Shrimp breeding

I am using them for feed! I want them to be small so I will have food for the baby seahorses I hope to one day have.

 I read somewhere that shrimp are cannibals, and they eat their young. So, they must be separated. But, who has room for a labor and delivery tank, a nursery tank,  and a grow out tank?

  Mine are living in a filthy brackish 10 gallon aquarium. They actually seem to thrive on neglect! I have divided the tank into 2 parts. One side has a piece of eggcrate over the bottom, with a layer of bridal veil over that. I put all the ghost shrimp I buy into that side. After I gut load them all, I put the ones without eggs into the freezer for future dinner for my adult seahorses. I leave the ones with eggs in 'till they drop their eggs. The eggs fall through the netting. As they hatch, they crawl through the eggcrate wall seperating the 2 sides. There, they get lots of cheap flake food (I'm using spirulina 'cause it's got hufas!). They grow pretty fast, too slow to supply 5 full sized seahorses, though.

 I am going to try this one day with pepermints!

what exactly do you want to know?  you can find some info on the breeders regestry.  i think they are in the water colom for abuot 160 to 180 days. that is the true problem i recomend something easyer to start with pepermint shrimp they are only supended in the water colum for about 28 to 60 days.  the hardest part of raisinf fry is food you need lots more than you can imagine.  flush half of the fry at the begenning the first fue times 20 healty shrimp are alout better than 50 sickly and starved ones.  i am assuming that you have a preganut one. 

     shrimp are rather easy fry to raise compared to susies seahorses but it takes a seprate tank because thay are so free floating so long. if you have some more specific questions e mail me at [email protected]  jason

ps. i have raised a fue different types of shrimp but never fireshrimp.