My peppermint shrimp just released babies

[John3]

Went to say goodnight to the tank and shined a light in. I noticed 1 of my peppermint shrimp up high on the rocks and it freaked out and shot to the bottom. While doing so hundreds of babies released into the water. I’ve seen emerald crabs release babies but this was a first for my shrimp.

Is there a way to upload a small vid I took with my iPhone?

 

[John3]

First try.

 

[SaltLifer]

On the menu tonight:

Fresh shrimp

 

[John3]

All you can eat special. Lol

 

[Maritimer]

Happy corals in your tank tonight!

Very cool to see!

~Bruce

 

[John3]

I turned off my filter pump, leaving just the powerheads running. I came back 15 mins later and every single fry was gone. I can’t imagine they were all eaten but. I’m sure a lot were. I guess there is about zero chance any of these could survive?

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

I turned off my filter pump, leaving just the powerheads running. I came back 15 mins later and every single fry was gone. I can’t imagine they were all eaten but. I’m sure a lot were. I guess there is about zero chance any of these could survive?

There's a really small chance that any will survive, you would need a dedicated system to keep them from getting eaten by fish and corals and even then you would need to come up with something they would eat almost all the time.

 

[rainmaker]

Some are proably hiding inside your rock will only come out at night that’s what mine do

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Very cool!

 

[Maritimer]

You'd probably need some sort of kreisel for the larvae. They spend a fair amount of time suspended as plankton - weeks to months, IIRC - and would need to be kept in suspension through that period, with smaller plankton to feed on.

~Bruce

 

[BootyPup]

Very cool, nice Biocube is it? Looks similar to mine.

 

[Lenett]

Went to say goodnight to the tank and shined a light in. I noticed 1 of my peppermint shrimp up high on the rocks and it freaked out and shot to the bottom. While doing so hundreds of babies released into the water. I’ve seen emerald crabs release babies but this was a first for my shrimp.

Is there a way to upload a small vid I took with my iPhone?

This happend to me last night. Didnt see the shrimp do anything, but hundreds of tiny specks swimming twords the light at top of tank. I can't find anything like it. Like fresh hatched baby brines. So small I hardly saw them moving. Fish ate like crazy. Had just brought home a new frogspawn Coral and thought it might have has brine eggs in.