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Ok all. Got half a dozen CRS That I've got in my office tank. And they have been living happily for a while whilenow.it's hard to see if they are getting berried. But so far no fry. Water parameters are good. I'll do a test tomorrow and post the results Doing regular water changes etc. Mainly looking for ideas of little things to check to see if I can get love flowing Photos just for the hell of it

Hi, I am new to this forum so apologies if I have put this thread in the wrong section. I've been keeping fish/shrimp for years (Mainly Amano). Recently I decided I wanted to try and keep RCS and breed them. It's my first time trying to breed them, so I just was really looking for some tips and whether my set up is suitable or not. I have a 25L (5Gallon) tank, which is quite small. I have the water temperature around 26/27Degrees and have a Dennerle corner filter which I read was a fairly good filter for shrimp. (I appreciate that I may need a sponge filter instead). I have a carpet (looks like grass but cannot remember the name) with crypts growing in the back ground. I have 3/4 bits of woods that forms a sort of fortress which also has 2 types of wood hugging plants growing. I was using C02 and Fertilisers to get the plants to grow but stopped around a week before the shrimp were placed in. I have 10 cherry shrimps. Anything that you think i'm doing wrong or think I should be doing, please feel free to tell me. How will I know when my shrimps are pregnant? Thank you, Tyler

Yeah I wouldn't keep them above 25C by choice for the exact reasons you mention, and the lower temps will defs be successful ☺️ I guess I'm used to stressing about whether the shrimp will get too hot (because of Brisbane summers) so 24-25C seems easier in my head and I've never thought the shrimp were stressed at that temp.

Hi Tyler A couple of things with your setup. Drop the temp down to 21-22 C. Any filter is fine as long as the shrimpetes, that are tiny, do not get sucked up into it. CO2 is still ok to run but at a reduced rate, just watch to see if the shrimp are heading for the surface. They prefer a well O2 tank and that can be conflicting with CO2 as you get a lot gassing off if you have an air stone or heavy surface agitation. Ferts are ok in smaller doses but must have no to very low copper content. Shrimp get saddled, where the eggs are inside of the shrimp and look like a horse saddle, mate and then transfer the eggs to under their tail, Berried. Depending on how transparent the shell is you may see the saddle. You will see the berried phase. Good luck and happy shrimping.

Hi. Unfortunately I no longer have the set up. But I did have it long enough to know that it was working very well. The reason I stopped was cause I moved back to NZ from Malaysia. Maybe I will start up again over here when I have a bit more space. But I found this kind of setup worked quite well for me and was not expensive at all to set up. I built the pressurised canister filters myself from plastic tubs & PVC pipe. Then used standard filter media to fill them up. I had 4 females and 1 male most of the time in the smaller blue tub so they could mate in peace away from the chaos of the main tank. Then once the females had eggs I would shift them to the glass aquarium. After 3 females had eggs I had over 200 crays which most survived and I sold. I simply didn't have anywhere to keep that many as they grew up quite fast.

Had these guys a bit over 2 weeks now and the growth has been amazing they have gone from under 2cm to over 5 which seems amazing until you think about their adult size of 45cm which they can reach in 6 months I'm getting a little worried how do you house 7 of these little monsters lol.