webyourbusiness
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in our 72 bowfront, we have three cleaner shrimp - they appear to be two females and one male, as we get 2 females laden with green eggs about every 3 weeks, and they carry them for roughly 10 days before dropping them. Anyway, I figured that when they dropped their eggs, they were simply fish food for the tangs - that was, up until YESTERDAY.
We have a 30 gallon long setup as a refugium - it's got a drop chamber, followed by a weir into a larger chamber with some chaeto, liverock and live sand, then following that we have the drop into the final chamber, where we run carbon, poly filter and other sundries items like phosguard etc as needed - finally it pumps back into the tank.
Well - in the FIRST chamber - the drop-chamber, we have a collection of detritus, and what I initially thought were some kind of water flea type thing - in the hundreds. Yesterday, I looked into the chamber, and the tiny "water fleas" - were much reduced in number, but significantly increased in size - and when they stop still long enough to see them - you can clearly see that they are SHRIMP - about 1/8th to 1/4 of an inch long (some smaller, maybe 1 or 2 longer).
Now - while I appreciate that our chances of raising any to adult size is PRACTICALLY zero - I'd certainly LIKE to give it a try... !!
I've searched in vain for an info on raising baby shrimp - so I'm hoping someone here has at least tried it - preferably had some success - if if so - please TELL ME HOW!! I'd love to have even half a dozen more shrimp - because I'd be able to populate my next tank and possibly trade them too...
any advice would be gratefully accepted!
cheers
Greg
We have a 30 gallon long setup as a refugium - it's got a drop chamber, followed by a weir into a larger chamber with some chaeto, liverock and live sand, then following that we have the drop into the final chamber, where we run carbon, poly filter and other sundries items like phosguard etc as needed - finally it pumps back into the tank.
Well - in the FIRST chamber - the drop-chamber, we have a collection of detritus, and what I initially thought were some kind of water flea type thing - in the hundreds. Yesterday, I looked into the chamber, and the tiny "water fleas" - were much reduced in number, but significantly increased in size - and when they stop still long enough to see them - you can clearly see that they are SHRIMP - about 1/8th to 1/4 of an inch long (some smaller, maybe 1 or 2 longer).
Now - while I appreciate that our chances of raising any to adult size is PRACTICALLY zero - I'd certainly LIKE to give it a try... !!
I've searched in vain for an info on raising baby shrimp - so I'm hoping someone here has at least tried it - preferably had some success - if if so - please TELL ME HOW!! I'd love to have even half a dozen more shrimp - because I'd be able to populate my next tank and possibly trade them too...
any advice would be gratefully accepted!
cheers
Greg