fire shrimp

[Jolly]

I just happen to see what I think are baby fire shrimp. One of my shrimp had it's tail pointing up and it's rear legs going 90 miles a minute, then it looked like it pooped a lot of small stuff. Then they started wiggleing like a larvey. Has any one had any success raising them? I am sure they won't last with all my fish, but I just was amazed. johne

[ErikH]

sounds like it! Cool stuff, hopefully they wont all get eaten.

[bjgf15]

The University of Texas' Marine Science Institute in Port A has done it successfully on a couple of occasions and wrote a scientific paper on it.

We've gotten a few past metamorphosis at GC Reef based on the protocol from UTMSI but survival has been very low in our case and at UT. They have a VERY long larval duration and are difficult to maintain as larvae...

It is possible to do but success as of now has been very limited.

[d3rryc]

I've read a couple of sources that say not only is the larval stage much longer than, say, peps, but that no one really knows yet what triggers them to settle out.



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[kkiel02]

My fire and cleaner shrimp lay eggs regularly but they are hard to raise.