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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 16, 2006 21:31:36 GMT
I noticed one of my tiger shrimp had some green eggs (no ham) on Thursday....just in time for Easter.  I did this pic for my sis who has never kept shrimp.  Scuse the preggy mum pic....she's taken to hiding at the back of the tank more now for some reason.   Happy Easter. ;D |
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Post by *Sian* on Apr 16, 2006 21:41:46 GMT
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am! Great piccies. Maybe she doesn't want to show off her baby bump too much just yet?  |
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 16, 2006 21:50:51 GMT
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am! Great piccies. Maybe she doesn't want to show off her baby bump too much just yet? Lol I loved that book....my daughter got into trouble for borrowing it too much from school when she was younger. ;D You could be right about her wanting to hide her bump....she's very little compared to my biggest female. |
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Post by *Sian* on Apr 16, 2006 21:53:53 GMT
Lol. I think I still have it somewhere!
How long does it take for them to lay the eggs?
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 16, 2006 22:04:53 GMT
28 to 30 days according to a shrimp site.
Sometimes they release the eggs within a few days but she still has them today so finger's crossed.
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Post by *Sian* on Apr 16, 2006 22:08:23 GMT
Oooo. Goodluck ;D
I keep trying to find out which shrimps would be best in any of my tanks but I always get fed up researching lol.
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 16, 2006 22:31:53 GMT
Thanks i'll need it.....even if they hatch the shrimplets are a bit tricky to keep. I love a challenge though. ;D Cherry shrimp do well and breed in a wide range of PH's and prefer more alkaline water so do great with snails. They will be eaten by loaches or any fish that would see a dwarf shrimp as a snack and the babies will be eaten by anything that will take live food. I have to move my corys when my cherry shrimp start breeding and a guppy and an otto from my tiger shrimp tank if she keeps the eggs. Good job hubby has a community tank I can pop them into. |
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Post by luvfishies on Apr 18, 2006 3:06:46 GMT
Hey, great pictures and congrats on the shrimplets-to-be!
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Post by pheonixx on Apr 22, 2006 14:10:35 GMT
Awww bless the new mummy..hey have you any idea how old that book is I remember it when I was a kid and that would be 1960s...Linda
PS my mum looked at it and said is this the sort of rubbish they are teaching you at that school what good will it do you as a adult to learn about green eggs and ham LOL..Linda
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 22, 2006 15:22:28 GMT
I had a few Dr Suess books and loved a quiz book he did....god knows how many times I bugged my family with that book. I loved The Sneeches too with stars upon thars. ;D |
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Post by SnailTrail on May 10, 2006 14:54:38 GMT
She had her shrimplets on May 6th and I noticed she was full of eggs again yesterday.  Only three days after having her first lot. My lovely spixis left an egg clutch yesterday too.....love is in the air....and the eggs are on ebay lol. The shimplets are super cute and tiny.......now if only my cherry shrimp would start reproducing. |
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Post by thedragonlord on May 20, 2006 22:10:48 GMT
i thought ur cherries were reproduceing?
what filters you got on these 2 tanks? (tiger and cherry tanks)
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Post by SnailTrail on Jun 5, 2006 18:24:14 GMT
I totally missed this thread. I bought a batch of cherry shrimp and one female was pregnant....she had the shrimplets but they either got eaten by my corys or sucked into my filter. Since then I only keep female cherries in that tank and no males. It's a 20g tank with some apple snails, corys, common ramshorns, a nerite and a bn plec. I have a fluval 4+ in this tank. In my tiger tank (which also houses my cherry shrimp male and 3 females plus a couple of spixis) I have one of those filters that draws the water up and it flows over sponges and then waterfalls back into the tank. I have 2 male tigers and one female....she's constantly pregnant. |
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Only three days after having her first lot. 