Id These Shrimps Please.

[Ludwig Venter]

Oh!... Ok, The listlessness of the male is explained when my wife phoned me at work to announce that there is now an additional male in the tank .... You know what happenned!...

Argh!!!!.... I'm beginning to lose confidence in my ability to keep anything alive.... The male Molted last night, & today it pegged!!!... The female is still cheerful & full of eggs... What am I doing wrong??

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Oh!... Ok, The listlessness of the male is explained when my wife phoned me at work to announce that there is now an additional male in the tank .... You know what happenned!...

Argh!!!!.... I'm beginning to lose confidence in my ability to keep anything alive.... The male Molted last night, & today it pegged!!!... The female is still cheerful & full of eggs... What am I doing wrong??

I assume the eggs will be fertilised and she won't need a male when releasing them... also, I'm currently feeding her algea from the ouside ponds... is this fine??... The eggs are still a reddish colour, so I (also) assume that she still has some time to go before she delivers??

 

[lordofthesea]

is the tank cycled?

could there be any copper in the water?

copper, ammonia and nitrite are deadly to shrimps.

definately a macrobrachium.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

is the tank cycled?

could there be any copper in the water?

copper, ammonia and nitrite are deadly to shrimps.

definately a macrobrachium.

Thanks, Oh Lord of the Sea.... what, I pray.... do they eat???

 

[raptorrex]

Oh!... Ok, The listlessness of the male is explained when my wife phoned me at work to announce that there is now an additional male in the tank .... You know what happenned!...

Argh!!!!.... I'm beginning to lose confidence in my ability to keep anything alive.... The male Molted last night, & today it pegged!!!... The female is still cheerful & full of eggs... What am I doing wrong??

nothing. well to my view. a moulted shrimp, in with a none moulted, unless the tank is very big, spells death for the moultee

Oh!... Ok, The listlessness of the male is explained when my wife phoned me at work to announce that there is now an additional male in the tank .... You know what happenned!...

Argh!!!!.... I'm beginning to lose confidence in my ability to keep anything alive.... The male Molted last night, & today it pegged!!!... The female is still cheerful & full of eggs... What am I doing wrong??

I assume the eggs will be fertilised and she won't need a male when releasing them... also, I'm currently feeding her algea from the ouside ponds... is this fine??... The eggs are still a reddish colour, so I (also) assume that she still has some time to go before she delivers??

Ahh, black widow syndrome!. as for the eggs, they sound fine. though an anti fungal, may well help then along. andr food? any "speciality" would need a proper ID. but, on the whole, they are "detrivores". so any degenerated fodder is eaten. algae sounds fine. but peas, well, any slightly past its best veg, goes down well. also, small amounts of, fish, chicken (please, never feed them shrimp). i tend to avoid Bloodworm (live or frozen). but dafnia, blackworm, tubeworm and the like are fine.

is the tank cycled?

could there be any copper in the water?

copper, ammonia and nitrite are deadly to shrimps.

definately a macrobrachium.

Thanks, Oh Lord of the Sea.... what, I pray.... do they eat???

either for shrimp, or Cray and carb copper is deadly. but not, usually, gender specific. its a very important point thoughwhilst i prefer a "cycled" tank. most inverts do fine with 100% water changes every two-three days.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Ok!, now, since the male has pegged, and the female has also moulted and shows no more signs of eggs, will it be ok if I move her accross to my community tank containing Angels/Kissers/Discus/ Black Neons/Kribs/ and the likes.... I'm wasting a tank in the garage with only this occupant.

 

[Ludwig Venter]

I have this one tank in the Garage, with only one female shrimp in it..... (absolute waste of space)... She has no eggs and no male... My display tank in the lounge has Angels, Kissers, Discus, Kribs, and the likes.... Can I move this invertabrae to this tank and score an additional tank in the garage for serious bussiness

 

[three-fingers]

Sorry I missed this until now, cool shrimp you found there, lucky you.

You could move the shrimp across and it should be fine, but any small fish like black neons will probably start to go missing during the night after she got settled in.

Also, depending on the water stats where you collected her, soft acidic water may kill her, but this really depends where she was collected, some Macrobrachium sp. shrimp are pretty much bullet proof in aquariums, others are more parameter specific and really need the right minerals in their water....or they tend to die, usually after shedding, but then other shrimp could have also kille dthem as mentioned. There's so many similar species that I couldent begin to ID it from the photos, so the only way you can be sure if your waters OK for them would be to test the water where they came from and compare it to yours.

I'm currently only keeping Macrobrachium lanchesteri at the moment, but I've kept M.pilimanus and of course M.rosenbergii before. The reason I dont keep the other two is that they did too good a job at hunting all their tank mates...so it would be a risk in your comunity tank.