Pregnant cleaner shrimp?

[Rp8]

The shrimp pictured is definitely berried. Any idea how to maybe keep them alive?
I feel like my long nose hawk fish and marine betta are gunna have their own Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[twentyleagues]

Hard to tell. If it is, good reef food. I believe they have a pelagic phase of life that isnt really going to work in a typical tank with standard filtration.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Do you have Male and female?
More likey phantom birth, or just after a good feed (transparent body's)

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Any idea how to maybe keep them alive?
I feel like my long nose hawk fish and marine betta are gunna have their own Thanksgiving dinner.

Yeah, if the eggs are fertile, then you'll need a larval rearing tank to have a shot at rearing the young.

This sounds fancy and expensive, but it doesn't need to be (the thread below uses a 1 gallon rearing tank - yes, it's for Palaemon elegans, but it should work for your cleaner shrimp too). Basically to rear the young you need a safe tank for them, and for ideal survival (current ideal anyway) you feed them rotifers and Artemia (brine shrimp) gut-loaded on phytoplankton - I don't know that the kind of phyto used matters much, as I've seen multiple kinds used successfully.

The thread below is helpful; the links below offer some more technical info (especially the bottom one), but probably wouldn't be as helpful for most people.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/b...ns-mediterrane-rock-pool-shrimp-guide.937215/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10454438.2021.1986193https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/40038/1/40038-tziouveli-2011-thesis.pdf

 

[kevgib67]

Typically they end up in the filter or as fish food.

 

[Rp8]

Thanks!!