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bro where and how much you got it?
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Hi guys,
my ninja shrimps spawned, can see very small little fries with a sag attached to them floating around the water. I think its undergoing a planktonic change. But i guess the fries require brackish water or saltish water to survive. Thus metamorphosing into post-larvae and assuming a benthic lifestyle is more important. My tank does not have the two required conditions. I doubt the survival rate is high but just hope for the best. Anyone who has bred them can share any experience?
I have atttached some pictures of the ninja shrimps.
cannot manage to take pictures of the larvae, but saw an online picture, the larvae looks similar to that of yamato shrimps.
Source: http://www.fishforums.net/content-pa...ation/page/20/
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bro where and how much you got it?
Looks very nice!!!
Hope some seniors here have experience in ninja shrimps & can advise you.
Hope the fries can survive.
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read some posts by users from other forums
http://www.tropicalfishforums.co.uk/...php/t-505.html
fishgeek
17-07-2007, 12:15 AM
"cherry, bee, tiger and cyrstal all have no planktonic stage , ie they release small shrimp from the egg's carried on the swimmerettes
this makes these shrimp infinitley easier to breed as no special rearing tank is required and feeding of the young is less involved
amano, as has been rightly pointed out, along with other shrimp have a planktonic lifcycle that requires (and there seems to be two variable schools of thought here) an increase in salinity gradual... as they would naturally drift down stream toward the sea from marshy fresh waters
these small planktonic stages(much like brine shrimp) also need microfoods algae/bacteria etc
after a period they moult and become shrimp shaped and swim back toward fresher waters
obviously much more involved for the latter
andrew"
No wonder the high price! It is rare and breeding it might be harder than cherry, bee, tiger and cyrstal.
Interesting website: http://caridina.japonica.online.fr/English/Elevage.htm
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Never create what you can't control
The price is high, not just solely because of the conditions in breeding them, otherwise Caridina multidentata (Amano shrimps) should also be expensive by the reasoning.
It helps when the shrimps show strong colours and has variable patterns, aquarists are more willing to fork out the money for them.
BTW, as far as I know, C. serratirostris larvae requires brackishwater to survive. So you would probably need to increase the salinity of the water.
However, I have not really seen any specified parameters of successful breeding, so this may be quite a difficult task.
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ACtually ninja shrimp were out long ago in singapore...and the price was not so expensive.. i believe once it droped to only less than 40% of what it is now... perhaps with the current "shrimp craze"... they decided to release it again and restore the old price.... funny...because they don't breed or can seldom succeed at breeding in fresh water...unlike CRS..
That simply translates to an investment with no possible returns without further additional investment and efforts.
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i do not have a chiller, but i don't mind setting up a brackish water tank. Will it work?
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Never create what you can't control
You can try the method used on C. multidentata (Amano/Yamato shrimp), but there seems to be some problems with Mike Noren's site.
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm
However, as mentioned before, I have heard of many failures in breeding C. serratirostris (ninja shrimp) and have not seen any specific parameters of successful breeding.
You would have to experiment a bit, either move them to a brackish water tank, or move the adults out and raise the salinity of the original tank.
Cool! Let us know when you successfully breed them
Bro Marle, keep us posted on your ninja shrimp breeding soon!!
Good Luck!!
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hey there, do you know what type of salt must one buy to increase the salinity?Originally Posted by Quixotic
a website i found. http://badmanstropicalfish.com/brackish/brackish.html
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Never create what you can't control
Yes, it has been advised that to create the saline envinronment, salt for marine aquariums should be used.
Mike Noren's website doesn't seem to be working, not sure if it is a problem with the website or my end.
You can try to go to http://www.archive.org and search for "http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm". From there, you should be able to read the contents.
OT a little.
Since you are already having these shrimps, is it true that they will change colours from time to time?
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no problem,
yes bro, they do change colours. Some colours i have seen, pinkish red, black like those in the pictures and transparent. Most of the time the colours are like those in the pictures i posted.
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Thanks a lot!
BTW, how's your babies doing?
Last edited by Quixotic; 26th Dec 2007 at 14:38. Reason: Remove immediate quote
haha... just bought 10 ninjas from C328, however, all transparent and small... Hopefully, they don't end up in my filter if not dead.... cross my fingers...
I saw them in the shop, very small size & many are transparent. Only some have red patches.
Did you see them changing color in your tank
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Not yet lah... just put them into my tank last night... hope if I will be lucky enough I can find them tonight to see any difference with many malayan shrimps.
you bought from polyart? the few packs in their planted tank?
issit 10 for $1XX? if yes, thats not ninja shrimp. thats ninja samurai. although sounds similar i heard that its from indonisia.. not the real nina shrimp though.
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think they said c328.
babies? Nope did not see any left. Think brackish water is the way to go.
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