Shrimp

[Carping]

Bought some shrimp from my local LFS this weekend as a treat for my fishies, but at R15 a pop, this could become an expensive treat, so I was wondering if there is anybody here that could possibly help me with some info on how to breed your own shrimps for feeding purposes

[Risen]

WOW they sell shrimp up there. I would love to get my hands on some, especially cherry shrimp. Only privately owned down here. hard to come by.

[veegal]

I'm not sure how much of a response you are going to get here as shrimps are on the blacklist......

I've read up though that the 'magic' number of required shrimps are 20 in order to establish a good 'colony'. Never bred them myself though, so I'm not sure.

[Carping]

Sorry for breaking the rules here asking about a blacklisted species. But as with the Apple snails I enquired about a while ago (of which I have so many now, I'm going to start selling them to the restuarants LOL) , I thought they were ok as the LFS's were selling them. Will have to go and do some internet surfing then if that is the case.

Risen, I dont know what species the ones are that I got on Sunday, but they are kind of see-through, and the water they came with was light brown/muddy colour. Dont know if that helps with ID

[veegal]

Sorry for breaking the rules here asking about a blacklisted species. But as with the Apple snails I enquired about a while ago (of which I have so many now, I'm going to start selling them to the restuarants LOL) ,

Brilliant! I luuuvvv it. So sharp this early in the morning :bigsmile: If I knew more about shrimps I'd love to help but I don't sorry.....I think I've seen the ones you described though...and they grew VERY quickly - just can't let out where :blink1:

[small_fry]

sounds like you might have ghost shrimp...they need very low nitrates, are very intollorent of ammonia and nitrite. and require traces of iodine for exoskeleton replacement otherwise they will die.

[Henk Hugo]

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