berried ghost shrimp

[chazsgirl]

ok my ghost shrimp has been berried for a while and I checked this morning and she has 2 eggs left she has been in a breeder net, for a few days, so no one eats her eggs, but I see 3 eggs in a triangle in the middle of the net and nothing else to be found. what is going on here! did I stress her by putting her in a breeder net? tell me what I am doing wrong so I can fix it!

 

[duchessren]

They eat their own offspring. You have to have tons and tons and TONS of java moss (or similar) for any of the babies to survive.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

some ghost shrimp need bw to breed.

 

[DAVIDFBT]

Ghost shrimp eggs hatch into larva that swim in the water column and usually end up getting sucked into the filter and dying. A fine foam over your filters solves this problem.

 

[chazsgirl]

there has been a foam filter on my tank since they were introduced

 

[Arakkis]

they need brackish water to survive the planktonic stage to subadult. And it'll be easier to have an airstone rather than a filter

 

[chazsgirl]

I also have an air stone in the tank, how hard do you think it would be to turn a small 2.5g tank into brackish? I guess I will ask on the other forum!

 

[DAVIDFBT]

You don't need BW for some types of Ghost Shrimp. Some need brackish, but the more common ones don't need BW.