Hello: Berries, saddle or both

[KenCotigirl]

Hello all this is my first post. My name is Ken from Old Bridge, NJ. I started with shrimp about 2 years ago. I got one of the spheres. The supplier said the genus, species name was propriatory and would not supply the name. After the shrimp died I planned on refilling the sphere. While searching for a new supplier I stumbled upon petshrimp.com. I felt quite bad after reading the varieties profiles. I then ordered red cherry shrimp from petshrimp.com about 3 months ago.

Now for my question. When the female in saddle moults do the eggs decend immediately or a few at a time over a period of hours? One of my females appears to have both some eggs in her swimmerets and a visable saddle. Here is a picture.

[adimeatatime]

Hi COTIGIRL. I don't have an answer to your question, but would like to welcome you to the forum. Your picture is very nice and that is a beautiful cherry shrimp!!!

[southerndesert]

In the picture the female is berried with saddle and I see this often in my tanks

Nice photo...

Bill

[thgng]

The shrimp in your old sphere are Opae Ula, who live in brackish water.

The one in your picture are Red Cherry Shrimp, freshwater.

They are different.

[Mustafa]

One of my females appears to have both some eggs in her swimmerets and a visable saddle. Here is a picture.

Shrimp can keep some eggs in their ovaries ("saddle") if they produced large numbers of eggs. Or...in your case...it might just be that your shrimp molted quite a while back, started carrying eggs, and produced some more eggs in her ovaries for the next molt/mating.

[KenCotigirl]

Thanks for the input. I hope I can can add to the forum.

Ken P