mrrv

Hi all,

I am planning on starting up a 10 gallon heavily planted tank that I would also like to breed cherry red shrimp in. The tank will have CO2 and a 40W light.

I've been reading that sponge filters are the best for the breeding, but It also causes undesired surface disturbance that would throw off the CO2.

Is there a product or DIY mod I can take a look at that would satisfy the needs of my plant setup and the breeding of my cherry red shrimp? thanks!!

enthusiast

i have a similiar setup for ghost shrimpt and RCS. a 10 gal tank, 4 WPG, only no co2. It stays heavily planted with low-light plants that dont use the extra co2.

i use a regular hang-on filter and cover the intake with pantyhose. though i'm not using the co2 like i said, i can vouche that after time the pantyhose will get covered up enough from particles that the shrimp safely feed from it, & it slows the rate the water comes out enough to not hardly disturb the water at all. Keeping the water filled up as close to where the water is returned from the filter will obviously help this also

Crimsonbull57

this should be perfect for you if you have a HOB filter, and I believe they have these at petsmart or petco in the reptile section

enthusiast

just wanted to note some changes that i seen and thought was interesting. this is from the log i keep on my plants.

at the end of march when i moved here i caught and transported over only 9 RCS shrimp, i gave them their own 10 gal tank and its planted quite nicely, getting dense (val, water wisteria, water sprite & duckweed [ugh]).. anyways-

that was roughly 4 months ago. And just about 2 weeks ago it seemed like a heat wave wiped out all my shrimp in that tank! I lost all my ghost shrimp (10) and every day it seemed like i lost a RCS- females mostly- but I recall pulling atleast 3 dead RCS out of the tank.
today i counted and recorded over 34 RCS in the tank, 10 of which are pregnant and carrying the eggs or having a sadle (the white visible white part on their backs, eggs developing in the ovaries).

this explosion seems to of happened all of the sudden but these shrimp are very small, they almost look like sea monkeys when they're firstborn. These numbers didnt literally happen overnight but those babies must've been able to go through the temperature change better than the remaining adults and over time this many has survived, and its great to see them reproducing so much! Soon (another month i'd say) i'll have a good enough number to start selling some of what i breed to my LFS