1. Myth: shining strong light on your shrimp will make it look nicer
✓ Fact :no matter how much light you shine will not make your shrimp look better. You might as well cook it.
2. Myth: buying culls and slowly trying to breed and get good quality shrimp is achievable
✓ Fact: Good line breeding(selective breeding) is how nice shrimp traits are being pass on. The next time someone tells you that buying culls and slowly breed is trying to earn a fast one. Read up on selective breeding and you know none of the pedigrees are bred with culls.
3. Myth: A small amount of ADA Soil would be sufficient for shrimp and to be compensated by adding more bacteria
✓ Fact: a rule of thumb is that for every 16 litre of water you will need 1 litre of soil
4. Myth: Continuous culling of a Galaxy Tiger will eventually become Fancy Tiger
✓ Fact: Both are from different parentage, where a galaxy tiger has pinto gene in it whereas fancy tiger has prl/pbl in it. No matter how much culling is done, under a well trained eye, a GT will always be a GT. Walk away if they can’t openly tell you the difference. Look at their breeding tank and if there are any signs of pinto shrimplet in it or pinto gene if you are looking for FT. Alternatively, you can visit the blog link.
5. Myth: I only need 1 tank to achieve extraordinary results in shrimp breeding
✓ Fact: for selective breeding the general rule is that at least 3 tanks is required. main breeding tank, shrimplet grow up tank, grade 1 breeding tank. In general people will start with one main breeding tank with a male to female ratio of 4:20. This will generate higher success rate as the probability of all males molting at the same time is greatly reduced. This main breeding tank will keep generating shrimplet to be remove to the shrimplet grow up tank when they are 0.8cm. Once there is a good selection of male and female (1M 5F) that exceed expectation,they should be placed in the grade 1 breeding tank to continue the line. The grade 1 breeding tank and main breeding tank will continue to have more and more shrimplet to be placed in the shrimplet tank. The main breeding tank adults will not mix with the grade 1 breeding tank as the grade 1 breeding tank is to refine the excellent line, even better. If you have an additional tank (tank 4) this will greatly help to split the shrimplet male from female at a younger age to prevent unnecessary dilution of gene amongst the shrimplet.