Breeding Cleaner Shrimp

[khaiduk]

Our cleaner shrimp mated and we have about a billion baby cleaner shrimp in our tank. Of course I end up shaking them all out of my filters and trying to put them back in the tank. Has anyone every succefully breeded these things? I was thinking about getting a small tank with a sponge filter - but I don't even know if it's possible. Thanks! :fishslap:

[MikeP]

If you don't have food and filters and some experience with plankton culturing and a smattering of larval biology I'd just forget it. Someone else asked this same question a few weeks ago - need lots of time and preparation beforehand, even then most people get complete die off before they settle out to adult form. ORA I believe cultures them commercially and I know they have successfully raised fire shimp (lysmata debelius) at one of the UT campuses.

[Henry]

I had the same situation not to long ago with my cleaners. I moved them to a smaller tank, with little luck. Keep us posted on what happens.


Henry

[khaiduk]

Well I think I will just let it go. I think I need to be a marine biologist. I will just keep picking them out of my wet dry and my fluval and my hair!!! I have some that are almost up to a quarter of an inch. We'll see.....