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Propinqua lady is AGAIN plucking the eggs out! Grrrrrrr! Wish I knew why they are doing this? Maybe an age thing? Frustrating to say the least. She had about half of them left when the lights came on this morning. I guess I will give myself two options here: 1) just leave the older ladies in the tank longer before trying to move them. See if they do this in their regular environment. Or 2) move in a couple of plants or something in the tank with her to see if that may help. Just so confusing as none of the other shrimpies are behaving this way. And these Prop ladies are the oldest shrimpies which makes me wonder if that may have something to do with it.
 
And it's official. Propinqua lady has once again devoured all her eggs. Maybe she got a taste of caviar and just can't resist it. Who knows. I'll get her moved back to her tank, clean out the rearing tank and move over another Ninja.

Amano zoeas are still doing well. The oldest group has a nice color to them and appear to be getting close to morphing. The second group still looks a bit on the smallish side. If I don't see any good growth in the next couple of days, this could be a bad sign.

Gonna be chilly the next few days. Now will be a good time to see how the room temp will change and affect things. Hopefully not at all but the temps will definately be lower in the tanks.
 
Been pretty much out of commission for a spell. I hate being ill. Back in the saddle now and ready to pick up where I left off. I'm sure the zoea tanks are going to be a loss. I was only in the fish room long enough to feed and that's been the extent of my fishy interactions during this time. I'll get down there this afternoon and see if by chance anything remains. The rearing tanks will need to be cleaned and more ladies moved in. I know there was at least one berried Amano ready to go and I'm sure I can move over a couple Ninja ladies as they are always carrying.

I'll be spending more time in basement now that it's getting cooler. Hopefully get things finalized with the new shelves and such. Get more organized. ;)
 
Found a berried Propinqua lady today. Yay! And the best part, it is one of the new females so hopefully won't have to deal with the eggs being eaten. Crosses fingers. I immediately moved her into isolation so we'll see.

Ninja lady still holding. Found several other berried ladies in their tank.

Will be moving an Amano lady into isolation this weekend. Still have a few Amano zoea's surviving. Thought for sure that I would have lost all of them during the time I was ill. Think I'm going to try and combine the two Amano zoea tanks and start fresh.
 
Me and Propinqua's just aren't gettin along. :)

Checked the lady today and no eggs. Grrrrrr. Now this is her first carry and it is common for the first batch to be dropped so I won't get too upset at the moment. We'll see how it goes.

Ninja lady had hers hatch out. Both ladies are back in their tanks. Ninja zoea will be washed out to sea shortly.
 
I just read through the entire thread.. and I must say you have displayed amazing determination and patience. Good luck on the project.. i'll be following this.
 
Reset all the rearing tanks today. All emptied out and cleaned up. Moved over one expecting Amano and Propinqua. I'll look tomorrow to see if there are any more egg carrying Ninja's.

I wound up losing (3) Ninja's during a large water change after treating for Hydra in their tank.

Getting ready to restock some of shrimpies. I need to find one low order breeder to make it an even four species to work with.
 
Amano lady hatched out about half her eggs last night. The others remain unhatched. I increased the water circulation to see if I can keep them fresh enough for a spell to see if they will hatch. I'll leave them in there until they fuzz over which hopefully they won't.

Propinqua lady still holding her eggs. {knocks on simulated wood}. Will be moving another berried Propinqua into isolation this weekend.
 
Sure thing. Took a hiatus over the holidays and getting back in the swing of things.

Still having issues with the Propinqua females devouring their eggs. Such a mystery to me. There is plenty of food available even when I move them in isolation. I'm going to examine the water parms more closely and see if anything stands out. They usually carry for a couple of days and then it's lunch time. Very aggrevating.

Ninja's haven't had any eggs in a while now either. TDS is pretty high (for me at least) in their tank which is my diagnosis for them. I'm working on bringing that tank back down to normal.

Have one Amano lady in isolation now. She should be hatching out very soon.
 
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