pregnant cleaner shrimp

[wizzbane15]

I was taking a close look today at my 2 cleaner shrimp and I noticed that both of them are carrying eggs. Since I have never had this happen with cleaner shrimp or anything else in my tank before, I looking for ideas on how to best promote spawning, if that is even the correct term, and getting the eggs fertilized.

I already went to my LFS tonight to search for male cleaner shrimp. Tomorrow they said.

I have a 6 gallon modified mud 'fuge that I could semi section off. It is part of a closed loop filtration circuit that begins and ends in my sump with the sump resevoir being pumped back into the main tank.

opinions and thoughts encouraged.

the Original Might and Magic character: Wizzbane.:beer:

 

[wizzbane15]

to clarify: my mud 'fuge can't be completely isolated without turning off my closed loop system. I have a Iwaki external pump drawing water from a bulkhead in the bottom of my sump and then pumping it through the following, in order: A precision marine reverse flow filter which is filled with Boyd's Chemi-Pure not in its bags, a Lifegard double chemical module filled with Seachem Phosgard, a Lifegard single fluidized sand bed filter, my mud 'fuge, and then the water simply flows back into the other side of the sump near the intake for my Pro-clear 150 skimmer and 2 Rio 2500 return pumps. I would not be able keep water flowing through the 'fuge without having the Iwaki pump on because it is the water from the bed filter that flows into my 'fuge on one end and out the other end of the 'fuge via a bulk head back into the sump.

I was thinking maybe putting up a mesh or filter pad fine enough to keep a majority of the cleaner shrimp babies in the 'fuge without escaping out back into my system; kinds like straining them out?!?

 

[Bubbashrimp]

You already have a mated pair of shrimp. They are both male and female at the same time.

 

[dc]

They will not survive in your tank. Mine are always gone by morning. I just consider them food for the tank.