Need help about breeding yamato shrimps

[go9ma123]

Hi.
2 of my yamato shrimps have eggs. They both had for about 23-25days. Today when I gave them food, I saw this one yamato shrimp moving the tails and I saw like 50 baby shrimps moving. I heard that, they need brackish water to survive. Should add some aquarium salt to it? Any help would thankful.

[Quixotic]

Mike Noren's website don't seem to be working, see if you can go through the steps here and you should find the information needed.

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...6&postcount=12

[fisherw]

Try this one:

http://caridina.japonica.online.fr/English/Elevage.htm

Credit given to Mike Noren's website so info likely to be from there. From what I have read, very difficult. Good luck.

[eraserbones]

I've raised several batches of Yamato larvae using more-or-less the method described in the above link. (The Mike Noren article is great, but his method is much more labor-intensive.)

I have a few online pages about my experiences, here:

http://www.flisrand.com/nerdly/Nerdl...g/Archive.html

Simply adding salt to your existing tank most likely won't work -- the best thing is to get an algae culture going a few weeks before the eggs start to hatch. Unfortunately I don't have a Tetraselmis starter to offer up, as all that is back in the US. Perhaps there is a local biological supply store that could provide that.

[Quixotic]

Quite an interesting project you have got going. What is the survival rate now that you have more experience in raising them?

I would agree that it may be a little too late, too difficult to do anything if the tanks are not ready by the time you see larvaes around. Unfortunately, here in Singapore, I don't think we would be able to find Tetraselmis cultures either (not that I have heard of anyway).

[marle]

I've raised several batches of Yamato larvae using more-or-less the method described in the above link. (The Mike Noren article is great, but his method is much more labor-intensive.)

I have a few online pages about my experiences, here:

http://www.flisrand.com/nerdly/Nerdl...g/Archive.html

Simply adding salt to your existing tank most likely won't work -- the best thing is to get an algae culture going a few weeks before the eggs start to hatch. Unfortunately I don't have a Tetraselmis starter to offer up, as all that is back in the US. Perhaps there is a local biological supply store that could provide that.

great archive bro. appluads for the effort.

[eraserbones]

Quite an interesting project you have got going. What is the survival rate now that you have more experience in raising them?

Thanks! The results are still wildly inconsistent. Only once have a had near-complete survival with hundreds of adult shrimp at the end. That blog post is from a while ago when I was trying to pin down the variables... I learned what definitely does not work, but not what always does.

In the meantime I'm trying to figure out about carrying some ninja shrimp home with me in a few weeks -- with luck they'll yield to the same technique.

I would agree that it may be a little too late, too difficult to do anything if the tanks are not ready by the time you see larvaes around. Unfortunately, here in Singapore, I don't think we would be able to find Tetraselmis cultures either (not that I have heard of anyway).

Well, you have the advantage of living near the ocean. It /might/ work for you to just dip up a spoonful of seawater and feed it lots of light and a bit of fertilizer. You wouldn't get a known variety of phytoplankton that way, but you'll probably get green water of some sort. That may well do the trick.

[go9ma123]

I just have 4 yamato shrimps and they happen to have eggs... I don't think I won't be able to breed these baby shrimps... too hard =(