Cleaner Shrimp Eggs??

[Ken_wied]

Greetings all!,
Well, I went out and bought a second cleaner shrimp for my 90g. I had one for a little over a year. Now, about 3 weeks after adding the second, I've noticed that both of them have bunches of yellow eggs in their tails by the swimmerettes ( I think thats what they are called ). Will they hatch and mature or are they non-fertile and essentially become fish food or filter clogging material? The two shrimps follow eachother around the tank and are inseperable. Is there any way to catch the eggs and hatch them even?
Thanks for any help!
Ken

 

[greenbean36191]

The eggs may be fertile, but they won't survive to adulthood. The larval period for these guys is several months and the protocol for rearing them successfully hasn't really been worked out yet. They will just become fish food.

 

[Ken_wied]

ok, thanks a bunch. I'm not gonna worry about it then. Would have been neat to see 20 new cleaner shrimps running around lol