Will shrimp eat the eggs?
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Hi everyone, I just joined. I’ve got a 30 gallon planted tank, and there are a lot of little shrimps. They started breeding, and nothings really stopping them :roll: They do a super good job of cleaning all the excess food though.
But the question is, now that I’ve got cpds, I was wondering if all these little shrimps clean a little too well… will they eat any eggs too?
This forum has been super helpful, by the way. I’ve been reading up on all the useful info for weeks. :lol:
Welcome to the forum, teenie, and glad to hear you’re getting them to breed. As for the shrimp, I never got a conclusive answer myself, but it seems like my recent batch is doing much better than when I had shrimp in the tank… so I would conclude that yes, having no shrimp in your fry tank is a good idea.
Well, I was planning on putting them in a separate 10 gallon I’ve got sitting around, so I guess *if* I am successful, I’ll just raise them till they’re big enough and then put them in with the others.
Dunno if this helps, but for the longest time I had low success breeding them. Then I did one thing — put the heater on the same electrical timer as the lights, which means that it’s only on in the daytime — and all of a sudden it was babies everywhere. Something that you might like to keep in mind. I guess the day/night temperature variations make them happy.
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