Berried Shrimp behavior

[wendamus]

I've been watching my berried RCS -- I have plenty that have hatched now, and there are various ages of babies around the tank, which makes the whole tank a blast to watch.

I took some odd pictures. I know the females 'fan' their eggs, but lately I've seen a couple going around with their eggs hanging out. I don't know if that means they're just thrilled to be in an invert only tank, or if it means the eggs are hatching, or something is wrong?

Here's some pics. I would have thought it was a stressed female dropping her berry, except that it's the most nonstressful tank ever, plus I saw two females do it within a few minutes of each other. (You can tell them apart because one of them has yellow eggs, and the other has green eggs.) What's going on?

(P.S. That gorgeous purple bridgsii acting as an armchair for one of the RCS is one of the ones I got from msjinkzd, isn't (s)he gorgeous?)

 

[pik01]

nice pics! good lookin ram there too hehe. I have a few green berries myself and I've always wondered if it's inherited.

I hope my own purple brig grows up lookin as nice as yours does.

 

[Lupin]

Nice snail.

 

[msjinkzd]

Does that egg dangling only happen when they are at rest? And then they start fanning and turning them again?

The green and yellow eggs are both normal. The snail looks great btw!

 

[wendamus]

Does that egg dangling only happen when they are at rest? And then they start fanning and turning them again?

Yes, I'd say it's mostly when they're at rest, although occasionally they'll leisurely travel a bit with them hanging out, then stop again. It's really strange!

 

[Yadokari]

An overabundance of eggs happens every now and then. I have witnessed this occur multiple times, I have yet to see any fall off the mother before they hatch though. Just consider yourself happy to have such fertile shrimp

More babies for youuuuuu!

 

[Hollygirl]

That snail is beautiful and your shrimp are adorable!

 

[wendamus]

Woohoo! Although now that they've started breeding, it's obvious to me that I'm quickly going to have more shrimp than I know what to do with! Luckily, I have guppies, so I can just continue to fill all my tanks with overflow shrimp and I'll have cleaner tanks, and happier guppies.

 

[wendamus]

That snail is beautiful and your shrimp are adorable!

Thank you! I can't take any credit for the snail, it's all msjinkzd's good work, but I am VERY happy with how beautiful he turned out.

 

[southerndesert]

I too have seen this with some of my younger smaller females and as mentioned there just seem to be a few to many eggs for her to hold tightly, but all should be fine. Shrimp do drop eggs from time to time, but rarely in my experience.