Cody

i got 3 female cherry shrimp yesterday. i put them in my 5.5 i have to males in my 20 gallon that had ich recently the ich inst veiwalbe on the fish any more but im going ot leave the temp at 82 for another week or so. one of the females has a ton of eggs that shes carrying. im gong to breed the cherries and trade some in and keep them in my tanks etc. they are so beautiful

Dino

We have several hundred here.
You can spot an adult female 20 feet away, if she is out in the open.

Cody

how small are the babies. like how easy are they to spot after they are born.

Dino

The babies are tiny, 2-3 mm in length when they are hatched.

They are fairly easy to spot, as your eye seeks out movement.

Cody

as the tank starts to get more filled up with shrimp do they start to become more active. the ones in my 20 gallon have days that there very active. im not sure if i want to move my males to the 5.5 or not. if i want to continue breeding i will for sure but im not positive. Also once shrimps are full grown do they continue to molt?

Dino

Yes, they continue to molt their entire life.

You can always feed excess shrimp to larger fish.

Cody

my keyhole would proubably enjoy them huh?. that the only nice thing about when you fish breed. your not really throwing away money your just contributing to the cycle of life. and i was wondering when they count sword tails adult sizes are they counting the long sword on the males tails or do they really get between 4-5 inches long. i think is is going be my last of topic questoin thought dont want to upset cwc by not keeping the forum nice an neat looking

Dino

No worries.
Yes, they get that big.
That is the length from the snout (nose) to the start of the tail.

The keyholes would munch them like candy.

Cody

so what i would just put on in there and they would just see it crawling and then go after it. i cant ever figure out what makes a fish want o eat another fish

Dino

Movement plays a lot into it.

Another thing is, that in the wild, they must get food any way they can.
Not so in our fish tanks.
So they test out anything that fits into their mouth to see if it is food.

Cody

that proubably explians why once when i had a red zebra cichlid in a 20 gallon it would pick up rocks and spit them out

Dino

Bingo.

Cody

i hated that fish . i just Had to try out cichids. it killed my first fish .well besdie golfish when i was little but the first fishi got was a bala shark. it lived for 7 months and then was murderd

Dino

The aggressiveness of African Rift Lake cichlids do not make them good fish to work with early in the hobby.

Cody

i loved my bala shark. it was always very hardy . i mean it started out in a uncycled 5.5gallon tank

Cody

theres one of my males i didnt get a good female picture yet