Shrimp tanks as grow out

[shift]

Has anyone used shrinp tanks as how out fry tanks?
I have been thinking of double duty on the tanks

Has anyone tried this? I’m breeding CPD’s as well as shrimp (at least trying to!)

[MChambers]

Yes, I’ve done it without problem. I suppose it’s possible that shrimp are eating fry, but I certainly did not notice that.

[shift]

Thanks for the reply. I will try it out if i end up with fry this round.

I just took the parents out of the new attempt of a breeding tank (mesh bottom with a mop and some random stem plants) the ground is a bit dirty from pulling out them steams from other tanks so its hard to tell if their are eggs or not (they were in there foe a week so i hope so).. i put 1m/1f adult CPDs into a shrimp tank to test and see if they mate int here or not and the the other females back into the main communal tank.. so hopefully some fry pop up in a few days

[BallAquatics]

I wrote a short article about this very topic back in 2009…..

http://www.arizonainverts.com/articles/DoubleDutyShrimpTanks.html

I don’t keep dwarf shrimp anymore, but keeping shrimp in grow-out tanks always worked well for me.

Dennis

[shift]

Great write up.

At what point would you consider the fry to be big enough to eat the shrimp? 3/4 adult size?

[BallAquatics]

@shift wrote:

At what point would you consider the fry to be big enough to eat the shrimp? 3/4 adult size?

That’s about right, somewhere around 10 to 12 weeks old. They only eat the baby shrimp. I never noticed them being any bother to adult shrimp.

Dennis

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