berried CRS in poor water condition.

[trevorhoang]

Hello,

so i came home late yesterday and after i fed my cherry tank that houses 3 CRS, i noticed that one CRS is berried with brownish eggs. This has been amazing because i didnt think i could keep CRS due to their fussy water conditions much less breeding them.

I do 30-40% water change once a week and i use african ciclid conditioner to raise the GH (thanks to fragglerock for the advice). i have sand like gravel so i dont use that ADA or flora base stuff. my heater keeps the water at 70 degrees and my tank is heavily planted. i have no clue what my GH PH and KH is.

i hope the baby CRS will hatch and grow happily. any advice to keeping them nice and healthy is greatly appreciated.

pics coming soon after i can find my camera.

[plantedinvertz]

Congrats Just dont do drastic water changes since that could shock the shrimp and make them drop their eggs.

[waynet]

I believe that was the case with my CRS too. I changed too much water too fast and she dropped the eggs.

Now my GH is about 4.0, pH 7.0-7.2 and KH about 2.0

I am not going to do crazy water changes.

Good luck. Be patient, it will take 4-5 weeks for the eggs to hatch at 7.4 degrees F.

Also don't do drastic water changes after the eggs hatch as well. I did it and the shrimplets died.


Wayne.

Congrats Just dont do drastic water changes since that could shock the shrimp and make them drop their eggs.

[Petah]

Congrats on the berries!

[tang daddy]

as long as your tank is stable you wont have to worry, I dont really do waterchanges just top up with freshwater. For some of the tanks I take out 1-2 litres a week. smaller waterchanges are better!

[Shrimpgirl]

as long as your tank is stable you wont have to worry, I dont really do waterchanges just top up with freshwater. For some of the tanks I take out 1-2 litres a week. smaller waterchanges are better!

x2. I normally change about 10% of the water every week in my tanks. Congratulations on your berried shrimp.

[trevorhoang]

thanks for the advice guys.

so , do less of my water change to around 10%. that i can do.

i heard that there is a small chance to get one or 2 higher grade CRS from a batch, please correct me if im wrong.

[tang daddy]

Higher grade shrimp must come from good gene parents.

basically if you have A grade shrimp they will most likely put out A grade shrimp, but if the A grade shrimp came from a S grade parent then it may put out a few low S grades....

[trevorhoang]

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[trevorhoang]

shes not the prettiest of CRS. A grade i believe , but the excitement that i can breed these beautiful shrimps is well worth it.