Pregnant Cleaner Shrimp?

[jeremyhowe]

So I am pretty sure I have a pregnant cleaner shrimp. I have two in my tank, and the other day I noticed that the back part of the one was darker than the other. If you look really close you can see like 150 super small beads like a dark greenish color. Does that mean she is pregnant? If she is will they eat their babies and/or will my clownfish eat the babies? HELP.
-Thanks, Jeremy

 

[The Apprentice]

Jeremy it sounds like you do have a pregnant cleaner shrimp the lime green egg spawn will move off in 3-4 days?? not to sure here. I think the shrimp eggs float in the water colum like plankton.
I don't know how you would save them let alone feed them. They will be eaten by any coral,fish you have. But I suspect most of them will end up in your protien skimmer.
I hope you get some feed back good luck. Sounds like you have a good system if your cleaner shrimp are spawning...
Jeff

 

[Bosco83]

Maybe you could net some of them when she lets them go and put them in your quarantine tank.

Brian

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

At least in my tank, a couple days after the shrimp molts, eggs appear. Every time. Think it's pretty common. Think of it as free fish food!

 

[NC2WA]

Well, shrimps are asexual so if you have a pair you have a good chance of having babies. unfortunately, they are hard to raise and only benefit is to add food for the tank..

 

[jeremyhowe]

so pretty much think of them as food? there is no sense in trying to keep them and raise them.

 

[NC2WA]

correct..you can, but it would be very hard task....I've not known many people that have successfully done this.

 

[boosted306]

As cool as it would be I have to agree with the others. It would be difficult to isolate them to hatch.

 

[Bainic]

I had peppermint shrimp that had eggs, one night after my lights were out, I saw the fish going crazy. I shined my flashlight into the water and saw a bunch of translucent baby shrimp swimming around. My fish ate good that night.