Peppemint Shrimp Breeding

hunt

hunt

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I want to get two or three peppermint shrimp and put them in my 1g tank. My question is, if they breed, can i just put some phyto feast in the 1g and they will live, or do i have to actually do something thatll cost me?
Any imput on breeding these will be helpful
 
aquaman

aquaman

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you will need larger than a 1 gal, I would go with at least a 10g, and then you need to have very light filtration so the young shrip do not get sucked up. You may even need to move the adults out, but I am not sure on that. Last the feeding will be harder than phyto, that may work as they get bigger, but I am sure you would need something smaller than that. There are people on this site that know much more than I do about this. I was able to get them to breed, but never past the first few hours of life for the babies.
 
hunt

hunt

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well then in that case it sounds much cheaper to just buy them for like 9 bucks a piece
 
hunt

hunt

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Originally Posted by Aquaman
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you will need larger than a 1 gal, I would go with at least a 10g, and then you need to have very light filtration so the young shrip do not get sucked up. You may even need to move the adults out, but I am not sure on that. Last the feeding will be harder than phyto, that may work as they get bigger, but I am sure you would need something smaller than that. There are people on this site that know much more than I do about this. I was able to get them to breed, but never past the first few hours of life for the babies.

shrimpy brains just gave me a great site for this, if your interested in breeding them, marinebreeder.org
 
hunt

hunt

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I really dont remember the price i saw, that was a guess,
i want them for aiptasia, its either those (cheap) or berghia(not that cheap) i would rather go with the nudi but my cash flow is running on empty so i figured if i can get a dew generations out of a few peppermint shrimp, i would be good
 
lmecher

lmecher

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I have (I think) 10 in my 50. They breed regularly, 1 gallon is way too small for 1 (it would almost touch both sides) let alone 2. How about a couple sexys? I used to keep 1 in my 2 1/2g.
 
hunt

hunt

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what do you mean, it would almost touch both sides? anyways, im trying to kill off aiptasia so a sexy would not help me.
Ive never seen a peppermint shrimp at 2,50 here, your store muust have a supplier near by or something.
 
handbanana

handbanana

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on sale in phx AZ for 12.99 or two for twenty. Good luck breeding them Hunt. That would be cool if it works out.
 
jchase1970

jchase1970

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I just bought 10 for $30 so maybe you can check another store, although the first store here had them for $9 apiece or 3 for $25.
 
jackri

jackri

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I've had them spawn regularly in my 90g before and have had the fry for 3-4 days in some instances. If you're not set up to raise them you basically have no chance and if you are set up you are still going to have a lot of die off. Theres a book out there called How to Rear and Raise Peppermint Shrimp. The title is close to that if I got a word off.
 
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