Cleaner Shrimp Pregnant

[fishfanv]

Does anyone know if it's possible for the eggs to actually make it or do the fish usually eat them before they even have a chance of surviving?

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

They won't survive the larval stage. Free fish food!

 

[RealReef7]

very very very slim chance.. I had a pair of cleaner shrimp and the eggs were just food for the tangs

 

[fishfanv]

Darn . Oh well, the fish will appreciate the snack I guess.

 

[gatormoto]

I had a preggo cleaner shrimp as well and everyone told me the same thing. I just looked into the bottom of my overflow and there are about 15 or 20 baby shrimp... i am 100% sure they are shrimp, and they are smaller than a pencil tip. Do you think these are cleaner shrimp babies or is there a chance that the saltwater grass shrimp that I feed my cat shark had some offspring?

 

[fishfanv]

If they do turn out to be shrimp & they survive, please keep this thread updated so I can figure out how you did it!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15556951#post15556951 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gatormoto
I had a preggo cleaner shrimp as well and everyone told me the same thing. I just looked into the bottom of my overflow and there are about 15 or 20 baby shrimp... i am 100% sure they are shrimp, and they are smaller than a pencil tip. Do you think these are cleaner shrimp babies or is there a chance that the saltwater grass shrimp that I feed my cat shark had some offspring?

 

[gatormoto]

they are def shrimp, just not sure which kind yet. they're still alive and kicking, most of them are on the bottom of the overflow, and i can see them from looking through the bottom of it. i keep putting phyto in the tank, so hopefully a few will live.

 

[lildraken]

they are def shrimp, just not sure which kind yet. they're still alive and kicking, most of them are on the bottom of the overflow, and i can see them from looking through the bottom of it. i keep putting phyto in the tank, so hopefully a few will live.

any updates? are they mysis shrimps? I hope they are cleaners. My cleaner shrimp has greenish eggs and I wish there was a technique in raising eggs.

 

[kyrin01]

I dont think it would be to hard really... set up a 10 gallon with with lots of cheato and a bubble filter and let them go in there... theres no predators in there and if you fed phyto to that the only thing eating it would be the baby shrimps. might not work at all but as seeing that they sell for 20 dollars a piece i dont see a problem with trying.
just my .02

 

[Paul B]

They have been laying egs in my tank for decades, I have not seen one make it yet.

 

[lildraken]

would amphipods eat the baby shrimps? that's the only thing i see that could be a problem I seem to have a lot of those. they're like reef roaches. My clowns don't eat them but my gobies do.

 

[Paul B]

The baby shrimp are about the same size an amphipods but they are much larger than copepods

 

[Cymaster007]

Mine have eggs every few weeks, never had any survive... also had neon gobys spawn and none of the offspring survived (much to my gf's dismay and disappointment). Deff keep us updated!

 

[Elysia]

If you do a search of RC, I believe that someone posted that these larval shrimp are very delicate, and can't handle the impact of bumping into things (unless that was crab larvae.)