherry shrimp.

 

[RESGuy]

Glad to hear that your Ghosts are breeding Let us know if they hatch