My new addition...Caridina cf. babaulti

frugalfish · Post by **frugalfish** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 2:58 pm

Mustafa wrote:Bottom line...dust yourself off and try again. You'll get the hang of it after a while. Just stop feeding altogether and do, say, 2 water changes of 30-50% over the next week or so (maybe 2 days apart). Good luck!

Thanks for the encouragement.

After all the various failings (either for reasons of my control or not) I am use to starting over. As with many things in life, the things that are worthwhile are usually challenging.

I did stop feeding for a few days, executed some water changes and things have returned to normal.

frugalfish · Post by **frugalfish** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 3:03 pm

Kenshin wrote:May I ask how often were you feeding them to create this disaster? And how much do you feed each time? This info. would be great for beginners in the shrimp keeping hobby so hopefully they would not make the same mistakes as well (along with other people and I learning new info.).

It was nothing more than adding just that "little bit more, just in case" type of thing. These were in only a ten gallon and it doesn't take much to upset the balance, especially to affect juvenile shrimp.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:57 am

Does anyone else find these shrimp to be much more shy than RCS? Mine just hide and come out mainly during feeding time. I took out a lot of my moss just so I cou see them once in a while

Post by **Mustafa** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:37 am

Actually, they are just as active as RCS when they are healthy and they feel well. Wild caught ones do tend to hide more for quite some time, though. If you ever get offspring, you'll see that they will be searching for food all over the place just like RCS.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 7:47 am

Thanks Mustafa, I am trying to breed them and hope to have a tank full of food searching babies one day

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:10 am

Neonshrimp wrote:Thanks Mustafa, I am trying to breed them and hope to have a tank full of food searching babies one day

i have nine of them
look like twomof my female carrying egg, let me tell you i am happy

AnneRiceBowl · Post by **AnneRiceBowl** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:38 am

YAY!!! EGGS!!!!!!!

Don't worry! Your colony will be up and running again before you know it!

My horror story is that I accidently KILLED ALL of my RCS when I first started keeping them. I had put 40+ of them in a Mason jar with a slice of blacned zucchinni (I was moving them to their own tank). I went to get put my daughter to bed, and I fell asleep putting her down. I woke up the next morning at about 5 or 6 in the morning. I sat straight up in the bed, and exclaimed, "OH $#&%$&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". I ran into the room where their new tank was (living room), and they were ALL dead! Or so I thought. I was able to save 4 females that were carrying. This was before I knew that it was possible to strip the eggs from dead females to save them. Well, I have a few hundred of those buggers now, and I have had to move them from a 10 gallon to a 20 gallon long.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:32 am

Congrats zapiato

! Please update us so I have a guide of how to raise and care for the babies

Anne, we all have our tragic stories, thank you for sharing yours so we can learn from it. I lost all of my tiger shrimp to the summer heat before I learned to us a fan to cool the tanks

frugalfish · Post by **frugalfish** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:18 pm

All my green shrimp are now deceased.

zapisto · Post by **zapisto** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:18 pm

frugalfish wrote:All my green shrimp are now deceased.

ho
sad to read that.
mine are doing well for now even if my temp go up to 25-26 degree
when people say they are slow groing , oh god so true.
my berried females are still doing good

will let you know.
just receive some more juvies green let see how thing go.

Kenshin · Post by **Kenshin** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:53 am

My Green shrimps finally reached adult stage. Some of the females are developing their ovaries. A couple of them are carrying eggs (around 20+) and getting ready to release their first batch of young. Not that many as their "mature" adult parents did. But it is starting to come around slowly, not to mention some accidents along the way.

Lessons learned:

1. NEVER put Cambarellus patzcuarensis (orange dwarf crayfish) or any sort of dwarf crayfish in the same tank with your shrimps. I was literally shocked that even after I fed the crayfish well, they were still hunting for food and I saw 1 crayfish ate 1 or 2 green shrimps

Of course I took out the crayfish right away and put them in another small tank (5 gallon) for the time being until more space is available.

2. Never take out all of the Najas plants out all at one time like Mustafa and everyone has stated. I thought by taking all of the Najas plants out and by just using leave litter instead, it would create a better environment. But NO!
I tried to do small water changes everyday but I still had 5 Green shrimps and 2 Snowball shrimps died.

Now I just use Christmas moss and some Willow moss in my tanks with some leaves on top of my substrate.

3. JUST BE PATIENT . I thought my own kids grow faster than these Green shrimps. My younger son just turned 1 years old

and I thought it took me close to 1 year now for this F1 generation to reach adulthood and produce eggs. Or for another comparison for the growth rate of Green shrimps to Tiger shrimps. I received my imported Tiger shrimps a lot later than my parental Green shrimps. However, I have already bred my F1 colony of Tiger shrimps. In addition, my F1 Tiger shrimps are already carrying eggs and getting ready to release their young as well.

Anyhow, for the people who has Green shrimps, I wish you guys good luck and keep us more with your updates so others (including myself) could learn more. Happy Holidays!!

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:13 am

Hi Kenshin, Congratulations! Thanks for the update and great information on green shrimp. I have some but the have not been breeding, either they are still young or all female

A couple of them have saddled ovaries while the others don't. Is there a better way you have used to tell male from female?

JUST BE PATIENT . I thought my own kids grow faster than these Green shrimps.

I love that line, you made me laugh!

Kenshin · Post by **Kenshin** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:37 am

Hi Neonshrimp,

Males are smaller in size compare to female. Mature full-grown females are sometimes almost double the size compare to their males. I hope this helps.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:40 am

This helps alot

So how big is a fully grown female and are the males the same color or do they have a different shade?

Thanks very much.

Kenshin · Post by **Kenshin** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:47 am

From my own experiences, the females tend to have a darker bright green color compare to males. Males tend to be a clear and pale green in color. I hope this helps also.