We have berries

[Dch48]

I went to turn off the light on the tank and noticed a dark area in the rear section of a shrimp that was grazing on the front glass. I watched that shrimp until I got a side view and---- she clearly has a mass of eggs. I never expected it so soon. I couldn't get a picture because she moved behind the lava rock cave.

[Dch48]

Well, it seems that the eggs have been lost. She only had like 5 of them but now I don't see any shrimp with berries. I can't even tell which one it was that had them. We had a heat wave here that put temps up over 90 for a couple of days. We have no a/c so it got up to 90 in the house as well. There is no thermometer in the Opae tank but judging by the ones in my other 2 fresh water tanks, it probably went as high as 86 after being at like 76 before that. Maybe that's why the eggs were dropped. I had a Neocaridina shrimp with eggs too and she also lost them at the same time as the Opae did.

[Varanus]

Perhaps, but its also pretty common for first time super shrimp moms to drop all or most of their eggs. I don't think anyone really knows why, though it could be a maturity-related thing.