Will anyone raise baby fire shrimp?

[rookie07]

I have a pair of Fire Shrimp. They "make" babies every few months. They released babies tonight.

My question is, would someone be willing to raise a batch of baby fire shrimp. There are several types of deals we could work out, varying from a one time, grower keep almost all, a mutual sale, and more than 1 time deal, etc....


I would have to send you a PM the night it happens, and collect as many as I could in the few hour window that I would have.


Let me know your thoughts, I have no idea if this would even be possible...

Thanks for looking,
Rookie

 

[rookie07]

Does anyone have any experience raising shrimp/inverts?

 

[tacson]

I'm interested pm me and how much

 

[SWITCH420]

how small are they? i have a small tank setup that i can use

 

[qy7400]

Not a very easy task from what I've read but http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=150 has some good info.

 

[ReefFan]

I had that happening with 2 Peppermint Shrimp at least once a month for 6 months. If I didnt notice the eggs on her underbelly it was always obvious when the PJ Cardinals in there with them would start zipping around eating things w/o me having put food in there.

Havnt seen babies in a couple months though and not sure why, if they have stopped. So if youre gonna do this, better get on it cuz they might stop out of no where. I dunno what changed, I changed the lighting above this tank from T5 HO to more powerful MH and I added a powerhead.

I noticed a Cleaner Shrimp in my MT with a belly full of eggs about a month ago. But nothing since. I figured without being fully equipped with all the means for this difficult rearing process, I might as well resign to the fact that the babies would be some quality live food for fish.

But i know how it feels, all these babies trying to swim around and ya cant do anything for em. GL man, hope you can achieve some success while they are actively breeding.

-Jay

 

[rookie07]

This is what I found...not sure as to accuracy.
" there are several dangerous molts the shrimp has to go through to reach adulthood. Most commercial brands of salt dont have what you will need. I read about a study using different brand salts, and testing with urchins that were made to spawn. the larva were put into the tanks and most brands caused death. Bio sea was one of the best, and most of the urchins lived"

"I hear it is a lot of work, you have to use newly hatched live food. You have to have tons of food in the water as they don't hunt well and that results in allot of waste so you will need to clean it daily.

Since they don't swim well you should have very slow water movement. A sponge filter with an airstone would be the best way to go. Live sand would be a waste as you need to siphon all the uneaten food out daily and you would suck the sand out all the time."

 

[rookie07]

I could place a few porous rocks in the tank before the next spawn, but I dont think it seems worth it, based on these comments above. If anyone knows the above statements to be WRONG, please let me know.
Thank you

I would give 2 people* some to try with, I just would not take more than a few out, as they may be somewhat annoying to catch.

*If more than 2 people would like to try rearing these shrimp, the best 2 setups which should have highest survival probability will get samples of fire shrimp

 

[bizarrecorals]

is not easy at all, if is going to be done, might be better if left in its original tank, by moving it will difinity kill it, shouldnt put it in a small tank either, if they do grow, the ammonia in the tank will sky rocket. If you insist on pursuing, use a small sponge filter w/ a peice of really cured live rock, do w/c daily from its orignal tank. good luck on taking the water out of the tank doing w/c, the babies don't stay in one spot, they go all over.

 

[Josh]

Talk to domboski, I know he has equipment for rearing seahorses.

 

[rookie07]

Bizarrecorals: Thank you, very helpful
Josh: Thank you