Rasing camel shrimp

[midknight]

I hope someone has a few answers about camel shrimp raising. I had a 10 gallon nano-reef tank with 3 camel shrimp. On a number of occasions I would have the top of my tank turn white with little white ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œthingsââ"šÂ¬Ã‚. Didnââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢t have time to study them as my clown and bicolour blenny would make very short work of these. I then moved everything over to a new 10 gallon tank but left the sand and a bunch of live rock frags. After a week with nobody snacking on them I have noticed several very tiny shrimp skittering around so decided to leave the old tank as is. Now what would I feed these babies?
Any help would be great. Was also thinking of dumping the whole thing into a 20 gallon sump/refugium I am building for a 25 gallon tall that I am building.

Thanks Dan

 

[mwp]

Dan, are these tiny shrimp skittering around on the rocks, substrate and walls or are they free swimming? It's a curious question...unfortunately I don't have any answers for ya, but other folks might!

Matt

 

[Brock Fluharty]

I know that the parents will eat the larvae (which are free swimming I believe), so separation is a must. I think that you feed them rotifers, but i'm not 100% sure on that one.

 

[Snooker00]

Here is some interesting info on raising Lysmata amboinensis.
I found this researching, because I have been trying to raise them. Still going strong at 8 days!
Hope this helps.
Steve
http://www.reefsuk.org/articles/captivebreeding/breedcleanershrimp.php

 

[NicoleC]

I believe what you are seeing are mysid shrimp. They are common hitchhikers and quite good food items for the fish.

Your camels may have been spawning (the white things, although they may have been copepod blooms instead), but mysids are a much more likely answer than camel shrimp somehow surviving.

 

[Luis A M]

See if those little "things"look shrimpy and are atracted to light.If so,they might well be larvae of Rhynchocynetes sp.I could raise one feeding with bbs since day one,but being so tiny,IÃ"šÃ‚´d guess they should be started on rotifers.
Developing larvae show a very long rostrum,long as the whole larva.

 

[spawner]

Camels do seem to require rotifers.

 

[FuEl]

Camel shrimp larvae do somewhat resemble larvae of Stenopus. I've started Stenopus larvae on bbs but growth was slow and all died around day 20 or so. In that respect, like what spawner suggested, the larvae should fare better on rotifers in the beginning. Besides this, I've heard they are quite easy to raise as in they don't exhibit mass mortalities as they grow larger, compared to other shrimp larvae like L. amboinensis.