Mantis Shrimp Larva Rearing

[biotex]

Anyone have experience raising mantis shrimp larva? I had a spawn of ~100 in my 10g isolation tank and want to know if I can keep them alive. I put some newly hatched brine shrimp in there but they don't seem to be going for them.

I have two mantis shrimp in the tank, a red one and a black/blue one, but not sure of the species of anything. They hitch-hiked on carribean live rock.

 

[W31Olds]

I also had 2 Mantis Shrimp that spawned at least twice since December. The babies just seem to die out after a few days. They probably need plankton to survive.

 

[Stomatopods17]

In labs out of hundreds of attempts there was a singular G. chiragra that settled.

There's been allegedly cases where fry make it in massively large systems by sheer luck but intentionally its still considered too difficult/impossible for the time being.

Hardest part is getting them to settle out of their planktonic stage cause genetically most will die off and the ones that might not would get eaten by the ones that do anyways, they are cannibalistic, there was a few cases where they die right after settling as well.

That species is N. wennerae

 

[biotex]

Day 2: I moved them to an artemia rearing tank yesterday and they're all still alive. About 1/10 have turned pink, maybe from eating baby brine shrimp (bbs). I'll see how long I can keep the "they're alive" streak going.

 

[Hadla]

Hope they survive! They’re so cute!