WOW you breed sexy shrimp? Thats really cool! I am getting three in a few days.
Love the name! Super cool shrimp
Beautiful lobster. I would love to add these photos but do you have any in a rectangle format? If I use these photos they wont fit in the boxes and their full beauty wont be captured.
As long as theyre happy and you got at least 1 of each sex, yours should breed as well especially if you have rock flowers or mini carpets to make them feel safe. They are prolific breeders in captivity
Unfortunately I have neither but all the babies would be eaten by something or other in my aquarium. Is it possible to keep them in a 2.5L jar with an aerator and if they breed I take out the adults or would I not need to? Also what do the babies eat? Phyto or rotifers or something else?
The babies get eaten in almost all systems even commercial ones. Not sure what they eat, but I do know it's a pretty labor intensive process rearing them.
Hmm, ill take a look
They change sex anyway, you will always end up with at least one female, even more. I have a post somewhere on this forum where I took all males, then observed sex change, The new female was removed and another male changed to female within 2 weeks.
@Bugeater281 is breeding them successfully at the moment with settlement. You can follow his process on Humble.
That's awesome! Is there a dominance based hierarchy? Did the largest one transition each time?
I had a look, super interesting
Sorry what is humble?
I did not observe any obvious dominant behaviour patterns, once transition began to female they would then increase in size. They would all often line up in a row and wag their tales at each other which was very amusing. As with most breeding, I believe food availability and profile is important. I found no observation of temp change signalling.
Just do a search for @Bugeater281. on google. Sorry I don't want to step on toes by giving a direct link.
www.reef2reef.com
I have had a look through that and have found it very interesting and if I ever see any of my shrimp with eggs I’ll try to raise themI figure this may be of interest here too (it’s titled for a specific species, but the OP notes they’ve used it for multiple kinds of shrimps including Thor amboiensis - the sexy shrimp):
Breeding Palaemon Elegans (Mediterrane Rock Pool Shrimp) Guide
Hi, Im going to post a breeding guide of palaemon elegans shrimps here. Two females are preparing for spawning so if you are interested you may want to stick with me. This breeding guide will be interchangable for every kind of shrimps but i stick elegans because: - With cleaner shrimp we are...
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What is the world are these guys? I saw them at my LFS today and I would have bought them then asked questions later but they were already sold. I would like to add them to the list but I am not sure what they are. I’ll start a new thread if no one here knows
