Shrimp Thread

[ingg]

Originally Posted by rod

Could any of you experts tell me if Cherry Red Shrimp would be ok with Gold Rams. I have at least 100 shrimp in my 75 gal tank and would like to get some Rams but I've been afraid they would eat the shrimp. Surprisingly the 6 large Congo Tetras don't bother them.

This works fine for me in a 75g with 6 Apitogramma Cacutoides, which are far more adept and aggressive hunters than Rams. When I recently rescaped it, I took out a couple hundred cherries.

When I had Rams in my 180g, they were almost pathetic at hunting. I've no idea how those pretty little things live in the wild.

Start with a big colony (100 is plenty) and you'll be fine.

I personally am of the view that a lot of the "no fish!" screams of terror you see are folks with very small tanks, or are more meant for breeding type setups. I wouldn't put rams in my little Nanocube with my CRS... but in my 75g? Let 'em eat some baby cherries, they outbreed the hunting easily.

[supersmirky]

Good pic Karen! She's big!

[milalic]

http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...ola-shots.html

[kimcadmus]

Those green shrimp are cool! Thanks for showing and starting this thread.

[Cocobid]

Pedro The Shrimp God~~~please jump in here you know more about shrimp than just about anyone on planet earth!!!

Some observations on shrimp.
Here are the party animals, defined as not shy and very active. Yellow, Red, CRS & CBS, My mutts that are supposedly blue/black.
Green shrimp are extremely shy they come out at night and feed.
We have converted all the shrimp tanks to RO, hated to but our city water is just very unreliable.
Kim great seeing you!!! Agree we need to do some trading. I want to see what this red guy breeds like. I am working on a matrix of what conditions we keep our shrimp. Time!!!

[ezcry4t3d]

I have RCS in my 90 gal "algae eaters" tank. I'd call it 'moderately heavy planted'. Topsoil substrate, no cap, it's fairly sandy. I started with 75 shrimp about 6 weeks ago, they appear to be breeding since I've seen quite a few berried, although I have yet to see a real abundance of juveniles. I'm hoping it's just been too hot in this tank and they'll pick up now that it has cooled off a bit here. I moved 6 (4 females 2 males) to an established 10gal with christmas moss (all fish that were in the 10 went back in my community tank) so that I can closely monitor breeding. Hopefully in a few more months the colony will really take off in the 90, I'd love to see what a tank with 1k+ shrimp looks like.

From my Tetratest Laborett kit, I have not verified the kits accuracy, but I am positive I'm using the kit right.

GH (General Hardness): 1 to 4 degrees German hardness (most consider too low)
KH (Carbonate Hardness): 12 to 16 degrees German Hardness (most consider too high)
pH: 8.5 to 8.8 (most consider too high)
NO2 (Nitrite): 0
NH3/NH4+ (Ammonia): 0

No CO2, I may fiddle with some DIY, but I doubt I can impact my tanks much with it. Occasional Flourish when I remember.

I also have a 15 gallon planted with Süßwassertang and Taiwan moss that I started about 4 weeks ago, Eco-Complete substrate. Soon I will be looking for a second species of shrimp to keep in it on my new home office desk.

** Note that I'm in Waco, nearly 2 hours from Dallas. I intend to try to make a meeting though, I have friends in Arlington that I could visit in the same trip.

[northtexasfossilguy]

Cherry shrimp, 55gal Amazonian biotope pH 6.4 - 6.8 Temps between 70-80 F, soft water. Mixture of Ada, aquatic pond soil, pebbles, fluorite etc.

"Ghost" shrimp (the kind from Petsmart not Macrobrachium species) pH 6.2-6.6, not regulated temperature, 40 gallon tall, soft to hard water depending on water change. Fluorite and pebbles.

pH controlled CO2 injection on both tanks.

I'm thinking of putting a small pebble of limestone in each tank just for their shell coats, although it might be chitin and hardness might not matter?

[mythin]

posted this on the shrimp section, but i thought i would post it here too:

Pretty cool scientific paper describing just about all the species of sulawesi shrimp, really cool:

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/57/57rbz343-452.pdf