Cleaner Shrimp - About to Spawn

[Pinkfish]

Hey guys, if any of you dont know what a cleaner shrimp looks like carrying eggs have a look.

You will notice the green colour underneth the Shrimp these are the eggs.

If im not mistaken they will release the eggs at night after circa 21 days.

You can raise the fry but you would have to remove the shrimp into a special tank.
Then once eggs are release remove the adult shrimps otherwise they will consume the fry. Note that you will have to feed them on a variety of foods inc nauplie (spelling wrong)

Mike

[jamieb]

just to add, cleaner shrimp take around 120 days to settle and its VERY hard to get them through it.
if your interested in raising shrimp then peppermint shrimp only take about 20 ish days and are a lot easier to settle to adult.
HTH
jamie

[Gillybaby]

Or better still, treat them as a great source of live food for your fish. In the two years I had my cleaners, at least one was always carrying eggs, sometimes both. They are very very difficult to raise, as Jamie says.

[mfcfan]

:) looks wicked when they shake them young out

[Cudders]

Not seen that before. Never happned to me...boo hoo..

Cudders

[Electric Monk]

Saves on feeding the fish for a day.

[fishface]

always had young cleaner shrimps in calipa got to about 5mm then disappeared never any bigger