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Freshwater Shrimp - Red Cherry Shrimp - Amano Shrimp

The Shrimp Farm has been in business since 2005. Our years of experience have allowed us to expand our selection of freshwater shrimp for sale. This selection ranges from everything like the colorful neocaridina shrimp, to the striking patterns of caridina shrimp.

Our live shrimp selection of pet shrimp for your home aquarium simply cannot be beat. We take pride in offering high quality fresh water shrimp. Dive into your shrimp tank with a pop of color with Blue Dream Shrimp. Awe in the amazing patterns of bee shrimp like the Crystal Red Shrimp.

Move onto the dazzling blonde tiger shrimp or even Orange Eyed Blue Tiger Shrimp! The only question you will have, is which shrimp should you start with. Learn the basics for freshwater shrimp with our extensive knowledge base. We will lead you onto your journey that is freshwater shrimp.

Types of Freshwater Shrimp For Sale

They come in all shapes and sizes. They can be see through like the ghost shrimp to neon tined like the striking blue color of blue velvet shrimp. These dwarf shrimp live in harmony with live plants, snails, and Nano Freshwater Fish. Take a look for yourself on our wide selection to choose from of high quality shrimp.

Freshwater Shrimp Water Requirements

Aquarium keepers often dream of baby shrimp hiding among their aquarium plants inside of their perfectly aquascaped planted aquarium. Having these beautiful female shrimp give birth to tiny shrimp babies is most certainly within reach!

Water conditions needed for Freshwater Shrimp are not much different than that of freshwater nano fish. They can be broken down into two main categories of shrimp, Neocaridina and Caridina.

Do you now understand the physical differences between the types? If yes, now you need to understand the water requirements between them.

Caridina Water Parameters

Caridina shrimp are softwater shrimp that demand a little more than neocairidna shrimp. Caridina shrimp like the crystal red shrimp require PH of below 7.0. You do this by using a buffering substrate that lowers the PH below 7.0.

This is done due to their cation exchange ability. It remove hardeners from the water. It also reduce carbonate hardness and lowers the pH value. This might sound complex, but truly you don't have to do much on your end as the freshwater shrimp keeper.

Additionally they also want the General hardness (GH) of the shrimp to be on the softer side. In your aquarium you will measure hardness by degrees of hardness. You want to be between 3-5 GH for live shrimp like caridina shrimp.

Making your water soft is generally done by using RODI water and add back in minerals with shrimp specific minerals. This is done with products like Salty Shrimp Shrimp Mineral GH/KH+.

To recap caridina shrimp will want PH below 7.0 and water with a hardness of 3-5 GH. This is to ensure they breed and thrive in your home aquarium.

Neocaridina Water Parameters

A harder water type of freshwater shrimp species is the Neocaridina Shrimp. Neocaridina shrimp are often considered the easier shrimp to keep. They are well adapted to thrive in the largest range of most tap water in the United States of America.

They can be drip acclimated to even live with your caridina shrimp in caridina shrimp parameters. This is a very slow process to adjust them. Often it is simply best to keep any shrimp in the same or similar parameters as it was born into.

Neocaridina Freshwater Shrimp do have preferred range of water conditions. This is optimal if you truly want them to breed and thrive in your shrimp tank. The ideal range is a PH of 7.0-7.8 and GH of 8-12.

Do your water parameters don't fall in this range? If you don't looking at RODI water and adding back in good minerals might be a good choice for you. Using RODI water is stripping the water of all minerals good and bad. Then only adding back in the good minerals!

This eliminates many issues with new shrimp keepers as you are taking most of the bad variables out of play!

Breeding Live Shrimp - Freshwater Shrimp

Freshwater shrimp are prolific breeders. Red Cherry Shrimp are considers some of the fastest to breeding. Providing optimal water quality is important. High quality food with a diet of 70% vegetable and 30% proteins is equally important.

Live plants aid in breeding. Live plants provide mico-organisms for the baby shrimp to eat as well as cover for hiding as they grow.

Blanched vegetables are a great to use along with food like Ebita Breed Quatro 2.

Freshwater shrimp will reproduce more quickly when fed high quality diets. Watching your females saddle and then become berried is the pinnacle of shrimp keeping. Find articles on breeding freshwater shrimp at Shrimp Farm University. Once mastering the easy to breed shrimp, people move onto breeding ghost shrimp, bamboo shrimp or breeding Amano shrimp as more of a challenge.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Caridina and Neocaridina shrimp?

Neocaridina and Caridina shrimp are essentially very similar in biology, but not enough to make them reproduce with each other. Check out our article on the difference.

What is the best freshwater shrimp for sale?

Most shrimp tank keepers start with red cherry shrimp. They are good Algae eating shrimp! Another consideration would be pairing Blue Dream Shrimp with Mystery snails to fight the algae in your aquarium.

How many cherry shrimp should be kept together?

As a general rule you should start with 5-10 shrimp. If breeding species of them are your goal starting with stock between 10-20 is recommended.

How many freshwater shrimp should I put in my aquarium?

Freshwater Shrimp produce very little bio-load to your aquarium. Generally with a well cycled tank you can house 75-150 healthy shrimp in 10 gallon aquariums.

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