Raising the Red fire shrimp…

[jerry11901]

Hallo every one .I have two red fire shrimps in my tank, for over six month .Because they spend most of the time behind the rocks, I did not pay attention to them. Today I see about fifty small shrimps, half inch long and one of adult shrimp has yellow eggs on the belly .I did search on the goggle, about raising baby’s but can’t fined anything .My some one help on this one?

[dc]

The shrimp you are seeing are more than likely not fire shrimp. Possibly they are mysid shrimp. If you have 2 shrimp one of them is almost always carrying eggs. The larval stage is too long for the average hobbyist to raise them. The only kind I've even seen that people have raised was peppermint. I usually just consider it free food for the rest of the tank.

[G13]

Can you post a pic?

[jerry11901]

Naaa, my camera is not so good to make pictures of the small thinks…