My Female Tahitan prawns eggs finally hatched today and now they look like mini shrimps floating everywhere!!! Will post pics when they get a little bigger or tomorrow 
My Prawn Eggs Finnally HATCHED!!!
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A heads-up (and sorry if you're already aware of this): the larvae (zoea) will need saline water to develop.
Macrobrachium lar (Tahitian prawn) undergo around a dozen zoeal stages before becoming post-larvae (bottom-dwelling "miniature adults"). Incomplete success was had by the researcher John Atkinson, who wrote "Larval Development of a Freshwater Prawn, Macrobrachium lar (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory," at 35.5 ppt salinity. I expect the larvae to tolerate more brackish conditions. Atkinson's died after 11 zoeal stages. He was feeding them baby brine shrimp and, oddly enough, fly larvae (Dacus), and thought that they need some sort of vegetable matter as well.
If you're really interested in raising them, there are online manuals for raising M. rosenbergii (big aquaculture species), and step-by-step approaches for Amano shrimp which ought to be helpful.
As you know, M. lar is non-native to your area. It's naturally distributed from East Africa to the Ryukyu Islands and the Marquesas.
Macrobrachium lar (Tahitian prawn) undergo around a dozen zoeal stages before becoming post-larvae (bottom-dwelling "miniature adults"). Incomplete success was had by the researcher John Atkinson, who wrote "Larval Development of a Freshwater Prawn, Macrobrachium lar (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory," at 35.5 ppt salinity. I expect the larvae to tolerate more brackish conditions. Atkinson's died after 11 zoeal stages. He was feeding them baby brine shrimp and, oddly enough, fly larvae (Dacus), and thought that they need some sort of vegetable matter as well.
If you're really interested in raising them, there are online manuals for raising M. rosenbergii (big aquaculture species), and step-by-step approaches for Amano shrimp which ought to be helpful.
As you know, M. lar is non-native to your area. It's naturally distributed from East Africa to the Ryukyu Islands and the Marquesas.