Fire shrimp has eggs.

[rookie07]

1 of my 2 fire shrimp has a lot of orange eggs under her tail. She often fans them.

Does this mean i have a mated pair? I've been told 2 will only live together if they are mated, Im not sure about that though.
Will these eggs hatch? If so, I have a 34 gl w/ hang on fuge. Can I raise these eggs/babies/hatchlings.
Or do mature females always produce eggs?

Pictures pending. Its difficult to get a pic that shows her underbelly

 

[ellebelle]

mmm, free fish food.

 

[rookie07]

yeah, thats worst case scenario.

 

[ellebelle]

Your fish will gobble up all of the shrimp when they are released before you have a chance to try and raise them. But it's pretty fun to watch the fish go nuts when they're released into the tank.

 

[rookie07]

will I be able to see them swimming?

 

[Paul B]

You will see them swimming, they look like very skinny tiny brine shrimp. You can't raise them in a tank but good luck.
They should spawn every month or two.

 

[cybermeez]

Yeah, I netted some out once before the fish could get to them and put them in my fuge. They didn't survive. I clearly don't have whatever it is they eat at that age in my tank (plankton?). More humane for them to be fish food I guess.

 

[rookie07]

frags are like crack.
I think my family is planning an intervention for me. Hopefully after my shrimp eggs hatch.

 

[rookie07]

So, Ive noticed the shrmp still has eggs........Is this normal for eggs to last 1.5 months?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

 

[meagheavz]

yeah i had a pair of cleaner shrimp and one deef had like greenish eggs in the tail area and one day they where gone and never saw them again

 

[al0ha]

yeah u cant raise shrimp coz they go thru a larval stage where they all become part of the plankton mass and be eaten by all fish and corals, or ur powerheads

 

[Killerdrgn]

yeah u cant raise shrimp coz they go thru a larval stage where they all become part of the plankton mass and be eaten by all fish and corals, or ur powerheads

Or skimmed. mostly skimmed i bet since you have the lights on and they'll tend to swim toward lights and then go over the overflows and into a skimmer.