Peruvian Glass Shrimp Pic

Post by **Mustafa** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:52 pm

Hi Folks,

Just wanted to share the picture of my ovigerous Peruvian Glass Shrimp female.

http://www.petshrimp.com/files/peruglassshrimp.jpg

No idea yet what their scientific name is....it's definitely a Palaemonid shrimp and could be related to our P. paludosus but could also be a very small Macrobrachium (The shrimp are about 1.25 inches right now). We'll see. She's my only female at this point, so I am hoping that I can establish a little breeding colony with her help.

As you can see the eggs are *huge* and she is carrying only about 8-10 eggs.

These guys are cute little shrimp and totally harmless towards any other tank inhabitants...including other shrimps' hatchlings.

Mustafa

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:34 pm

She is lovely Mustafa!

Polypterus · Post by **Polypterus** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:47 am

Hi ! Nice shrimp, nice eggs - seems to be a little green. Hope you ahve success to breed. As wyou wrote in the AGW - please not just send some exuvien -also some of the futher generation animals

Florian

Post by **Mustafa** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:37 am

@amber

Thanks, Marge, yes she is.

@Florian

I hope that I have success breeding them, too. Once the eggs hatch it should be no problem, but we'll see what happens.

Oh...some interpretation for everyone else:

AGW Liste = German Mailing List for Invertebrate discussion (of which I am also a member)

Exuvie (singular, German) = Exuviae (plural, English) = shed skin of shrimps, crabs, crays, insects etc. See here for pronunciation and further definition:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/70/E0307000.html

Take care,
Mustafa

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:40 pm

Do you plant to separate the babies or keep them in the same tank Mustafa?