Cleaner Shrimp Breeding...

[Michael Lawford]

Hi - I have 2 cleaner shrimp. I notice that one seems to have hundreds of
greeen eggs under its belly. Is she pregnant? I assume that all of my fish
are going to have a field day when the eggs hatch..... Am I correct here
and is it worth trying to rear any of them?

Thanks,
Mike

[Pszemol]

"Michael Lawford" > wrote in message ...
> Hi - I have 2 cleaner shrimp. I notice that one seems to have hundreds of
> greeen eggs under its belly. Is she pregnant? I assume that all of my fish
> are going to have a field day when the eggs hatch..... Am I correct here
> and is it worth trying to rear any of them?

It is pretty common for Lysmata shrimps to breed in aquarium.
It is enough to have 2 of them and they will mate with each other
since their are hermaphroditic (having both male and female organs).
Keeping shrimps like these in pairs makes a great addition to
the plankton population: they release hundreds of tiny shrimp
larvae every week (2 weeks period for each shrimp of the pair).

As it goes with the rising larvae - this is not that easy and
not many people could be proud of the success. I tied and I failed.
Some reports available in the internet show that Lysmata wurdermanni
(peppermint shrimp) larvae is easier to rise to adulthood...
There is not much similar success with other Lysmata species.
But maybe there is some new info out there - it is about a year
or two I checked last time. If you find anything encouraging
about Lysmata debelius, L. amboinensis or, about any Lysmata
species other than L. wurdermanni please let me know :-)

[Jen W]

I had just recieved this link and was reading it as I seen this post not
exactly what you want but might help
http://www.breedersregistry.org/Reprints/FAMA/v17_aug94/scarlet.htm
I have also been looking at raising clean up crews shrimp, snails, small
crabs

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"Pszemol" > wrote in message
...
> "Michael Lawford" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hi - I have 2 cleaner shrimp. I notice that one seems to have hundreds
>> of greeen eggs under its belly. Is she pregnant? I assume that all of
>> my fish are going to have a field day when the eggs hatch..... Am I
>> correct here and is it worth trying to rear any of them?
>
> It is pretty common for Lysmata shrimps to breed in aquarium.
> It is enough to have 2 of them and they will mate with each other
> since their are hermaphroditic (having both male and female organs).
> Keeping shrimps like these in pairs makes a great addition to
> the plankton population: they release hundreds of tiny shrimp
> larvae every week (2 weeks period for each shrimp of the pair).
>
> As it goes with the rising larvae - this is not that easy and
> not many people could be proud of the success. I tied and I failed.
> Some reports available in the internet show that Lysmata wurdermanni
> (peppermint shrimp) larvae is easier to rise to adulthood...
> There is not much similar success with other Lysmata species.
> But maybe there is some new info out there - it is about a year
> or two I checked last time. If you find anything encouraging
> about Lysmata debelius, L. amboinensis or, about any Lysmata
> species other than L. wurdermanni please let me know :-)

[Pszemol]

Thanks, I have already seen it, but thanks :-)

Rising hermit crabs will be particularly interesting and difficult
since at some time they will have to find a tiny, tiny shell to
hide and we, as Gods taking care of their world would be responsible
for finding such shells for them :-)

Do you have any own personal experience with rising hermits or snails ?
My story is short and I was loosing all Lysmata shrimp larvae in about
two weeks. But I can already see a lot of mistakes I did - now when
I am able to "practice" rising relatively easy clownfish larvae maybe
some day I will try again with Lysmata or some hermits... I have very
nice orange variation of "electric blue" hermits specimens from Hawaii.
They released a lot of larvae in the quarantine tank but I had no
setup to attempt on rising them.

Jen, share your experience with us and let's keep in touch.

"Jen W" > wrote in message news:5N5Oe.201843$HI.174731@edtnps84...
>I had just recieved this link and was reading it as I seen this post not
> exactly what you want but might help
> http://www.breedersregistry.org/Reprints/FAMA/v17_aug94/scarlet.htm
> I have also been looking at raising clean up crews shrimp, snails, small
> crabs