How do you breed Ghost Shrimp?

How do you breed and raise ghost shrimp?

• Answer:

  Ghost shrimp are more of a challenge to breed than more colorful shrimp like cherry shrimp, blue pearl shrimp, and other Neocaridina ssp. http://www.theshrimpfarm.com/red-cherry-shrimp.php Breeding ghost shrimp required a special tank with a special sand filter. They are seasonal, so you may have to adjust the tank temperature gradually over time to simulate winter and summer if you obtained yours in the northern part of their range. The fry are very small, almost like the pelagic fry of some very difficult shrimp species. The sand filter provides the nearly microscopic live foods the tiny shrimp need when they first hatch out. All you need for the colorful tropical shrimp with non pelagic offspring is a bare bottom ten gallon or larger tank filled with wads of Java fern or similar live plants, and a sponge filter. Other than the challenge, breeding ghost shrimp produces shrimp with a low selling price. I enjoy the challenge of breeding the unusual or difficult, such as loaches, catfish, Goodeids, and invertebrates. Still you could start out with a beginner species like cherry shrimp, and then try ghost shrimp later. Growing cherry shrimp and feeding the ones with less color to the turtle would be good for the turtle and help maintain and enhance the color of your cherry shrimp strain. Shrimp such as cherry shrimp, blue pearl, and snowball are strains made by selective breeding. If they are not maintained by removing the shrimp that have an undesired color, they revert to a less colorful wild form.