I liked seeing the odd rili shrimp my mixed red and blue caridinas threw. Transparent in the middle, with bright yellow eggs
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Not my pic, don't have my older pics on this laptop, so quicker to snatch one from google images (sshhhh)
Congrats on the berried mama!! I remember how exciting it is when you first start to see berried females. Happy for you, and hope you're seeing lots of baby shrimplets soon!
Small caution to bear in mind that the shrimplets are transparent and teeny tiny when they first hatch, so go careful with the gravel vac when you have shrimplets...
@Essjay and I know this all too well and have shared our stories many times of carefully sifting through buckets of water and mess during water changes on shrimp tanks, to rescue all the shrimp and shrimplets and put them back in the tank after they've taken a rollercoaster ride through the syphon! It's almost impossible to avoid all of them. Even adults sometimes get sucked up. They're not good at avoiding the gravel vac, and don't seem to mind the odd trip through it and then my having to spend ages staring into a bucket with a tank light across it and shrimp net, looking for movement and rescuing every tiny shrimplet! I know Essjay does the same!
It's weird, because I still love and eat prawns. I have bags of prawns in the freezer right now. But my shrimp tank shrimp are different, and I'll spend an hour or more sifting slowly through buckets, just so I don't accidentally tip one out with the waste water.
Humans are weird, and I don't know why I'm okay with that double standard, but it's the way things are.
Celebrating that, buying baby shrimps food 
