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[al10]

I know, I was just saying I tried with brackish.
I had a fairy shrimp hatch with some triops once.

[gerald]

An "infusoria" culture (mix of protozoans, planktonic algae, rotifers) like we use for feeding fish with very small larvae might work for getting ghost/grass shrimp through the larval stage. Adults are certainly more predatory than cherry shrimp and most other exotic freshwater shrimp in the hobby. Getting the young away from the adults is probably key.

[al10]

Yeah, that's I use a lot of live plants and gravel, and I tried infusoria, but some dragonfly larvae got into it.

[kirby007]

hey al10 what kind of success rate could be had out of a densely planted walstad bowl for the ghost shrimp?

[al10]

Umm, without any food about 20-40% withfood 40-70% mostly youwill want moss and plants like hornwort.

[kirby007]

cool, I've had it setup for a week now, starting to see molting and a couple females are full of eggs right now as well, it's packed with hornwort and some type of small val looking plant and I should have a moss ball pretty soon to

[al10]

Ok, sounds cool, any pics?

[kirby007]

just a really bad cell phone pic, I'll try to find a camera later today, on a side note and to get back on the c whole color thing, I have noticed some of mine have a couple small yet distinct red dots and the very edge of the tail, is this normal coloration for the ghost shrimp , by some I would say 2 or 3 out of the 15 in the bowl

[al10]

Ok, hope u canfind one.
Yeah its normal for the 2 red dots in the tail and alittle bit of the antennaes have red two, a most of mine have it.