Is It Possible?

[Shaydensmom]

Ok, I thought I knew a little aobut ghostshrimp, but aehm- can they get pregnant on their won! I mean- can they like rats, snails and kangoroos get pregnant when they decide it's best, after being fertilized just once?

I January I put 5 Ghosthsrimp in my Tank, to check out the waterquality, then I got my blue crayfish. When a shrimp molted he'd sometimes catch them. I put my ghostshrimp in a different place, so to not overcrowd the water. I guess the water was to hight because one mornging I found 4 out of my 5 dried up outside around it. anyways! One I kept still in there, she molted. when the one ghosthsrimp I kept with my blue cray passed on, I transferred her in to the Tank back. she molted aobut 4 weeks ago again, and then a 3rd time yesterday. she's gotten pretty big since I got her in January. Today, I look at her and see that she has a bunch of green balls in her tummy, which look a lot like shrimp-eggs. I know for certain that there are no other shrimp in there with her, so technically if she really is pregnant, she must have done it on her own?

any imput?

 

[saltynay]

Unfertilised probably just a sign its happy . What type of ghost shrimp there are several species that come under that alias

 

[Shaydensmom]

Uff, the regular- see through one u can get at stores! anything particular I could look out for that would tell you exactly what it is? the only hint I can give you it's the sweetwater type!

ah, then females can produce eggs, which are simply unfertilized then, ok! for some reason I thought they only get them when they have been fertilized. Makes sense!

Unfertilised probably just a sign its happy . What type of ghost shrimp there are several species that come under that alias