lodo Posted November 6, 2013 Report Share Posted November 6, 2013 We have tried our luck with shrimp a few times, a lot of the time we have failed. Now we finally have dedicated shrimp only tanks (minus some Cpd's) One tank currently has crystal blacks (s and ss grade) a snow white, yellow cherries and one or two blue cherries. This tank also has four Cpd's out and about. Our other tank has crystal reds, range from b grade through to ss, a snow white, and a golden bee. Also we have one black cherry. Was meant to be more but the other four died while waiting for tank to be ready. We also have cherry reds in with our Persephone right now. Sort of as a live food in the baby shrimps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted November 7, 2013 Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Ummm... I see no shrimp Can we get some close-ups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodo Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Will do once we get home. Shrimp are horrible for me to photograph, I'm just not good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lodo Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 Alright, just to make razzi happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelbourneGlobal Posted November 12, 2013 Report Share Posted November 12, 2013 Shrimps are always hard. I find it hard to get them really interested in food. I've read that 'Max Growth' works really well. Interested to know if/when your start breeding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddzvk Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 yeah we're looking to try some of the azoo products in the near future: have heard really good reviews these guys get whatever we have on hand at the moment: cucumber, zucchini, algea wafers, fluval shrimp james fed them lettuce the otehr day (they didnt like it much). the red cherries have been breeding like nuts since we first got them(round feb this year). we have baby CBS and CRS at the moment fresh! the blue and black cherries still neeed to do some growing since they are quyite small and arent sexable yet so were not even sure if we have both genders (only have like 2 of each due to problems with acclimatising them...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 Are the different coloured ones the same species? Will they interbreed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddzvk Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 the tank in the shed is divided in two sections (solid divides) CRS and CBS will cross but they are in different sides the cherrries will breed too if given a chance so weve split them up blacks are in one half yellows and blues are in the other half (all still juvies though the yellows will be rehoused in the 4 foot DSM project once its flooded) and all our red cherrries are in a 3 ft in the house so very little interbreeding since anyone who can is seperated out plus we have breeder nets with the shrimp we want to cross. we also have an exciting new addition tonight A BRAND SPANKING NEWLY HATCHED GALAXY RASBORA that weve bred/hatched ourself from our original 2 pairs. ive named him uno. he in my uno. hopefully there are more uno's coming soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted November 13, 2013 Report Share Posted November 13, 2013 Oh good work on the galaxy rasbora. I might give them another go one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddzvk Posted November 14, 2013 Report Share Posted November 14, 2013 yeah they're not too hard. just slow growing and moving the parents around to avoid egg predation/increase fry survivals a bit of a pain (have only had them for like 2 weeks though so we will see). plan is the dsm project will be a rasbora grow out and parent pairs ill stay in the shed...till we move heres the little tyke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelbourneGlobal Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 Hey are you guys gonna bring any of the black shrimp tubes/houses to the meet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddzvk Posted November 15, 2013 Report Share Posted November 15, 2013 yep can do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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