dino21
Member
Hi,
In December we purchased six red cherry shrimps from MHA that were quite young, at about half full sized.
Now just a few weeks later they are just going wild and can see at least 20 new young ones, some just a couple of mm others already well over 10-15mm !
At this rate we are going to be swamped !
The tank ( the only one) is a 40cm cube approx 50lts net, well planted and stocked with 6 Endlers and 8 dwarf corys.
We are not doing anything for the Shrimps other that our normal fish feeding.
What limit should we place on the Shrimps population as do not want to risk any wipe out of them or the fish ?
Also noticed that there seems to be two distinct types ? one stays mainly on the surface of the sand and things and looks like they have short red legs.
The other has long thin almost white legs and swims around very freely, possibly a litte bit deeper red in the body.
In December we purchased six red cherry shrimps from MHA that were quite young, at about half full sized.
Now just a few weeks later they are just going wild and can see at least 20 new young ones, some just a couple of mm others already well over 10-15mm !
At this rate we are going to be swamped !
The tank ( the only one) is a 40cm cube approx 50lts net, well planted and stocked with 6 Endlers and 8 dwarf corys.
We are not doing anything for the Shrimps other that our normal fish feeding.
What limit should we place on the Shrimps population as do not want to risk any wipe out of them or the fish ?
Also noticed that there seems to be two distinct types ? one stays mainly on the surface of the sand and things and looks like they have short red legs.
The other has long thin almost white legs and swims around very freely, possibly a litte bit deeper red in the body.