Shadow's Shrimp Journal or how I learned to love the Neocaridina

[Shadow]

Here are my findings from starting and being pretty successful with my shrimp breeding project.

I started this breeding project before my new job in the month I took off. I wanted to see if I could start breeding similar color strains and crossing them to get some interesting color variations within that spectrum ie Orange Sakura x Pumpkin Spice(both orange spectrum). This is how I set up each tank...

All are in 5 gal tanks... prob could improve those to 10 gal unless you want to do frequent water changes. I do them 2x a week, most tanks just need water top off but some require change of 50% or more due to the water becoming super cloudy. Substrate I started first 3 tanks with Fluval Stratum, but due to its dustiness in the start I moved to Aqueon Shrimp/Plant base. Its way better at keeping clean and during water changes/additions the water doesn't become cloudy or murky. Besides this substrate all have a AOC sponge filter inside, small size. I stocked each one with the following: Tourmaline & Red Bee Balls(Mineral balls), Almond & Jackfruit leaves(boil & let sit for 2 days to get a nice film on them, the shrimp love it!), Alder & Filao cones(Again boil & sit), Cholla wood pieces for little hotels(3 inch pieces again boil & sit), Catappa Bark(SURPRISE! Boil & sit) and all have at least 1 Marimo Moss ball in them. All have either additional Java Moss or Subwassertang inside as well. I have including feeding dishes which I alternate with dehydrated veggies of differing types that I get from my shrimp lollies guy from Etsy, canned(NO SALT ADDED) green beans & shrimp food alternating between Sera Shrimp Food & Pollen Granules. 

Lastly...3 of my tanks have exploded with success, 1 is close to those numbers while the other 2, one is thriving now and adding new babies with the last one having dead loss for some reason(I cannot explain it).

3 thriving(in video below...ENJOY!):

Orange Sakura x Pumpkin Spice

Blue Rili x Blue Jelly

Blue Carbon Rili 

1 close:

Green Rili(I will soon add Green Jade to this mix)

1 gaining and doing well:

Black Rose(4 berried and some new babies)

1 having issues:

Yellow Goldbacks(This is the only one I bought female only shrimp to add in, after that they just died off to where now I believe its just 4 males...will add more to increase numbers after it cools off down here)

Now before I drop that video I mentioned above, I need to now learn how to list and ship these buggers. Keep an eye in the WTB/WTS section as I might do some kind of free thing to test my shipping skills. Anyways, enjoy the info I included on my project...hope it helps others! 🙂 

 

@nabokovfan87 @Guppysnail @Lennie @Chick-In-Of-TheSea @Fish Folk tagging y'all just cuz. ❤️ 

OH! and all have mostly red rooted floaters in them and some duckweed lol. 

Edited August 27 by Shadow

[nabokovfan87]

Looks awesome. Congratulations on the progress.  They love that food!

 

On 8/27/2023 at 12:14 PM, Shadow said:

1 having issues:

Yellow Goldbacks(This is the only one I bought female only shrimp to add in, after that they just died off to where now I believe its just 4 males...will add more to increase numbers after it cools off down here)

Check on your GH/KH when you can for all the tanks to see if you see anything.

[JChristophersAdventures]

@Shadow Are you sure those are shrimp tanks... sounds more like a 5-star Intercontinental Hotel for shrimp, to me! lol

[Shadow]

On 8/27/2023 at 5:46 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

Looks awesome. Congratulations on the progress.  They love that food!

 

Check on your GH/KH when you can for all the tanks to see if you see anything.

I check those numbers weekly and have a goal in mind with them. I prefer to keep GH between 4-8 & KH between 3-15. I even have a dry erase board for my weekly checks before water changes for TDS, GH & KH. 

Oh and TDS between 150-300. 🙂 

[Shadow]

Black Rose and Green Rilis are both breeding A LOT now. So now all my tanks are really poppin off. Just hope I can figure out the selling them thing soon, as I am soon to be overrun. LOL!