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Today I noticed a few little white specks jittering and zooming in the water, they look like little white fleas! I guess those are the red cherry babies!!! Too small to take pics, the camera is broken anyway
Josh

Congrats! Told you they would carry eggs and breed soon!

Congratulations Josh, but are you sure they are cherry babies? When I see cherry babies they look like tiny shrimp, they're small, but you can definitely tell they are shrimp-shaped. Also, it usually takes about a month for the eggs to hatch and you posted that you had eggs about two weeks ago, that doesn't give the eggs enough time to have matured. I hope they are cherry babies, but I just don't want you to be disappointed if they turn out to be some other aquarium critter (I did the same thing about a year ago, thinking I had rudolph babies when it was just a little bug-like thing, that was a lot of excitement over nothing ). Keep us updated though, if these ones aren't babies then I'm sure you'll have them soon!

Janis

JoshGuppy wrote:Today I noticed a few little white specks jittering and zooming in the water, they look like little white fleas! I guess those are the red cherry babies!!! Too small to take pics, the camera is broken anyway
Josh

if they look like fleas, they could be ostracods, round little bugs buzz around. they oft hide in java moss. also, i don't know if i would ever describe the movements of baby shrimp as "jittering." it doesn't sound like baby cherries to me. without visual aides, it's hard to say.

Ok...go check your little critters and see if they look like miniature shrimp. They should not be zipping around but either swimming around or walking around.

well they only zipped around when i turned on the light, since then i havent seen them, they usually hang around the gravel or low java moss, they behave like shrimp tho, looks like theyre picking at the moss. im not positive but they looked kinda clear with a tiny white dot and little legs...
Im waiting for them to develop more, its hard to find them.
Josh

baby shrimp that, at birth, are miniature versions of the adults (e.g., cherries and tigers) are unmistakeable for anything else. even in their small size, you should be able to see their pleopods (or swimmerettes, as some call it) moving about and refracting light as they move from one spot to another. the timing from conception to birth sounds a bit soon to me though. hopefully, you are able to identify them soon.

OK Today I examined them again, the little white fleas have now developed tails, so yes, they look like shrimp now
Is it possible that I may be one of the first to see the shrimp in their earliest stage of life? it seems that it took about a week for their tails to develop. Now I can barely make out tiny black dots, (their eyes), and a white vein and white dot in their bodies.

I have to say what you see are not cherries. I think I have tons of those little critters you talked about, zipping around in the tank. Baby cherries look exactly like their parents, just without much color initially. I used to have a pic only a few hours after hatching, can't find it now. But here is a pic of a crystal red shrimp 10 seconds after hatching from the egg, yes, I observed its hatching from the mother.
The mother raised its rear body, getting ready to drop a baby,

and soon a tiny shrimp jumped out, jumped couple of times and settles down on the bottom, with blurry image of mother in the background,


The cherry babies are similar, but without much color.

then i have no idea what these little things are. they behave exactly like the shrimps do, i can tell that they are picking at the moss like adults do...
Hmm

Does it look anything like the picture below?

yes they do, i know theyre baby shrimp now because it just had to take a few days until icould see their tails, now theyre itty bitty shrimp shaped and swim around in circles sometimes.
Josh

Ahh, finally then. Congrats, Josh!

Congratulations Josh !