Pregnant cleaner shrimp?

[Rp8]

The shrimp pictured is definitely berried. Any idea how to maybe keep them alive?
I feel like my long nose hawk fish and marine betta are gunna have their own Thanksgiving dinner.

 

[twentyleagues]

Hard to tell. If it is, good reef food. I believe they have a pelagic phase of life that isnt really going to work in a typical tank with standard filtration.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Do you have Male and female?
More likey phantom birth, or just after a good feed (transparent body's)

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Any idea how to maybe keep them alive?
I feel like my long nose hawk fish and marine betta are gunna have their own Thanksgiving dinner.

Yeah, if the eggs are fertile, then you'll need a larval rearing tank to have a shot at rearing the young.

This sounds fancy and expensive, but it doesn't need to be (the thread below uses a 1 gallon rearing tank - yes, it's for Palaemon elegans, but it should work for your cleaner shrimp too). Basically to rear the young you need a safe tank for them, and for ideal survival (current ideal anyway) you feed them rotifers and Artemia (brine shrimp) gut-loaded on phytoplankton - I don't know that the kind of phyto used matters much, as I've seen multiple kinds used successfully.

The thread below is helpful; the links below offer some more technical info (especially the bottom one), but probably wouldn't be as helpful for most people.

Breeding Palaemon Elegans (Mediterrane Rock Pool Shrimp) Guide

Hi, Im going to post a breeding guide of palaemon elegans shrimps here. Two females are preparing for spawning so if you are interested you may want to stick with me. This breeding guide will be interchangable for every kind of shrimps but i stick elegans because: - With cleaner shrimp we are...

www.reef2reef.com

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10454438.2021.1986193

https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/40038/1/40038-tziouveli-2011-thesis.pdf

 

[kevgib67]

Typically they end up in the filter or as fish food.

 

[Rp8]

Thanks!!