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Two more larvae today. I assumed all the eggs, fertilized at the same time, from a given female would hatch within a short period. It looks like eggs from both females have hatched, but each female is still carrying eggs.

Well, here's my supershrimp story. I bought 10 shrimp from Mustafa last April. I have them in a 10 gallon tank with crushed shell and coral substrate, artificial coral decorations, and macroalgae, lit by a single HO bulb in the hood. The tank gets no direct sunlight. No filtration or aeration is use...

I get the same thing in my tank. I noticed the shrimp would never go into it or beyond it. It would rise up in the tank until the shrimp were crowding in the top half of the water. I siphoned it out--major ammonia! The shrimp were 'happy' to see it go. They began to use the entire water column. The ...

I assume you leave the exoskeletons in the tank. Do the shrimp consume them?

Apparently, 50 in a half-gallon is not too many. That said, I'll put 20 or so in my 10 gallon and let them multiply from there.
Brad Hills
Alpine, Utah