Anyone SUCCESSFULLY rear shrimp fry?

[plankton123]

Every month like clock work my two blood shrimp and six peppermints contribute to the overall plankton in my 100 by releasing several hundred fry. If I'm luckly, I'm up late enough on a full moon when the fry are released and can:

a) watch the fish go nuts trying to eat the rather large fry

b) run like nuts to get my flash light and large seringe with long airline tube to try and collect the fry.

I usually get at least 15-20 of the fry and usually can rear them for several weeks. But, around 5 to 6 weeks they die. I don't what kills them. Maybe they simply starve to death. But, I would love to talk with someone who has successfully reared these shrimp all through their various molts to teenage years (~ 3 months).

I've been feeding them various stages of artemia (freshly hatched gut loaded to several days old, etc).

In fact, I have a batch running right now of about 15 and when they get big enough to photograph I'll try to post some pictures of them. They are extremely cute. Mine are currently at the stage where they drop from the water column and setting on the bottom. They eat ALOT of baby brine shrimp.

 

[danmhippo]

Have you read this book yet? It's a very easy reading book if you are thinking of shrimp rearing.....

http://lysmatapublishing.com/shrimp.html

 

[plankton123]

COOL!

I've already read Joyce Wilkerson's book about rearing anenome fish as well as commerical books on aquaculture techniques, etc. BUT I never seen a book like this. I like the picture of a baby shimp fry in the middle right of the page since this is exactly what mine look like (I guess all shrimp).

Thanks. I'm going to order one right away.

Scott

 

[Entacmaea]

I read the Kirkendoll book, and it is interesting. I have several portions of my overflow and sump that I have made into rearing areas, feeding powdered flake, golden pearl clusters, etc. I can get them to about 3/4 inch, but I have never seen any larger than that. I have a overhead 12 gallon refugium with six peppermints spawning that drains via gravity to the main tank. At night I would probably estimate I have at least 500 of the 1/4 to 1/2 larvae in my main tank, half that in the fuge, all swarming. The book, of course, makes it seem easier than it is to raise them, but then again I have not exactly set up a separate rearing tank. My system and refugium was designed to keep a mandarin fat and happy, which it does very well. Maybe that is the real reason I can't get the shrimp to adult size- they never get beyond "bite" size :wink:

Good luck though, if I had more time I would probably try to rear some myself...

Peter

 

[Anonymous]

Longest I got them to live was 2 1/2 weeks, but that was without trying too hard, the tank crashed on me L8r mega

 

[Ritteri&Bubbles]

You basically need greenwater and rotifers for raising brine shrimp. The green water feeds the rotifers and the rotifers feed the shrimpies! You can do the whole thing for under $40 too!