Its Pregnant!

[jugger]

what should i do???? anything speacial??? will any of the little guys live or will they get eaten or filtered??

 

[jugger]

and how long untill she releases them??

 

[bbuck_camelback]

I have a cleaner pair that breeds, but all the offspring are quickly filtered. My corals and fish have a good time eating what does not get filtered. Even the shrimps themselves get into the action.

 

[bang guy]

If they were fertile the eggs would be bright green.

 

[spsfreak100]

The young are extremely difficult to raise. I haven't heard of too many people sucessfully raising the fry.
Think of it this way- It's a free meal
Graham

 

[ozadars]

Maybe u can try putting the shrimp in to few gal tank w/ a power head, and wait until shrimp leaves her eggs free, after that put the shrimp back to the tank, and try to give fries something like plankton, also its better putting a LR in that tank

 

[ozadars]

As i know, some shrimp (shrimps which likes to group like cleaners, fires, ghost shrimps, papermints...) dont have a --- and if there are 2 shrimps, they can both have eggs and fertelised, but if there is one that cant be... could be wrong-not sure

 

[bang guy]

Ozadars is 100% correct, they are hermaphroditic.
Do a search on "Bug of the Week", I did a post about Peppermint Shrimp.
I've raised larvae but it's a LOT of effort. If someone wants to reimburse me for my salary I'll gladly spend the required time raining Shrimp Larvae.

 

[jugger]

well i dont think they will get a chance.... the damn brittle ate her

 

[tigerlover]

I've sucessfully raised baby cleaner shrimp for the record
Sorry to hear about the brittle star eating it though jugger

 

[ozadars]

Sorry to hear this

 

[jugger]

thanks guys and girls...