Rearing Lysmata shrimp?

[i cant think]

Hey guys, a bit of a new one from me…

Have you ever tried rearing any of the Lysmata shrimp? If so, what did you do?

I believe my Peppermints have spawned, and I’ve been able to catch a few of their larvae.

I’ve currently got them in a temporary set up;

My old dosing container with an airstone in. I have a tank coming to set up on Sunday, however I thought I’d take this time to really get some ideas on the ideal setup.

So far my thoughts are a bit of RO Bathed rubble live rock, chaetomorpha and an airstone in a tank started with water from the nano I collected the young from. Then, start by feeding them with copepods and baby brine along with phytoplankton.

Anyone got any other ideas or changes you’d make?

 

[i cant think]

#reefsquad anyone got any thoughts?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Hopefully some of those who have hands-on experience will comment for you here, but this is the best I've got for the moment for Lysmata species:

To rear these guys, you'll need a larval rearing tank and some live foods: Artemia (brine shrimp), rotifers, and phytoplankton together will give the best survival results, but only the Artemia (and phyto to culture them with) are necessary.

For a really simple larval rearing setup, see the thread below:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/b...ns-mediterrane-rock-pool-shrimp-guide.937215/ For the complicated methods that might yield slightly better results (chapters 5 and 6 are the important ones for larval rearing purposes):
https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/40038/1/40038-tziouveli-2011-thesis.pdf

The link below has a ton of detail for trying to rear Skunk Cleaner Shrimp specifically, but a lot of it would be transferrable to Fire Shrimp too:
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/d...oinensis-larval-stages.1053297/#post-12511035That said, the link below is specifically on the rearing of Fire Shrimp, it's impressively detailed (it basically walks you through step-by-step how they did it), and the methods used have the highest reported survival rates I'm aware of at the moment "with the survival rate of 12.7 ± 0.1% to 18.35 ± 0.15%" so I would really suggest reading through this one if you're trying to rear Fire Shrimp:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ea5/d95a0230c1a6e377da051d2e30e352b6c4a5.pdfIf you've got any questions, feel free to ask (though you may want to start your own thread on it so as to not put too many off-topic posts on this one).

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/peppermint-shrimp-breeding-success-documentation.1069850/

 

[tbrown]

I've never done any saltwater shrimp - only the Red Cherry freshwater shrimp (Neocaridina). No help from me. Sorry

 

[Fish Fan]

Sorry, I have zero knowledge here, but I think it's a really cool project and I hope your little shrimps make it

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