Aquaculture peppermint shrimp larva round two! (1 Viewer)

[Chad Vossen]

i have an idea myself to contain the shrimp in a safe zone yet have the water connected to my reef tank.

my idea goes something like this. but in my sump where i would have put a fuge.

http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/tamu/tamug01003.pdf

 

[RSnodgrass]

Hey way cool to see them and I love the macro shot once you see them next to the ruler.

 

[kylesmoney]

how are you preventing them from being pulled out with the water?

 

[kylesmoney]

it looks like just a piece of paper towel over the pipe but i would think that would fall apart?

 

[Chad Vossen]

it looks like just a piece of paper towel over the pipe but i would think that would fall apart?

can you quote the picture your talking about?

 

[Chad Vossen]

found a 4th shrimp today.

next meeting i go to, ill be selling the parent shrimp. ill probably sell them for 6$ each, to cover gas.... lol

 

[kylesmoney]

i was refering to the picture from storrisch at the end of the last page. i might just not understand exactly what im lookin at either.

 

[storrisch]

i was refering to the picture from storrisch at the end of the last page. i might just not understand exactly what im lookin at either.

The picture is of an egg tumbler/fry keeper I used when breeding cichlids. It allowed me to keep the fry in the same tank as the parents without any issues with them being eaten.

The stripped eggs were tumbled in the area just under the black cap until they were able to be moved into the specimen container that fed into above.

The travel of the air drew in fresh water with it and pushed the old out of the hole drilled in the center of the specimen container. There is a piece of nylon in there to keep any fry from swimming out (this needs to be cleaned daily.)

 

[kylesmoney]

cool i understand it when I look at it now :beerchug:

i was lookin at it and thought the nylon looked like paper towel and was thinkin to myself, that doesnt seem like it would work very well. :greenguy:

 

[Chad Vossen]

i have a shrimp larvae that has been repeatedly breaking legs off and regrowing them for over two weeks. every time this shrimp looks like its going to settle, it breaks a leg off.
anyways, this shrimp larvae seems to be taking on some behavior of the settled shrimp. it is using its legs to hold onto things and grasp the side of the tank. today it was laying face down on top of a pellet that i fed them, normally they would pick this up and swim with it.

i think this larvae is so past due for settlement that its behaving as it would if it had settled.

i still plan to feed the remaining larvae to the fish, though i just haven't gotten around to it. maybe ill end up with a 5th settled shrimp before i find the time to start a new project. hehe

 

[lottie_pufferfish]

Keep going with it, why stop?

 

[Chad Vossen]

Keep going with it, why stop?

i really wanna get started on the hermit crabs. or, first batch of sexy shrimp eggs, ill be ready for those.

i just want to familiarize myself with other inverts to determine what i have more success with.

i will absolutely do peppermint shrimp again. i really want to hit that 30 day settlement i keep hearing about. i think to settle in 30 days will require a heater, obviously.

 

[Chad Vossen]

before i forget, here are some pictures i took a few days ago.
these show the coloration on the "spear legs".

 

[Chad Vossen]

i found another, newly settled shrimp. my total is now 5. im moving them all into a breeder net inside the shrimp tank so they can grow up.

i have cleaned and painted their larval tank. im preparing it for the hermit crab larvae.

so, in the future, i will have two wild caught adults for sale as well as two captive born peppermint shrimp.

 

[FryzDog]

Keep up the good work and good luck with the hermits.

 

[Chad Vossen]

right now i have 5 small peppermint shrimp, and one of them is now on its second load of eggs. im tempted to raise a F2 batch, but right now i have 4-5 day old hermit crabs in the larval tank. i want to wait for those to settle before i make a thread on them.

 

[wolmutt]

pics of the shrimp?