What To Do About A Pregnant Ghost Shrimp

Pregnant Ghost Shrimp?

I have 2 female ghost shrimp and 2 males. Both females have a bunch of eggs on their undercarriage. We have them in a community tank with 1 black moor, 7 guppies, 1 pregnant guppy, 1 molly,1 Danio and a reg. goldfish. I have a divider for inside the tank but im not sure if I should put the females in there. One female has green eggs and another has brownish eggs, not sure if that matters. What should i do with them? :)

Pregnant ghost shrimp?

It's hard to tell but she does look like she might be pregnant. I bought a pregnant ghost shrimp. I took her out and moved her to a smaller container and sure enough in a day or two she had babies. So I removed her, but wasn't able to keep the babies alive. They are delicate and I was too inexperienced. If you are up for the challenge, I'll post a link for you, if not... just leave her in the tank and let nature take it's course.
http://www.fishchannel.com/fish-magazine...

Do I have a pregnant ghost shrimp?

green or brown eggs are just eggs, you have to have a male (they're smaller than the females) to fertilize them. Then it'll take about 3-4 weeks. it's really fun to watch her take care of her little eggs :) they are on her back legs (shrimp are deca-pods so they have a LOT of legs) not in her stomach and she fans water over the eggs a lot to help them grow.
the pink things the other person mentioned are're really babies yet, just the eggs right before they hatch. Then the babies will be in your tank, they're very small and usually get eaten very quickly if you don't separate them. Ghost shrimp are so fun :)
also after she has the eggs, she will mult soon after so she will go into hiding to and shed her shell then eat it usually...it's weird. anywho, she will be missing but don't worry. but they do die during this sometimes :(

I only have 1 Ghost Shrimp, and she is pregnant!?

Hi! Congratulations on your strange situation lol I breed ghost shrimp, so maybe I can answer some questions for you :-) I have never heard of ghost shrimp storing sperm, but I would not be surprised to learn they do because there really has not been a lot of research done on ghost shrimp so a lot of things about them are still a mystery really. It does make me want to separate one of my females though to see if she will become pregnant again without having a male around lol. What color are her eggs? If they are green, they are fertile and will hatch in about a month. You will know when they are getting close to hatching because the eggs will get more oblong shaped rather than round and when she is really close you will actually be able to see 2 little black bots in each egg, these are the baby's eyes. There is no point if getting a male just because of this, it is a common myth in the ghost shrimp world that the eggs are fertilized after the female lays them, not true at all... I have witnessed many females laying the eggs and she secludes herself and has no interaction with the males. I also have separated females who were pregnant but had not had the eggs yet and they carried out successful egg laying and hatching without a male present at the time the eggs were laid, disproving this myth. If you want to continue having baby's, get a male because otherwise your shrimp will become inbred and that could cause problems with genetics down the line. Also, the young can be hard to care for because fish will eat them about as fast as they hatch. So, if you want to keep the baby's, you will need to set up a separate tank to raise the baby's in. The baby's are hatched as larvae and it takes them about a week to turn into actual baby shrimp and they are extremely vulnerable during this week. The other problem is feeding them, while they are in the larvae stage they have a hard time getting around and they are not able to search for food like the adults would, they feed off of micro organisms so the easiest way to feed them is just keeping them in a very planted (real plants of course) breeding tank and they seam to do fine. Also, I have found that for some reason there is a much higher survival rate of baby's in tanks that have snails than ones that do not. I'm not sure if they eat something the snails produce or what, but it does seam to make a difference. I hope this helps and feel free to email me if there's anything else I can help you with :-)

I just got a pregnant ghost shrimp what do i do?

If you want to deal with baby ghost shrimp, then put the female with the eggs into a separate cycled tank (5 gals at least) with a lot of established plants. When the eggs hatch, remove the female and put her with the other shrimps. The babies will be clear and look kind of like mosquito larvae. They will float in the water grabbing whatever they can to eat. Keep the water warmish (75F dgrees) and clean. You can crush up a small pinch of flake food into powder and sprinkle some in the tank (not the whole pinch) every day. If you keep the tank in a sunny window, the plants will help make infusoria which the larvae will eat too. They will molt about every week (more often if they are growing fast) and in 3-4 weeks will look like tiny mini ghost shrimp and they will disappear into the gravel and plants so you probably won't see them until they grow large enough to defend themselves against adult shrimp. Depending how long the female has been carrying her eggs, from the time she lays them and sticks them under her tail to the time they hatch is usually about 3-4 weeks, then another 4 weeks for the larvae to turn into little shrimp, then a few months for them to grow. Not sure if it's worth your time. You can't run a regular filter because it'll be too strong for the little guys but you can run a well-seasoned sponge filter on very low for a while (it will also provide food for the babies) after the babies have molted into mini shrimp (don't run a filter while they are just floating--they aren't real strong and don't have much ability to move around except via water movement and you want them to eat and not expend too much energy yet). Only the girl shrimps will carry eggs--the boy shrimps will chase a mature female shrimp around the tank when she is receptive (usually right after she molts her old shell and before her new soft shell hardens), they will pass a sperm packet to her and she'll carry it around inside her until she's ready to lay eggs. She'll paste the eggs under her tail and fan them with her swimmerettes (little legs under her tail) to keep them aerated and keep the fungus from growing. Newly laid eggs will be dark olive green; as they mature they will turn more khaki tan. When they are about ready to hatch you can usually see little eyes inside the eggs if you look real closely. Adult shrimp will eat larvae shrimp, as will most fish.

URGENT!! Ghost shrimp is pregnant...? or...?

Hello, your shrimp is berried, congrats! She has laid her eggs and now carries them with her under her belly, I don't know much about shrimp but I found this, it may help :)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

HELP!!!! How do you tell if a ghost shrimp is pregnant? If so, how do you care for them?

Help! I don't know if my ghost shrimp is pregnant or not. He/she is in a 2.5 gallon tank with 6 other shrimps (shrimps only), and I got 4 of those 7 shrimps (including him/her) only 3 days ago.
She has these brownish sphereical things in his/her swimmers. I don't know if it's pregnant or not, but I think it is.
If it is pregnant, than WHAT DO I DO?????!!!!!

Do I put the mother in another tank?
How much time is left until the eggs hatch?
Will I need to seperate the mom from the fry once they hatch?
What will they eat?
When do I seperate the fry?

PLEASE! Put down anything you know, and any other info I need to know about ghost shrimp fry. Anything will do.

Thank you!

Pregnant Ghost shrimp?Breeder Box?

Ghost shrimp do not produce miniature adult shrimp from their eggs, like Red Cherry Shrimp do--they are a "lower end" shrimp, and their eggs hatch out into planktonic larvae, which swim freely in the water column before becoming tiny adults. Putting the female in a breeder box won't accomplish anything, since the tiny larvae will just slip through the cracks in the box.

Many times, your filter or partial water changes will remove all of the larvae before they mature--and of course, some of them die. While keeping ghost shrimp is easy, breeding them is a little harder than the Neocaridina or Caridina shrimps. If you want to breed ghost shrimp, I'd suggest getting a separate container to breed them in--it doesn't have to be fancy, a large tupperware will do--and purchase a simple sponge filter. The gentle flow of the sponge filter will not remove the babies, so you can just let them do their thing.