Re: [GSAS-Member] Amano shrimp, housepaint, Placidochromis 'electra'

[haika@drizzle.com]

There's a whole bunch of info on the web about breeding and rearing Amano
shrimp. I stumbled on one several months ago that I look for today without
success....it had great photos which showed you how to sex the smaller
Amanos from lateral spot shape etc. There was a bunch of info on that site
about experiments with varying levels of salinity while rearing the young.
Bottom line: Amano shrimp need to be reared in salt water. You can put the
female in a tank, wait for her to release the eggs (I can't rememeber if
she hatches the eggs while still holding them and then releases larvae OR
whether she releases eggs), remove her and then start increasing the
salinity. I think the young ate green water/yeast. When my female Amano
was carrying eggs, I researched this, but decided that it was just a
larger task than I wanted to take on and decided to experiment with the
little red cherry shrimp (Neocaridina denticulata sinensis)instead, which
are totally freshwater and don't have a larval planktonic stage like the
Amanos. Trouble is, I put the red cherry shrimp in the same tank as my
male Dario darios, and any baby shrimp are probably Dario food (weak
grin). So....not much success there.

Betty Goetz

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