Breeding japonica amano shrimp & salt water

[Nitesbane]

One of my amano shrimp is pregnant. I'd like to try to raise the fry and I
have heard that they need salt water in order to survive until they reach
the post larval stage. Can I use regular aquarium salt (Doc Wellfish's) to
make the salt water? I've done so before when I hatched brine shrimp, so
I'm guessing that it would be ok to use it to rear the amano shrimp as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Victor Martinez]

Nitesbane wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Google the aquaria groups for this subject. Somebody did a very good
webpage on breeding amanos and posted the link here a while ago.

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Here is a nice artle Wilma Duncun wrote on
breeding these guys

http://www.fish-forums.com/board/cms_view_article.php?aid=77


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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:59:18 GMT, "Nitesbane"
> wrote:

>One of my amano shrimp is pregnant. I'd like to try to raise the fry and I
>have heard that they need salt water in order to survive until they reach
>the post larval stage. Can I use regular aquarium salt (Doc Wellfish's) to
>make the salt water? I've done so before when I hatched brine shrimp, so
>I'm guessing that it would be ok to use it to rear the amano shrimp as well.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>

[Nitesbane]

"www.Fish-Forums.com" > wrote in message
...
> Here is a nice artle Wilma Duncun wrote on
> breeding these guys
>
> http://www.fish-forums.com/board/cms_view_article.php?aid=77
>
>

Thanks for the link, it confirmed most of my research on this subject.
However, there was no mention of anything relating to the question I really
had: Is regular aquarium salt (meant for freshwater fish) adequate for
creating salt water for raising these shrimp? The article you posted
mentioned using aquarium salt to create a brackish environment for the adult
shrimp, but did not say what he used for raising the fry. I'm afraid I
don't know much about salt and there are so many varieties out there!

[Mean_Chlorine]

Thusly "Nitesbane" > Spake Unto All:

>> Here is a nice artle Wilma Duncun wrote on
>> breeding these guys
>>
>> http://www.fish-forums.com/board/cms_view_article.php?aid=77
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for the link, it confirmed most of my research on this subject.
>However, there was no mention of anything relating to the question I really
>had: Is regular aquarium salt (meant for freshwater fish) adequate for
>creating salt water for raising these shrimp? The article you posted
>mentioned using aquarium salt to create a brackish environment for the adult
>shrimp, but did not say what he used for raising the fry. I'm afraid I
>don't know much about salt and there are so many varieties out there!

Although... I don't know what species of shrimp Wilma Duncan bred, but
it wasn't Amano shrimp. I might guess cherry shrimp.

Amano shrimp don't hatch as miniature shrimp (like e.g. cherrys do),
and the larvae *require* salt water, significantly more salty than
Duncans "one table spoon of salt per five gallons".

I've written about my breeding of Amanos here:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm

Regarding which salt to use, I would strongly recommend filtered
natural seawater. If you can't get hold of that, I would recommend a
high-quality salt mix intended for coral reef aquaria. If you can't
get hold of that, it *might* be possible to use table salt and liberal
amounts of bicarbonate (to maintain pH).

[Nitesbane]

"Mean_Chlorine" > wrote in message
...
> Regarding which salt to use, I would strongly recommend filtered
> natural seawater. If you can't get hold of that, I would recommend a
> high-quality salt mix intended for coral reef aquaria. If you can't
> get hold of that, it *might* be possible to use table salt and liberal
> amounts of bicarbonate (to maintain pH).
>

Thank you.

[DJay]

Here is the best site I've seen regarding breeding Amano shrimp:

http://hem.bredband.net/micnor/breeding_yamato.htm


good luck!


"Nitesbane" > wrote in message
news:WjMmd.7410$063.1636@trndny03...
> One of my amano shrimp is pregnant. I'd like to try to raise the fry and
I
> have heard that they need salt water in order to survive until they reach
> the post larval stage. Can I use regular aquarium salt (Doc Wellfish's)
to
> make the salt water? I've done so before when I hatched brine shrimp, so
> I'm guessing that it would be ok to use it to rear the amano shrimp as
well.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>