Pregnant Peppermint Shrimp, Help

[naesco]

You mean they don' t ...... ?
I have seen two of them 'fairly close' on a number of times at night.

[Dearth]

So a couple of hrs after lights went out in the tank tonight I went searching in the tank for any interesting critters that might be popping up so imagine my surprise when I found 2 small peppermint shrimp climbing around the rocks tank has been up and running over 2 months now and of the 2 peppermints I transferred from the small tank one died a week after transfer as I scooped its corpse outa the water. Needless to say I am surprised to see the lil shrimp in the tank and not really sure how any more might be out there and whether or not these lil guys will survive or become a meal. The surviving large peppermint stays mostly with the coral banded shrimp and showed no signs of egg bearing at all that I have noticed.

So it is an interesting find but who knows how many more there are as I have so many rocks with nooks and crannies they can hide in.