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#1 Raikon316

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 08:05 AM

Have anyone catching Freshwater Shrimps?

 

In my area, I heard there was very rare to catch them and breeding them in aquarium tank. They spawning in Mississippi River to Ohio River. I am not sure to catch them in Muskingum River, Tuscarawas River and Walhonding River. I was thinking better to order them, breed them and feed to fishes.



#2 gzeiger

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 08:17 AM

Many require brackish water to spawn, but that far upriver you probably have true freshwater species. The Macrobrachiums that you might find in the main rivers are good display captives, but they eat fish even up to their own size and really should be in their own tank. Palaemonetes are more appropriate for feeders, but will more often be found in stagnant roadside ditches.



#3 gzeiger

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 08:20 AM

Those you order are virtually certain to be Palaemonetes paludosus, which require brackish water for larval development.

 

The larvae are very small and drift at the surface at first, so they really need stagnant water with minimal surface agitation.



#4 gerald

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 12:47 PM

I'm pretty sure P. paludosus and P. kadiakensis do not have an obligate brackish water stage.  P. paludosus are abundant in soft-water swamps and lakes around Raleigh where they have no access to brackish water.  P. vulgaris and some others do have an obligate brackish water larval stage.  Ghost shrimp don't make long distance migrations like Macrobrachium river shrimp do. 

 

 

Those you order are virtually certain to be Palaemonetes paludosus, which require brackish water for larval development.

 

The larvae are very small and drift at the surface at first, so they really need stagnant water with minimal surface agitation.


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#5 smbass

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 02:31 PM

I have not caught them in the Coshocton area but we do have the native ghost shrimp in Ohio I think ours are P. kadiakensis but I am not positive on that. They are common in the Ohio River bordering Ohio and in Lake Erie marshes. I have also seen them in some of the natural inland lakes like Nettle Lake in NW Ohio. They are probably in the lower Muskingum but can't recall just how far north I have caught them. Might be as far up as the pool downstream of Zanesville OH. They need some slack water and the pool between Elis dam and Zanesville is probably too short. Further south you go more likely you are to find them on the Muskingum, look for them in water willow beds along the shore.


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#6 Betta132

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Posted 04 April 2016 - 06:54 PM

Not sure about breeding, but you should be able to catch freshwater shrimp in clumps of plants if you ruffle them around with a net held downstream. 



#7 phreeflow

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Posted 07 April 2016 - 09:51 AM

You could breed cherry shrimp...they breed easy and after the 1st generation of shrimplets grow up and breed again, you'll have a population explosion. They breed in freshwater and don't predate their young. You could keep hundreds in a ten gallon and use them as feeders. They sell em online...check aquabid


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Edited by phreeflow, 07 April 2016 - 09:51 AM.





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