I keep couple Malysian Prawns and my house and the females was all loaded with eggs and I was wondering if invertebrate babies are suppose to look like qhite plankton at an early age cause thats all I seee in my tank now lol
Question about breeding prawns?
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Hello. The species you have is actually Macrobrachium lar (Tahitian prawn, another non-native in Hawaii).
The young are plankton, and require water of brackish to marine salinity to develop into post-larvae, "miniature adults" that you'd be able to acclimate back to freshwater. They'll only survive a few days in freshwater, if they're not sucked into a filter intake, which is why you haven't seen any young prawns. Baby brine shrimp and marine "green water" (phytoplankton) should work as foods.
If you pull this off, you would be the first in the aquarium hobby to ever do so, as far as I can tell, so it would be interesting to try.
From a hobbyist standpoint, the following articles with step-by-step instructions for breeding Amano/Yamato shrimp, a species with a similar life cycle, are the best starting points:
The young are plankton, and require water of brackish to marine salinity to develop into post-larvae, "miniature adults" that you'd be able to acclimate back to freshwater. They'll only survive a few days in freshwater, if they're not sucked into a filter intake, which is why you haven't seen any young prawns. Baby brine shrimp and marine "green water" (phytoplankton) should work as foods.
If you pull this off, you would be the first in the aquarium hobby to ever do so, as far as I can tell, so it would be interesting to try.
From a hobbyist standpoint, the following articles with step-by-step instructions for breeding Amano/Yamato shrimp, a species with a similar life cycle, are the best starting points:
Wow thx dude for the info 
Oh ya and it was called the Tahitan Prawn
lol get the names mixed up sometimes. But in Hawaii we find these in the higher part of the stream near water flls and I doubt the larave will go down back to the ocean and come back though cause if they do thats a long walk lol
Oh ya and it was called the Tahitan Prawn lol get the names mixed up sometimes. But in Hawaii we find these in the higher part of the stream near water flls and I doubt the larave will go down back to the ocean and come back though cause if they do thats a long walk lolIt's pretty unbelievable, but I wouldn't doubt their migration abilities (video is of the same species, in Hawaii):
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M. carcinus, to give another example, is found 325 km inland from the Gulf of Mexico at San Marcos, TX. As far as anyone's able to tell, every single one in the San Marcos River made the long journey upstream from the coast.
The larvae of species with this kind of life cycle (amphidromy) simply wash downstream with the current, but the juveniles making the return trip are often determined enough to crawl up low dams or over land.
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M. carcinus, to give another example, is found 325 km inland from the Gulf of Mexico at San Marcos, TX. As far as anyone's able to tell, every single one in the San Marcos River made the long journey upstream from the coast.
The larvae of species with this kind of life cycle (amphidromy) simply wash downstream with the current, but the juveniles making the return trip are often determined enough to crawl up low dams or over land.