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Jan 5, 2009
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It has been 3weeks+ since I noticed my females no longer carried their eggs. Since I have not seen any baby shrimp can I assume that none survived? App. how big would they be at this point?
I have a 5 gallon fair well planted tank with a covering over the filter intake to help keep them from getting sucked up.
I had pygmy cories in the tank unti 2 weeks ago.
other than a few small pond snails there is nothing else in the tank.

Water is 0 for ammoia and nitrite and 5ppm nitrate.
Tank has been running like this for 2 years.

Thanks for any help
 
Drop a algae wafer in the tank and check on it in about 30 Min's or so, if you see no shrimp they are all DEAD!
 
No expert, but I think they carry the eggs for 3 or 4 weeks, so if it's 3 or 4 weeks + 3 weeks since they weren't carrying their eggs, then you would have seen them by now, though they are only 5 - 10mm (mine were, anyway).

However, I had two berried females who seemed to have dropped their eggs, one within a couple of days, one after a couple of weeks. I could no longer see eggs. But I still got babies, 24 days after the females berried.
 
Mine weren't showing eggs and I did a gravel vac, checked the bucket I put the water and found a baby. I've only seen 2 baby shrimp so far and it's been 2 weeks. they pretty much remain in hiding until they get brave enough. I've heard it can take at least 2 weeks before you see the first baby. You might still have them... they're just not brave enough yet. *crosses fingers*
 
They are very hard to see and are good at hiding. They can subsist on whatever accumulates on plants and substrate. I put a cotton net under my siphon to check for babies during a water change and never saw any but yet my population continues to grow.
 
I have a lot of java moss and hiding spots for them...the only thing I can think of why the wouldn't have survived is that the females were berried when I got them and maybe the change from LFS to my tank messed up the eggs....time will tell
 
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