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So as an update 3 months later, out of the many many shrimp that hatched, I think only 8 or so made it to adulthood, though its hard to count which ones are new outside the few that are still smaller shrimp. So many hatchlings did not make it. That gave maybe like a 6% or so estimate survivalhood. I ...

As an update, a bunch of the shrimps hatched and I counted 17+ offspring! I'm not sure if these came from one female or both, but I also managed to witness a couple of them hatch before my eyes! Very exciting and I'm glad everything worked out eventually.

I'm trying to figure out the details of the Opae lifecycles. I've had my 10 ordered shrimp for 10 months now, and I've only had a few females berry eggs (whether it was the same shrimp, I don't know), but I believe they dropped their eggs. The past month, I've had two females berry at the same time ...

So I think the past one or two times I fed, I ended up overfeeding. For a while, I had a lot of surface algae on my tank that built up, and I noticed,for whatever reason, the snails finally started to get to it and ate the majority of it. Also, my Chaeto is pretty big, which is a lot of food. I ...