Cleaner with eggs..... - Page 2

tashier · 07-27-2006, 12:30 AM

After reading this thread, I thought I would check out my shrimp when I got home and sure enough, one of them has a huge cluster of eggs under her. I bet the fish can't wait.

volitansman · 07-27-2006, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Twitterbait

It is a sign that they are happy

actually I read an article in one of the fish mags (can't remember which one) that someone has been able to raise cleaner shrimp to adulthood. The problem is that it took so much time and effort to get it to happen that to sell them commercially they would cost about five times what we pay for them now.

volitansman · 07-27-2006, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Twitterbait

The correct term is hermaphrodyte... Don't expect them to survive. nobody has ever gotten them to survive to adulthood in captivity.

sorry wrong quote before, this is the one I meant to use (can't edit post my browser is crashing when I try).

DebsSisterFlo · 07-27-2006, 01:44 AM

so then, are all of the shrimps that we buy wild caught?!?! I thought that would be something that is tank raised... huh.