how to breed peppermint shrimps?

[emptywallet]

i bought 2 peppermint shrimps a week ago and one of them was very dark at the back of its tail and i looked closly and i saw eggs so i was just wondering how hard is it to breed peppermint shrimps. it seems latley i have been getting all these animals that i can breed like my cories, swords, guppies, cherry shrimp, and now peppermint shrimps lol

[scootrnerd]

sounds cool! its shrimp BTW

[dilbert]

The cleaner shrimps also from the Lysmata family are almost impossible to breed. Their eggs don't survive somehow.

Maybe it's possible and I would search the Internet thoroughly for some real expert hints.

[emptywallet]

okay so then sounds like i have no chance at all then =(
and i am not to intelligent so thanks shrimp not shrimps -.-

[dilbert]

Peppermint shrimps have been raised successfully but it's not a simple task. Mainly it's having the larvae their own tank, water quality and food. The whole thing needs some attention, probably.

If you find a Web page of someone explaining it you can try it yourself.

[Reefscape]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/april2004/feature.htm

[FeatherDuster]

I just wanted to say thats a great article. Also good to know that these shrimp do demonstrate cannibalistic behavior. Should make people think twice about adding a bunch of peppermint shrimp (over four) to take care of the aiptasia infestation.

[Octavarium]

Peppermints I get from this store always breed. I purchased 3 different batches at seperate times months apart, had a female pregnant with eggs all of the times (Id get 3 at a time) months later I noticed bunch of tiny white shrimp moving really fast in and out of algae and LR, some are still there and larger.

[boomsticks]

Mine have bred about four times now. I have gotten lucky and one survived, the babies or larvae whatever you want to call them, usually get eaten by my corals, maroon clown, and her bubble tip anemone. If you want to raise them you have to seperate them fromt the main tank and feed them phytoplankton until they are about three or four weeks old then move on to bigger foods like cyclops and zooplankton.

Best of luck!