baby peppermint shrimp?

[fishdude]

A few nights ago I was looking into my 120 gallon reef tank at night with a flashlight. I like to see what kinds of critters are coming out at night. I almost always see a new lifeform in there each time.

Well I saw one of my peppermint shrimp swimming through the center of my tank doing acrobatics. Then all of a sudden a cloud of about 70, 3-4 mm long particles came off it. Upon closer inspection they started to swim off and looked like micro replicates of the adult.

Has anyone had baby peppermint shrimp survive and grow?
What special food requirement would they require.

thanks

FD

[Aquattro]

Do you have fish and corals? If so, you don't have any shrimp babies left! They can be raised, but not in a community/reef tank.

[Delphinus]

I thought I heard that ORA or some place is commercially raising peppermints. Just checked the ORA site though (www.orafarm.com) and they don't mention it, so maybe not.

Basically, it (raising the fry to adulthood) doesn't happen by accident in our tanks at home unfortunately. Like I said in another post though, "their sacrifice is not in vain" because they are an easy supply of zooplanktonic foods you could ask for in your tank.

[Quinn]

http://www.breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/cgi-bin/swishsearch.pl?lysmata

[zulu_principle]

A good read if you are curious on what it takes.

http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/fprswaqbooks/fr/aafprpshrimpboo.htm


Wendell