Tank Big Enough For Cherry Shrimp?

[pixelpefekt]

It's a small hexagon tank. At the moment I use it only for quarantine but I'm thinking about using it for cheery shrimp instead. I think the capacity is about 4 gallons and it has under gravel filtration.

It looks something like this...

Also, if it IS suitable.. how many cherry shrimp could live in it?

Thanks.

 

[Esfa]

Aye it is suitable.

But personally, I'd only have females in there otherwise you'll have a population crash lol. You could have about 10 females in there.

 

[pixelpefekt]

Whenever I see them in the shops, there seems to be no segregation between male/females. I'm guessing I'd get what I was given...

How often do they breed? I guess if there were young ones, I could offer them back to the LFS?

 

[Esfa]

Whenever I see them in the shops, there seems to be no segregation between male/females. I'm guessing I'd get what I was given...

How often do they breed? I guess if there were young ones, I could offer them back to the LFS?

its easy to tell the difference between males and females - the females are a lot deeper red.

they breed like rabbits. Worse then rabbits. you can get 10 and within a month have 100. I got 7 about a month ago and i have about 30 now.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Yeah tell me about it-i've got a carpet of shrimps in my 50 litre!

 

[Wolfenrook]

Yeah tell me about it-i've got a carpet of shrimps in my 50 litre!

Try a 180 litre planted! In the last 3 months I have transferred about 30 young cherry shrimp from the external filter alone! They look brilliant in a bigger planted tank though, not least as you can have far higher numbers of them comfortably with very little impact. I love having a peek in amongst the dwarf hairgrass to see lots of young shrimp, whilst the deep red mums sit on the bogwood. I just wish that I had a 2nd 280 litre planted so that I could take some of the snowball shrimp from my invert tank and do the same with them.

Back on topic, that tank will be ok for a few cherry shrimp (nothing else), if they do end up breeding you will need to make sure that you keep the numbers down somehow, but shrimp are very easy to sell. Oh and that's how the hobby sneaks up on you, you start with a few cherry shrimp and then.....

Ade