Cleaner shrimp had babies

[VaderWS6]

My pair of skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) had babies last night, most became coral food and some made it to the chaeto in the refugium. Have any of you had luck raising them? I tried to capture them on video, but youtube won't show any detail. I was really surprised, because I've had shrimp hatch many times before in my reef, and these looked totally different than any baby shrimp I've ever seen. They had white eyes and the front legs were white. They all looked very developed for newborn shrimp. Awesome :celeb1:

 

[dougie]

congrats! thats awesome. hopefully some survive.

 

[ludnix]

There was an excellent thread by someone who cultivated cleaner shrimps. The larval stage for the shrimp is almost a year long, so survival is unlikely in a tank.

Someone had a thread who claimed to have successfully reared them in their tank, but I don't if it had any validity.