Peppermint Shrimp Babies... But No Daddy?

i have had blue legs from the get go and have never seen them um?

 

Ive had the same ones for about 8 months now and this is the first time I've seen it.

 

I had blue legs for 4 years and never saw it until my current tank.

 

So must be pretty rare. That's too bad cause it was so neat.

 

I had the same thing happen, I have one cleaner shrimp and ended up with thousands of larvae in there. Thing is you only need one shrimp, they are able to fertilize their own eggs, hermaphrodite i geuss you could call them.

 

Cleaner shrimp are hermaphrodites, but they don't fertilize their own eggs, they fertilize each other's eggs.

Mobalized, I'm not sure it's all that rare, I just never had very good water conditions in my other 3 tanks (no sumps & bad husbandry back then). I've heard a lot of this happening in the past year in lots of people's tanks.

 

Cool, too bad they won't survive

 

Very cool! Glad you figured out what they are and got some neat photos.

 

And it appears a day or 2 ago that they had more babies. I just wish there was a way to keep the little guys alive.

 

This is far fetched but anyway you can catch it and place it in your fuge?