Started my cherry shrimp breeding tank today!

yum, your axies sure are lucky, Luna only gets to eat pellets and the occasional worm!
 
I can not for the life of me, get my cherry shrimp to breed, after being told out of the 4 batches i bought there was defiantly a male in two of them, they wont make babies lol.
Its frustrating, but i dont know what else to do and at £10 for 3, i refuse to buy any more.
You should keep this thread updated on how your do and i may get some tips :D
 
You are so lucky... I love cherry shrimp and wish I could have them!! Unfortunately you cant get them in NZ :(
 
Possum63 said:
You are so lucky... I love cherry shrimp and wish I could have them!! Unfortunately you cant get them in NZ :(
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Ahh that sucks they are pretty, but i now have £40 worth of them in a tank, refusing to breed :p

Oh and have i mentioned that my mum "looked into their little eyes" and decided they were cute and it was mean to feed them to the lottles. pfft.
 
I will keep you guys updated! I have done a lot
of research and talked to a few local breeders. maybe you can post a picture of your tank and maybe I can help. I would love for you to start breeding. p.s once you have enough your mom will never no you are feeding them to your lotls(;
 
About 6 months ago I bought 8 cherry shrimp and put them in a pretty little (20 gallon) tank with some plants. They actually didn't breed though until I switched out the little waterfall filter with a big sponge filter and warmed up the water a bit. Now I have at least 200!! I've only put them in my smaller tank so far where one axie ignores them and one stalks them down to chomp away :) I like that they work on cleaning the filters and glass until they get eaten though!
 
Haha im glad your having more luck! im still no further ahead with mine, they just sit there and look at me until i feed them *sigh*
 
Ehm, I don't have a lot of experience with shrimp. I currently have amano shrimp in my tank, they're quick as hell, not as easily noticeable on the black sand as cherry shrimp would be, they keep the tank clean and so far none have been caught by the axies.

I got 6 shrimp from one store and 6 from another. The thing is, I just saw one of my shrimp like this:

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It is one of the largest shrimp I have, and it appears that 'it' is a 'she' and is very likely carrying eggs. I couldn't take a clear picture of her, I tried to film her a bit, will upload that on YouTube later.

I thought breeding shrimp in a cold water aquarium was painstakingly difficult...? My aquarium is a constant 16°C :p

I don't mind them breeding though :p Plenty of algae to go around!
 
that website is full of helpful information, thanks for posting! it seems I was already on the same page as them haha. my shrimp would appear to be too young at this point(not even a full inch yet) so I am still waiting. some of the bigger ones in the tank have started to develop yellow patches which I hope are eggs forming inside them.
 
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