Cherry Shrimp Breeding?

[creekbottom]

I bought a few (15) cherry shrimp a while back, maybe 6-8 weeks ago or more, and have them in a 10g planted. Pretty sure they love it. Not long after having them I noticed little specks flying around the tank, obviously babies or so I was hoping. The stupid thing I did was add fish, it's a fish tank thats what you do, right? Ember tetras, no way they are going to snack on cherry shrimp. However, I added them all at once and the corresponding ammonia spike or whatever (I wasn't testing at the time) killed ALOT of shrimp. All the babies and most of the adults. I have about 5 left. Pretty sure both sexes as some are large and red and some are small and not so red.

They don't seem to be breeding anymore. I keep looking for one of those large red ones to have yellow berries in her swimmers but nope, nothing.

All the water parameters are good (I'm testing now), there is a sponge on the filter intake, as far as I know everything should be shrimp heaven.

any suggestions? other than getting more shrimp.

[jvision]

Just keep up the WCs. When I had a huge farm going on, I was doing 50% weekly WCs and population growth was awesome.

I suspect the tetras would love to snack on small shrimp and may harrass adults as well. If you want a nice fish to mix w. Cherry Shrimp, I have had some great success w. Endlers.

[jeremoose]

Exactly what Jvision said. Cherry's breed like guppies, they just need clean water. Don't overfeed, keep up the water changes, leave the fish out of it until you have a healthy breeding colony. I use Neon Tetra's with my Cherry's and Tiger Shrimp (kind-of lame I know). Good luck and let's see some pictures!