Shrimp Eggs
- Thread starter thuddly
- Start date
"Umm fish?"
Premium Member
If you buy a few peppermint shrimp and house them together, you'll get eggs. I believe peps are hermaphrodites, so you don't need to worry about trying to get a male and a female.
Peps brood their eggs until hatching and then the larvae spend some time in the pelagic zone before settling out as juvenile shrimp. As far as shrimp go, peppermints are supposed to be pretty easy to raise, though I've not tried it yet.
I believe that coral banded are roughly similar (are they hermaphrodites, too?), though their larvae are supposed to be much harder to raise.
It's a little more involved than hatching a brine shrimp, but that's what this forum is for.
BTW, here's a good book to get you started: http://www.amazon.com/Raise-Train-Y...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224791396&sr=8-1
Peps brood their eggs until hatching and then the larvae spend some time in the pelagic zone before settling out as juvenile shrimp. As far as shrimp go, peppermints are supposed to be pretty easy to raise, though I've not tried it yet.
I believe that coral banded are roughly similar (are they hermaphrodites, too?), though their larvae are supposed to be much harder to raise.
It's a little more involved than hatching a brine shrimp, but that's what this forum is for.
BTW, here's a good book to get you started: http://www.amazon.com/Raise-Train-Y...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224791396&sr=8-1
Only way to get peppermint or coral banded shrimp eggs is to get adults and breed them yourself. Like Andy said, the peppermints are hermaphrodites, so any 2 or more will do. The Coral Banded shrimp, however, are male and female, and very territorial as well. For those you ideally need to acquire a mated pair.
