Top 5 Reasons Your Shrimp are Not Breeding

Neocaridina shrimp, also known as cherry shrimp, are a lot of fun to keep and breed. They are easy to set up, cheap to buy and you can make a profit from selling them online.

But they can have issues especially around breeding. This video is my top 5 reasons why you shrimp are not breeding for beginner keepers.

Covering diet, sexing, chemical fluctuations and issues with moulting, this video aims to help you rule out possible reasons why your shrimp are not breeding.

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[trixie]

Just found your page and 😍 I am pretty new to the shrimp game but your videos are so informative and helpful. AND THE FOOTAGE 🤩 every photo or video I have of mine goes in and out of focus 🙄 ends up blurry, or gets photobombed by my needy guppies 😂

[DARKSAMUS]

"Hey boys, I'm molting! Get ready." Lmao 💀

[rodneywalat]

Another great, beautifully photographed, informative video and Yes I would be interested in another video on feeding shrimp.

[krystlejohnson]

Heater too! Shrimp food is expensive and not needed but my shrimp kids love their shrimp king pellets they swarm it 😅

[famlyghost]

Your description of tap water was especially heartening. I really love your videos, thank you

[Sue.]

Excellent video with lots of information that I had searched for over a couple of years.

[johnnaylor]

Splendid video, beautifully made and voiced 👍😃

[dawnt]

I laughed when you talked about feeding. When I first got shrimp last year, I bought every shrimp food and dutifully rotated them. Meh results. When I set up a new nano tank (6.8 g) early this year for chili rasboras, I put shrimp in there and just fed them the tiny food I gave the chilis. No shrimp pellets or anything like that. Man, did those shrimp reproduce like crazy! They continue to do so.

[Staggo_L]

Timely. Right now I’m debating the pros and cons of a neocaridina/Betta tank. I’ll just go with gold back shrimp and chili rasbora.

[PaulsKoipond]

thanks for the help...trying to build a colony for myself

[romeoantiquina]

Many breeders skip the insecticide issue. Most of household insecticide can cause breeding issue. So spraying insecticide indiscriminately you will have problem with breeding.

[thomaskelly]

Hi Lauren you have a beautiful aquarium . Great reasons why shrimp are not breeding in a tank . Was the fish in the video a bluefin notho ( AKA ) killifish ? If it was can you let me know thanks 😊

[SplashOrcinuss]

I have all I require for breeding some of my cherry shrimp had shrimplets and some are still berried

[MsDragonfire]

I've had my shrimp tank set up for nearly 7 months now and added 10 crystal reds. 4 are female and 6 are male now they've matured. I had 2 buried females but never had any shrimplets. No copper on my tank, I feed them a shrimp diet once a week and keep a catapa leaf in there for them to munch on, have a few live plants and moss, bog wood and use a sponge filter. I usually do a 10% water change once a week so parimeters stay stable. No deaths at all since I've had them. But I think the females must be dropping their eggs when they molt? I've literally followed everything to a T and I let the tank fully cycle for 12 weeks before I added any shrimp. I just can't understand what I'm doing wrong as they all seem healthy.

[Temüjinrashid]

In the molting part goes also that if the water hardess is is too low (for neocaridina) they wont be able to form a propper carapace and get stuck.

(Kinda like when snakes get their skin stuck to their eyes or cloaca due to lack of moisture)

[RichardHaywardMelbourne]

My shrimp look healthy and have been in the tank for two months now. Am I just impatient?

[donohoe]

Hey you based in Ireland ? Just wondering if I can have the shrimp you full

[lhasasx]

*I know there small, but do you ever gather up a bunch & eat them?*

[sciencetopics]

Some of your shripm look like they have vorticella parasites!!!!

[DEXTER-TV-series]

12 minutes of music? No, I can't! Absolutely annoying!