"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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KurtG wrote:

Immature shrimp around here (Florida) grow in fresh/brackish water, and
then move to the ocean when they mature (often during a good rain storm).

Not sure on their breeding behavior. That is, do mature shrimp return to
rivers to spawn? No idea.

I'm thinking that these are the same species of Ghost Shrimp taken at
different stages of life, or maybe the small ones have been acclimated to
salt water.

--Kurt



Not quite the same thing, but I'm guessing much the same principle applies
with FW Ghost Shrimp.....a while back I did quite a bit of research on how
to breed Amano Shrimp....in this case, the adults spawn in
freshwater....once the "fry" hatch they are immediateley swept out to
sea/brackish water....as they develop they make there way back to the
freshwater again where the adults live - that's a bit simplified but
pretty much the principle is there....

Now, from what I've read about breeding these in a tank...the key is to
remove the young shrimps as soon as they have hatched and put them
straight into salt water....as they grow slowly start adding freshwater
into the tank until the salt level is minimal - and there you have it -
amano shrimps - if anyone ever did this, I would suggest that selling the
amano shrimps would be far more lucrative than using them as food....

When it comes to Ghost Shrimp - they seem, at least in the US, to be a lot
cheaper - Amanos you are talking £20 for two....so getting freshwater
Ghost Shrimps to breed and raising the offspring in sal****er/brackish
might be an option for food (but I'm not entirely sure that Ghost's follow
the same breeding pattern as Amanos)....there do appear to be brackish and
sal****er species of the same genre....the key, I guess, is knowing what
you have bought rather than relying on the common name....

Gill

Amano's are actually quite easy to breed
the secret is
don't have fish in with them!!!!!
I have the riffles (striata) breeding here
also harvest the eggs off me pregnant marine scavenger shrimp and raise them
in seperate tanks
Greenwater and no predators does wonders!