Pregnant Yamato shrimps!!

**sesom** · 18th Mar 2003, 14:20

Hi there
Wonder do I post my enquiry here. I noticed that my Yamato prawn is pregnant with eggs in my planted tanks. Does anybody has experience to share about breeding prawns or knows of website that may be helpful. I hope those roes do not end up as sashimi for my cardinals and rummies and glass cat! Thank you.

**DEA** · 18th Mar 2003, 15:19

amazing as it may sound, but yamatos seem to breed quite easily
so long as you don't have particularly agressive fish and you have thick vegetation, you can find small yamatos in your tank, and especially in your filter
my tank has only cories and cardinals, the last time i washed my filter, i washed down about a dozen small yamato shrimp by accident
only managed to rescue a few, left them in the filter

i would suggest adding a little salt
i noticed a lot of small yamatos in my tank the last time i salted heavily to treat exoparasites
maybe it's part of their lifecyle

good luck

**sesom** · 18th Mar 2003, 16:20

Hello Dea
Thanks for your advise. I will adjust my canister filter inlet higher so that it will not suck up any fry near the bottom, shd there by any. Cheers.

**NinjaFly** · 19th Mar 2003, 16:25

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i would suggest adding a little salt ............
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Hi DEA, if I would like to breed malayan shrimps and cherry shrimps, do I add bits of salt too?

I remember reading somewhere an article mentioning that the juvenile shrimps need a higher salt content.

**theodore** · 19th Mar 2003, 17:09

Check this out :
http://users.skynet.be/caridina-japonica/

**apollo** · 22nd Sep 2003, 16:13

Hi Guys

Just want to share my experience in witnessing my yamato spawns in my riccia tank.

Have been observing my yamato shrimp for awhile already and suddenly on Sun afternoon, i saw the water turn cloudy!

On closer look, saw alot of suspended particulars in the water which were the yamato fries!

Every now and then, i glued myself to the tank and my wife think i am SIOW already!

Wonder if any of them will live so that i got a story to tell in this forum in the future.

Meantime any advise will be appreciated.

**vinz** · 22nd Sep 2003, 16:52

Good luck!

**Fei Miao** · 22nd Sep 2003, 16:54

WOW! Is this the first time somebody in this forum manage to have a spawn for Yamatos?

Congrats!!

**lorba** · 22nd Sep 2003, 17:11

if its a shrimp-only tank, chances are they will make it.

**murphys33** · 22nd Sep 2003, 17:59

congrats!!! you are probably the first in Singapore to have spawned yamatoes - wow! first recorded case in a public forum. hoepthey all survive - do share details of your tank - type of plants, water parameters etc

**PohSan** · 22nd Sep 2003, 18:05

have u suck out the cloundy water into another container Just in case other fish or shrimp might eat the fry?

**vinz** · 22nd Sep 2003, 23:38

Someone else has spawned yamatos before... now if I could only find the webpage. Timebomb might know.

**theodore** · 22nd Sep 2003, 23:59

You may find this site useful : Caridina Japonica Site

Good luck.

**PohSan** · 23rd Sep 2003, 01:21

One of the german breeding report in &quot;Caridina Japonica&quot; site mentioned about adding seawater in the bucket with larva. Why is it so? I thought yamato shrimp is freshwater creature?

**vinz** · 23rd Sep 2003, 01:23

Actually, it's natural environment is brackish water.

**apollo** · 23rd Sep 2003, 10:12

Hi Guys

Its in my Cherry shrimps only tank.

Did read that they need brackish water but since i have to my little cherry shrimps to consider, am leaving it as it is.

Dont expect it to be fruitful but hope to see some results.

Will keep you guys posted.

**blurrblurr** · 1st Apr 2004, 23:53

two day ago I saw eggs in my yamatos stomach. I quarantine it and hoping it would give birth. Today amazingly I saw 50% of the egg gone but not able to find any fries. anyone know why? will yamato eat its own egg?