Peppermint prego!

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I just bought three peppermint shrimp, I started looking at them and one is full of eggs!
Question is, do you think any will survive and if they do would anybody around ky want a few? I don't want them to starve or get eaten.
 
I just bought three peppermint shrimp, I started looking at them and one is full of eggs!
Question is, do you think any will survive and if they do would anybody around ky want a few? I don't want them to starve or get eaten.

from what I've heard april kirkendoll's book on the subject is supperb.

You will have to collect the larvae somehow. you can either buy a larval collecter like chad vossens, build a larval snagger like kirkendolls, stand over the tank like a fool with a flashlight for a few hours collecting them as they hatch, or put the prego in a tank until it releases.

once you have the larvae the next problem is the environment. they are fragile. if the tank design/ flow is wrong, then they will be battered to death or be collected in dead spots. some people use kreisals, Though others have used rectangular tanks.

They will feed on bbs from birth. you dont have to enrich them either, so first instar is preferable. (as offensive to the english languasge as it sounds, "ENRICHMENT is BAD for lysamata species)

light doesn't matter, they are chemosensitive hunters. if anything complete darkness may help with bacteria.

It is certaintly possible, it likely will take a little trial and error before you get great at it though, dont be discouraged if you dont at first succeed.
 
I like challenges and I was thinking up ideas on how to get the shrimp alone and how I might actually get the little ones to safety, I'm thinking I will be sitting in from of the tank for a while! I'll post up some of my ideas after I get off work.
Thanks for the replies!
 
I like challenges and I was thinking up ideas on how to get the shrimp alone and how I might actually get the little ones to safety, I'm thinking I will be sitting in from of the tank for a while! I'll post up some of my ideas after I get off work.
Thanks for the replies!

maybe you want to check this site out http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=201&t=179

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=6072

these links might be helpful.
 
Thanks,
I looked in the tank to see if she had hatched the eggs today and couldn't find any of them. Then I looked in my sump and saw about 50-75 little baby shrimp running around!! Hopefully the don't get sucked in my pump!
 
The ones in your sump are more than likely mysis shrimp. It is highly unlikely that any freshly hatched pepps would have survived the trip down the drain pipe.
 
I had to rescue one of the shrimp from my sump yesterday, I'm thinking it was her because I've never seen mysis shrimp in my tank unless they rode in on my rock that I stuck in the sump a week or so ago. Either way I have new friends to gawk at lol.
 
im thinking they are mysis as well. i had the same question about my skunk cleaners and if they look like the pic below, its mysiss
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they are all over my sump/phosban reactor
 
Looks the same as my little guys! Thanks for the picture, sums up my baby peppermint in the sump idea. I fed my mysis shrimp earlier, I put a piece of seaweed sheet in there and they look like they're having a feast. I'm thinkin if I get a decent population of them going I can just transfer a sump rock to the display as a little treat for the fish to find and munch on.
Chaeto might help in the sump, it gives the mysis a hiding spot, exports nutrients, and my yellow tang may eat the trimmings. Thinking out loud here, lol.
 
Looks the same as my little guys! Thanks for the picture, sums up my baby peppermint in the sump idea. I fed my mysis shrimp earlier, I put a piece of seaweed sheet in there and they look like they're having a feast. I'm thinkin if I get a decent population of them going I can just transfer a sump rock to the display as a little treat for the fish to find and munch on.
Chaeto might help in the sump, it gives the mysis a hiding spot, exports nutrients, and my yellow tang may eat the trimmings. Thinking out loud here, lol.

at the risk of going off forum topic, chaeto is very rough and hard to digest.

take some out and let it dry, it doesn't break down well. that same thing happens inside of the fish. it can cause impaction, and in severe instances death.

caulerpa or ulva would be a much better choice.
 
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