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I was wondering what different species of shrimp people here have succesfully breed. So fare my list is really short, just the Red Cherry Shrimp, and that's that. I will give the Amano and bumblebee a chance next, so fingers crossed. But, what other species have been breed by forum users?

I've got a cambarellus shuffeldtii(dwarf crayfish) carrying fertile eggs..that's about as close as I have come so far. I've bred lots of snails though

Amanda

I am breeding snails as well, to be fed to my dwarf puffers.

Hanzo wrote:I will give the Amano and bumblebee a chance next,

Amano larvae require brackish water and very tiny food to survive. Make sure you are ready to deal these. If you want to try something more challenging than Cherries, but don't want to deal with brackish water, give P. paludosus a try.

P. paludosus

what's the "P." stand for? Abreviated, sounds really similar to Pomacea Paludosa -- florida apple snail. lol

Cherry Shrimp only so far, thats also all I have tried. I'd like to aquire some Crystal Reds and try them next. Now if I could only find some.

Acsuth wrote:what's the "P." stand for? Abreviated, sounds really similar to Pomacea Paludosa -- florida apple snail. lol

Palaemonetes paludosus

oh ok....ghost shrimp then right? I had four of them...but they must have all been female because they never carried eggs again after the ones they were carrying disappeared. The lady I got them from stated that the lavae would need brackish water and that they themselves are so cannabalistic that most larvae wouldn't survive anyway.
Do they readily reproduce themselves for you?

So far just green shrimp, but I've got my fingers crossed for my cherries. And I'm going to give my "mystery shrimp" a try once I get a brackish/salt tank set up for them.

I have bred (and still breeding):

N. denticulata sinensis (red cherry)
N. denticualata sinensis (wild)
C. cf. babaulti (green shrimp)
Caridina sp. (another Indian shrimp -- not yet on my website)
Caridina sp. (yet another Indian shrimp -- also not yet on my website)
Caridina sp. (you guessed it...another Indian shrimp)
"Crystal Reds"
"Crystal Blacks" (aka "Bee shrimp")
C. cf. simoni
Macrobrachium cf. banjare (Pearl/Sand Shrimp)
Palaemonetes paludosus

Working on breeding Caridina sp. "Bumblebee" as we speak. Alson trying my hands on breeding a relative of the marine "Peppermint Shrimp" Lysmata sp., which, interestingly are all both male and female at the same time. So you only need two individuals to breed them and those two will BOTH carry eggs which have been fertilized by the other shrimp! Very interesting...

This week I will be getting very young individulas of another Macrobrachium species (a more aggressive type than M. cf. banjare and twice as big) called "Red Claw Shrimp" here in the US, that I will be breeding. And...I am waiting for some shrimp from Peru (which will be TOTALLY new to the hobby) which I will also try to breed.

Many more to come in the future.

Mustafa

I have heard that the Caridina sp. "Bumblebee" can be a bit of a challenge, but only after I ordered ten of them

I also have access to Caridina sp. "tiger", but I don't know how they rate, easy or troublesome?

My biggest challenge here in norway right now is actually getting them shrimps, there's just the Amano in the stores. But I found on guy selling tiger, cherry red and bumblebee on the net. Ghost shrimps was in the stores some years ago, but I have yet to find them in the last couple of years...

Hey Mustafa, plans on opening a European store any day soon now

Ive breed none yet but im noticeing that eggs are starting to form under all the females i have.....I can pray and see if anything develops.

Acsuth wrote:oh ok....ghost shrimp then right? I had four of them...but they must have all been female because they never carried eggs again after the ones they were carrying disappeared. The lady I got them from stated that the lavae would need brackish water and that they themselves are so cannabalistic that most larvae wouldn't survive anyway.

There are many species that are called 'ghost shrimp', including some Macrobrachium. Most do require brackish water for the larvae to survive. P. paludosus is the only one I know of that does not. I have never seen my shrimp eat their own larvae, but they may.

Do they readily reproduce themselves for you?

Ocassionally.

Petshrimp.com wrote:This week I will be getting very young individulas of another Macrobrachium species (a more aggressive type than M. cf. banjare and twice as big) called "Red Claw Shrimp" here in the US, that I will be breeding.

I've got a pair of Macrobrachium assamensis that I've been dreaming about for weeks - the female I bought is carrying eggs! So it's only a matter of time I have M. assamensis babies. I'm really happy!

BTW the M. assamensis I bought is called "Red Tail Fancy", they have red claws and rusty-red tails. Beautiful beasts...

Petshrimp.com wrote:Alson trying my hands on breeding a relative of the marine "Peppermint Shrimp" Lysmata sp., which, interestingly are all both male and female at the same time. So you only need two individuals to breed them and those two will BOTH carry eggs which have been fertilized by the other shrimp! Very interesting...

Hi Mustafa!
Do you know the name of this interesting shrimp or is it plain Lysmata sp.?