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It is not as easy to grow green water indoors as you might think. I do it on a huge scale to feed my daphnia and some of the shrimp.

Green water can just happen, or you can give it some help. There is a place in the UK that sells daphnia eggs in detrius. NetFysh is what they go by. You can google them. I started a batch recently and once they hatched I siphoned off about 1/2 the water making sure not to get any shrimp/daphnia/triops (all hatch out of the packet) and put it in a large glass container under a bright hologen lamp. I added RO water. Once the water went light green I added some algae ferilizer called Pro Culture made by Kent Marine. It is a 2 part solution. I added a bubbler with high flow (no air stone- it just clogs) to keep things in solution. This went so green that you could not see through the gallon container.

Now I have 9 gallons going all the time and harvest one a day. I use 1/2, and add nutrient water to keep the stuff growing fast. I use 3 ml of each part per gallon of RO water. I have a bank of grow lights stood up against a wall with shelved in front of them to keep it gowing. Every other day I shake up any that show signs of settling and harvest any that get too green. It you let it go too long without harvesting it will choke. Before you use it , neutralize it as the pH gets to be 12+, no joke.

Now I have tons of green water for anything I want. If you let it settle you get this soft algea that the cherries and ghosts eat like ice cream. My Amano's don't care for it though.

BlueEL wrote:Green water would be good, I had used crushed flakes.

Green Water would most likely not be of much use in this case since the larvae of Macrobrachium lanchesteri are already very large when they hatch. They would need much larger food than just tiny phytoplankton.

Mustafa wrote:

BlueEL wrote:Green water would be good, I had used crushed flakes.

Green Water would most likely not be of much use in this case since the larvae of Macrobrachium lanchesteri are already very large when they hatch. They would need much larger food than just tiny phytoplankton.

You know better What do you suggest?

I have written my suggestions earlier in this thread already. No need to repeat it.

They have just hatched ......

They are in my aged tank but the female has still alot of eggs under ger belly.

1. Should I remove her now or wait untill all eggs have hatched?

2. I have some daphnia,should I put them in the tank with the larvae?

3. How long will it take for the larvae to take a benthic form?

PS: the kind of shrimp that I am talking about are Macrobrachium lanchesteri.

How long will it take for the larvae to take a benthic form?

From my observations, its about 5 -7 days.

Thanks!

When they take a benthic form what do you feed them? Liquified fry food or crashed pellets?

How many times a day must you feed when in benthic form and how many when they are larvae?

BlueEL wrote:From my observations, its about 5 -7 days.

BlueEl, you guys are talking about two different species of "ghost shrimp." You're talking about Palaemonetes paludosus and he's talking about Macrobrachium lanchesteri.

All of hadjici2's questions have been answered in this thread, but for some reason he keeps asking the same or similar questions over and over. I have no idea why.

My bad I always thought ghost/glass shrimp as referring to Palaemonetes paludosus.

Mustafa wrote:

BlueEL wrote:From my observations, its about 5 -7 days.

BlueEl, you guys are talking about two different species of "ghost shrimp." You're talking about Palaemonetes paludosus and he's talking about Macrobrachium lanchesteri.

All of hadjici2's questions have been answered in this thread, but for some reason he keeps asking the same or similar questions over and over. I have no idea why.