baby cleaner shrimp all over

[Shady Reefer]

how common is this for baby cleaners to be born in captivity
and how long till mature enough to sell or trade also any care tips welcome there all hanging out under a bridge and momma is very protective

 

[EleganceMan]

pictures?

 

[Shady Reefer]

no i cant do pics sorry

 

[Paramecium]

If they are very small and you see lots of them they are probably pods.

 

[Shady Reefer]

no there not pods! there baby shrimp but thanks

 

[Toddrtrex]

If they are baby shrimp (( I am leaning towards mysis myself )), there really isn't anything you can do. I have yet to hear of anyone being able to raise the fry. They have a fairly long first stage and don't make it past a couple of days in an average tank.

 

[fishkid6692]

i think they have been raised before but it's difficult.

 

[Dude]

Yes I know they have been raised before. There is a lady in the Pgh area that I know did breed cleaners & peppermints.

 

[therealfatman]

They need to be fed phytoplankton for a few days after they start appearing to look some what like shrimp. Follow this with cycloeze (bioengineered zooplankton). Young shrimp are heavily preyed upon by fish so are usually raised in a seperate tank.

The females lay 50,000 to 1 million eggs, which hatch after some 24 hours into tiny nauplii. These nauplii feed on yolk reserves within their body and then undergo a metamorphosis into zoeae. This second larval stage feeds in the wild on algae and after a few days metamorphoses again into the third stage to become myses. At this stage the myses already begin to appear like tiny versions of fully-developed adults and feed on algae and zooplankton. After another three to four days they metamorphose a final time into postlarvae: young shrimp having all the characteristics of adults. The whole process takes about 12 days from hatching.

 

[Imzadi]

Time to update your 'Current Tanks' status... unless they are in a bucket.

I wanna see pics!!! That would be so cool to see!

 

[Shady Reefer]

heres some week pics of mother shrimp with more eggs in between her swimmer fins hard to see but noticable
(if the pic works)
shrimp n eggs

poeted pics in my gallery
also posted pic of some egg sacks on the glass at two different stages any ideas

 

[Shady Reefer]

link

http://www.reefcentral.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=207127&thumb=1

 

[lostintheocean]

I have two cleaners and they both always have eggs. I can see the eggs get larger and sometimes they only have a few. I see them mess with them as well. One night when I had family visiting i we came home and i noticed tons of tiny thins in the tank. There were thousands of tiny shrimp everywherre. I do not have a camera that could have captured this. The fish were going to town as well as the corals. The babies were only visable for about 2 hours after i first saw then when i got home. They were eaten adn sucked in to the filtration. This is the only time i have whitnessed this since I have had my cleaners. I think judging from the way the eggs look on them it happens more often but there is only a few hour window to see this and I an normally asleep.

 

[Shady Reefer]

so I no longer think these are cleaners but some small type of shrimp. the cleaners are carrying eggs however the fact that both my cleaners have eggs makes me think they're unfertalized.
i did get some video of the small shrimp they are shaped different and seem to have swimming fins on thier sides, they zip all over never crawling but swimming link: http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn246/ShadyAssazin/?action=view&current=MVI_2443.flv

 

[justinl]

shady, those are mysid shrimp. adults.

 

[snorvich]

I agree. They make tasty food for most fish.

 

[Shady Reefer]

thats what i was thinking there are hundreds in the tank
my fish dont seem to target them i have two clowns a bi color blenny and a algae blenny I can see them in the rocks all over

 

[greenbean36191]

Your cleaners are hermaphrodites, so there is a good chance that they are both carrying fertile eggs. However, the offspring are very hard to raise and chances of pulling it off in a display tank are essentially 0. They're super fragile and their diets are very demanding, so even in systems designed specifically or them, most people can't get more than 1-3 to survive from a clutch. From egg to adult also takes about 6-8 months.

 

[Lotus99]

My last pair used to regularly release larval shrimp into the tank. I did read up on raising them, but the setup required is a lot of work. I tried throwing some in my frag tank, just in case they'd survive, but they didn't.

I ended up realizing it was a great, healthy, live snack for my fish and corals every couple of months.