Uberhoust
Fish Herder
I have only been keeping shrimp, blue diamonds, for a week and have very little experience with them. When I bought the shrimp there were a couple that were "berried". This evening I got all excited because I saw these very little swimming dots around the slice of cucumber I put out for the shrimp. Because there was a few of these dots I took about 30 minutes to capture one with an eyedropper. I put my baby shrimp under the microscope and was disappointed to only find a cyclopean copepod in the viewfinder. From what I read the shrimp larva are about 1mm long and so were copepods. I later found the two berried shrimp, their eggs have yet to hatch. Too bad , but at least the aquarium seems to be OK for crustaceans .