Juvi Amanos

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:10 am

Found a couple of juvi < 1" sized amano shrimp in my 90P this weekend. I do have a ton of large females in there that are constantly berried up - I guess a tiny percentage do end up surviving.

Judi · Post by **Judi** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:09 pm

gconcepcion · Post by **gconcepcion** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:15 pm

Ghazanfar Ghori wrote:Found a couple of juvi < 1" sized amano shrimp in my 90P this weekend. I do have a ton of large females in there that are constantly berried up - I guess a tiny percentage do end up surviving.

I had Caridina japonica growing in a 55 gallon planted tank back in 2003 and they used to reproduce like crazy. I got them from some lady in west virginia that had good success with them. I was constantly selling clumps of java moss + shrimp on ebay and made some nice pocket change that way.

gconcepcion · Post by **gconcepcion** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:44 pm

out of curiosity, do you add any salt to your tank?

I've always kept my freshwater tanks a little salty

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:31 pm

That explains why you had good luck with the larvae surviving. I should try that some time.

chris_todd · Post by **chris_todd** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:27 pm

This is your high-tech 90p, which I presume you dose regularly? I wonder whether the ferts might be doing the trick? It's not exactly sea salt, but if you're dosing NPK and micros, you are at least increasing the conductivity (and probably getting at least some of the constituent ions in sea salt (K, Mg, Ca), if not in the right proportions).

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:34 pm

Thats a good point! Though I don't dose regularly - every few weeks I feel sorry for the plants and give them some yummy NPK.

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