Fire shrimp breeding

Barracuda1

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For a couple of months I've been trying to breed fire shrimp, I have a mated pair which has eggs which hatch once a month but I can't keep the babies alive for long (2 nights max). Since previously I've simply been catching the babies with a suction mechanism (that doesn't apply much force to aviod hurting them), and placing them in a variety of containers with different food options substrates etc. but nothing works. So most recently I've set up a ten gallon tank with a reef mud bottom and a heater and am planning to take the fire shrimp with the eggs and place it in there till the eggs hatch and offer the babies plankton and artifical artimia, does anyone know what I can do to help improve the babies chance of survival? any help is appreciated
 
Like peppermint shrimps and cleaner shrimps, they are probably next to impossible to keep alive past a couple weeks.
 
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