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On the subject. . . . I live in Alabama and I know that my local store gets them from someone who collects them down in South Alabama, so I'd like to think I have a source for healthy shrimp. .. But none of mine ever seem to live more than a couple weeks in my tanks, even though my other shrimp do ...

Hi Joey and welcome to the forum, First things first you should have a look at the rules and the Shrimp Varieties pages . Also doing a search should get you all the answers you need. 1. Anything can be overfed but the bigger problem with shrimp isn't overeating but all the food the don't eat spoilin...

Hi Everyone and thanks for all the feedback, Neonshrimp: It's E c ir not E r ic ;-) , I started doing the frequent water changes over a month ago, it just seemed conveneint to do one bucket full as a waterchange. My Cherries are all happy healthy and breeding, no seeming change in behavior. Zapisto:...

Is it possible to do too many water changes? will it effect the bacteria growth? A while ago I read about how a few of you keep very thin substrates and don't vacume it just do water changes so I removed some of my gravel and have just been doing water changes. I've been doing about 20-25% every cou...

How large did you want to go, have you checked out the Macros on the variaties page? According to the info the Red Claws are fairly prolific breeders. Breeding of this shrimp happens almost "automatically" as long as proper conditions are given (i.e. clean water, food etc.). Of course you ...

I've never seen the ADFs eat any shrimp, but it isn't for lack of trying. When the frog hops forward to take a bite, the shrimp easily jump away. That's not to say they won't get lucky and catch a shrimp unawares every once in a while (I've just never seen it happen). Mostly, I only see them go aft...

tapmxt1 wrote:you want blacks to breed with the reds that is why the blacks are introduced.

Why would you want them to mix?

Thank you Mustafa...I was just wondering about that for a long time now...when I feed them, I will only feed them a little bit... :D After all, I want to share with my shrimps my Asian culture and especially our Asian cuisine!!! :-D That could be dangerous for them as seafood is a large part of asi...

Before 3 days I saw her with empty abdomen…and much little shrimps larvae roaming in the tank … I know only that, to raise the larvae of that shrimp - they will need Brackish (or Marine ?) water to survive … Will somebody tell me something more and special about it, please…:idea: :?: Hi Aquasaur, b...

I've never checked my hot water but I always use it and haven't had any problems. The GF has been doing it for years with no effect on her fish... although it's granted that shrimp would be more succeptible to metals in the water.

YuccaPatrol wrote: Because you are keeping the bamboo shrimp, I'd make sure to oversize your filter to ensure that you have the current that your shrimp will prefer.

Wouldn't oversizing it filter too much out of the water? I've never really understood that about how they eat... once it's filtered whats left?

Ecir

I've also bought Ghost shrimp at Petsmart and they got ID'd by Mustafa as the freshwater Palaemonetes paludosus, I would assume they label(or misslabel) the same in each store.

Ecir

I know this is touching on an old thread but I didn't feel it nessecary to start a whole new topic on the same thing. Based on the information from this original post I thought it would be ok to have a dwarf frog in my shrimp tank. For the past few months everything has been fine, great color on th...

Looks like I really opened up a can of worms(shrimp?) on this one....

Ecir

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Mustafa wrote: I know I will try to breed them on a larger scale once I have the space.

Does that mean you succesfully bred them? I thought that has yet to be done in captivity?

Ecir