fire shrimp have bred again

nixer · Jan 24, 2011

welp they did it again and produced alot of free fish food this time i got to net roughly 25 or so.
my question is has anyone actually raised any to adults?

dougers31 · Feb 1, 2011

There is a guy on our local forum (TCMAS) named Chad who has had limited success with peppermint shrimp and could prolly point ya in the right direction on how to attempt to breed fire shrimp. I can pm ya his full name with a link to the forum if you want.

skinz78 · Feb 1, 2011

Very cool! Do you still have any of them alive now? IF so can you get some pic's of them? I wonder if they would eat Rotifers at this size?

jordan3548 · Feb 1, 2011

The only thing i Seem to be able to breed is more and more hair algae lol

nixer · Feb 1, 2011

skinz78 said:
Very cool! Do you still have any of them alive now? IF so can you get some pic's of them? I wonder if they would eat Rotifers at this size?

yes i still have alot in the refugium. they are about the size of some of the copepods. i dont think they can eat rotifers this small. all you can see is their boddies and in a brine shrimp net they look like tiny redish dots. i did find a pdf with a guy that was breeding them, but i cannot seem to be able to find it anywhere. he just used airstones in a piece of pvc pipe for circulation. oh never mind i found the article:

http://cosee-central-gom.org/online_presentations/2004/03reading4.pdf