I bought four cherry shrimp yesterday and found out one was pregnant.
She's had the babies earlier today and some seemed to swim really odd...round & round and upsidedown. I just saw a baby now and it was swimming fine....the others must be hiding.
Why were they swimming like that? Is it possible the stress of being brought from my lfs to her new home made the eggs hatch earlier?
Nothing to worry about. Just youthful exuberance. After being rolled up in an egg for a month you would have a hard time swimming straight too.
Just keep the water quality high, do your weekly water changes, don't overfeed, and keep the phosphates and nitrates down. Soon you'll be overrun with Cherries and selling them back to the LFS.
badflash wrote:Nothing to worry about. Just youthful exuberance. After being rolled up in an egg for a month you would have a hard time swimming straight too.
Just keep the water quality high, do your weekly water changes, don't overfeed, and keep the phosphates and nitrates down. Soon you'll be overrun with Cherries and selling them back to the LFS.
Lol the rolled up in an egg thing made me smile....I didn't think of it like that.
They are due a water change tomorrow so i'll have to vac carefully.
The four adults are still pretty scared.....I have a tangle of hornwort they have called home and they are right in the middle of it....picking at it and then moving around through it.
Siphon off the top for the first few water changes. Baby shrimp freeze when anything comes near them so it's very easy to accidently suck them up. Congrats on the successful hatch.. they are halarious to watch swimming like they drank too much.
I put a filter net over my siphon suction. You can get filter media bags at any LFS, and they work fine. I use a large bottom vacuum siphon connected to a smaller tube. This reduces the flow rate at the suction so no one gets pinned to the net.
I just saw a baby now and it was swimming fine....the others must be hiding. 
