Some updates on my Shrimp Breeding

pbmax

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Fantastic :) How many shrimp tanks do you have now? I'm adding a new 10g as soon as this weekend I think. It's all fishbox's fault ;)

I believe CRS and tigers can cross - are you going to keep them together long term?
 

binbin9

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Yes I hope to create some tibees with them. In my head I want to cross the tiger line to all of my caradinas. =) I love the stripes and have seen some really awesome variations come out of asia and europe.
 

binbin9

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I posted a quick Video of my shrimp shack on here if you want to see how many tanks I have up for them. =)
 

pbmax

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binbin9 said:
Yes I hope to create some tibees with them. In my head I want to cross the tiger line to all of my caradinas. =) I love the stripes and have seen some really awesome variations come out of asia and europe.
Haha, nevermind then, you're way ahead of me! :oops:

binbin9 said:
I posted a quick Video of my shrimp shack on here if you want to see how many tanks I have up for them. =)
Yeah, but then I'd have to watch a video... ;) Your photos are great - keep those coming! :)
 

binbin9

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LOL - total tank count is as follows. I would like to upgrade my 55 gallon to a rimless one in the future but that will have to wait a bit until I move to the new house in July.

55g
20g L
2x 15g
35g L
12g L

2.5g
3g

and still a few bettas in carious containers. =)
 

pbmax

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Excellent. :) I try to limit myself to tanks that I can move without totally breaking down - 29g is my largest.

I keep shrimp in 8 of my 10 tanks right now. One 20 with fish doesn't have any since I moved the yellows out a couple of weeks back (I'm going to add RCS for cleanup this weekend I think) and I don't keep them in my dwarf cajun 10g - with that many crays the RCS were losing an alarming number of limbs :shock:.
 

pbmax

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I keep my signature up to date with what I've got.

I have 4 tanks with RCS in them, 1 with yellows and blue bees, 2 with malawa, 1 with blue velvets.

I kind of want to put a different species of shrimp in my great-room 20g where I have celestial pearl danios and h. formosa, but after what they did to my yellow shrimp population (ate all the babies) I'm a little wary. So I'll probably dump a number of larger RCS in there. Shrimp are critical cleaners and far more effective than snails; I can't imagine a tank without them.

I keep the boring stuff (except for the blue velvets), you keep the exciting stuff :)
 

binbin9

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Looks like I have baby shrimps in all of my tanks at the moment. I'm pretty thrilled about that. =)

The big CBS gave birth. Looks like who ever the dad was he was a CRS because I have babies of both colors.

The yellow NEOs have a few babies,
the red fires has a big batch that just hatched and 3 more berried females,
the golden batch there's only a couple left for whatever reason. They did not do so well
The Blue Bees I bought about a month ago has a few babies that came out of no where and are living in the taiwan tank
Jesse's Blue Velvets - There's a nicely berried female in the tank

You can see a couple of brand new babies right on the leaf.
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here's one of the crystal reds that came out of the Crystal black mom.
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Fire red baby - pretty dull when they're young

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Check out this guy, it's called a blue Dream. Kinda like a carbon rili except really blue!

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pbmax

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binbin9 said:
Looks like I have baby shrimps in all of my tanks at the moment. I'm pretty thrilled about that. =)
Congrats!! Sounds like you're doing everything right so far :) I have 2 berried yellows, 3 (I think; at least 2) berried blue bees, and 2 berried Blue Velvets, apart from my army of RCS.

Great photos too - keep them coming. 8)
 

binbin9

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I like the army of RCS! I hear the blue bees can cross with CRS. I'd like to see that happen. They are quite a bit smaller though but very cute little guys.
 

pbmax

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Yup, I didn't do my research on size until I received my blue bees. Woopsie ;) But yes, they're pretty shrimp. I have 2 that aren't doing so well (bodies turning white) out of the 32 I received, but so far the others are fine.

The shrimp should love the riccia.
 

binbin9

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If you have shrimp I recommend getting some indian almond leaves. The babies love it. There's atleast 8 babies just munching away on this rotting leaf.
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pbmax

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I use nettle leaves - they love those too and the bonus is they grow in my yard all spring / summer. :)
 

binbin9

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Quick Update:

accidentally killed one of my blue dreams when I netted him. That kinda bummed me out.

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But in other news I've got another berried Golden Bee and Tigers!!

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pbmax

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Beautiful shrimp! That's too bad about the blue dream :( We all have stories like those, unfortunately.
 
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