redclay92

What's the fastest FW shrimp?
Setting up a 10 gal FW tank to eventually supply a Dwarf Lionfish I'll be getting for my 40br. Ghost or cherry reds?

cerianthus

You might experience GS eating newly hatched more than grown big enough to be fed to DL unless doing for enjoyment as well.

redclay92

No, I really just need them for food. Does anyone know if Cherry shrimp are less likely to eat their young?

cg49me

From what I've read, cherries breed pretty quickly, and the only threat to the little cherries is fish.

shih-tzu mom

Redclay92;- I also would like to start a shrimp tank for my puffer-and i believe that the ghost shrimp would be the better-but i don't know how fast they breed and i would like to know as well, and if it's shrimp only tank- i would think either red or ghost would be ok. bella

redclay92

from what i'm hearing the shrimp themselves lack nutrional value so do you guys know a way to enrich?
Also Chery's breed better apparently some report 20-30 new young a week. I plan on feeding 3 shrimp 2 days a week. So that'd be more than enough.

cg49me

WOW - where'd you hear that? I'd like to start a shrimp "farm" too, but to keep the shrimp alive. That figure is most definitely from a fish-less setting. Any idea what the numbers are when the shrimp are with other fish?

redclay92

prolly far fewer unless it was a heavily planted. The shrimp are apperently less than a mm long when born.
Guess I gotta get my culture set up.

shih-tzu mom

Redclay92;i have read that if you gutload the shrimp- the nutrition is what you put in the shrimp lol and a lot of feeder shrimp are sold that way. hope this helps bella