Revaria Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 Wow you are going through some crazy experiments, congratulations. Its cool that your sharing your work with us, thanks I hope you are able to get them breeding in total freshwater or close to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted January 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 None of the third generation Amano larvae lived past 20 days. Temperature swing during winter time may be the cause of all that. Or I need to fine tune the ppt ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted January 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2019 Quite a few of second generation Amano shrimp to continue my experiments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted February 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Four of these Amano shrimp never see the day light of freshwater. They live their entire life in 10 ppt to 20 ppt brackish water ever since they were born. Never seen to care much about the Shrimp food. Think they live on diatoms and algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted March 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 After this video, I removed half-dozen of brackish water dwelling Amano shrimps from my third tries on third gens Amano shrimp larvae. They seem dining on larvae protein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted April 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 Over 10 days old F3 larvae begin to color up orange. Many alive and growing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted June 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) Finally found the optimal salinity for rearing F3 Amano Shrimp Larvae. They’re at 1/2 gallon brackish water at 24 ppt. Not using any foam filter. Don’t have 24 hrs light on. Edited June 26, 2019 by shouu Edited. EverStuff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted June 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 Just mixed the brackish water Amano shrimp in the opal ula tank. Brackish water grown Amano shrimp is 9 months to a year old at .75 inch and I think that all they going to grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted July 10, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2019 After several failed start and about to quit breeding them, finally found out that my tap water is a lot softer than use to by about 5GH. After up the GH to the tap water and now they looking good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted July 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 Yeah, F3 Amano shrimp on their way. Some time between a week to 10 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted July 21, 2019 Report Share Posted July 21, 2019 Shouu, I just read you post from 2015, and it's impressive! Good job.I always want it try breeding this shrimp, but never was confident that I can do this, after reading your success story, I think I will try this time So in my planted tank I have about 10+ adult Amano shrimps and 2 females are always with eggs.Before I start catching them, how do you know when larva is about to be dropped? (Maybe color change)Before larva gets dropped you place female in 3Galon fresh water correct? And than adjust salinity to 1.018?Thank you!Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted July 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2019 When the berried shrimp eggs turn from Dark color to grayish , i put the berried shrimp in a small container with some moss. Change one third of the water with a bit colder dechlorinated tap water every other days. Colder water seems to trigger the shrimp to release the Larvae when the berried shrimp ready.Work for me. Catching the last few larvae, shots them on the sieve and transfer them to the brackish water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Shouu, So I separated female, did one WC and over night she dropped larvae. Placed larvae in well cycled 2.5G tank with heater and very gently bubbling sponge filter Salinity 1.018 Larvae floating all over and I hope they doing well How long to you keep light on? Also I don't have algae on the walls like you showing in your videos, what can I use to start feeding ? I have bucket with rain water outside that is very green color, I can filter (10 micron) and feed few drops of that, or I gave spirulina powder Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted July 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 The tank is seeded with live Nanochloropsus (Japanese Chlorella) phytoplankton. Larvae feeding on algae in the tank and I move the spot light around different parts of the tank, so they won’t pick clear on one area. Light on most of the time, sometimes off. Very careful not over feed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted July 29, 2019 Report Share Posted July 29, 2019 Thank you will keep eye how much food I add.I'm not sure if I will be able to find Japanese plankton, but I will start will some spirulina and natural green water...Do you do water change at all? Or just tapoff with RO water ?Thanks again for your reply.Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted July 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2019 RO to adjust the salinity. Weekly 10 to 15% water change to keep ammonia under control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted August 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2019 Testing the larvae vigor by way of a spot light high above the tank bottom at four inches and see how they swim to the light, so far they are in good shape. Can’t kept them in mid water and the go hunger as over filter the water filter all the phytoplankton floating in the water. Turn off the lights some of the time and they will settle on the tank surface to get their nourishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted August 11, 2019 Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 Attempt #1, complete failure. On the 7/27 i transferred larva to SW, and by 8/3 all was dead I did clen tank bottom and did 3% WC once I think they all died because they have nothing to eat, in your setup you have massive algae on all surface, maybe I will take this tank outside to it will build an algae and than i do shrimp transfer... Or that will be "hair algae" and it's not going to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted August 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 On 8/10/2019 at 5:17 PM, Hunter said: Or that will be "hair algae" and it's not going to work? Have to remove saltwater hair algae from the larvae rearing tank, Larvae will not feedings on hair algae, certainly Amano Shrimplets will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted November 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 The count still not high enough to work on F4 next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted November 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2019 So continues on breeding F3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted December 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2019 Added a grow light on 24/7 to keep the water green and feeds the larvae phytoplankton a few times a week. Another videoclip with a larvae swimming forward and about to morph into little shrimp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanArtRebel1020 Posted December 21, 2019 Report Share Posted December 21, 2019 This is amazing Im inspired to try this.How do I know how much ppt I have per ten gallon? how much is a good ready ppt? Teaspoon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted December 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2019 Read the salinity with a hydrometer or refractometer. Added some newly hatch larvae in the tank and vids an unfortunates larvae got snatched and eaten alive by a older larvae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shouu Posted February 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2020 A number of them turn into shrimplets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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