Rotifers still alive

[fishesRdelicious]

zooqi remember those rotifers i got from you a week or two ago, well there still alive in my refuge and might be growing:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/fishesRdelicious/reef%20aquarium/rotifers3.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/fishesRdelicious/reef%20aquarium/rotifers2.jpg

[fishesRdelicious]

better pic:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a226/fishesRdelicious/reef%20aquarium/rotifers.jpg

[zooqi]

Those are not rotifers and they are other bugs that feed on rotifers if you dump them in there. They are good for the fuge. They look like shrimp babies to me or maysis shrimp babies. Do you have cleaner shrimp in the tank ?

[fishesRdelicious]

yeah, i thought they were to big for rotifers. i do have a cleaner shrimp in the main tank, why?

[zooqi]

bingo, there you go and good you have a fuge or they would've been gone. Now if you look under the cleaner shrimp you won't see much stuff but in a few days you will start seing eggs (greenish color) and they release them overnight and you will see the tank full of shrimp larvae.

[fishesRdelicious]

i have heard of that, but i only have one cleaner shrimp. how is it breeding?

[fishesRdelicious]

i do have a coral banded shrimp, could they be cross breeding

[zooqi]

They are hermaphroditic and check on RC and typed ( Lysmata hermaphroditic ) and see what you find. You also might want to add (Male Female ) to the search box. I will look but gotta take the kid to the daycare.

[zooqi]

Male grabs the female and deposit sperm into the female. The female can store the sperm for months months to use to fertilize eggs.

[Sanjay]

May be you guys want to throw the baby seahorses I have in to this fuge and see if they live.

sanjay.

[zooqi]

keep them alive and will come tomorrow to pick them up. That is a great idea.

[fishesRdelicious]

i would love to have seahorses but how will that work with my clowns. i have those nigripes in the fuge too will they kill the seahorses?

[zooqi]

Yes they would and I guess it wont work. We can make another room for nigripes somewhere in your system. I missed you call,, I was in the basement. You can call me back.