cleaner shrimps no longer carrying eggs

[glee]

hello all, i have a pair of skunk cleaner shrimps that have been producing green eggs every month over the last few months. the eggs hatch and my corals and fish go nuts, having an all you can eat buffet. after the last spawning, my cleaner shrimps did not produce another clutch of eggs. is it common for shrimp to stop producing eggs once they have been mated? is this a seasonal thing? thanks!

 

[gjm258]

I'm pretty sure I read on here that cleaner shrimp are hermaphrodites and can self fertalize. I had a skunk cleaner that produced eggs very regularly for the first year and a half that I had it and after that it stopped so maybe that is normal. I never really thought about it much.