I did it! Amano breeding

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I did it! Amano breeding

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Hi

After a few unsuccessful experiments I have now about 300 amano babys :-D They are in freshwater since 10 days and have a bigness of ca 10mm. My next experiment follows in less than one months, 4 females has eggs :wink:

Knows anybody, how long does it take, before the babys are mature?

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Nice going! Can you post details of how you did it?

Accoording to Mike Noren it can be around 6 months. He published an article on breeding them.
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Tell me sll about it, please. I have about 50 zoes in saltwater since last Saturday, one week ago. I fed them green water with phytoplex and spiritulina flakes. But this is my first try and I need all the help I can get and so do the little ones, so please help us.
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I hope I write this post in understandable english. I can better reading than writing...

Let's go! My adults amano had and have everytime eggs. So I couldn't omit to try breeding amano. In the past I attempted this a few times, but
without success. The larvae died always at the latest after two weeks.

By the last experiment, the larvae hatched very late, considerably more than 35 days and after a water change. Directly after hatched, I transferred the larvae into saltwater with 20 ppt. I experimented earlier with salinity, between 19 and 30 ppt. So I think, the salinity isn't very important, but must not less than 20 ppt. The tank have 60 liters and a airpump. No filter, heater, substrate or decoration!

After 3 days, I feed them with little liquizell, every 2 days. When they are 2 weeks old, they were twice as large. After 25 days, I saw the first juvenile shrimps. Now, I feed them additional small pieces of flackes (Tetra Min).

At day 27, I changed the water (35%) for the first time. There were no loss as yet. After 34 days, there are less than 20 dead larvae. I think it's because feed has badly done the water. So I changed the water and decreased feeding.

After 42 days, I transfered the shrimps back to freshwater. I counted them... and there are exactly 323!
Im a little confused: I didn't nothing else than the other experiments...

Wow, I learned new english words. And you have opportunity to laugh :)
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Post by Baby_Girl »

redfire wrote: Wow, I learned new english words.
good for you! I didn't find your English funny at all. Your post was very informative and easy to read :-)
Thanks for the info.

323 young shrimp sounds like a great success to me.

How many pregnant females did you get eggs come from?
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That is absolutely incredible!

Congratulations.

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Hello,

I'm not familiar with liquizell. Could you explain? Thanks for the great information.

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Post by zapisto »

liquizell is a larval food widely avaible in europe
is north america this product is a bit rare , at least from my searching.

i replace liquizell with live phytoplancton (thanks to badflash).

you can also replace liquizell with any salt water product used to feed coral.
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Baby_Girl wrote: How many pregnant females did you get eggs come from?
It comes from only one female :-D
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redfire wrote: It comes from only one female :-D
Wow! That must have been hard work for her :-D

Your experience has inspired me to try my hand at Amano breeding!
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Post by apistomaster »

Well done redfire. I found Mike Noren's account about a year ago and it seemed like good starting point. I would say 323 shrimplings from one female is a good indication that you gave them just what they required.

Soon we will look back on our struggles to captive breed Amano Shrimp with a smile; days gone by. I'm sure new challenges will arise as we branch out into the other Cardinia species but with a much better understanding of the procedures that are required.
Again,
A big congratulations to you.
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Post by redfire »

Thanks a lot!

I think, this success could be a happy coincidence. I'm curious about the next experiment. I will report on it :-D

Greetings from Switzerland
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