Temperature for Malayan shrimp?

[shaman]

Does room temp ok for them? about 28 to 30 celcius. Thanks! :cool:

[Chris Low]

Does room temp ok for them? about 28 to 30 celcius. Thanks! :cool:
Mine is so fine up maintaining 28C. Using only air pump to circulate the water. Also using natural lighting - Sun. Plenty of wall aglae as food. :rolleyes:

[simcb]

I guess most shrimps require less than 29 degree celius... With a fan and good weather u can maintain below 28 degrees which is the best .

[dom]

If you are in a stream which full of them..(One of the stream near Kuantan.) You will know how low of temp they need to be. It is around 25-26C. I kept them in 29-30C before. They died one by one. Till i lower the temp to 27C and they were able to survive n breed.

[Santos_Esther_17]

I have a question, can we breed them in freshwater. My female malayan is pregnant but it seem that the eggs would hatch.

[Chris Low]

I have a question, can we breed them in freshwater. My female malayan is pregnant but it seem that the eggs would hatch.
My certainly can. Just made sure no fishes around. Normally hatch after dusk and in the dark. Just occasionally shine a small touch and you should be able to spot them by the wall. Very interesting. But the next day not a single one visible. After a week or 2, tiny shrimp appear....

[wifi]

My certainly can. Just made sure no fishes around. Normally hatch after dusk and in the dark. Just occasionally shine a small touch and you should be able to spot them by the wall. Very interesting. But the next day not a single one visible. After a week or 2, tiny shrimp appear....


Hi Chris,

How many tiny shrimp were you able to get from one spawn? How many manage to grow to adult size?

[Chris Low]

Hi Chris,

How many tiny shrimp were you able to get from one spawn? How many manage to grow to adult size?
It was quite incidental not knowing what to do with the 20 free shrimps given. I put them in a 4 footer filled rain water- shrimps tank only, big bubbling but slow and lots of wall aglae + fast growing plant, every 3 to 4 days supplement with algae wafer + natural light. Now I got about 80 to 100 just over 6 months

[silane]

Chris and Dom,

Any estimation of the number of larva does a female malayan release?

[shaman]

Ah! I thought it need brackish water to breed?

[slacker04]

I have a question: recently I realised that the shrimps (malayan shrimps) that have eggs have started dying. Can sumone help me? Thanks in advance

[Robert]

Hi Slacker,
please write in proper English. I edited your post, so that non-Singaporeans can also understand it. It is an international forum and not all members understand your Singlish.
Thanks.

Your shrimps are more stressed when they carry eggs. The females continually fan them and clean them and hey invested their own body's nutrients to produce the eggs. But normally pregnant females don't die. My malayans lived for more than two years in my tanks and got pregnant several times in their life.

Regards
Robert

[dom]

Malayan shrimp can be bred in fresh water. Have friends successfully bred them. And it is not the larvae... It is the shrimplet. I was tried once and had few of the shrimplets. They died due to high ammonia. :embarasse

[Walter]

My ex-malayans gave birth to larvae, you sure yours were shrimplets? Maybe they grew?

[dom]

Wow..that is a lot. Perhaps when i saw them and already turned into shrimplet. Honestly, this is my first time saw Malayan hatched larvae form. Even friends also said their all hatched in shrimplet.