Cleaner shrimp spawning...

[j.falk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7y4u0HRad4

^ Not my video, but my cleaner shrimp have spawned three batches of babies so far and it looks just like what is shown in the video. Every time, the babies are dead by morning...either eaten by the fish or sucked into the powerheads. My question is, is it possible to keep the babies alive if I were to separate them into a grow out tank?

 

[billdogg]

Technically, yes. Realistically, not really. I look at them as free live food for the other creatures in the tank.

 

[Tripod1404]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7y4u0HRad4

^ Not my video, but my cleaner shrimp have spawned three batches of babies so far and it looks just like what is shown in the video. Every time, the babies are dead by morning...either eaten by the fish or sucked into the powerheads. My question is, is it possible to keep the babies alive if I were to separate them into a grow out tank?

It is extremely hard to rare the larvae due to their extremely long pelagic lifestage.