Breeding Cleaner Shrimp?

[Lexus9903]

Hello!

We have two cleaner shrimp in our 55 gallon reef tank and we recently noticed that they had green colored eggs inside of there exoskeleton. I am very interested in possibly breeding these shrimp if it is not an impossible undertaking. However, when I looked around on the web, I only found a couple of vague descriptions and they were both COMPLETLY opposite! Can anyone help?

Thanks a Ton!

Lex and Rob

 

[toddnbecka]

Just let nature take it's course and keep your fingers crossed. You don't have to breed them, they do it on their own if their needs are met. Survival of the offspring is another matter. Anything that will eat them?

 

[mogurnda]

Breeding them is possible, but you have to have a separate tank with gentle, but constant water motion. The larvae are planktonic for a few months, and need to be fed constantly with brine shrimp nauplii or rotifers. It's basically a full time job.

 

[Max]

Sorry to hijack your thread but a quick question for Dave. I don't remember where I saw this but, I recall reading somewhere that with lots of the crustiescrustiestcrustinesscrustiercrueltiescrustedcrushescrustcrisiscrispiestcrusherscrutchescrispinesscriticscruditiescrusades that you need to add a couple of drops of grain alcohol to the tank water to prevent them from sticking to the surface tension? This was especially true with inverts and fish that have a very small planktonic size?
I was just wondering if this along with the other issues in s.w.S.W. babies might be a part of the reason success is so limited with these guys in the home ?
Just a thought I'll stop prattlingly now
Chris