Green Shrimp - Any success stories??

BriMcg · Post by **BriMcg** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:38 pm

I was thinking about raising some Caridina cf. babaulti and I wanted to find out a little more about 'em.

Has anyone had success raising them? Are they an overly sensitive shrimp, or are they a little more hardy than normal?

I was thinking of raising them with cherries - they seem to like similar conditions...

Any success stories and the details would be appreciated!

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:37 pm

They are more sensitive than cherries, but I do keep them together nd treat them the same. Babies are small and grow slowly. I'm not at the point where I can claim victory.

Kenshin · Post by **Kenshin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:26 pm

I do not believe they are as sensitive as RCS. But I would have to agree with the part that they grow VERY SLOW, and I mean VERY SLOW. I started out with 15 or so Green shrimps in the beginning, and after learning with trial and errors (keeping them with several Rusty Macro. shrimp), I was only left with maybe less than 8 shrimps. However, I ended up with mostly females and probably just 1 or 2 males (very lucky). They bred like crazy, and now I have around 50 young Green shrimps. They are close to being semi-adult now in size and I keep them together with the Snowball shrimps. I will let you know if this new generation can breed as well, and then I can inform you that I have 100% success.

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:47 pm

Interesting info Kenshin, do you have any pictures of your green shrimp?

-John (AKA: The Puffer Ninja)

Newjohn · Post by **Newjohn** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:05 pm

Check on the Forum User Galleries.
I think the picture is 8/84.

But it sure would be nice if Kenshin would show us a few more.
If he has time.

Newjohn

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:38 pm

I did a census today on my 15 gallon breeder. This is they one I keep 3 blue cajuns, untold number of cherries, about 20 amanos, 10 apple snails, and 10 Caridina cf. babaulti I picked up in the spring. The tank has tahitian moon sand as a substrate (never doing that again) and a little too much javas moss. I pulled it all out so I could see what was up and to make sure my blue cajuns were OK (they were).

What to my wondering eyes did appear but around 30 juvenile Caridina cf. babaulti! I almost never see them due to the color of the java moss.

Some of my amanos are pretty stupid. There are several missing legs. I think they were trying to make friends with the cray.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:31 pm

Kenshin, good luck with the Green shrimp it would be nice to have more of them in the hobbby.

I need to take my moss out more often, it seems people are finding nice surprises when they do

!

gr81 · Post by **gr81** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:44 pm

I asked same in another tread, but will as here also.
How sensitive to NO3 they are? How much can they handle?

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:37 am

I can't say, but if you have NO3 problems you should check your tap water to see if it is aleady there.

If you have NO3 either it is comming from the tap, from too much food, or too many animals. A fiter can also be overloaded with goop and put out all sorts of stuff. Regular water changes help with the other two. Only R/O water or distilled will help with the other. You can harden up the water with something like R/O right or Electro-Right.

Have you tried Mustafa's dried oak leaf trick?

gr81 · Post by **gr81** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:36 am

My tap water is 40mg/l No3. That's problem. I tried denifilter, but not much succesfully. Q is if neons can handle it.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:44 am

40 ppm is pretty high. I can only say for Red Cherry and Amanos. At that level mine could live, but not reproduce. I had quite a few die too. Once I got the levels down to <5 I had eggs like crazy.

I'd invest in an R/O unit. You can get a no-frills unit for around $100.

gr81 · Post by **gr81** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:59 am

I know. In CRS tank I can manage 5ppm using water from well on our cottage. (70miles one way)

milalic · Post by **milalic** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:17 pm

What is the tank temp and ph you keep these shrimp?

Thanks!

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:56 pm

Mine is 78F with a pH of 7.5

Kenshin · Post by **Kenshin** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:54 am

My pH for my green shrimps and snowball shrimps are around 7.8 to 8.2.
The water temperature for this tank is around 82 - 86 F (27 - 30 C) in the summer time, and they seem to breed pretty well still (snowball shrimp wise since my green shrimps were in the juvenile stage during this summer). And in the fall (just recently) to spring, the temperature ranges from 72 - 79 F (22 - 26 C), and they are still breeding. Basically these shrimps (green and snowball shrimps) are very temperature tolerant. However, the pH is the main factor for the Green shrimps. They like it above pH of 7.0 and like hard water parameters. I hope this helps.

Oh just a side note: most of my juveniles finally grew to the early stages of adulthood recently (FINALLY!)

. There are some females already developing their green ovaries already. In fact, one of them is carrying some eggs (just checked this morning). I guess since they are still young adults (small in size), they do not carry as much eggs as the old adult females I used to have

. However, I still have 1 old female adult in there and she also is developing her ovaries as well. I will let you guys know how many eggs she will be carrying when her time comes.