Crystal red shrimp

The skin of a shrimp is made from chitin like you find it at all other crustaceans. While the shrimp is growing it molt itself several times. They eat food with their pincers. They are crawling all the time and eat while they do that. To walk the ground or plants the crystal red uses her six legs. They possibly might loose a leg in a fight. This will be rebuilt new with the next molt. If they swim they use five pairs of swimming legs located underneath their venter (abdomen). You can keep them in a tank with twenty liters or more volume. They have a lifetime of around two years. If you start you should get ten or more Crystals. They are social and if you start with a bit more they would increase faster.

The length of the male crystal-red dwarf shrimp amounts to approx. 20 mm. The females become long around the 25 mm. The water equivalents should amount to 10° GH and lie the water temperature between 22 and 25° C. The Crystal talk eat likewise gladly rabbit pellets. Frost fodder, tablets and saltworks cancers accept it in addition, well. To mention it is still that there are different color patterns with this kind.

Female Crystal red have the ovarian located near their neck. If the eggs are going to be ready the female shrimp will molt. While she is doing that she releases pheromone. The male shrimp are going to search the female one for pairing. This results in wild swimming of shrimp through the whole aquarium. After the male shrimp placed his sperm packet the female shrimp will press her eggs through that. Inseminated eggs will be place between the swim legs. There they will be supplied with fresh water all the time until the full developed baby shrimp leave the underbelly.

The crystal-red dwarf shrimp belongs to the shrimps with the specialized type of reproduction. That means, it brings nearly dwarf shrimps completely developed to weeks after the stretcher time by ca.4 to the world, which have a size of approximately 1.5 millimeters. They are largepulled with dust food or also with living Artemia. In an aquarium with much Javamoss the small dwarf shrimps can protect themselves and find outstanding each quantity high-quality food in and under the plants.

If you want to set up a tank for shrimp you should provide enough plants and if possible some moss. They like to climb the plants and moss while they are looking for something to eat. If you want to breed the Crystal red bee shrimp you better should keep it alone in a tank. If they are alone they have minimum stress. This will result in good breeding results. A very good setup for shrimp in aquarium is a planted aquarium. This is why I provided some books at the following point...