Caridina cf. Propinqua Project

[Jammer]

Temp check this morning is spot on. Will go and hopefully transfer some ladies shortly.

[Jammer]

well...I just looked for the expecting Props, didn't immediately find them. I'll keep checking but it's not looking good. They must've know I was ready for them.

the amano lady looks like she has several non viable eggs as well. I'll still isolate her and see what happens.

[Jammer]

Caught the Amano lady and have her in isolation. More than half her eggs looks bad. Worse comes to worse...she dumps her eggs in the rearing tank and we start over. Still can't find the berried the Props. Looks like they are awash yet again. Disturbing. No action from the Ninja's either. It's like everything has stalemated at the moment.

[madness]

There are a lot of people following along and living vicariously through your experiments so keep up the good work.

Most of us lack the time and patience but would love to see someone nail the breeding of these shrimp.

[Jammer]

I think mama Amano cleared out the bag eggs. She did at least a partial dump. Kind of hard to tell in this setup but I'll get a better look at her when I do a water change.

I isolated a berried Propinqua two days ago. As of this morning, she's still holding. I'm not going to get my hopes up yet but we'll see. I have a partial water change on tap for her today as well.

[Jammer]

New recruits arrived today. Hopefully I'll get some better results with the new DNA.

While moving the new Props, woops...Caridina thambipillai, (they have been renamed), I found a berried female. I was able to easily isolate her so we'll keep an eye on her and see what happens. The new boys are a little small yet so it will be a spell before they hopefully make a difference.

[Navanod]

Very impressed Jammer, that's alot of hard work!
Breeding brackish shrimps had always been something I was playing with in the back of my head.

More specifically, breeding them automatically with some form of tank design able to create what is known as a "salt wedge", a condition that exists at estuaries where the salt water settles to the bottom and fresh water floats on top.
However, a permanent salt wedge would be near impossible to maintain...

[Jammer]

Came home today and found (2) berried Propinqua's. Woops... I mean Thambipillai's. I don't like that name. Thamb's. Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Anyway, I moved both into one isolation tank. Now, here's what I'm doing this time. I'm going to be doing daily water changes. Also, I placed a wad of moss in there and a small Java Fern. Air stone on low....but then again...maybe I should run it sparingly. Might leave that for another test.

[Jammer]

Well that didn't work. I did a water change last night. Both weren't doing very well this morning when I turned the lights on. One was on her side but alive and moved when I moved her. She is still holding her eggs. The other gal was just a tad more active but she ate her eggs! I went ahead and moved them both back into their tank even though one of them is still holding eggs. Rather loose eggs than a lady.

This is just so frustrating. At wits end here and just can't figure this out. Maybe a whole new environment change for them will help. When I redo my loach tank, I'll move them over in there and see if that will trigger anything.

[Jammer]

Little bit of a positive note, I have been eyeballing a berried female. Today is day four. {knocks on simulated wood}. I'm not going to attempt to move her just yet. I want to see if I can get a couple more days in and then go for the move. Keeping my fingers crossed.