Peppermint Shrimp babies?

[Leo73173]

No I dont have any pictures so I cant show you what I witnessed last night. I had a peppermint shoot out from the rocks to the bottom of my overflowbox...he twitched around there for a few seconds then back down in the rocks he went. As it disappeared tons of tiny shrimp appeared!! Of course it was a feeding frenzy for my fish and they were all gone very fast. Is this normal with peppermint shrimp? Will this happen often cuz that is great food for my tank and it is free. If there are any threads out there plz point me to them thanks.

 

[THB]

I have had that happen the last two nights with my cleaner shrimp. One swam upside down the first night releasing 100s of larvae then the next night its mate did the same thing. I tried to film it, but my batteries went dead so I haven't been able to see how it came out yet.

 

[graveyardworm]

It is pretty common, sometime in the future I would like to set up a tank to house peppermints which overflows into my display, regular natural plankton for my corals and fish.

 

[Krazy]

I've got 14 peppermints in my 90, I get the free food event often

 

[Leo73173]

This is neat to find out......I like the idea of free food

 

[cmsargent]

I have a pair and they both release young roughly every two weeks. Great 'snack' for the tank.

 

[Bergovoy]

is there any info on the mating and or propagation of cleaner shrimp?

I just added two more cleaner shrimp to my tank and within an hour I saw my original shrimp mating with both the new shrimp.

At least that is what it looked like, the new shrimp, smaller, had its tail (the end of hte tail) under the end of the tail of my original shrimp. The other shrimp was waiting , tail pointing towards the event, when the larger, (my original shrimp) was done, the otehr shrimp backed up and took its turn.

I have never seen any livestock acclimate soo fast and interact with any other tank mates this quickly, no less in some sexual way.

bill

 

[aggie4231]

its alot of work. the larval stage is fairly long for peppermint shrimp, sexy shrimp, and cleaner shrimp. you have to have a good supply of live plankton(zoo&phyto). a seperate tank.

 

[Bergovoy]

I really wasnt planning on rasing them, just wante dto be able to recognize the actual mating or copulation when it happens, the eggs, what they look like and all that kind of stuff.

Just want to know, in advanced, or I can wait til I see something in my tank, and go " ID PLEASE???"

 

[graveyardworm]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9212286#post9212286 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aggie4231
its alot of work. the larval stage is fairly long for peppermint shrimp, sexy shrimp, and cleaner shrimp. you have to have a good supply of live plankton(zoo&phyto). a seperate tank.

Sexy shrimp have one of the shortest larval stages and are somewhat easy to raise, peppermints are next, and cleaner are one of the most difficult.