Shrinp Breeding?

[edawgm]

Ok so I have 3 cleaner shrimp in my 75g. One of the three is a little larger and has a thicker tail. I know from living on a lake when I was younger and catching crawfish that they carried the babies under their tails. Do shrimp do the same or has anyone ever had shrimp breed in their aquarium? I will have to go find my surefire and take a closer look. Sorry I can't take pics since my camera is out of service at the moment.

[edawgm]

Ok so after finding my flashlight it is confermed that the shrimp is carring eggs. Now this brings up more questions. Can I leave her in the main tank? If not do I need to move her to the fuge? If I have to move her to the fuge will the babies once hatched stay at the bottom and not go to the top where the curent is? Or do I need to get her into her very own system so that the babies don't get blown into the main tank and my 3 tangs, GSM clown and assorted crabs eat them. I think it would be cool if I can get them to hatch and start makeing a little money back from the system. LOL

[jroescher]

Here is some reading material for you:

http://www.breedersregistry.org/Reprints/FAMA/v17_aug94/scarlet.htm

[edawgm]

Thanks for the link that sumed a lot up in a little bit of reading

[aggie4231]

Those eggs will become a little treat for your fish and everything else in the tank. Unless you have everything ready ahead of time, you don't really have a chance to be successful. Even here at work, with a purpose built facility we don't even try anything thing with shrimp reproduction, just to much work. Also, shrimp have a long planktonic larval stage that is hard to replicate in an aquarium.

[aprilmayjune]

I only have one cleaner and she always produces eggs, then eats them for the next few days.

This last time she didn't eat them though, and they turned into this huge pea sized mass that she carried under her tail for a couple weeks, its just now starting to shrink.