Growing cherry shrimp colony

[maverick786us]

My tank has more than 2 dozen cherry ships with plenty of plants and hardscape. Whats are the possibilities of these cherry shrimps to breed and form a colony. The other inhabitants too
1. 4 Amno shrimps
2. Assassin snails
3. Mystery snails
4. A dozen Cherry barb,
5. 8 lowlight tetras
6, 3 SAE and
7. 3 Hillstream Loaches

It's a medium sized tank with sufficient space and isn't overstocked. I don;t have any predatory fish like Angel fish and Betta.

 

[Cazza]

Highly likely, with plenty of hiding places, especially dense plants (moss and bolbitis are great), and as long as the other inhabitants aren't too interested. I've got Panda Corys, Otto's, Cardinal, Lemon and Reed Tetras, who don't touch them. They can disappear into the filter- I have shrimp filter covers to stop this (Juwel), but they still sometimes get in.

 

[maverick786us]

Highly likely, with plenty of hiding places, especially dense plants (moss and bolbitis are great), and as long as the other inhabitants aren't too interested. I've got Panda Corys, Otto's, Cardinal, Lemon and Reed Tetras, who don't touch them. They can disappear into the filter- I have shrimp filter covers to stop this (Juwel), but they still sometimes get in.

In fact one of my Amano shrimp is about to lay eggs, but Amano fryers need brackish water so, there is nothing I can do, I want the cherry shrimps to make a colony. My filter has a coarse sponge on the intake pipe and the surface skimmer has a net wrapped, so I won't worry about baby shrimps getting stuck by the filter or messed up by other inhabitants. What I do concern is their eggs, a delicious meal for the fishes and snails.

 

[Zeus.]

2 dozen cherry ships with plenty of plants and hardscape. Whats are the possibilities of these cherry shrimps to breed

Chances are Initially good that you will have a male and female that they will breed.

form a colony

Once breeding the colony will follow - its the size off the colony that you get will be dependant on SAE, my SAE got a taste for the RCS and never really took off in any numbers until I relocated the SAE. I caught a SAE patrolling the tank and picking the RCS off. Once the SAE was removed I very quickly seen more RCS as nothing was attacking/eating them, then their numbers increased very quick to thousands in a 500l tank

 

[Fishfur]

In fact one of my Amano shrimp is about to lay eggs, but Amano fryers need brackish water so, there is nothing I can do, I want the cherry shrimps to make a colony. My filter has a coarse sponge on the intake pipe and the surface skimmer has a net wrapped, so I won't worry about baby shrimps getting stuck by the filter or messed up by other inhabitants. What I do concern is their eggs, a delicious meal for the fishes and snails.

Just fyi, shrimp don’t lay eggs. They either carry them around until they hatch, as with Cherry & Crystal & a few other species that are called high order shrimp.

Amanos & others like it are low order & they release their eggs to float away. These eggs hatch into larval zoeys which take variable lengths of time to complete their development into adults.

Many low order shrimp are amphidromous, living their adult life in freshwater but the larval stages require saltwater. These live in streams where larvae hatch out while being washed downstream to the ocean. They stay in the ocean for weeks to months. Once adult, they swim upstream and remain in freshwater for the rest of their lives.

I used to keep Ghost, Cherry & several other shrimp together along with some Zebra & Pearl danios.

Ghost shrimp are low order but have a totally freshwater life cycle. They spend only a week or so in larval form. Both they & the cherry shrimp were gaining numbers despite the fish - just more slowly than they would have without fish to prey on some of them.

 

[Cazza]

I started with 10 in Feb last year. Now, I've probably got well over 100 and have sold 80. Reckon you should be fine.

 

[maverick786us]

Just fyi, shrimp don’t lay eggs. They either carry them around until they hatch, as with Cherry & Crystal & a few other species that are called high order shrimp.

Amanos & others like it are low order & they release their eggs to float away. These eggs hatch into larval zoeys which take variable lengths of time to complete their development into adults.

Many low order shrimp are amphidromous, living their adult life in freshwater but the larval stages require saltwater. These live in streams where larvae hatch out while being washed downstream to the ocean. They stay in the ocean for weeks to months. Once adult, they swim upstream and remain in freshwater for the rest of their lives.

I used to keep Ghost, Cherry & several other shrimp together along with some Zebra & Pearl danios.

Ghost shrimp are low order but have a totally freshwater life cycle. They spend only a week or so in larval form. Both they & the cherry shrimp were gaining numbers despite the fish - just more slowly than they would have without fish to prey on some of them.

I know breeding Amano shrimps is one of the most difficult task. I felt bad when I saw that amano shrimp with egg to no avail when the larvae won’t survive in fresh water. But I hope the cherry shrimp form a colony

 

[hypnogogia]

But I hope the cherry shrimp form a colony

No reason why they shouldn't provided the water parameters are right for them to molt.

 

[Bradders]

Sorry to ask, but what is the problem here? Is it predatory fish or water parameters?

 

[maverick786us]

Sorry to ask, but what is the problem here? Is it predatory fish or water parameters?

These shrimps are in my tank healthy with rest of other tank mates, for nearly 3 months. So the water parameters are right. Breeding these shrimps not my sole motive, but its is a different game, but I just want to give it a try, how the breeding goes and they develop a colony I don't have any predatory fish but all the other fishes are omnivores. So I wasn't initially sure how they react to shrimp eggs and larvae. In YT people keep a separate tank for breeding shrimp, which isn't an option in my case

 

[Bradders]

These shrimps are in my tank healthy with rest of other tank mates, for nearly 3 months. So the water parameters are right. Breeding these shrimps not my sole motive, but its is a different game, but I just want to give it a try, how the breeding goes and they develop a colony I don't have any predatory fish but all the other fishes are omnivores. So I wasn't initially sure how they react to shrimp eggs and larvae. In YT people keep a separate tank for breeding shrimp, which isn't an option in my case

All good. The reason I ask is that I put 3 Cherry Shrimp in my aquarium 6 months ago, and I now have hundreds of them! (Well, not hundreds, maybe, but many happy shrimp that are breeding!).