150 gallon shrimp pond?

[daphilster08]

Awesome Idea, I have many ponds setups for breeding koi only but did introduced about 8 years ago some of my Amano's and cherrys in there and yes now days it's a shrimp paradise year round. Have enough hiding places, like put 1" to 2" gravel on the bottom so the shrimp can go between the gravel and be protected from temp swings. In my ponds I have now I Amano's and they breeding, cherries.... breeding, tigers and some kind of blue morph shrimp. Never was able to get the CRS or CBS going in the ponds but again have about 250 CRS s+ ready to try it again. This time the 400 gallon will be in grounds to have a more stable temp during the summer here in Houston. And YES the koi feast on them but that's ok. The shrimp population is so large that in the summer when I try to net a koi for a client a have also about 300+ shrimp in my net, no kidding.

Holy cow man! That is amazing! You scoop for Koi and out come 300 shirmp! I can just picture it! What kind of gravel do you have down so they can withstand temperature changes? What I will most likely do is put a huge pond heater in when it hits fall and see if this will keep it warm all winter. It sounds like such a fun project!

i want to try it out too. but i will be going small. 50g tub.

Great! Glad to hear it! It is a great idea and well, there is a huge demand for these little critters. Just getting them breeding readily and take a scoop of a hundred or two like the bikeguru and you got some change to help off set this expensive hobby

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Wow! That is amazing! There is multiple kinds in there! Wow too cool! You will be getting a PM!

[daphilster08]

Oh ya, bikeguru, what hiding places do you have for them? What kind of plants? Etc..

[76dragon]

Bikeguru, I'll love to get a couple of scoups just to feed my cichlids.

Phung

Two scoops with a small net 40+ Amano pond shrimp, some yellows, greens, blue belly's. Lots of them saddled up and berried and it's not even the season.



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