Cleaner shrimp larvae!!

[starocean91]

Got back home late last night and I saw a bunch of pods swimming in my tank. Only to realise they are my cleaner shrimp larvae when I switch on my lights and attempted to take a video of them.

This hobby really never fails to amaze me. Always full of surprises

My question is, how do I go about raising them? Most of them got eaten by my cardinals as shown in the video. I managed to save a few and put them in a small glass container with an air pump.

On a side note, anyone has any exp in this? Can share your experience? Thanks!

[starocean91]

For some reasons I can't upload the video using my Hp. Keep getting error... - tapatalk is not working etc. Anyone can help?

[Lee Khim Ann]

Got back home late last night and I saw a bunch of pods swimming in my tank. Only to realise they are my cleaner shrimp larvae when I switch on my lights and attempted to take a video of them.

This hobby really never fails to amaze me. Always full of surprises

My question is, how do I go about raising them? Most of them got eaten by my cardinals as shown in the video. I managed to save a few and put them in a small glass container with an air pump.

On a side note, anyone has any exp in this? Can share your experience? Thanks!

my cleaner shrimps spawn very often. never tried raising any of them as i heard that they are very hard to breed. i just let my fish and corals have a good meal as they are high in nutrition

[starocean91]

my cleaner shrimps spawn very often. never tried raising any of them as i heard that they are very hard to breed. i just let my fish and corals have a good meal as they are high in nutrition

Hmm I see. Think it's gonna be a tedious process to try and raise them. Got a feeling the larvae might be dead when I reach home after work. Haha

[RayL]

Bro I think some has tried keeping the larvae for weeks by feeding baby brine shrimp in the first few weeks

[starocean91]

Thanks bro. Will try to look out for more info from the net. Anyone in sg has any exp with raising cleaner shrimp larvae?

[starocean91]

Guys, my apologies.. unable to upload video as the file size is too big.

I hope more bros/sis can share their exp with me =)

[FuEl]

http://www.ifmn.net/zuchtberichte/krustentiere/garnelen/28-lysmata-amboinensis-und-lysmata-debelius.html

5 months to raise cleaner shrimp, 50+ days for fire shrimp. Forget about holidays.

[RayL]

Wow 5 months and daily water change!?

How do you change the water without sucking the baby shrimps away? Do you just transfer them to another holding tank?

[starocean91]

http://www.ifmn.net/zuchtberichte/krustentiere/garnelen/28-lysmata-amboinensis-und-lysmata-debelius.html

5 months to raise cleaner shrimp, 50+ days for fire shrimp. Forget about holidays.

Wow bro fuel thanks! Damn.. didn't know it will be that tedious. Gonna reconsider whether to raise them. Thanks anyway!