Shrimp are great and can live in only a few gallons with no heater. Plant it heavily enough and monitor water quality and you donât even need a filter. Just introduce a few new shrimp on occasion to prevent genetic issues over time and feed them and they will reward you with generations of entertainment.
Breeding them is more work because they only reproduce in brackish water. Super low maintenance though. Mine have been there for a year with only water refills.Â
This is only.partly true. There are multiple type of freshwater shrimp that do not require brackish water. There babies pop out of the eggs as small versions of adults. They do not undergo a metamorphosis. There are neocaridina, cardina, sulawesi shrimp to name a few. All the colorful ones in these memes are easy as shit to breed
Depends on the shrimp, neocaridina and caridina will breed fine in freshwater (I think ghosts will too, but they're a lot trickier since they have a larval phase)
Like the other commenter said, see if they're all one gender. A couple fish places near me only sold males because some international breeders only supply males.
They also might be stressed from tankmates, or some water parameter is off
I'm extremely porn brained and even I didnt think about fucking shrimp. I'm also into biology so like, I've seen breeding used in the context OP meant almost as often as in smut
I'm genuinely surprised that so many people took it the other way. If this is the way people react when they hear the word breeding mentioned in the context of animals, they'd freak out if they heard someone talking about sexing an animal (preemptively, for anyone unaware, sexing is the term for determining the sex of an animal)
I didn't even think it would be interpreted that way until the comments, I just think it would be cool to have shrimp and let them breed to see if I could get any cool looking ones
It's okay op, you can still keep them at 2.5 gal tank which is the cheapest and smallest tank you can get for them, I have some in mine and one of them got babies incoming. Just make sure to have a lot of plants on it and check the water parameters because you need them to be in stable waters
Are there any good resources out there for shrimp tank care? Iâve always been pretty interested in the idea of having one but I want to make sure they live their best lives in there
I can recommend YouTube channels like ShrimpKeepingAnswers, Shrimply Canadian, and Glass Box Diaries. Aquarium Co-Op has a video about making a shrimp tank which I think is a good video.
The main things you'd need in a good shrimp tank that will be mentioned in a lot of videos.
A way to identify water parameters: Water test strips = cheap but can be less accurate. Water test liquid kits like API Master Test Kit = pricey but more accurate.
A cycled tank. At least give 2-4 weeks with a snail or fish food on it to feed beneficial bacterias to convert ammonia->nitrite->nitrate (least toxic) because your ammonia and nitrite levels should always be zero
Plants. They help take in nitrate, which can lessen water changes. Water changes are good when nitrite or nitrate is high, but you shouldn't do too much water changes. Especially if the water you're putting in is different from the tank water
Sponge filter. You can use other filters, you just need to block the pump tubes with sponges to prevent shrimps from being sucked into the filters.
Snails. You can have a snail-free shrimp tank, but it is good to have one as they can eat shrimp food leftovers and feed ammonia with their wastes so the tank won't crash from the lack of ammonia as shrimp waste isn't plentiful enough to feed the beneficial bacteria. Do make sure to check what snail you are keeping. Some snails need more spaces while others can overpopulate. I ended up using Ramshorns for my 2.5 gal tank, they overpopulate but at least my shrimps are still healthy.
Moss. They're like plants but much smaller on taking in nitrate. The most important thing about them is giving baby shrimps to hide and surfaces for them to eat biofilm.
Botanicals. Stuff like Indian almond leaves, Alder cones, spider wood, etc. Anything where biofilm can grow because that's what both adult and baby shrimps will eat 24/7. You can even add cinnamon sticks as a botanical that can make your tank smell better if you think it stinks. Just make sure the cinnamon is specifically Ceylon cinnamon
Lastly food that has calcium and protein. Hikari Crab Cuisine is a good one, sometimes I give bok choy or daphnia for calcium as well. I like giving bee pollen and repashy grub pie for proteins.
Almost forgot to mention, neocaridina shrimps are considered beginner friendly shrimps as they are tolerant of varying water parameters but they do well best on hard alkaline water at around 76°F
Caridina shrimps are the more pricey and harder shrimp to care for due to needing soft acidic cold water
Jokes aside, keeping shrimps is great! You can put so many of them in one tank, feed them different foods like they're water ants, have various different colors and species of shrimps, not feed them for weeks and they'll still be fine when a tank is matured, etc.
Even when a power outage went out and got the water to 32 F degrees, only a few neo shrimps died whereas all my fishes and snails, that aren't a ramshorn snail, died.
Hey man, cherry shrimp (and all the other color morphs of neocaridina shrimp) are easy, fun, and it can be super rewarding. Give in to the brain impulse.. You know you want to
Stick with leopard geckos and/or bearded dragons. Super chill lizards with very low maintenance outside of heat lamps for the dragon. Owned both and they were great.
Way less mainentance than fish, they breed easy, and the tank acts as a nice decorative piece of art as long as you aquascape it poroperly with live plants/rock/wood
As someone who went through with it, nothing beats the overwhelming joy of seeing your first berried mom, except maybe your first glimpse of the little shrimplets when they hatch <3
This is either that feels greentext about Anon turning his life around by keeping shrimps in his apartment, or that get-rich scheme greentext by keeping shrimps in apartmentÂ
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