Hey tmays,
Good luck with your rearing efforts. Before getting a job that took me away from home for months at at time and wreaking havoc on my aquarium hobby, I did a LOT of research into breeding Lysmata amboinensis. If you did search this forum you might have found this in a post of mine from two years ago but I'll throw it up just the same because its "light reading" that I found useful. I hope the links are current . . . Again, good luck!
*D.J. Fletcher, I. Kotter, M. Wunsch & I.Yasir. Preliminary observations on the reproductive biology of ornamental cleaner prawns Stenopsus hispidus, Lysmata amboinensis, and Lysmata debelius. Int. Zoo Yearbook (1995) 34: 73-77.
* Peters, Micheal and Wilkerson, Joyce. Scarlet cleaner shrimp larval development. FAMA. March, 1996: 48-55.
Fiedler, G. Curt. Functional, Simultaneous Hermaphroditism in Female-Phase Lysmata amboinensis Pacific Science (1998), 52(2): 161-169.
Rufino, Marta and Jones, David. Binary Individual Recognition in Lysmata debelius under laboratory conditions. J. Crust. Bio. 21(2): 388-392, 2001.
Rufino, Martin and Jones, David. Observations on the functions of the fifth pereiopod in late stage larvae of Lysmata debelius. Crustaceana 74(9): 977-990. 2001.
Zhang, Dong. and Lin, Junda. Ingestion rate and feeding behavior of the Peppermint Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni on Artemia Nauplii. Journal of World Aquaculture Society 29(1): 97-103. 1998.
*Hamner, William. Design developments in the planktonkreisel, a plankton aquarium for ships at sea. J. Plankton Research 12(2): 397-402. 1990.
*Wilkerson, Joyce. Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp. FAMA 1994
http://breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/...g94/scarlet.htm
Riley, Cecilia. Captive Spawning and Rearing of the Peppermint Shrimp Lysmata Wurdemanni. Sea Scope vol 11. 1994.
Wittenrich, Matthew. Breeding Lysmata rathbunae: Metamorphosis in 19 days. Sea Scope vol. 19. 2002.
Simoes, Fernando, F. Ribeiro, D. Jones. Feeding early larval stages of fire shrimp Lysmata debelius. Aquaculture International 10: 349-360. 2002.
*R. Calado, L. Narciso, S. Morais, A.L. Rhyne, J. Lin. A rearing system for the culture of ornamental decapod crustacean larvae. Aquaculture 218: 329-339. 2003.
INTERNET:
*Noack, Frederick Scott. Captive Rearing of Peppermint Shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni): a hobbyist's tale. Reefkeeping Online magazine.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-10/nfft/index.htm.
Anonymous? Breeding the Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp. Reefs UK reefsuk.com/CaptiveBreeding/Articles/BreedingScarletCleanerShrimp.html.
*Magnasco, Luis and Toonen, Rob. Raising Stenopus and Lysmata Larvae.
http://www.reefs.org/library/articl...co_toonen.html.
Toonen, Rob. Culturing Shrimp. Reefs.org
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/r_toonen10.html
Toonen, Rob. Larvae Settlement Cues. Reefs.org
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/r_toonen5.html
*Multiple contributors Rearing L. amboinensis larvae. Reef Central Post.
http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulleti...?threadid=55311
BOOKS:
**Kirkendoll, April. How to Raise and Train your own Peppermint Shrimp. Lysmata Publishing