The Tale of the Pregnant Shrimp and it's Missing Mate

So I came home the other day and finally had time to sit and enjoy my tank.

Usually my two skunk cleaner shrimp are at the foreground and very active so it caught my attention when I only saw one. They are NEVER apart!

I take a look around the tank and can't find the other anywhere. Mind you, this is only a 29g but those buggers are crafty sometimes.....BUTTT I digress....
As I'm looking around my eyes settle on the lone shrimpy. I notice something different. There are eggs......there are a lot of eggs on this shrimp. This intrigues me as just two days before I'd been reading about trying to sex shrimp and had read that occasionally the female will eat the male - black widow style.

The other shrimp is still nowhere to be found, not even sloppy remnants and nothing in my tank is big enough to eat one.


So anywho.... that's the story. not as exciting as the title would lead you to believe.

Anyone know how to rear these bad boys?!

 

im pretty sure you have to put the eggs in another tank/container because they will eat their young

 

Now do they carry the clutch until it the eggs hatch or so they lay them similarly to snails? I'm new to pregnant shrimp.

Something else bred in the tank I guess because I have a nice line of eggs in the corner of the tank.

 

bump

 

To my knowledge I haven't heard of anyone successfully raising them. All they are good for is free fish food, and good fish food at that.