Re: [APD] Re: Aquatic-Plants Digest, Vol 16, Issue 43

["Richard J. Sexton" <richard at aquaria_net>]

>Well, mine would breed almost every water change, you can see 'hyper' males 
>swimming around, the larger females carry their egg mass (grayish mass under 
>the tail) for a a few days, I have seen both shrimp and fish go after the 
>eggs.....

"Oh look daddy that shrimp is riding on the others back!"

http://images.aquaria.net/invertebrates/crustaceans/shrimp/Amano/image53s.jpg

>Has anyone noticed that Amano shrimp are senstive to water changes? I will 
>change 50 out of 350L(adding carbonates) and get the shrimp breeding or 
>disappearing....

Yup. All shrimp are utterly intolerant of changes in water chemistry. They
really
hate infrequent big water changes. Small frequent ones cause less anguish.


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