Bumblebee shrimp antics

There will be quite a bit of variation in color of your young White headded Bumblebee Shrimp and some will even be red striped sometimes. I keep these shrimp as well and bought them as wild imports. Most of the originals are now long gone and mine are tank bred now and doing well in
PH-6.5
Temp-72
and RO water.

What are your parameters if you don't mind me asking. Nice photos and tank!
 
your tank and shrimp are very nice. it's so sweet that they ride on you! they seem like such little characters :)
 
They are awesome! with great personality. The original are wild caught im sure, despite how well they are doing in captivity. my parameters are 6.8ph, with med to hard water, and everything else reads really low. 100 shrimp, 1 bn pleco, and plants in a 29g. I did a 50% water change with refill water from walmart and thats what prompted the 6 berried shrimp. The best thing is that the refill water from walmart is 25 cents pergallon instead of 50 cents per gallon that the local petstore carries. Their RO water is high ph unlike the refill stuff at wmart.
 
I counted 14 berried/prego shrimp today! I added some java moss to the substrate and they love it. There is one shrimp with a white stripe on its back, I call her bishop since it looks like a cross. well, she has eggs now! I hope more of them get that trait
 
Apparently I forgot to post that I counted up to 36 berried females in my tank! Thats almost half the population!!!!!!!

Well, I finally was able to get the hardness lower, and the ph a bit lower as well. And they just started all getting knocked up! very exciting.


I was able to see 5 small babies last night!!! The stipes on them are very apparent as well. They are about the size of 1-2 grains of sand. My eyes are really stressing and strained right now.

An interesting thing happen 2 nights ago. I noticed a pregnant female looked really sluggish and not well. She was sitting on some lava rock and looked like she was going to die. The next morning when I woke up she had passed, but there were no eggs left.

That evening I noticed 2 different variety of babies. One kind was 2 grains of sand long and had apparent stripes. Another kind of baby was the size of 1 grain of sand and almost a reddish clear and resembled RCS. These smaller guys hardly moved from the original spot, but were very active in cleaning the sand. I did not even bother looking for anymore than the 2 I saw, for sake of my eyes.

They are beautiful! I had to split up my population of bumblebees and I sold some so that I would have room for the new arrivals.
 
I got some pics finally, They are starting to become easier to see now. I counted about 20 out in front, Im sure there are a lot more. Very exciting, these guys are beautiful. The tank has so many plants, I see less and less adults everyday, and at feeding time, their numbers are very shocking

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