April 2010

There has be a lot of talk lately on a few of the message boards I frequent about difficulties breeding Tiger Shrimp (Caridina sp.).  Why are there so many people having trouble breeding this shrimp?

After observing my 2 100% captive raised berried females for a while now I have decided to move them to their own aquarium in preparation for the larval hatch.

It has been a while since I last updated this series. But today is an important day in it!

The young shrimp have started to grow a little more rapidly now and have started to display a more aggressive feeding response.  They will gather around a food pellet and begin to eat with in a few short minutes of the pellet being added to the aquarium. 

On October 22 the larva morphed into their adult form.  That was a little under a week of larval stage.  Now that they have morphed they are now kept in a 2.5-gallon aquarium to establish a breeding population.

The first larva have been found in the American Glass Shrimp aquarium.  I was able to separate a few from the main tank into their own dedicated rearing container.  They will be kept in a small container and fed powdered Spirulina and decapsulated brine shrimp eggs until they morph into an adult form.

The American Glass Shrimp is the most common dwarf shrimp in the aquarium hobby.  It is most often sold at local fish stores as a feeder shrimp and because of its feeder status it is often mistreated.  The poor shipping methods used when dealing with feeder shrimp and over crowded holding aquariums often lead this […]

One of the most commonly sold shrimp in the freshwater aquarium hobby is what is labeled as the “ghost shrimp”. Most of the time these shrimp are sold a feeders for larger fish, but on the rare occasion they are given the respect they deserve and are sold as pets.

Over the past few days I have been discussing Hybridization of Dwarf Shrimp and attempting to show my arguments against it. Today I am going to attempt to refute arguments for it. Here are a few of the arguments for hybridization that I have come across.

Yesterday I discussed what hybridization with Dwarf Shrimp was and today I will go into why I think it is a bad idea. Here is a list of reasons I believe so.