what conditions do cherry red shrimp breed best in?

[Mferko]

i have a 10G tank under my 37g that is currently just holding a few spare shellies i have for sale/trade, i want to change it into a shrimp breeding tank and im going to start with red cherry shrimps.

the light is crappy, 2x 15W incandescent bulbs... it grows java moss ok tho and theres 3 little clumps in there at the moment.
current substrate is sugar sized white aragonite from caribsea, do i need to change that out? its said to buffer the ph to 8.4
if i need to change it, whats the best substrate?

anything else i should know? i have african cichlid lake salts that i can use to raise the GH, http://www.seachem.com/Products/prod...dLakeSalt.html specs here. what KH and PH is optimal for breeding these?
i want to breed them as fast as humanly possible :P

thanks

also if any of you are selling red cherry shrimp for cheap please PM me, redder the better

[target]

From what I have seen, you need a female, a male, some water and food. They do the rest. Not really anything special required, at least IME.

[Mferko]

is 8.4 ph ok?

[target]

I can't tell you there, hopefully someone else will chime in.

[Mferko]

il check back after a game of starcraft 2 :P
also wonder how much calcium i need to dose if any

[fraggalrock]

My cherrys ph is about 6.5 to 6.8
Room temp or 75, I use Ada soil but florabase or ecco is also fine also.

[fishclubgirl]

I have bred cherries in our "hard as rock"Calgary(8.0) water and you need a male and female and that's it!!

[InfraredDream]

Everytime I read a thread like that I feel bad as I have my cherries since July and I still don't have babies They are around 20, some are small, but I should have males and females. I even have saddled females but never a berried one. They are currently in a 3 g Eclipse with ednler babies.

[katienaha]

i heard lots of floating plants and lots of ground cover for the shrimplets to hide once they hatch. otherwise, i have the same problem as you - no baby shrimp for months now...

[effox]

Mid to high 6.5-6.9 range will have them producing prolifically as long as they have places to hide. Java moss is a great start.