[greenbean36191]

For most hobbyiest, me included, this hobby isn't economical or really practical, it is just the joy of keeping the animals that is the goal. I haven't tried to raise any of the fish or inverts that have produced eggs or fry, but as I said every once in a while I find a larger juv that has passed the larval stage, so I believe that if I tried I could raise some to adult hood. I don't have space to seperate the animals, but again, that isn't the point, and just the fact that there have been some success with these animals is cause for optimism for any hobbiest to try, and the more people who raise 1 or 2 the more we learn about the care of the young and the more succesful we can become in the future.

I wasn't talking about practicality in the sense of time and money spent. I meant that cleaner shrimp aren't a practical place to start breeding. It's kind of like jumping into astrophysics without ever learning algebra. Start with the basics and work your way up. We're not going to learn anything about how to breed these guys from haphazard attempts. There are actually labs working on breeding these shrimp and they've found lots of ways that don't work. There's no sense in repeating their failures.