hotweldfire
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I've seen a lot of berried blue pearls in my main tank over the last couple of months. Those of you who know what happened to the shrimp in that tank a few months ago will know what a relief it is for me to see berried shrimp again.
However, I've not seen one shrimplet. Not one. Conditions in the tank are the same as they were when I had a very active sakura breeding colony in there. Only changes are the addition of 6 threadfin rainbows and higher levels of EI dosing. I was starting to fear that there was some residual poison left over from the PlantedTanks insecticide. Then today I saw this (apologies for awful photo):
2012-5-17_21.59.28 by hotweldfire, on Flickr
If you can't make it out it's not a dead shrimp, it's a moulted shell with eggs attached. I'm wondering if this might account for no babies. Maybe the berried shrimp are losing their eggs when they moult? Should they even be moulting when berried? I've never seen this before. Anyone have any idea what causes it?
However, I've not seen one shrimplet. Not one. Conditions in the tank are the same as they were when I had a very active sakura breeding colony in there. Only changes are the addition of 6 threadfin rainbows and higher levels of EI dosing. I was starting to fear that there was some residual poison left over from the PlantedTanks insecticide. Then today I saw this (apologies for awful photo):
2012-5-17_21.59.28 by hotweldfire, on Flickr
If you can't make it out it's not a dead shrimp, it's a moulted shell with eggs attached. I'm wondering if this might account for no babies. Maybe the berried shrimp are losing their eggs when they moult? Should they even be moulting when berried? I've never seen this before. Anyone have any idea what causes it?