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Re: How to breed ornamental aquarium shrimp (And make a profit) [Re: Shrimps] * 2
    #28364441 - 06/18/23 02:13 PM (7 months, 6 days ago)


Just wanted to share a pic of one of my planted tanks. I get around 30-50 shrimp out of this one every time I clean the filters. 40 gallon tank with two sponge filters run off the smallest usb pumps. I don’t know if it’s just my water, but cherry shrimp multiply quickly for me, but some of the folks who buy them off me have a lot less luck, I don’t know what the difference is. This tank is pretty soft, but I’ve got another tank with young African cichlids in that I make the water pretty hard and the shrimp are exploding in there also. Pretty soon the cichlids will be big enough to start hunting them.  I really like cherry shrimp for cycling a tank, when the culture is young and maturing they do really well on the early stages of biofilm.


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Re: How to breed ornamental aquarium shrimp (And make a profit) [Re: feevers] * 1
    #28514106 - 10/22/23 12:11 PM (3 months, 5 days ago)

Man, I wish I had taken a pic before I trimmed the plants up, but here’s the 40b yesterday


It was totally packed with plats on the surface with a nice open swimming area in about the right third side and left bottom. I took the lid off and it looks really nice from above. I think the plant you were asking about is elodea, the invasive one. I got it from a local lake, banned for sale in Oregon. It grows very fast. I think with all the fish I have in there the shrimp are pretty much stabilized. There’s a lot nooks and crannies in there and the babies all hide in the filter.  the white clouds and the betta eat a lot. I don’t know how many fish are in there, definitely overstocked by the books, but they look healthy and happy.

The AC tank is going great. The cichlids are Julidochromis marksmithii, they are really pretty, very shy and have very small mouths. I do see fry in the open and on the glass, im sure the fish eat some of them but the adults seem really comfortable around them.



Our water out of the tap is over 9ph right out of the tap and will drop around 8.2 after setting out. We are on a well, with only an arsenic filter, there is almost no calcium in the water, and pretty low kh. I add gypsum to increase the calcium and have noticed a lot healthier plants and fish. I add gypsum, epsom salt and a little baking soda to the AC tank, and no wood or leaves or any organic slime that, just rocks and aragonite sand. Not sure if it’s the high ph and minerals but the shrimp are a lot brighter in the ac tank.


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