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squirt_12
08-31-2007, 07:39 PM
Okw ell i bought these shrimp at my LFS and on the tank it said ghost shrimp but when i asked for them the guy said that they arn't ghost shrimp and he didn't know what they were but i took 10 anyways and well i was wondering how to tell them apart. Male and female. They sorta look like a ghost shrimp and like and algae shrimp.
lol
Because well i want to breed them.
Thanks

Algenco would you beable to help me since you breed shrimp. I just want to know how because i really want some more and my LFS has no more and wont get any in for quite a while.
Thanks
cocoa_pleco
08-31-2007, 10:00 PM
females are larger, i think 3" and males are 2.5". i believe the way you breed them is a rubbermaid container, and put a male/female in, seal it until its pitch black, then eggs come a week later. thats what i was told
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 10:21 PM
o well thats odd.
I have never heard of that before.
Well how long would you leave them in there???
and do i ut the container in the tank to keep it at tank temp????
TowBoater
08-31-2007, 10:44 PM
They are probably ghost, my LFS sells them as feeder shrimp and that is what I buy them for but I still have 2 from the original stocking!
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 11:04 PM
Well i know that they are not ghost because they have a blackish brownish line on their back and they have brown spots on them aswell. (only a few spots)
gm72
08-31-2007, 11:26 PM
Bamboo shrimp maybe?
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 11:27 PM
no i think that they might be amano shrimp!!??
gm72
08-31-2007, 11:32 PM
Yes, could well be.
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 11:39 PM
So well how would i exactly breed them???? I know that they say they like brackinsh water when the babies are born. Like the babies like float into brackinsh water to develope.
Is this true????
gm72
08-31-2007, 11:43 PM
They do need salt to breed, that much is true, but I don't know specifics on how you encourage them to breed.
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 11:44 PM
By salt do you mean sea salt?? or aquarium salt????
gm72
08-31-2007, 11:52 PM
Marine salt. Brackish water occurs when a freshwater tributary meets the ocean.
squirt_12
08-31-2007, 11:58 PM
Yeah i know but i was just checking.
Ok well cocoa_pleco said that i have to put them into a rubbermaid container and close it so that it is dark and a week later there will be eggs.
So how big of a container?
How much marine salt do i put in it?
where do i put the container?
what temperature does the contaier have to be at?
and just little stuff like that i would like to know please.
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Thanks