Breeding Amano shrimp

[LJC6780]

So I have several Amano shrimp in my 20 gal long and I've noticed one is quite berried and happened to see another mate the other day. From what I've read it's quite hard to raise shrimplets successfully but I'm wondering if anyone has done so. I'd like to give it a shot when she gets close to laying the eggs ... any tips on fry tank setup or food source would be greatly appreciated!

 

[bullyboy]

BI'm trying this tonight so....howd it go for you?

 

[LJC6780]

BI'm trying this tonight so....howd it go for you?

As far as I can tell she's still carrying the eggs. They are getting lighter though. I do have a salt tank set up now so I can use that water for the babies, but haven't separated the female out yet. I'm really not sure if I want to deal with all of that right this moment. Life is a little crazy for me right now.

 

[PatrickShrimp]

Late and they probably hatched but Amano shrimp give birth in brackish water...

 

[carl hume-pankulis]

1 of my shrimp look like its pregnant, I wanna give a go breeding it but haven't got athe.clue what I'm doing lol
Need 3 tanks, normal, brackish for birth then salt of babies?
Do I need a full up a running salt tank so with a whole new filter and heater etc.?

 

[LJC6780]

1 of my shrimp look like its pregnant, I wanna give a go breeding it but haven't got athe.clue what I'm doing lol
Need 3 tanks, normal, brackish for birth then salt of babies?
Do I need a full up a running salt tank so with a whole new filter and heater etc.?

I actually have no clue and have been too busy to even think about it lately!

 

[MrDankYT]

I know it might sound silly and I know it's hard to do but I want to atleast try. I got 2 amano shrimp, 1 female 1 male and the female has had eggs for a couple weeks now and I wanna move her to try to get Ahold of the babies. Tips?

My knowledge so far:
Move the shrimp, when the eggs hatch move back the shrimp and catch the babies, move the babies to a salt water tank (30-35 ppt) feed them around 4-8 times a day, and when they grow bigger and molt into shrimp that look like small amanos I will move it back to the normal freshwater aquarium.

Thanks for any tips!!

 

[KimberlyG]

I was going to try one spawn as well. Never got around to it but this is the resource I was going to follow. Maybe it will help.
Breeding Yamato (Amano) shrimp

 

[MrDankYT]

yeah that's where I got most of my information and I'm looking to see if anybody else has anymore, maybe someone else has done it before?

 

[Wraithen]

There is a member or two here who have tried. I believe one was successful. The issue is usually not having a mature enough grow out container for the young to feed off of. It has to be planned out ahead of time.

 

[MrDankYT]

mature enough grow out container? do you mean the saltwater tank??

 

[Wraithen]

mature enough grow out container? do you mean the saltwater tank??

Yes. People use all kinds of things and usually only go brackish as far as I know. If you can get the water to grow algae first, you usually will have a higher success rate from what Ive seen.

 

[MrDankYT]

alright but most places i've read is to go full marine like 30-35ppt

 

[Wraithen]

alright but most places i've read is to go full marine like 30-35ppt

Like I said, I'm only going off of the couple of examples Ive seen. You may have much better information.

 

[Kalyke]

He said diatoms were important and to keep salinity between 30 and 35 PPM.

 

[richiep]

if you want to breed Amano successfully take a look at
Amano Shrimp Larvae Growth Progress by mach6 no one comes even close to what this guy as done ive been following him since day one and his videos althrough the morph stages are something else
Amano Shrimp Larvae Growth Progress | Amano Shrimp Forum | 375165

 

[MrDankYT]

Ok is there anyway to introduce algae into the aquarium? wring out an old filter into it, take algae from another aquarium.. if so will a freshwater aquarium work?

 

[H Farnsworth]

Algae are everywhere just put the tank under 24 hr lighting

 

[Wraithen]

Dont use sterile water. Use some of your tank water and then keep it lit 24/7. I can't find it at the moment but a guy did an algae experiment and the sterile water had almost no water, while used tank water grew it very well.

 

[kbn]

Hello Fishlore! Has anyone here ever tried breeding Amano shrimp? I'd live to hear your experiences !

 

[Unknown9182]

It’s pretty straightforward, the best plant to encourage breeding and for a safe haven for the babies is java moss, amano shrimp do not eat their babies. Feed the babies biofilm which is basically the light brown gunk found in your filter or your uv sterilizer (found in tubes such as filter pump)

 

[Demonskid]

There was one person who tried to breed amano shrimp on here that I know of, but so far it ended in failure. They're going to try again once they have a better environment established and ready.

If you want to check it out their thread is here: Amano breeding project | 472023 | Amano Shrimp

 

[SixThreeOh]

It’s pretty straightforward,

Okay.

 

[Shrimp42]

People have tried on this forum but unfortunately most of them failed. Its a pretty hard process as you need a saltwater tank to hatch the eggs in and raise the shrimplets in.

 

[Timmy1027]

It depends on how much efforts you want to put onto it, it is a hard task, at least for me. Cost wise, it may not be worth it.

I recently started a trial and failed at day 16, due to insufficient cycling/filtration in a 1 gallon jar. Ideally, I should have done it in a 5 gallon bucket or equivalent aquarium, but I think most people cannot afford this expense for a near impossible mission.

Once you have decided to do it, you have to make/buy salt water and calibrate the salinity to be 30-34 ppt (some says it could be 18-25 ppt, I guess Amano has different species). Then dedicate a light, air pump and a tank for larvae, at least 2 weeks before hatching (hatching could happen in 10 days when you first spot berried mother, so plan way ahead) , because you need turn light on 24/7 to cultivate unseen algae as food. In my opinion, cycling is good, but it is kind of hard for a mini-tank, especially when filtration is absent. You may get some seawater from LFS’s reef tank to seed the algae, but don’t add concentrated phytoplankton, because it is hard to control the phyto population and it could over grow to kill the eco-system.

As I said, I failed at day 16, so I don’t have more information to share.The more I explore the saltwater environment, the more money I spend... Now I have set up a 3 gallon reef/dwarf seahorse tank and leave the 1 gallon jar running with same water/cycling/substrate condition, but without anything that could eat Amano larvae. In this case, whenever the next batch comes, the saltwater eco-jar is ready for 2nd breeding project, because I can get anything essential from my saltwater tank.

This is a long way to go and it is fun and it is costly.

 

[kbn]

It depends on how much efforts you want to put onto it, it is a hard task, at least for me. Cost wise, it may not be worth it.

I recently started a trial and failed at day 16, due to insufficient cycling/filtration in a 1 gallon jar. Ideally, I should have done it in a 5 gallon bucket or equivalent aquarium, but I think most people cannot afford this expense for a near impossible mission.

Once you have decided to do it, you have to make/buy salt water and calibrate the salinity to be 30-34 ppt (some says it could be 18-25 ppt, I guess Amano has different species). Then dedicate a light, air pump and a tank for larvae, at least 2 weeks before hatching (hatching could happen in 10 days when you first spot berried mother, so plan way ahead) , because you need turn light on 24/7 to cultivate unseen algae as food. In my opinion, cycling is good, but it is kind of hard for a mini-tank, especially when filtration is absent. You may get some seawater from LFS’s reef tank to seed the algae, but don’t add concentrated phytoplankton, because it is hard to control the phyto population and it could over grow to kill the eco-system.

As I said, I failed at day 16, so I don’t have more information to share.The more I explore the saltwater environment, the more money I spend... Now I have set up a 3 gallon reef/dwarf seahorse tank and leave the 1 gallon jar running with same water/cycling/substrate condition, but without anything that could eat Amano larvae. In this case, whenever the next batch comes, the saltwater eco-jar is ready for 2nd breeding project, because I can get anything essential from my saltwater tank.

This is a long way to go and it is fun and it is costly.

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience with us and best of luck for your new endeavours! If the breeding project is successful, how many shrimplets can we expect to grow into adults?

 

[Timmy1027]

If the breeding project is successful, how many shrimplets can we expect to grow into adults?

From the limited blogs I have seen, it could be 1 to hundreds... The results are not consistent, something important is not clear yet, such as diet, salinity, species identify, etc.