Shipped a Berried Shrimp?

[SoCA39]

Hi All -
I just joined the Opae Ula community after owning a small ecosphere for awhile, seeing them die in a few years - and then researching what they were out of curiosity. Thought they were super cool, and felt bad, after I did my reading - that I initially went into things uneducated. Decided to do things right - cycled a nice new 1.5 gallon tank, and most recently (couple days ago) received my shrimp and some accessories (macroalgae and a couple supershrimp mossballs) and started the adventure.

Was looking at the tank today, and think I might have been shipped a berried female with one egg?! Is this what I am looking at in attached picture? It does hang down as a ball from the shrimp. If so, that'd be a super cool way to start things! Thanks All . . .

[SuperProofer]

That's what it looks like to me. Perhaps the move was too traumatic and caused her to lose the rest, but she managed to hang on to 1. Congrats!

[SoCA39]

Cool. That's great news. Thank you. Here's a much better pic . . .

fingers crossed the move into the new tank wasn't too stressful - and she doesn't loses this one also

[Vorteil]

Very cool. Hopefully that egg stays

[Opaela]

I had that once. I received a shrimp with two eggs attached. But she end up dropping all of them( I also changed my tank once) and the eggs that dropped didn't manage to hatch after I picked them to a separate container.

If I were you, I will let her do her own thing with zero disturbance. After a few weeks, you might end up having a young shrimp. But it's also possible to be a dead egg that will detach when next time she molt.

[Mustafa]

Yeah, that shrimp got caught with a full "belly" of eggs, but the eggs usually get dropped in the process of catching them in a net. Sometimes they hold on to one or a few.