My shrimp won't breed?

[eatyourpeas]

I'm having the opposite issue. Females all over the place and can't find a male... because the females are the nicer shrimp I tend to think the LFS ends up with mostly females. Part of me wonders if it isn't that the local breeder wants to limit the # of breeding pairs they supply. I'm holding out for a male of the same color as I've heard cross breeding colors takes all the color out of the population pretty readily. I don't know if that's true or not.

True, they can revert to wild type. I do that intentionally because I find them beautiful and much more interesting. My icon is one of them.

 

[llvalll]

I'm having the opposite issue. Females all over the place and can't find a male... because the females are the nicer shrimp I tend to think the LFS ends up with mostly females. Part of me wonders if it isn't that the local breeder wants to limit the # of breeding pairs they supply. I'm holding out for a male of the same color as I've heard cross breeding colors takes all the color out of the population pretty readily. I don't know if that's true or not.

Yeah, I've heard of that too. I heard they will either ended up looking like one of its parents, or revert back to wild.

 

[llvalll]

Oh my gosh People, you guys are AMAZING! Since I've been feeding them 3 to 5 times per day with the shrimp cuisine, two of my shrimps are now pregnant!

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Oh my gosh People, you guys are AMAZING! Since I've been feeding them 3 to 5 times per day with the shrimp cuisine, two of my shrimps are now pregnant!

That’s awesome! Soon you will have little shrimps all over the place. You may not see them at first because they are very small, but they are there.

 

[Essjay]

I've heard cross breeding colors takes all the color out of the population pretty readily. I don't know if that's true or not.

Mixing the colours of the same species usually means you end up with wild coloured shrimps after 2 or 3 generations. With cherry shrimps that means brown.