Sexy shrimp breeding experiment again

[Peace River]

Nice work! Even if you don't find a way to make it commercially viable, simply being able to say that you have done it and to learn along the way is important. Additionally, you can share your findings with others as you or they work to develop a "recipe" for the breeding process. I have bred many species of fish and other things and this has been my experience.

 

[nanofishies]

Are you just raising them on artimia? Or decapsulated eggs?

I had 13 sexies settle. They are around 7 months old now. I’m down to 6 shrimp. However they started laying at 5 months old.

 

[Levinson]

Are you just raising them on artimia? Or decapsulated eggs?

I had 13 sexies settle. They are around 7 months old now. I’m down to 6 shrimp. However they started laying at 5 months old.

I try different mix of thing including artemia.

 

[Levinson]

I now have 42 that settled total (according to the records). I have given up on counting how many of them still remain alive.
With this, all of the sexy shrimp larvae left from the first batch have settled. No more big guys left to settle.
I have another newer batch going but it'd take a while for them to grow. If all goes well that is.

 

[NoohpyT]

What are you feeding them in their larva stage? I also felt bad when my Sexy shrimp would release their larva and they would all die

 

[Andrey Grodno]

Ukrainian aquarist with the nickname "Toothpick", already 8 years ago mastered the method of breeding these shrimp. And not only shrimp, even crabs. Her topics on the local forum in Russian, so that most will not be able to understand even with an interpreter. This girl raised a huge amount of wildlife, she had a farm....But then came the "liberators"....The link to her channel you can watch a little bit.
There is also about these shrimps.

Остановившееся море - Аквафорум - форум аквариумистов и террариумистов

,,Остановившееся море Морские аквариумы участников форума

www.aquaforum.ua

 

[James M]

Any updates ?

 

[Levinson]

Any updates ?

The sexy shrimps have been released from the isolation boxes into the display tank and seem to be doing ok. Somehow I'm getting the impression that I don't see as many of them around as I had when they were in the isolation box but I could be wrong. I can't really keep a good track of them once they are in the display tank moving, hiding about. If any of them died, it's easy to miss since the other residents could clean it up real quick.
The bad news is that just like before, the other batches after the initial success didn't really work out. I've had about 5 that managed to settle successfully but the batches after that just failed entirely. Also, the sexy shrimps had stopped producing offspring for a while which got me scared but that's been fixed and now they are making babies again.
I've been trying to hypothesize what went wrong and also to make some improvements. If this was a proper experiment, I should just be focusing on testing the variables that may have caused issues while trying to maintain other variables as constant as possible but that'd just be too much, if not impossible with the resources I have. It's not an ideal, scientific approach but I can't help it.
The good news is that I think the batch that I'm currently raising seems more promising, at least for the time being. Looking forward to seeing how it works out.

 

[Rp8]

Can you post your process or the link from your first attempt so we (I) can check out your method and equipment?