For just about any shrimp in this hobby, fertilized eggs become nothing more than coral food. Once they hit the planktonic stage, it's fair game for predation.
However, this shrimp is a little different. When the eggs hatch, the babies hang onto mommy for a while. If you get the pair into a small nano rearing tank, you actually have a chance at getting a bunch of babies you can sell. However, to do this successfully, you pretty much need the tank set up and cycled immediately with a sponge filter only and bubblestones (no powerheads or protein skimmers). You also need to set up a phyto farm and a rotifer farm.
This is why most people don't breed them....it's an awful lot of work. _________ Curt  |