Baby peppermint shrimp

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Just as lights for my fuge came on tonight I was looking at how much macros I pruned the other day, what caught my eye next had me very excited, baby peppermint shrimp running all over the place. I had placed 2 large peps in there and they were always visible but I have t seen them in over a month. Maybe this is why.
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Congrats Casey

Hope they make it for ya, shrimp seem to be the hard thing to get babies to make it

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Thanks bill, trying to get photo bucket to upload a short clip of them so everyone can see. Not going to lie i was extremely surprised and happy to see them. There were probably 100+

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Hard to see but you can make them out,

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Man, that’s awesome! I’ve heard getting baby shrimps to live is next to impossible unless you have a system dedicated to doing it.

I’ve always wanted to try to do it, always getting at least 3 of the different types of shrimps, peppermints, scarlet cleaners and fire shrimp since they all take their turn carrying the eggs. I’ve always seen them carry eggs, but never any luck out of it.

You must have the perfect system set-up for them and are doing it right!

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Thanks todd, I personally havent had anything thing like this happen in my aquarium before so im beyond thrilled. There isnt anything in the fuge other than the 2 pep shrimp 1 urchin and tons of pods, lr, shrooms and macro as well.

I just put 3 peps in the dt and 2 fire shrimp as well.
Not sure what I provided for them to do this but im happy with it non the less.

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Yes, they make lots of live fish and coral food. once they get fertilized they can carry the sperm for a year or so and keep putting out a new hatch of larvae about every 21 days. i have 6 old ones in thefrag tank. and they pretty much feed the banggai cardinals, who are night feederes, mostly. the shrimp release the larvae from their swimmerttes on their abdomen at night.

you can raise them, but they require a changing live food source over the first 5 weeks until the finally morphe into actual baby shrimp. Like live green water, rotifers, artemia, and algae. i think pepermints go through 5 metamorphoses. fire shrimp take 7.

besides being fun to watch, they doo good work in the tank also. they clean fish of parasites and perhapsick also, and they keep the sand clean of waste. and eat aiptasia too.

a little shrimp farm plan.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/4/aafeature