Ghost shrimp breeding

Has anyone bred Ghost shrimp? If so do you mind sharing how, and in what conditions (water, tank mates, how many was in the colony,ect..)?

Any info appreciated!

Alas I have had no luck dear sir. I have put 40+ ghost shrimp in a low tech tank and never gotten so much as a single baby ghost shrimp. Let me know if you find a secret to breeding them.

All I remember is that the eggs hatch into larvae before becoming shrimp and that the larva need brackish water to survive. I might be wrong, but that's the word on the street...

anderson_p_r wrote:All I remember is that the eggs hatch into larvae before becoming shrimp and that the larva need brackish water to survive.  I might be wrong, but that's the word on the street...

I think that's Amano shrimp that needs saltwater. I've been searching the web for tips and nothing mentioned about saltwater with Ghost shrimp. Haven't dug into it much yet but seems info is limited on the web or I just haven't bumped into anything good yet...

I've read some accounts of people breeding them in really gunky freshwater - specifically green water. It would seem that a high amounts of nutrients and/or microorganisms is the key.

So I'd try green water.

Interesting pbmax. I'll put that in my bag of tools, thank you!

This might be helpful - it discusses culturing green water for ghost shrimp and daphnia.

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One thing we all know how to grow .... green water .... 


I read the article, neat. Thank you. So, I am sure I can replicate my 1st nano. Lol, it had green water bad. Then try to introduce a few ghost shrimp.

In my resent search as to which shrimp I can add to my brackish tank ghost shrimp were listed. And on a few sites they did talk about the ghost shrimp preferring brackish water parameters to breed sucessfully. Of course not all things follow set rules. So the green water may work as well!

I've also read that there are multiple species of ghost shrimp out there - some who require saltwater to breed and some that don't. Who knows?

Best of luck to you fishNAbowl; I hope they breed like CRAZY for you!

Please let us know what you try and what fails and what works.

i tried a while ago, but i basically knew nothing at that point about the aquarium hobby, so i'm not surprised now that they didn't survive. like pbmax said, i have also heard that there are more than one species called a 'ghost shrimp' so yours may require brackish water, or they may not. i got larvae to survive for about 5-6 days, but all i had to feed them was hikari first bites, which is probably too big for them to eat. try green water- maybe even just put the berried females in the culture and let the babies hatch so they immediately have a source of food; after reading that article, i might even try to grow some green this spring since it seems easy. i think in the past when i have tried, i had plants in the bucket so they out-competed the algae for nutrients