ThunderGoose
Well-Known Member
1) My lone peppermint shrimp (from Florida so it should be Lysmata wurdemanni) looks to be holding eggs. She's never done this before. So I used my Google-fu and found that they are proandrous hermaphrodites. They all start out as male and them become hermaphrodites (and maybe then become females???). My question - is this species self fertile? I have no plans to try to raise the fry, I'm just curious.
2) I was watching my nano tank yesterday and counted my sexy shrimp - 1, 2, 3 females and 1, 2 males. Wait, what? I originally bought five but one disappeared shortly after arrival. This was in late summer or fall of 2017. Between then and now it's been 3 female and 1 male. Could that other male really have been hiding that long (or, more accurately, could I have missed one male consistently for over a year)? Or could an egg hatch and the fry manage to survive long enough to become an adult in a display tank? It's a mystery.
2) I was watching my nano tank yesterday and counted my sexy shrimp - 1, 2, 3 females and 1, 2 males. Wait, what? I originally bought five but one disappeared shortly after arrival. This was in late summer or fall of 2017. Between then and now it's been 3 female and 1 male. Could that other male really have been hiding that long (or, more accurately, could I have missed one male consistently for over a year)? Or could an egg hatch and the fry manage to survive long enough to become an adult in a display tank? It's a mystery.
