As someone else mentioned, you can keep a lot of shrimp in a 10 gallon. I was worried about overcrowding in my 75 gallon, I probably have about 300 shrimp now, and someone said I could probably have like 3000. Anyway, the best thing to do is get some fish that will not harass the adults, but will scoop up some of the babies to keep the population under control. I’m not quite ready yet, but I am going to get neons after a few more cycles of babies.
Once the babies get to a good size (about a month old) start selling them! If you’re open to shipping PM me, there are tons of awesome places to sell these little beauties.
I had a bout of parasites earlier this year. Treated with salt and it solved the problem. Now my shrimp are looking healthy, moulting regularly and growing, however they stopped producing babies and i havent seen any berried shrimp in a while…
I’ve seen people here talk about hundreds in even smaller containers and still having a healthy colony. When they start to get crowded, they tend to slow down with the baby making. 10 gallons is pretty big for shrimp. As people said, you could also get some fish that won’t really bother the adults but might thin out some shrimplets, but I don’t think it’s something you need to worry about soon, if ever.
But am I right that you had 4 shrimp and 3 clutches? So, every single shrimplet has the same father? I’d be more worried about a genetic bottleneck than crowding for now.
I give bags of them away to my local fish store. But I have so so many in my ten gallon and it doesn’t bother them. I only remove some when the nitrates start rising faster than a weekly water change can keep up with.
you can definitely contact your lfs and see if they’ll take them! they’ll either buy them or give you store credit, which is always good when you’re buying fish food and stuff lol. or yiu can sell them online, r/Aquaswap will let you sell, trade or give them away near you in case yiu dont want to ship them!
I just found a local mom and pop fish store that buys them from me for a buck a piece. I got hundreds and hundreds LOL now I don’t pay for fish or food or supplies anymore
I had the exact same issue and ended up breaking down the tank to reset and clean. I captured almost every single one and ended up with more than 100. I put them all into an empty tank and made Craigslist and Facebook market posts. They were all gone within 2 weeks and I made around 200-300 USD.
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You could easily have 100+ in the tank. Once you get past that point sell them to a lfs or on aquaswap.
As someone else mentioned, you can keep a lot of shrimp in a 10 gallon. I was worried about overcrowding in my 75 gallon, I probably have about 300 shrimp now, and someone said I could probably have like 3000. Anyway, the best thing to do is get some fish that will not harass the adults, but will scoop up some of the babies to keep the population under control. I’m not quite ready yet, but I am going to get neons after a few more cycles of babies.
Wish I had this problem.
Ong the little group of babies is adorable!!! How soon after she hatched her eggs did she get berried again?
Keep them, sell them, feeder food even.
Your 10 gallon will be fine. Low biological load.
You could keep or them or sell them
Once the babies get to a good size (about a month old) start selling them! If you’re open to shipping PM me, there are tons of awesome places to sell these little beauties.
Ask them to wear protection 🤣
Could always mail them to me 🙂
I had a bout of parasites earlier this year. Treated with salt and it solved the problem. Now my shrimp are looking healthy, moulting regularly and growing, however they stopped producing babies and i havent seen any berried shrimp in a while…
Enjoy your colony!
They’ll be much happier now they have more buddies in the tank with them. Four is not enough.
I’ve seen people here talk about hundreds in even smaller containers and still having a healthy colony. When they start to get crowded, they tend to slow down with the baby making. 10 gallons is pretty big for shrimp. As people said, you could also get some fish that won’t really bother the adults but might thin out some shrimplets, but I don’t think it’s something you need to worry about soon, if ever.
But am I right that you had 4 shrimp and 3 clutches? So, every single shrimplet has the same father? I’d be more worried about a genetic bottleneck than crowding for now.
I give bags of them away to my local fish store. But I have so so many in my ten gallon and it doesn’t bother them. I only remove some when the nitrates start rising faster than a weekly water change can keep up with.
you can definitely contact your lfs and see if they’ll take them! they’ll either buy them or give you store credit, which is always good when you’re buying fish food and stuff lol. or yiu can sell them online, r/Aquaswap will let you sell, trade or give them away near you in case yiu dont want to ship them!
You give them to me that’s what you do with them! Jkjk I ain’t gonna steal your shrimpies as much as I would love to.
Send them to college.
Or swap them with other people. I know I’m always on the lookout for blue neos myself.
I just found a local mom and pop fish store that buys them from me for a buck a piece. I got hundreds and hundreds LOL now I don’t pay for fish or food or supplies anymore
You can give them to me
I had the exact same issue and ended up breaking down the tank to reset and clean. I captured almost every single one and ended up with more than 100. I put them all into an empty tank and made Craigslist and Facebook market posts. They were all gone within 2 weeks and I made around 200-300 USD.
Free feeders I guess