Newbie Shrimp question

[LadyReefNeck]

Is this cleaner shrimp about to lay eggs ... are they egg sacs by the rear small legs?

TIA

 

[Gobie]

yes they are eggs

 

[DJ88©]

good food for your tank.

 

[LadyReefNeck]

Guess if I had waited another hour I would have answered my own question. She just released them about 10 minutes ago. They are everywhere! The fish are going nuts ... feeding frenzy!

Thanks for the replies... greatly appreciated.

 

[CaveManNOhio]

That was a very nice picture.
Got to love that free food.

To the experts: is there any chance that any of them could surrvive? I know a majority of them will get eaten.

 

[DJ88©]

I think that there are some facilities able to produce the food and the environment that shrimp like these need to survive. Most hobbiests tho don't have the equipment..

 

[romunov]

Chances are very slim (I have heard of some instances where one or two were able to go through all larval stages).

There two references will give you more info:

R. Calado, J. Figueiredo, R. Rosa, M.L. Nunes, L. Narciso. 2005. Effects of temperature, density, and diet on development, survival, settlement synchronism, and fatty acid profile of the ornamental shrimp Lysmata seticaudata. Aquaculture. 245: 221-237

Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Sam Wainright, Shigeru Montani, Megumi Saga, Sagiri Ichihara, Kazuhiro Kogure. 2001. Exploitation of a chemosynthetic food resource by the polychaete Capitella sp. Marine ecology progress series. 216: 119-127