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Update: counted 85+ floaters tonight. Only see two berried females and there is one still releasing some fry! Unbelievable.

Update: Another female released fry today, we are 70+ floaters now! Counted 72 one time and 74 another, so we will just go with 70+. There are still four berried females to go.

Dch48 the only light the one gallon tank gets is the natural daylight. No light on this jar. They have plenty of algae, pretty consistent temperatures, in the 60’s, and natural light. It will be interesting to see how it works out in each season. Thank you very much for your comments. The five gallo...

Update: we have our first berried female! Two months to the day of when the bowl was set up. There is plenty of algae growing in the tank and they haven’t been fed yet.

The one gallon tank set up in the basement two months ago has its first berried female today. The basement stays in the mid to upper 60’s year round. I just checked the temp and it is 69.3 deg. I will keep track of the breeding going on at the lower temps. There’s only 10 shrimp in the tank but we’l...

It probably depends on how much you are feeding them but you would think that feeding that often should be providing enough nutrients for the algae. I have read before that when the macro algae turns white that it might be receiving too much light. Is that a possibility?

It’s a good problem, right? The house is air conditioned and runs between 70-75 deg. I was thinking the longer amount of daylight had something to do with the breeding.

I have a 5 gallon tank that has seen a population explosion this summer. I fed the shrimp this morning some spirulina powder and counted 50+ floaters, five berried females, and one female releasing her fry. Each of the months this summer has seen a few floaters and berried females but this is defini...

Bryan have you fed the shrimp and if so how much, how often, and with what?

Dch48 I was thinking it was more like a month also but it has been only 20 days now and the rest are pretty much swimming horizontally. Temp definitely makes a difference. On another note I saw another batch that hatched yesterday and are clinging to their mom. They’ll probably be released today and...

Thanks Vorteil. I paid more attention to the tank yesterday and while the sun was shining on it for a few hours I touched the glass and it was cool. I think they should be fine. The shrimp were going about their business and grazing on the algae on the glass.

Attygirl here are some pictures from tonight. Still some floaters from the latest batch. Notice they have their own lava lamp.

Update on the 16 floaters released August 31. I see half of them starting to swim horizontally today. Only took 19 days. They are still about the same size as the floaters that are still going vertically but these little guys are swimming horizontally and are walking on the glass and the rocks. Amaz...

Sliphorn, how close to the window are your tanks? Mine sits back a couple feet from the glass. In the summer the sun is overhead so it doesn’t hit the bowl at all. We’ll have to see how it works out for the winter (the sun is lower in the sky and might hit the bowl). There is a tree outside that win...

Attygirl, sorry for the late reply, I haven’t been on the site for a few weeks. In regard to your question I didn’t add any water from the original tank. I just added a couple of pebbles that had algae on them. The bowl gets lots of indirect light and the sides of the bowl filled with algae pretty q...