Anyone else keep freshwater shrimp?

[LizStreithorst]

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OOPS! I don't believe a visit is in my foreseeable future

[pablos]

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My temperature is 85F and no light in a sump. I added small planlets from Java fern in the in-take part and some sponge, so they would have something to eat.

Liz I can give you several dozen of them whenever you want to visit UAE... the weather is perfect now

[LizStreithorst]

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It's not that, Tom. I just checked the temp. It is 80.

[Iminit]

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Liz you could try raising the temp. When mine were in the 80s they bred like crazy. Get them breeding again than lower the temp back to normal.
Pablo do you keep a light on your sump?
My shrimp have come back strong just yesterday I added 10 browns to the discus tank. Still many more browns in the 15 and the 5 with the Pygmy corys has hundreds of shrimplets in it now.

[LizStreithorst]

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Pablos, do you have any Bloody Mary's for sale? Mine quit breeding for some reason I don't understand. I think after so many generations without the addition of new blood, they became less and less fertile. I only have a handful left now.

[pablos]

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I see a few yellows and blues around my tanks but mostly Blood Mary's and Amano's. I have two tanks where the reds are breeding well and I am getting tired of seeing Amano's sticking out of the mouths of some of my fish. Last week some of the discus were tearing apart a big Amano and in the ram tank there was an Amano sticking out of the mouth of one of the GBR's and a few inches away there was another Amano in the mouth of another GBR. I am going to stick with shrimp that I breed myself.

You can still breed amano, for sure its more work than RCS, but I would say it’s easier than breeding discus

[pablos]

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My red cherry shrimps are leaving everywhere: in the tank, in sump, in socks, between K1 media, on sponges, name it ...

[Iminit]

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Yeah they do get eaten. Still find a few when doing water changes but dont see as many as I used too. Moved away from the shrimp tank and made a mistake. I added Pygmy Cory’s to the tank. Thought they wouldn’t eat them. I was wrong. They ate all shrimplets. Had over 200 shrimp in that tank. Probably have 50 now. But I’m starting over. What were bright red are now a mix of reds and browns. But they’re breeding again and hopefully in a month I’ll be adding some new browns to the discus tank. They do a great job on algae.
Peter that’s a great idea. Adding to sump. Do you have a light on your sump. I’m running a wet/dry and may try your idea.

[dornblaser]

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I see a few yellows and blues around my tanks but mostly Blood Mary's and Amano's. I have two tanks where the reds are breeding well and I am getting tired of seeing Amano's sticking out of the mouths of some of my fish. Last week some of the discus were tearing apart a big Amano and in the ram tank there was an Amano sticking out of the mouth of one of the GBR's and a few inches away there was another Amano in the mouth of another GBR. I am going to stick with shrimp that I breed myself.

[FischAutoTechGarten]

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I've always kept Amanos Shrimp. They are easy and do their job.

I just started keeping the NEOs... 12 in total to my four display tanks that are on a common sump: 3 dark blue in one 20L, 3 orange in one 20L, 3 Red Rilis in one 20L, and 3 peppermint in the last 20L. That was a week ago. Today, I can find 1 red rili in it's tank, 3 dark blue in the filter sock, 1 peppermint in the filter sock and 1 dried up on the floor (a jumper). The oranges are no where to be found.. Even though they are nice to look at.... I'm thinking of leaving in the sump so that they can put on some size feeding on the mulm...then when they are bigger, re-intoduce them to the display tanks.

[dornblaser]

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We had a very blue shrimp from the Bloody Mary tank once.

[danotaylor]

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Those shrimp colors are amazing! Crazy cool patterns as well. I wonder how true they reproduce their same kind?
When I lived in Australia the BKK, Black King Kong shrimp, was $600aud for 1 when they were first made available. Yikes!

[seanyuki]

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just sharing.... RARE and EXOTIC shrimp!

https://youtu.be/LlaPdyqafo4

[Iminit]

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Yes even if not mixing you do still end up with browns. Those you cull. Than you cull the less red till you end up with shrimp with red legs. Best quality are all the same color including there legs. Here’s one of my reds surveying the discus tank.

[LizStreithorst]

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No Liz I think shrimp have run their course for me. I haven’t bought any new in probably a year now. Still have a few hundred in the 2 tanks and who knows how many in the discus tank. To me they are like my mts snails they serve a purpose their great cleaners. I haven’t even culled in months.

I read that if you mix different colors they will eventually turn back to the wild type browns. The colors are all accomplished by selective breeding. It's somewhat amazing to me that there are color morphs so prevalent in these neo's.