Just Hatched Ghost Shrimp Larvae!

[hadjici2]

They have just hatched ......

They are in my aged tank with lots of plants and some algae but the female has still alot of eggs under ger belly. i feed them liquified fry food.

1. Should I remove her now or wait untill all eggs have hatched? I feed her fish pellets to keep her happy and full.

2. I have some daphnia,should I put them in the tank with the larvae? Can they eat the daphnia or will the daphnia hurt them?

3. How long will it take for the larvae to take a benthic form?

PS: the kind of shrimp that I am talking about are Macrobrachium lanchesteri.

 

[moray]

hi, have a look here, hopefully it will help

http/www.shrimpcrabsandcrayfish.co.uk/Sh...a.htm~mainFrame

good luck

 

[nino]

Cool!!! Are they very tiny? If they're not too tiny I"d love to see some pictures.

 

[Native American]

My 4 ghosts come from 2 successive homebred broods. Had I been smarter about it, I would've removed the parents and fed the offspring very finely ground flakes (using a laboratory grade mortar and pestle to make a flour-like powder) w/ only aeration going to keep the food suspended. All of them made it on the twice-daily coarse feedings to any adults previously present. Mortality would have been reduced quite a bit, had I done this.

I did run my mechanical filter (it's on an Eclipse System 3) using a coarse sponge over the inlet, and I'd tightly wrapped the sponge in a small-pore media bag, and that prevented any of the larvae from getting sucked in.

The larvae are pretty neat...like mini adults, and they swim in a head-stand position, floating around the water column.

They sure do have personalities when they get older.

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[Native American]

It looks like mama shrimp has a new brood of eggs. It will be about two weeks before they take flight, as judged by the last batch. I'm going to break the other Eclipse 3-gallon out of its box and have it ready prior to hatching time.


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