Just make sure the water is kept clean and moving. The ghost shrimp diet is simple and flexible, as they are easy to feed and will greedily eat anything you present them with. This includes most shop-bought foods such as flakes, pellets, and algae wafers. Watching a shrimp rise to the surface to grab a flake is particularly entertaining, but if you have a tall tank then sinking pellets will make it easier for them to grab some food before all of the mid-water fish take it.
One algae pellet will easily fuel a tank containing many shrimp, any more and you risk overfeeding. It is important to note that copper is very toxic to shrimp and should not be introduced into the tank.
When adding medication into the water, be sure to check its ingredients, as many medications contain copper. Consequently, ghost shrimp should only be added to a non-aggressive community of small fish.
There is an extensive range of fish that should be avoided. A general rule is to stay away from fish that have a large enough mouth to eat a shrimp.
Fish with a reputation for being hostile or territorial are also likely causes for the loss of ghost shrimp. Betta fish are a good example of aggressive fish that are popular in home aquariums but should not be paired with ghost shrimp. Fish are not the only available tank mates. Because most aquarium shrimp share a similar temperament, you can add other species to complement the ghost shrimp.
Cherry shrimp pair particularly well due to their vibrant colors, but other species work well too e. Snails are also a good way of diversifying the tank. If ghost shrimp are kept in a healthy environment with no predators and limited stress then they are generally easy to breed. This is one reason why they are so commonly used as feeder fish.
However, a breeding tank is needed in order to grow your population. When you see this, wait a few days so that the males have a chance to fertilize them.
Then move the berried female individuals bearing eggs to the breeder tank before the eggs hatch, otherwise the young will become a food source for any other creatures around.
When the eggs hatch in the breeder tank, move the female back to the main tank or she will be tempted to eat her own young. This should take about three weeks. The breeder tank should have a sponge filter so that none of the young get sucked into the equipment. There should be a thin layer of sediment down but fewer hiding spaces are needed.
A few plants are useful since they act as a food source for the young shrimp. Along with plant debris and any algae in the tank you should feed the larvae very small amounts of fine particle food, as they have tiny mouths. Once they have grown legs you can feed them the same food as the adults.
After five weeks they should be fully grown and able to be moved to the main tank if desired. Their small size and ease to breed make them a cheap addition to an aquarium. In return for just a little effort to look after them, you will be introducing some of the best cleaners to your tank. Their body shape and coloration or lack of it vary the aesthetic of the tank, and their busy and active lifestyles ensure that there is always something to look at.
Although not ideal for a tank with big fish, ghost shrimp make perfect additions to tropical communities of small, non-aggressive fish. I have some questions about keeping ghost shrimp. I started a small tank, in anticipation of housing a betta, but I have not done so yet. I ended up with two female shrimp who had eggs and one small male to start.
I can see the two females and they have since lost their eggs, but the male has been hard to find. I can see the two females. I had some teak wood in the the tank that I hoped would lower the hardness, but it lowered it way more than I thought, even after doing water changes. Chlorine is zero. Thank you! Hi Sarah, Thanks for your message. We always recommend that you do fishless cycle including other aquarium animals too.
Your nitrite levels need to be at zero too, and your nitrate levels should be low you carry out water changes to keep these low. Just wait until your nitrite levels are down.
You tank needs to build up a specific bacteria which converts the ammonia to nitrites. With regards to the acidity problem, have you checked your regular tap water? In the meantime, there are plenty of products you can buy to raise the pH, just make sure you do it really slowly to stop your current inhabitants getting stressed. When the ghost shrimp dies, it usually takes on a peach colour, I have found this out by breeding and online.
I was freaked about until I saw a page about ghost shrimp molting. Keep the water you have for an extended time, get a pleco in there as well as some Cory cats, there a dirtier fish but they will help you get your water right, there also very hard to hurt or kill as they adapt quickly to there New tank. I am wondering- how many babies can a ghost shrimp have at a time? I have tried google, but it says everything BUT what I searched for. Hi Anna, yes ghost shrimp are fine to keep with guppies.
Hi Ella, they might be OK being kept with slower fancy goldfish varieties? Which goldfish do you have? Thanks, Robert. I just purchased 3 ghost shrimp and in less than an hour my 2, 3 inch koi fish gobbled them up.
The 3 smaller gold fish seamed to be less interested. I am going to buy more shrimp tomorrow because I feel they should be able to survive in my aquarium because there are plenty of rocks and plant to hide in and around.
With small aquariums, be mindful of the limitations of the tank in terms of low water volume and limited surface area. So be sure to not accidentally overstock the tank. Ghost Shrimp are small creatures but they contribute to the bio-load of a tank just like other living organisms. Overstocking a small tank with lots of shrimp will cause water quality issues and can create an unhealthy environment.
So follow the typical fish stocking rules for community tanks and things should work out fine. With small tanks like a 10 gallon, try not to add too many Ghost Shrimp. They may get aggressive and nasty toward each other if there are too many living together in a small space. Ghost Shrimp seem to enjoy establish planted aquariums with a moderate current of continuously moving water.
An appropriately sized HOB power filter should do the trick and keep the water circulating properly. Additionally, an air pump with a fine air stone will create a wall of tiny bubbles to help keep water moving as well.
Ghost Shrimp are great swimmers. Keeping Ghost Shrimp in a tank with hardy live plants can also be a good idea. Ghost Shrimp seem to enjoy picking through the messiness and feasting on the parts they can eat. Keeping aquarium plants is also a good idea because they provide little places to explore and hide especially near the bottom of the tank.
Other hiding places can be created with decorations or rocks built into caves and caverns. As far as water parameters go, Ghost Shrimp seem to be comfortable in the tropical community tank range. Water temperature can be 72 — 82 degrees Fahrenheit, with some suggesting that a slightly wider temperature range is also acceptable.
Aquarium pH should be fine anywhere between 7. Standard aquarium lighting will do. And as with all freshwater aquarium shrimp, be very careful when treating the tank with medicines. Keep Ammonia, Nitrites and Nitrates in check. And most importantly, avoid copper as copper can be fatal to aquarium shrimp. Ghost Shrimp food is broad as they will eat almost anything. They are great pickers and will eat like machines.
Ghost Shrimp food can include some forms of algae, dead plant latter and detritus. These shrimp love fish or shrimp pellets, fish flakes, algae wafers or bits otherwise uneaten food. And its a good idea to find food supplements with Calcium, as Calcium is necessary for healthy shell growth.
Ghost Shrimp food may also include their fallen tank mates, as they will even feed off dead fish or dead shrimp. And there is a pecking order with feeding as well. Bigger shrimp eat first. In terms of width, Ghost Shrimp size is generally about the diameter of a pencil eraser when fully grown. Ghost Shrimp tend to be thinner and more streamline as compared to Amano Shrimp. Give a gift membership. Become a volunteer. Become part of the Aquarium family and enjoy exclusive membership benefits and events.
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Learn more and sign up. Search through the site content. Enlarge image. They just let the water acclimate to the room temperature. Ghost shrimp can adapt to many different water conditions. But shrimp, and other invertebrates, need a source of calcium in order to form their shells. Offering calcium rich foods like blanched spinach is also a big help. Large, aggressive fish will definitely eat these guys.
For example, bettas are way too small to eat an adult ghost shrimp in one go. But they might keep nipping at a ghost shrimp until it dies. They have been known to kill red cherry shrimp and other smaller species. Ghost shrimp will spend much of their day grazing on the algae and biofilm that grows in the tank. Shrimp are messy eaters. Putting their food in a dish keeps little pieces from breaking off and sinking into the substrate. Ghost shrimp can be snappish with each other when it comes to food.
If you have a large colony of ghost shrimp, feeding every day is OK. Just make sure that the shrimp eat it all within 4 hours and remove uneaten food. Or you can switch to feeding every other day. If you only have a few shrimp, you probably only need to feed them four times a week.
Especially in a heavily planted tank where they can graze all day. You should always see the shrimp actively go after food within 10 minutes or so of it being dropped in the tank. Remove the food and give them a day or two to get hungry. Ghost shrimp do make a tasty treat for large fish, like Oscars or Jack Dempseys. Most ghost shrimp are wild caught and generally just not treated very well.
Hold the shrimp for several weeks in a separate tank and feed them a nutrient-rich diet. This can greatly increase their value as a food for fish. Since ghost shrimp will eat just about anything, give them food that has all the nutrients your fish need. You might be worried about your fish picking up parasites from live foods. This is a legitimate concern, especially if you feed things like feeder goldfish or minnows. But the good news is that the nematodes that infect ghost shrimp do not appear to be able to affect fish.
There are parasitic nematodes Camallanus that can infect fish. But they use copepods, tiny crustaceans, as their intermediate hosts. Not shrimp. Breeding ghost shrimp can be tricky. When they hatch from their eggs, they are free-swimming larvae that are very vulnerable to fish and other shrimp. If you can swing it, live plants in the breeding tank are great because they provide a food source for larval shrimp.
This is a cluster of eggs that the female will constantly fan with her swimming legs. Males will zoom around until they find her and fertilize her eggs. A few days after you see the female become berried, remove her from the main tank.
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