After a few months of losing store bought RCS in a small 2 gallon tank. I took the last two survivors and included them in my 20 gallon high about a month ago. Fast forward to this week where I finally noticed 3 shrimplets in my java fern... the next day I noticed 7... the next day I noticed 12. Now I counted upwards of 35+ little baby red cherry shrimplets. There is not a single plant or area of the tank that doesn't have 2-3 of these guys hanging out around.
A month ago I posted about the two Red Cherry Shrimp I had in my community fish tank having a couple microscopic baby shrimplets. A month later... Shrimpocalypse!!!!
I ordered 10, got 12 live, excellent color on them. Sadly I've never seen more than 5 during tank cleanings so I'm pretty sure I lost some though I have not seen any floaties or remnants so not sure what happened. They are in with small red cardinal tetras and 2 glofish so I wouldn't think they would be small enough to fit in any of those mouths...
Added another strain of Blood Mary/Red Cherry shrimp to my shrimp tank. And look what showed up. Just thought it was a darker one but appears Purple to Black.
explotion of young this tank really dose me proud,it never fails
I keep my water up to speed and monitored, feed the right food and minerals, I give them 12hrs of light a day as with all my shrimp,and when that's done don't potch, heres another photo of my sakura breeding stock mixed with crystal and another berried
My 55G tank that has somehow turned into an RCS and BN breeding tank (and a horde of KuhlI Loaches for the 'kids' to play on).
As at this post:
BN = 2 breeding adults (soon to be split as the tank can't handle more than 2 batches of babies...) and 40ish 1-2cm babies with second batch of babies in the cave. (mom in the photo)
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Not fully cooked, I do the whole bag at one time, they initially float so they are cooked until they sink. Then I let cool and then freeze. Wednesday is veggie day on all my tanks. Take some out, let thaw and its feeding time. Easy!
First berried shrimp!! Have had them for several weeks now, they are all doing well.. got a bit teary when I saw her all berried up on the spinach the other day. Apologies for the poor quality photo.. my tablet's camera is not the best.
I guess being upside down is a thing. She quite literally always eats upside down. So she is basically upside down 24/7. Maybe that’s why she’s such a deep red
I love this little rainbow rock! I had just used a baster to place uber small fry food in the tank so I basted the rock with some as well and the beauties flocked to the rock! This is my favorite photo yet!
Here's my RCS. I ended up with 2 babies from petco when I got the other 6. I didn't think they'd made it, but here was one feeding today when I dropped in some tasties.
So excited! Just spotted this berried female. I've lost a couple shrimp, but the baby is grown up now. Hopefully this is a good sign that I got my water problems controlled
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