Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Good evening everyone. I'm fairly new to the hobby but my aquarium seems to be full of baby amarno shrimp. I Currently have 2 males and 2 females and was surprised to find the had bread so quickly. The tank has fresh water in.

On reading up on this I realised there offspring wouldn't survive. However it'd been two weeks and they are still around. My water has quite a high hardness.

Please could you advise if I may have got lucky?

Sorry for the poor quality pictures of the shrimp fry. It was taken off my phone on macro mode.
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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Not possible.
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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Thank you for your two word super helpful answer. I assure you I'm not lying and are just as surprised.
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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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There's nobody else who has bred Amanos in FW let alone raising them in full SW at the larvae stage. They need to be fed phytoplankton and there's no food source in your tank. Also that is not a pic of a baby shrimp. I assume some type of pod.
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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Thank you that was much more helpful. So I guess they are lingering on before they die. If there is no food.

What do you mean by a pod. It moves and swims, it's looks like the lava stage shrimp to me. However I'm no expert
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That pic is not of an amano larvae.
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That is strange. As the only things in my tank are guppies, amarnos and bamboo shrimp.
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Re: Baby Amarno shrimp in tank

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Amano larvae in FW will die within 48hrs. Your pic is of a copepod. Can you post better or additional pics?
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