Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Raising Forage and Bait Macrobrachium ohione (Ohio Shrimp) for bait

Hey everybody, I have heard that Ohio shrimp are very popular for bait, and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to add them to a pond with good water flow (I like to keep water at a gentle water circulation; I don't like letting the water go stagnant). If so, where could I buy them? I have heard that they are very commonly used for bait and feeders to large fish, but I can't ever find any for sale.
In addition I think these would make good cleaners too, because I always read how shrimp are all great at eating excess fish food, corpses, and algae.

How will you get them to reproduce?

up until now, I hadn't thought of reproduction, because I don't know how much they would cost to buy. But if I end up having to breed them, I suppose I could get a cheap aquarium and purchase one of those devices that causes water to circulate more quickly, to replicate a the stream environment they would typically breed in. I hear, however their young hatch into larvae, and they can be difficult to feed.

the larvae need some salt to develope and survive I believe. Once past the larvae stage pure fresh is fine according to the googles.

Why not use Grass Shrimp? Many here on the forum utilize them as forage, they're great.

That's the point that I was trying to make. I don't think he researched their breeding habits very well. What I found was they reproduce in salt water and the larvae migrate to fresh water. They haven't been seen in Ohio for a long, long time from what I could see.

TJ, I agree about the grass shrimp, but again, he'd have to research what habitat they need to reproduce and have the YOY survive.

i had glass shrimp reproducing in 55 gallon tanks... until the crayfish took over..
gravel bottom, sponge filters, water lettuce, anachris, duckweed growing.. once i noticed a female glass shrimp in berry, i started feeding the tanks a little green water every couple days.. the instar are really hard to see, but i would find them on the water lettuce roots most often.. gotta have the green water to get them started.. i've seen small ones (less than 1/8")eating a (frozen) blood worm..

Grass shrimp aren't overly hard to raise in aquariums. I raise some in a couple of smaller ones mixed with scuds.