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06-13-2005, 04:29 PM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2005
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|  Sexing shrimp? Anyone know how to tell the gender of Amano shrimp? I bought 2, wondering if I should try to get a pair in the tank to see if I can get babies...but at $3/shrimp I don't want to buy 10!
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06-14-2005, 10:06 AM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Western Colorado
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| I don't know how to sex amanos, but i do know that breeding them in captivity is very hard...the newly hatched shrimp actually live in salt water and then come back to fresh when they mature...so you need to have a saltwater tank for them to live in the first few weeks of thier lives. Here's a link to some threads about people's experience trying to breed amanos http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=16401
__________________ twoluvcats 2.5g - Skippyjohn Jones - bicolor ct male betta 5g Divided, planted - Wash - marble VT male betta & 2 male doublesword guppies, 4 cherry shrimp 10g planted - female guppies, 1 oto, a whole mess of cherry shrimp 29gal planted - 8 Scissortail Rasboras, 3 Julii Cories, 4 zebra loaches, 3 otos Need Betta specific info and forums? Healthy Betta Looking for Motorsports stuff? |
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06-14-2005, 10:43 AM
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| Meh, yeah I guess it's not worth the effort...if the LFS had cherry shrimp I guess that would be a different story...
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06-14-2005, 10:47 AM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Western Colorado
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| i got my cherries off of aquabid, and it worked out great! they are already breeding. 
__________________ twoluvcats 2.5g - Skippyjohn Jones - bicolor ct male betta 5g Divided, planted - Wash - marble VT male betta & 2 male doublesword guppies, 4 cherry shrimp 10g planted - female guppies, 1 oto, a whole mess of cherry shrimp 29gal planted - 8 Scissortail Rasboras, 3 Julii Cories, 4 zebra loaches, 3 otos Need Betta specific info and forums? Healthy Betta Looking for Motorsports stuff? |
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06-14-2005, 10:49 AM
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| Medium Fish Join Date: Feb 2005
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| But shippping is so expensive...maybe I can subsidize by selling to the local LFS. 
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06-14-2005, 11:15 AM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Western Colorado
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| the guy i bought from included shipping...so i ended up getting them for just under $3 each, shipped...which is cheaper than I've seen them anywhere retail ...now granted I lost six to betta attacks right away LOL But I've got 3 egg-holding females already...and I could have sworn I saw 2 small ones lurking around my QT tank the other day.
__________________ twoluvcats 2.5g - Skippyjohn Jones - bicolor ct male betta 5g Divided, planted - Wash - marble VT male betta & 2 male doublesword guppies, 4 cherry shrimp 10g planted - female guppies, 1 oto, a whole mess of cherry shrimp 29gal planted - 8 Scissortail Rasboras, 3 Julii Cories, 4 zebra loaches, 3 otos Need Betta specific info and forums? Healthy Betta Looking for Motorsports stuff? |
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