Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

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Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

Yes, I am. [Please reply and state the kind you are keeping and if they are SW or FW also what you are currently feeding them.]
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56%
No, I am not.
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28%
I plan to in the future. [Please reply and state the kind you are thinking of keeping and if they are SW or FW]
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16%
 
Total votes: 25
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Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

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This is a marketing question. I have a new business idea for my wife and need some market feed back.

your help is greatly appreciated!

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Post by xrayjeeper83 »

I didnt have my option, have shrimp and tryin to breed but no babies yet
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haha you missed the and or part :P
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Post by xrayjeeper83 »

I dont always read everything lol

Mine are in a 10 gallon lightly planted, I need to get a java ball for em. oh and they are ghost shrimp, I tried RCS but my beta thought they were a snack for him. Feeding em crab/lobster pellets, fish flakes, and the algae growing in the tank
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I have a 10 gal at my aunts house i let her use to keep her fry in and im trying to get some marbled crays to breed in there.
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Post by Hierony »

Red Cherry Shrimp in a heavily planted FW 10g. They munch on algae and DP scraps. Just had a group hatch have verified 4 babies alive so far. Another female is about one week with eggs.
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Re: Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

Post by LilGreenPuffer »

I keep ghost shrimp. I have kept red cherries.

Right now, I'm really into triops. I have several species. I will probably have eggs for sale soon.

I'd really like to acquire some ninja shrimp, plus several other types of freshwater dwarf shrimp.
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those triops look really cool.
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Re: Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

Post by RTR »

I currently have only Red-clawed Macro shrimp, Snowballs, and Red Cherry shrimp, all FW, all planted, 33XL, 10, and 20-long respectively. All are breeding, but the snowball shrimp are dying out very slowly - they ave never done well for me.

Technically, I guess you could say that I keep and breed the Hawaiian red BW shrimp, but they are in one of those Eco-sphere things, but as it is a closed system all you need do is get the light right. It is between 8 and 9 years old ATM.

In the past I have keep quite a number of different shrimp.
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Re: Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

Post by Pufferpunk »

I'm sorry, i voted incorrectly. I keep several SW shrimp, including a large, Peaocock mantis, pistol, fire & coralbanded.
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SW fireshrimp, FW Ghost shrimp (none breeding thou)
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Breed cherry shrimp and they're fed almost everything. They get some of everything that every fish eats.
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Post by diverchic »

Cherry Shrimp in with my non-puffer fish and they get shrimp pellets and help the snails and pleco's with algae wafers. Got them to breed so I could feed them to my dp's but the dp's don't see them as food and I have actually one dp lay on gravel while shrimp walked over it!
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Post by rachel »

We have thor shrimps, trying to breed them without any good result. We also have various shrimps (not with the puffer!).
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Re: Poll: Are you keeping and or breeding shrimp?

Post by Ohyouknow »

Doing research in order to support some RCS, I'd love to breed them...
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