![]() I read some people have had peppermint shrimp fry mature in their reef tanks. Someone did a doctoral thesis on it and only had 1 survive! Hard to believe. The Peppermint Shrimp has been successfully bred by commercial fish farms, and can be bred in the home aquarium. Apparently they are just about impossible to breed in an aquarium. (2003c) and Rhyne and Lin (2004) have shown that the larval stages of the Monaco shrimp, Lysmata seticaudata, and peppermint shrimp, Lysmata wurdemanni, can be raised. I have male and female peppermint shrimp who have been getting along well with their bottom-of-the-tank mates such as the cleaner shrimp, hermits, snails, hermit crab (an impulse buy), and brittle star. The shrimp fry are for all practical purposes impossible to raise. Both shrimp usually carry fertile eggs at the same time, and seem to spawn the same time as well. So, all you need are 2 shrimp and they are likely to spawn. Usually they sync up, so they molt within a few days of each other, or even on the same day. ![]() When one shrimp molts, the other one fertilizes the eggs. Yeah i looked up more info about the cleaner shrimp. Cleaner shrimp such as peppermint shrimp are all hermaphrodites, both male and female. Shrimp in the genus Lysmata, which contains peppermint, cleaner and I think blood shrimp, are hermaphroditic. ![]() Thats really cool I will read about them. And if you give them a year or so of lead time, they breed like slightly more reasonable guppies. They're the second easiest aquatic pets to keep, beat out only by marimo mossballs, and certainly the easiest aquatic animal. Once a week is fine, they don't mind the changes in salinity from evaporation. They don't even need an automatic top-off system, or daily top ups. larva from cleaner shrimp spawns and peppermint shrimp spawns. All they need is regular top-offs and the occasional tiny bit of food, maybe a little more food once their population grows slightly. Shrimp larvae release 6/30/04 GDAY GUYS. The only downside is that it does usually take them a year or more to start breeding after being added to a new tank, but they're incredibly easy to keep. The Lysmata wurdemanni female shrimp carry the eggs for about 10 12 days under their abdomens. ![]() Each female can carry up to 300 eggs (green ovaries). Once they reach the juvenile stage they can join the main tank. This species has a larval development in which metamorphosis can last from 38 to 67 days. After about 10-12 days the larvae will reach the fry stage and will be able to eat brine shrimp and powdered fish flakes. The male can return to the main tank while the female continues to rear the young. Their larvae are relatively large when hatched, and because there's no filtration in the tank, the larvae are free to drift around until they land and develop. After about 6 days the eggs will hatch into free-swimming larvae. They're a brackish-water shrimp species that can be kept in large numbers in a pico, needs functionally no food if given enough light to grow algae, produces so little waste that macroalgae can comfortably use it all up, and doesn't want or need any form of filtration. If you'd like easy shrimp to breed, check out opae ula. ![]()
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