Cleaner shrimp babies...

jnarowe

jnarowe

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So I got in some cleaner shrimp and two of them had full egg sacks. I placed one in my fuge and the other in my QT. Today I spotted hundreds of planctonic shrimp! So I shut down the skimmer, power head, and HOB, popped in an air stone and fed a little phyto.

And what I need is some information from anyone who has successfully raised cleaner shrimp. Anyone have a good experience?
 
Bummer the fish would have enjoyed them. Sorry i would think they would be fine with no preditors around and would eat them same as mom .
 
 
Lance: That's not how it works at all. In fact, Mom will eat them given the chance and they have very delicate beginning stage life cycles.

Marty: Thanks for the links. I will read them all. Since this happened in my grow-out/QT tank, I just removed all the corals, shut down the skimmer and powerheads, and popped in an air stone set on low. I could get lucky!! :)
 
Yeah, it sounds like you have the perfect setup (or nearly so) already in place. If you could somehow provide a constant, minimal water change as one of the links mentioned, by pumping water in from your main sump/filtration system, then it sounds like you are well set.

Good luck!
Mart
 
My setup is not too bad, but I have a couple of aiptasia I need to pull out, and it has square corners...

My QT actually has a float valve feed from the main display, so all I have to do is filter out some water and allow it to refill.
 
well the odds of even one making it to adulthood are extremely thin at best. What I am going to do is keep the two adults I have control over in the fuge and fish them out when they have eggs. If I can get lucky on one of these attempts, and figure out how to replicate the conditions, maybe I could get something going. But really as a hobbiest, I just don't have the knowledge or equipment to tilt the odds in my favor.

I guess it comes down to how their life cycle is represented in their spawning method. Every 14 days an adult releases hundreds of eggs. So out in the wild, I would bet they are lucky to get one adult from each spawning, hence the constant egg releasing. It takes 10x+ the egg production period for a cleaner shrimp baby to settle out. The numbers are mind blowing when you think about it.
 
well at lights on this morning I had nearly 100% mortality, so that doesn't even qualify as an experiment. Barely a fart in a hurricane if you ask me. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah well, the writing was on the wall, I had just hung a picture over it! I am going to rig up a better larvae tank and try it out again.
 
cool. I hope you're successful in your future attempts. Are you going to carry on your experiment in this thread? If you make a new one can you remember to post a link here? It wouldn't be hard for me to grab an impregnated shrimp to test this out on. I already have a non-utilized 20g attached to my main system. I'm going to read everything myself.
 
Lots of good reading about this. I am going to try and devise a round tank with some better method of circulation and more reliable heating. Maybe a plant heating mat would work better and some sort of baffles to slow down the air bubbles a bit. Like the CO2 diffusers.
 
Hydor makes a 7.5 watt plate like heater. It's actually for Betta bowls, but might work for you... A 3-gallon Eclipse, they're hexagonal, might work, as you could drill LOTS of holes in the siphon, cover it with foam--like 2 inches worth with filter bag material encasing the foam all the way around. The intake flow would be so diffused between all the holes and the foam that it might not draw the larva into the filter... The Eclipse style lid would also allow the plate style of the 7.5W Hydor to be placed in the cartridge bed so none of the larva would end up too close to it... ust some ideas...
 
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