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Sure enough. A newly berried shrimp showed up this morning.

I had the same storing-sperm-thought.
How old was the female when you put her in the tank? I assume she came from one of your general tanks...
Brad

As promised, I've been monitoring tank temperatures. The room with the tank is cooler than the rest of the house, by a couple of degrees. We have the heat set to 70 degrees for the house as a whole. In the morning, before the tank light comes on, the water temperature is between 67 and 68 degrees. I...

Another berried female showed up yesterday. I don't recall having a newly berried shrimp in November. Maybe this winter will be different after all.

The first of the two currently berried females released her larvae this last week--23 or 24 of them. The last berried female has a much smaller clutch--maybe a dozen or so. No other females are currently carrying, as far as I can see. There may be some hiding. With the onset of cooler temperatures, ...

Hi Mustafa, We keep the AC in the house at about 73 to 75 degrees. In winter we heat the house between 70 and 72 degrees. The room the shrimp are in runs a little cooler than the rest of the house by 1 to 2 degrees. It seems that with the cooler temperatures we're starting to have here, the shrimp a...

End of Summer update. The macro algae was looking sad, so I removed it. I think it could not compete with the normal algae. I've also had less hair algae to contend with. However, there are now a couple of spots where the substrate is showing through, not covered any longer with the normal algae. It...

I'm not an expert, but I don't think black is ever good in plants--usually indicates necrosis. I'd carefully remove it.

The tank temperature is the same as the room--no auxiliary heat. The room temp varies from about 65 to 75 F over the year. The tank receives no sunlight at all. I assume the temp rises during the day due to the 10,000 K lamp in the hood. In fact, in the winter some shrimp will collect on the top cou...

Time for an update, I think. All but 4 larvae are now benthic. I figure this Spring left me with 150 or so new shrimp. The youngest are out and about, not hiding. I still think this is because there are just so darn many of them, whereas with fewer numbers before, they'd hide. The second round of ma...

My experience with temperature fluctuation is the changing seasons. In winter the room with the tank averages about 65-68 degrees, while in the summer 72-76 degrees. The difference taking several months to play out. I have not yet had shrimp reproduce in the winter months. They usually stop around N...

Here is the second batch--about 50. The first larvae of the season are now mostly benthic. You can see a few of them clinging to the tank sides. Some of the larvae in the middle are actually holding to the tank glass as well. There are 4 or so females still carrying. One interesting observation: Whe...

Yes, I've noticed that generally, too. I currently have a smaller female carrying eggs that is a light as the males of the same size, though.
Bottom line--difficult to sex.

It will feed the algae which feeds the shrimp.

I count 60 to 70 larvae in the pic. There are others that are too shy to show themselves--maybe 80 total? The larvae from the first 2 females are benthic. I counted 8 females still carrying eggs, although I think 2 or 3 of them are currently dropping larvae, contributing to the above count. Larvae.j...