How Do You Breed Red Cherry Shrimp?

[aly_starh]

As topic

I have them in a 10L tank, with heater set to 27C and a cycled filter.
I have about 10, and i feed them Tropical flakes once every 2 days, they are in a tank with ramshorn and MTS Snails.

Thinking of just closing that tank now, to concentrate on Marine... IDK

Help would be good!

 

[aly_starh]

Does anyone know?

 

[ashemely]

Honestly, clean water and a varied diet would be my suggestion.
How long have you had the ten shrimp?

 

[Mikaila31]

I would feed them more.

Do you have live plants?

 

[aly_starh]

I have had them for a month. I got them when they were TINY.

I do a 10% water change a week.


Will try feeding them more. at what age do they become *adults*. Im guessing they are around 5 Weeks

And Yup, i have java fern and an anubia Baterie(sp?) in the tank, they like climbing on it!!

 

[ashemely]

From my experience they become sexually mature around at least two months of age. I had one female have a batch of baby shrimp in September. For some unknown reason, a couple of weeks after the females eggs hatched, all of the adults in my tank died. The babies survived, though. The babies are all grown up now, and I have two who are carrying eggs and another two or three who have saddles. So, I wouldn't really suggest feeding them more, but just wait until they grow up

 

[aly_starh]

From my experience they become sexually mature around at least two months of age. I had one female have a batch of baby shrimp in September. For some unknown reason, a couple of weeks after the females eggs hatched, all of the adults in my tank died. The babies survived, though. The babies are all grown up now, and I have two who are carrying eggs and another two or three who have saddles. So, I wouldn't really suggest feeding them more, but just wait until they grow up

Cool. Thanks for the advice! I suppose they are young then.

 

[saltynay]

Add a female and a male to a tank that is above 16C and they will breed regardless of water quality provided were not talking about near death levels of toxins. Vary their diet a bit with live foods or frozen and veges it improves their colouration. Also add some plants like Elodea/anacharis and mosses to help encourage infusoria growth which the shrimp feed upon.

 

[aly_starh]

well, that plan is out the window.

They all died yesterday as i put new plants in, i think they were treated with copper

 

[saltynay]

You should know to wash and soak everytime.

 

[aly_starh]

You should know to wash and soak everytime.

Erm.. i did, I soaked them in water for 5 mins then left them under a running tap.

 

[ghhghh]

I wrote an article about this just type in breeding the red
cherry Shrimp