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Over the weekend I noticed something floating around in the tank, caught by the current, and thought it was a peice of junk... but I swore it looked like a tiny ghost shrimp. It was about 1/8" long and mostly clear. I thought today that I'd see for sure as it was still floating around in the cu...

The female carries the eggs for about a month. If there are any fish in the tank, they will eat every baby. If the eggs just dissapear the die. The ghosts I've hatched took nearly a day for all of them to hatch. In my try at these the babies cme out of hiding after about a month & a half. Thank...

As for Seeing baby Ghost Shrimp, After they hatch from the egg, they are larva. Which float in the water colum. This will depend on the amount of food they can find. After about 1 week, after they went through there larva stages. I started seeing little Shrimp. As for salt for Shrimp, I have never ...

THANKS! I hadn't read that anywhere in the many sites I perused about corys - explains their still very stressed behaviour

Did not see this asked... New-ish 20 gal. tank. Moderately planted. We are new to ghost shrimp but absolutely fascinated. How long would you estimate between eggs disappearing from under female and us possibly seeing some babies visible in the tank? We have 2 females and a male (we think), and a cou...