Any tips on breeding Crystal Red Shrimps?

[Jaffar]

I am keeping cherry shrimps in my 1 feet nano tank without any problems. Just using fan to bring down the temperature of the tank. I intend to keep Crystal red shrimp and if possible breed them. According to the LFS uncle, he told me that a chiller would be required for CRS to breed.

Can I know what is the experience of other CRS breeders. Is a chiller a neccessity to breed CRS? Please advice. Many thanks

[boonpeiu]

I will highly recommend you to get a chiller.
I start off keeping CRS with fan only, though they survive, but expect colour lost and stressful CRS.

[Peterfoo]

you can count me in, i too have the sentiment of trying a crs tank. What is the ideal tank size, temprature and the food needed.

Successful breeder out there, any tips?

thanks

[koonac]

There was someone in AF forums who managed to breed CRS in 27deg and there was a thread on it.. but then again, it's probably 1 sucess story out of the many many failure ones. I used to keep CRS without chiller and without fail there was at least 1 casualty per week. After I redid my CRS setup and added a chiller they kept breeding like rabbits..

Just a thought.. we all know CRS needs to be kept in low temp 24deg - 26deg.. Anything higher will make them stressful, so how will they even have the mood to breed when half the time they're trying hard to survive?

[Jaffar]

I knew that CRS needed a cool environment but did not know it is within the range of 24deg-26 deg. Thanks for all the advice. I will start looking for a chiller.

[peter2883]

Regular Water Change (Using Aged water that has been de-chlorinated) every week (Around 10%-20%)

Good filtration (My choice Canister) You need the water to cycle around 4 times the volume of your water... I kiasu I'm cycling around 2000l/hr

Temp as per Koonac (Mine is at 24 as I'm using a chiller)

Use a good subtrate like ADA / Magic Soil / GEX etc... It lowers the PH...

CRS like PH from 6.0 - 7.0 (Mine is 6.8 & I trying to lower it to 6.5)

Tank size I would say minimum a 02 footer... The higher the volume of water the better to control the water parameter... (I using a 03 footer)

I'm just sharing info although I'm new to this but I've been following anything on CRS for around 14 months...