hey i am new keeping Ghost shrimps so please be nice to me.....do the ghost shrimps give live birth or lye eggs? the only kind of fish i have keep is bettas.....
Ghost Shrimps!!!!!!!!!!
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It would actually be both. The eggs will be attached to the small legs underneath the tail, and will eventually hatch, but they're never really laid.
how do you know if they are about to have babys??this is my frist keeping them
From my experiance a gravid ghost shrimp appears to have a greenish mass attached to the underside of it's tail. Upon closer examination this'll actually be about two dozen eggs. The gravid shrimp holds the eggs until they hatch. It takes about a month for new eggs to hatch.
i have mature females and you can see the babies/eggs moving around inside of them when they move. its really cute. they always eat their babies though.
I removed the gravid shrimp to the shrimp box to lay their eggs. However the shrimp box is now dead because it was uncycled (I tried to build a biofilter but it fell apart). If you plan on raising shrimps do NOT use a filter with a forced current. My Aquaclear 150 kills about one adult shrimp per month with it's siphon.
My ghost shrimp tank is a 15 gallon with two Fluval 2 internal filters. It has not killed a shrimp yet. I think something else was killing your shrimp.
