Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: AdyDnt on July 03, 2015, 07:24:17 PM
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I'm glad to say I'm now the proud owner of 6 red cherry shrimp. I couldn't wait any longer and red was my original choice of colour so bought some from my nearest MA. There such a delight to watch.
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If you have a mixture of males and females, you'll soon have baby shrimps too ;D They are very tiny so check the old water at every water change.
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Well Done,
I know exactly what you mean. I haven't had the TV on since I got mine. Absolutely fascinating!
Skittler
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Glad to hear you've got your shrimp. As everyone says, they're very entertaining and very busy. I now have mine in a 60 litre tank along with some micro rasbora and I spend a lot of time watching the shrimp and fish in there.
Keep your eyes open for the babies – about the size of a grain of rice, and very cute! :)
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I don't quite know what I'm looking for to sex them but I do keep looking at them for any sign of been berried, not that they sit still when you want them to
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I have had my first lot of shrimp since 18th April and although some of the 12 were small I would have expected them to be old enough now to breed.
My second 5 I bought from a different supplier in June, again a mix of sizes.
So far I have not had a single berried shrimp, apart from Big Momma Amano in the main tank who is HUGE and being an amano I know I shall not be a grandma with her.
Ah well, as long as they continue to live I shall just have to put up with there contrariness
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One way to sex cherry shrimp is by the shape of the abdomen. Males have a flat abdomen while a female's curves downwards to make room to hold eggs. I've never been much good at seeing the difference though.
Mature females will have something called a saddle unless she is carrying eggs. The saddle is a paler coloured area on the back just behind the head. It is the eggs inside the ovary showing through and it does look the same shape as a horse's saddle.
When a female is carrying eggs you can see them under her abdomen between the swimmerets. This is often called being berried because that's just what the eggs look like - a bunch of berries.
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Well unfortunately I have had 1 die, and another 1 is very good at hide and seek, I can always find 4 but never the 5th, I'm also going to buy another group from a different supplier just to keep the gene pool mixed if I have some male & females