Cleaner Shrimp breeding....

[Pman]

I have 3 cleaner shrimp in my 60 gallon reef tank which is intigrated together with another 90 gallon and 2 40 gallon sumps. I have noticed recently that one of the larger shrimp is carrying a green egg mass under her abdomen. I would like to try insure that there is a maximum survival rate in the babies...do you have any suggestions as to how to accomplish this? My 60 gallon like I said is a reef tank (400w 20k Radium) with a Mandarine Goby , 6 Line Wrasse, Lawnmower Goby, Yellow Tang, and a Potters Angle...and my 90 gallon (2 55wActinic ,2 55w 10KDaylight PC)which also is a refugium has a Percula Clown, juvinile Koran Angle, and a small Lawnmower goby. The whole system is also protine skimmed.Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thank you in advance!

 

[_range_]

'she' is actually a 'he/she' - check the other cleaners, it's probably that more than one are pregnant

 

[wombat1]

I've heard L. amboinensis is nearly impossible to rear, but L. wurdemanni is relatively easy. Depends on the species you're keeping. They are hermaphrodites, both of mine are continuously pregnant. The green egg mass turns beige right before hatching. The shrimp may go a day w/o eggs, then it will molt, and after molting it becomes "pregnant" again.

 

[Anonymous]

I came home from work Saturday at about 1am, went up to check on my nano before sleep and my fire shrimp (lysmata debelius) was letting loose hundreds of larva. They all swam to the light and sadly I had no way to rear them though it has been done in england and here in texas at UT. My corals got a good meal out of it anyways.