sry for the clickbait title, just found it kinda funny.
So i recently posted/asked about how raising lysmata wurdemanni, commenly known as aiptasia eating peppermint shrimp, would work out in a fishless mixed coral reef tank.
My dt is currently fishless due to a brook outbreak wiping my whole fishstock besides 1 clown which was in treatment and will spend the rest of june and july in qt.
Whats left in the tsnk is a whole bunch of coral and cuc including 3 lysmata wurdemanni shrimp.
So ive been noticing the carry eggs a few times allready and started reading about their spawning and breeding in captivity. The usually spawn at midnight just before molting and i could actually spectate them zapping through my tank at midnight and spraying their larvae all over the tank twice now.
So i kept researching and commonly breeding seems to have the same general steps. At night you use a light to attract the freshly hatched shrimp larvae to the surface and fish them out somehow.
Later you feed fredhly hatched artemia daily and transfer to a bigger tank after about 2 weeks.
If you get them to eat larger food items you were basically succesfull.
So why am i trlling you this?
I am a complete newbie in breeding any form of marine animal, of breeding animals in ganeral actually. What i see in my tank tough is shrimp larvae bring alive after about 2 weeks without any special care. I feed phyto and all sorts of coral food. Also i have a good copepod/biofauna popolation which seems to keep the larvae alive.
I find all of this really cool, espacially since i havnt found a trace of anyone doing something similar and the internet.
To get to my cluckbait title. I actually saw the shrimp spawn yesterday and today i realised another one has eggs aswell.
From yesterdays batch i actually tried removing them and since i have no freshly hatched artemia i try feeding phyto for now.
If they keep spawning in such a rate i start thinking about those shrimp being excelent live food for future fish. But are they?
This is neighter a question nor any big achievement i wanna brag about. This is a story i had to tell to fellow enthusiasts looking for similar expiriences, advice or just curious people that gave all this a read.
So i recently posted/asked about how raising lysmata wurdemanni, commenly known as aiptasia eating peppermint shrimp, would work out in a fishless mixed coral reef tank.
My dt is currently fishless due to a brook outbreak wiping my whole fishstock besides 1 clown which was in treatment and will spend the rest of june and july in qt.
Whats left in the tsnk is a whole bunch of coral and cuc including 3 lysmata wurdemanni shrimp.
So ive been noticing the carry eggs a few times allready and started reading about their spawning and breeding in captivity. The usually spawn at midnight just before molting and i could actually spectate them zapping through my tank at midnight and spraying their larvae all over the tank twice now.
So i kept researching and commonly breeding seems to have the same general steps. At night you use a light to attract the freshly hatched shrimp larvae to the surface and fish them out somehow.
Later you feed fredhly hatched artemia daily and transfer to a bigger tank after about 2 weeks.
If you get them to eat larger food items you were basically succesfull.
So why am i trlling you this?
I am a complete newbie in breeding any form of marine animal, of breeding animals in ganeral actually. What i see in my tank tough is shrimp larvae bring alive after about 2 weeks without any special care. I feed phyto and all sorts of coral food. Also i have a good copepod/biofauna popolation which seems to keep the larvae alive.
I find all of this really cool, espacially since i havnt found a trace of anyone doing something similar and the internet.
To get to my cluckbait title. I actually saw the shrimp spawn yesterday and today i realised another one has eggs aswell.
From yesterdays batch i actually tried removing them and since i have no freshly hatched artemia i try feeding phyto for now.
If they keep spawning in such a rate i start thinking about those shrimp being excelent live food for future fish. But are they?
This is neighter a question nor any big achievement i wanna brag about. This is a story i had to tell to fellow enthusiasts looking for similar expiriences, advice or just curious people that gave all this a read.
