[Alicamo]

So title kinda says it all, she was looking a lil fat but she is definally pregnant, the eggs have developed eyes already which are visible...wish i had a camera but my brother has it not getting my hopes up or anything since most of em will prolly be fish food but any advice helps.

[rlcline76]

They'll be fish food.
Like all other larvae, they need live food from the Get-go (artemia, rotifers, and sometimes a spirulina-laden diet later on for pigmentation and as a defense against pathogens. These sorts of foods (especially the live) would be better off apart from the main tank to avoid pollution.

[Alicamo]

meh thought so

[Jeremy0322]

It would be awesome to have the babies. Go buy like a 10 gallon tank and dont run any filtration on it. Just have that in the tank and do water changes to keep the levels in check. Have the babies and feed them what you need to, you will have a ton of them, and that would be awesome. Then you could send me one, and that would be awesome too.

[Alicamo]

lol they take awhile to grow ya know, plus it would be alot less hastle to just buy one.

she fanned out the babies today when i wasnt looking.

[Jeremy0322]

It would still be sweet just to see really tiny shrimp

[Ganrin]

Ill see if I can find the article, but basically theres only 2 or 3 people who have ever gotten cleaner shrimp through the larval stages to actual juvenile shrimps. They metamorphisis about 30 times and from initial release to the final metamorphis takes close to 6 months.

Edit -- Here is the post on RC, Reef Central Online Community - Lysmata amboinensis larva