Peppermint Shrimp Spawn (Lysmata boggessi)

[DeneBanger]

Originally Posted by RedCoralOnlineStore

Tagging along! Intriguing! Would love to see pics of the setup! Great thread! Looks like I need to pick up a copy of that book!

Certainly! I've made arrangements for stores to buy at wholesale prices and purchase direct from the publisher.

[DeneBanger]

So now we are getting close to mama shrimp's expected due date of June 14th, in preparation I moved her from the broodstock tank to the nursery. The eggs look quite engorged but are still an olive green colour, over the next few days they'll start changing colour and the day of "delivery" (or a day before) the eyes spots of the larvae will begin to show. Mama is quite comfortable in the nursery and on occasion cleans the eggs with her rear legs.



This time I've added four very small Nassarius snails to the nursery to help with any uneated food. For this batch I'm going to stay with feeding the larvae shaved FW cyclops. In a batch or two I may moved over to NHBBS but for now I want to see if there is another food source that is easier (or more convenient) for home hobbyists to use.

[DeneBanger]

Today was the expected due date for the larvae. No larvae after 14 days, but mama's eggs are starting to look a green/grey colour so my guess is we are still about 2-3 days off, which will bring this batch of eggs to 16-17 days.

Now while I was feeding them tonight, the other one is carrying eggs too! This is a small clutch, compared to the other one. Not sure when this happened, perhaps at the same time...not really sure, I'll have to keep close attention to the egg colour on the second one and move it to the nursery just before the hatch. With any luck I should have two spawns within a few days of each other.

......stay tuned!

[DeneBanger]

Here are a couple of pics of mama holding eggs.

[DeneBanger]

It's day 20 and both are still holding the eggs.....

[monocus]

shouldn't the eggs hatch in 10-14 days

[DeneBanger]

Originally Posted by monocus

shouldn't the eggs hatch in 10-14 days

......that is what I thought, but here we are at day 20 and I have two that are still holding the same eggs. I have begun to see eye spots on one of the clutches so that means I should see the larvae in the next few days from at least one shrimp. What I find interesting is that the system is 77-82 F so to have them holding eggs for this long seems extremely interesting. Perhaps this will be a very healthy batch..... or not....we are about to find out!