pregnant cleaner shrimp, what to do??

[jpitts101]

ok you guy's changed my mind. In the aquapod it will go! i only have a few zoo's and about 20 pounds of live rock. maybe the filter wont get them. when mom releases the eggs do i need to get her out and put her back in my main tank? will she eat the eggs? let me know, im gonna be a daddy!!!

 

[VCoo71]

do you have 2 cleaner shrimp in that tank?
the females are known to make/hold eggs even when a males isint present they will be unfertile but still good tank food
and trying to tell a male from a female cleaner is very difficult from what i have read

charlie

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8189437#post8189437 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by VCoo71
do you have 2 cleaner shrimp in that tank?
the females are known to make/hold eggs even when a males isint present they will be unfertile but still good tank food
and trying to tell a male from a female cleaner is very difficult from what i have read

charlie

Many lower invertebrates can also store sperm though. I don't know the case with Cleaner Shrimp though.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

jpitts101, I got an anwer back from Dr. Frank Marini. Here is the information that he offered up. It sounds like it will be a long and difficult task, but well worth it if you ask me.

Hi Travis-
Thanks for the question. Both Lysmata amboinensis, and Lysmata debelius are good choices for home culture considering considering pairs frequently release spawn in our aquariums.

If you good at clownfish and dottybacks shrimp should be the next level of difficult, as these shrimp tend to have extremely long free plankton phases- inexcess of month some time. However L Amboinesensis has a large larvae once settled and can take artemiz nauplii, but its 120 day + planktonic phase is a doosey

Here are a few threads to read
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=267810&highlight=cleaner+shrimp+breeding
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=634480&highlight=cleaner+shrimp+breeding

here are additonal reads on other inverts

this one is on sexy shrimp,
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/s...threadid=569458

this one is a book on breeding peppermints. http://www.lysmatapublishing.com/shrimp.html

this ones on raising Peppermints
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-10/nftt/index.htm



Frank

"in all things of Nature, there is something marvelous"-Aristole

 

[captbunzo]

Thanks for the post, Travis. That is some great info!

 

[jpitts101]

i have 3 cleeaners in my 105. 2 of the 3 are always right next to each other, the third just hangs out. there all pretty much full grown. Im sure it was one of the 2 that was hanging out that got pregnant because there all seperated now and dont really have anything to do with each other. thanks everyone for all the info i really appreciate it!!! great articles Travis!!