spawning coral banded shrimp

[clayspst]

i have two CBS. they are always with each other. i have seen the female let her eggs go twice sense owning them. last night she released here eggs and all the fish go ape S*** and eat them. is there a way to rasie the fry?

[jkreefer]

I think the first step would be to have them in a different tank so that when they release the eggs, no fish will get a free meal. If you make it past that step I think they would have a much higher survival rate.

[clayspst]

yeah i know that but is it possible to raise the fry in captiveity

[ArtC]

possible, yes. Easy, no.

So unless you want to make a major project of it, consider that getting eaten is the natural order of life on the reef...

[SethSPST]

Clay, check out the fish breeding forum, there's an old thread by Luis A M about raising a type of shrimp, but I forget which type (it was in latin). But I think it took him around 6 months. It's tough to make that seem worthwhile when CBS are so cheap, unless you have time. Of course, this comes from someone who can go down the road and catch them.

[coralfarmer]

I have raised Peppermint shrimp, cleaner shrimp Lysmata sp. but not Coral Banded Stenopus sp.. Both peppermint and cleaner shrimp go through many fragile stages of development in their first few weeks of life. It took me countless tries to get just a few to survive the first two weeks of life there are lots of pitfalls from proper food size to water movement. I am assuming that Coral banded shrimp have similar developmental stages but I am not exactly sure. I think the the egg development stage is longer.