Interesting green mass....

51Cornell · Post by **51Cornell** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:25 pm

Thanks guys. I wanted to keep the ghost tank as bare as possible yet with just enough "stuff" so the shrimp feel safe and happy(?) and so any future babies will have sufficient places to hide and have enough little lifeforms to eat--but didn't know how bare I could go before it wouldn't work. I've already got a seasoned sponge filter going (all these years of running sponge filters in baby fish tanks has paid off), hornswort, frogbit and anacharis floating around, java moss, some plastic canvas needlepoint strips for them to climb upon/hide under, a thin layer of mulm. Yeh, it's ugly but all my shrimp tanks tend to look like a river ran through them (a far cry from those incredible Amano aquascapes that probably take a lot of gardening).

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:01 pm

Well, as an update Bradimus and I were correct. The green mass inside the female's body was indeed eggs developing within her ovaries. Sometime last night she must have had the clutch because this morning there are about 20 to 40 eggs under her swimmerettes, which is about 3 times the size of her last clutch.

GREAT!