As most of you know my love towards the inverts side, this time decided to do something out of the box and decided to have pure line crystal red and pure line crystal black of mine.
Planning -
Procured very small around 10-20 days old CBS babies so that they dont hold any kind of sperm inside them and started taking care of them in a 1.25cubic feet tank with a sponge filter.
And water change was 20-25% per week, and only CBS was in the tank.
After 2 months noticed one of the female was carrying eggs but she dropped her eggs after 4-5 days, I could attribute it due to improper inspermination. After 15-20 days she carried eggs again and I had a higher hope that this time she will deliver and I will have black babies only.
She have given birth to a cute little batch of babies, but doing a random check on the color of the babies found out that 80% of them are black, whereas rest 20% are red
This percentage is certainly higher than what we get in keeping CRS/CBS together, but still I failed!!!
So as an action plan decided -
Will remove the red babies to the crs tank and also when the juveniles will grow a little bit up will remove the adults also and will do the experimentation again with the fresh babies.
What you all feel/suggest??
on CRS/CBS alike, so getting a 80% headcount is pretty much a major success IMO! since you are now planning on selective breeding why not go ahead with that an' see what that reaps out! it's a good first step, perhaps because of people like you, people like us can get good breed shrimps in India, and not get honked of our money by LFS who get em' by stroke of luck which are in general of poor quality! best of luck I personally would say, an' since I stay a stone throw from you, I would love to help out if need be from my end.
