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Baby cherry shrimp question
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:44 pm
by Shrimp&Snails
I bought four cherry shrimp yesterday and found out one was pregnant.
She's had the babies earlier today and some seemed to swim really odd...round & round and upsidedown.
I just saw a baby now and it was swimming fine....the others must be hiding.
Why were they swimming like that? Is it possible the stress of being brought from my lfs to her new home made the eggs hatch earlier?
Thanks in advance.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:17 pm
by badflash
Nothing to worry about. Just youthful exuberance. After being rolled up in an egg for a month you would have a hard time swimming straight too.
Just keep the water quality high, do your weekly water changes, don't overfeed, and keep the phosphates and nitrates down. Soon you'll be overrun with Cherries and selling them back to the LFS.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:29 pm
by Shrimp&Snails
badflash wrote:Nothing to worry about. Just youthful exuberance. After being rolled up in an egg for a month you would have a hard time swimming straight too.
Just keep the water quality high, do your weekly water changes, don't overfeed, and keep the phosphates and nitrates down. Soon you'll be overrun with Cherries and selling them back to the LFS.
Lol the rolled up in an egg thing made me smile....I didn't think of it like that.
They are due a water change tomorrow so i'll have to vac carefully.
The four adults are still pretty scared.....I have a tangle of hornwort they have called home and they are right in the middle of it....picking at it and then moving around through it.
Thanks for your help.
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:41 pm
by Caridina sp.
Siphon off the top for the first few water changes. Baby shrimp freeze when anything comes near them so it's very easy to accidently suck them up. Congrats on the successful hatch.. they are halarious to watch swimming like they drank too much.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:11 am
by zapisto
Caridina sp. wrote:they are halarious to watch swimming like they drank too much.
specially when you have hundred in the tank
i can stay there observ them for 15 to 20 min
dont call me crazy
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:27 am
by badflash
I put a filter net over my siphon suction. You can get filter media bags at any LFS, and they work fine. I use a large bottom vacuum siphon connected to a smaller tube. This reduces the flow rate at the suction so no one gets pinned to the net.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:28 am
by fishbreed
man i need to get some red cherry shrimp. these darn amanos are not as easy to breed. someone have a red cherry shrimp sale!!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:58 pm
by badflash
someone have a red cherry shrimp sale!!!!!!!!
You are in this forum and you don't have an answer to that question?
Look to the left side of the screen and check out the store.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:59 pm
by fishbreed
thats not a sale. that is for sale , i want them on sale
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:03 pm
by Shrimp&Snails
I pay £2.50 per shrimp (adult sized) here in the UK and that's the absolute cheapest I can get.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:06 pm
by fishbreed
2.50 not to bad. i seen them at the cheapest at $1. but that was a one time deal!!!!!!!! i also seen them as high at $6 ouchhhhhh
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:10 pm
by Shrimp&Snails
Well £2.50 is $4.37 using my currency converter so I guess I pay more than I could get them off this site....if only I lived closer.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:18 pm
by fishbreed
WELL I GUESS you could buy 5 of them cherries and according to the people in here you would have 100 pretty soon
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:38 pm
by Shrimp&Snails
I bought four and one just "gave birth" yesterday so I should have a few soon I hope.
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:40 pm
by fishbreed
sweet thats awesome my man good job. if you have a cam snap the pics!!!!!!!