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My main interest is in keeping and breeding shrimp to feed my perch in my Aquaponics.

I grabbed 60 glass shrimp and threw them in my sump that grows duck weed and Azolla as feed about 3 weeks ago.

No clue beyond that so l hope to learn a lot more here!

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Welcome to the forum dude, we have some very knowledgable people on here who should be able to help with natives. Hope you have as much fun here as we do :encouragement:

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Hi and welcome to SKF well that may be the strangest reason for joining our forum yet. If all you want is a food source for your fish then cherry shrimp are the easiest to keep and can withstand a variety of water parameters. If you are not setting up a tank specifically for shrimp they may not breed as quickly than if you have the right water parameters for them. This is definitely the place to learn about shrimp just ask questions and someone will be able to help you. The forum will open as you post so the more you post the more you see. Hope we can help you start your shrimp keeping hobby.

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Thanks for the welcome!

I guess this is the place to ask my first questions!

Currently my glass shrimp are in an IBC with 500L in it with Azolla and duck weed growing in the surface.

The is also a bit of algae growing on the sides of the tank.

The shrimp initially were eating tracks through the algae but for a couple of weeks I wasn't sure they were still around - they are bloody hard to spot.

My current tank temp is around 12C and has no aeration or refreshing of water.

Are they likely to survive and breed in these conditions or do I need to make some changes?

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Hi and welcome to SKF well that may be the strangest reason for joining our forum yet. /QUOTE]

I get the feeling it is going to be the gateway that opens up to a whole new interest. Just like Aquaoponics opened up my interest in native fish!

Looking forward to the journey.

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Lol, you don't know how close to the truth you are dude, these little buggers are incredibly addictive & MTS(Multi Tank Syndrome) will definitely be following soon :victorious:

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Yes I'm afraid it may be enough to ditch the fish and open multiple shrimp tanks. If you actually were to catch a few of your shrimp and put them in a tank where you can watch them you will be intrigued by them . They are busy and entertaining but I guess if they are just fish food you won't want to hear that:p

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Firstly welcome to SKF! My mate is doing the same as you only to feed to his Saratogas...If it is numbers you want then I suggest you heat the water and add some sort of filtration. My mate started with 50 now has hundreds maybe even thousands...His are in a large IBC tank as well...so if you want them to breed like machines I would heat the water to around 20 deg and chuck a large canister filter to help with the filtration. Yes there would be costs but the food source for his fish is endless and lets face it nothing better then live food for free!

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Yes I'm afraid it may be enough to ditch the fish and open multiple shrimp tanks. If you actually were to catch a few of your shrimp and put them in a tank where you can watch them you will be intrigued by them . They are busy and entertaining but I guess if they are just fish food you won't want to hear that:p

Haha that's exactly what I've done for my perch and red claw. That is, Put a couple of them in a tank inside so I can watch their behaviour.

I'll have to get onto free cycle and gum tree for some more small tanks!

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Firstly welcome to SKF! My mate is doing the same as you only to feed to his Saratogas...If it is numbers you want then I suggest you heat the water and add some sort of filtration. My mate started with 50 now has hundreds maybe even thousands...His are in a large IBC tank as well...so if you want them to breed like machines I would heat the water to around 20 deg and chuck a large canister filter to help with the filtration. Yes there would be costs but the food source for his fish is endless and lets face it nothing better then live food for free!

Right then! Next chance i get I'm going to hook it up to the solar heater i meant to connect to the main heater and haven't got into action yet!

How long ago did your mate start with 50? Or how long until he had enough to supply the fish?

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Right then! Next chance i get I'm going to hook it up to the solar heater i meant to connect to the main heater and haven't got into action yet!

How long ago did your mate start with 50? Or how long until he had enough to supply the fish?

it only took him a few months to get to the hundreds as once the conditions are right the glass shrimp are breeding machines! Now he has enough for his fish and even to sell as feeders to the LFS...

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Lol' date=' you don't know how close to the truth you are dude, these little buggers are incredibly addictive & MTS(Multi Tank Syndrome) will definitely be following soon :victorious:[/quote']

You could be right!

Just bought 2 small tanks through gumtree ...

Contacted another that was selling a shrimp set up plus 5 tanks (he didn't reply) ...

MTS bring it on!

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