Cherry red pics

gillbert · Post by **gillbert** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:53 pm

Here are a few pics of my shrimp I would like to share with you.

Please feel free to post any questions or comments

Best regards Aaron.

Shrimp&Snails · Post by **Shrimp&Snails** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:56 pm

Very pretty.

I loved seeing my cherries colour up and now a couple of my females have eggs.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 3:35 pm

Welcome to the forum Gilbert! Very nice shrimp. What the the purple material in the last pic?

Newjohn · Post by **Newjohn** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:46 pm

Hello gillbert

Welcome

That is a nice looking group of shrimp, and your tank is a very nice place to display them.

Have a Great Day
John

fishcrazee · Post by **fishcrazee** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:13 pm

Really pretty shrimp. That purple thing is a common plastic ornament. You can look for it online it's like mushroom something or something like that

gillbert · Post by **gillbert** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:33 pm

Yes, that is a plastic rock formation just for more places for the shrimp to hide. Here is an overall veiw

Here is a few pics of my 75Gal.

Best regards Aaron.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:49 pm

How long have you been keeping your shrimp with those fish and what types of fish are they?

gillbert · Post by **gillbert** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:31 pm

I have only ghost shrimp in my 75gal i've had it set up for over 5 years now. My 10 gal is where i have my cherry red shrimp and it is shrimp only in exeption of a butterfly pleco.In the 75gal the fish I have are guppys neon tetras black molly's and a bunch of ghost shrimp. I have a female ghost shrimp that has ben carrying eggs for about 3 weeks now

I'm going to try to hatch them so i set up a little hatch tank. i knew if i left her in the 75gal there wuld be no chance of shrimplets Here is a pic of her in the hatch tank.

Best regards, Aaron.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:56 pm

I would set her up in a well planted tank with lots of microfood. The larva won't survive without it.

Check out viewtopic.php?t=1131

Post by **Mustafa** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:20 pm

That glass shrimp actually looks like a Macrobrachium lanchesteri, which is from Asia, instead of the typical american glass shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus) found in stores. Interesting....M. lanchesteri shows up in stores in the US once in a while as another forum member also purchased them as "ghost shrimp" from a store in California. And now they show up in Ohio...interesting.

Anyway, they breed in freshwater, too, but their larvae need much longer to mature to postlarvae. This would explain why some people complain about aggressive "ghost shrimp" as this glass shrimp variety tends to be more aggressive compared to the american ghost/glass shrimp, although it's nowhere near as aggressive as its other Macrobrachium cousins with the large claws.

fishcrazee · Post by **fishcrazee** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:28 pm

There's an aggresive version of ghost shrimp?! I bought some from petsmart the other day and introduced them to my 10 gallon. Today I was feeding shrimp pellets and my ghosties went straight to them. They each took one. I saw one of my neons try to eat the shrimp pellet, or chew on it, and one of the ghost shrimps went backwards then rammed forward and tackled it! It just went BAM, I was so surprised, my neon seemed to be shocked for a while then went along again...

gillbert · Post by **gillbert** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:56 am

badflash wrote:I would set her up in a well planted tank with lots of microfood. The larva won't survive without it.

Check out viewtopic.php?t=1131

That is one problem I have realized

I cant come up with any live micro food but I just knew they would not have any chance at all in the 75gal tank so I moved her there and was trying to think if any freeze dried micro food would work maybee like phytoplankton or something

As Mustafa stated this shrimp is aggresive, that is very interesting because I have never seen this shrimp bother even newborn guppy fry.
Thanks for all the information thats why I love this website

Best regards Aaron.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 6:54 am

I have not tried this but it may be worth a shot. There is food sold as liquifry. I do't think the food needs to be alive, just small enough for them to grab and eat. It needs to stay suspended in the water. There is also a product called Golden Pearls that was used to raise Amano fry.

When you don't use live food you need to be extra carefull not to overfeed and to do more frequent water changes.

Post by **Mustafa** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:50 pm

gillbert wrote: As Mustafa stated this shrimp is aggresive, that is very interesting because I have never seen this shrimp bother even newborn guppy fry.
Thanks for all the information thats why I love this website

Best regards Aaron.

Hi Aaron,

"Aggressive" is a relative description with these shrimp. They are not aggressive at all really compared to Macrobrachium shrimp and not aggressive in a sense that they go around attacking things constantly, but they are more "aggressive" than dwarf shrimp...but then what other animal isn't really?

They are just opportunistic feeders, so they will grab fish fry or a sick, dying little fish if they can, but might also leave them alone if they are well-fed. It also varies from individual to individual. Some are absolutely "chill" whereas others can get more agitated.

By the way, the dead giveaway that you do not have american ghost shrimp is the fact that your shrimp carries lots of medium sized eggs (P. paludosus carries few, relatively large eggs) and the shape of its rostrum. I know it's hard to see these things if you are new to shrimp, but with some experience you will recognize such differences more readily.

gillbert · Post by **gillbert** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:30 pm

Thank you Mustafa, I am new to shrimp and I'm learning alot from Petshrimp.com

Thanks all for the information.
Best regards Aaron.