Hi,
About 2 months ago I noticed a bunch of eggs on some java moss. Apparantly one of the shrimp dropped her eggs. Over the course of 2 months I been seeing more and more clutches off eggs dropped. Just today I noticed yet another bunch of eggs that one of the shrimp dropped and one of the other shrimp was eating it. I dont know why this is happening, but its happened about 6 times now.
I got about 40 shrimp maybe, and theres some small pond snails as well. The 1st time it happened, I thought it might have been stress, or perhaps the shrimp was young and a 1st time mother, and dropped the eggs. Like I say, theres no predators to stress the shrimp out, and these are the only reasons Ive heard why shrimp may drop their eggs.
Water is fine:
Ammonia 0
NitrIte 0
NitrAte 10
Hardness - Hard
PH - 7.8
Temp - 79
The only thing I can think of, is the shrimp must be like humans. When they are saddled and are producing eggs, I figure they must have a time period to mate, and if they dont the eggs are flushed rather than being fertilized and transfered to the tail. Theres plenty of males too, so I dont get it. Im getting really frustrated and disappointed, because like I say, its been about the 6th time this has happened. I been waiting several months for them to breed and I have not gotten one spawn.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Could it be a fact that shrimp will flush eggs if they dont mate? Thanks
About 2 months ago I noticed a bunch of eggs on some java moss. Apparantly one of the shrimp dropped her eggs. Over the course of 2 months I been seeing more and more clutches off eggs dropped. Just today I noticed yet another bunch of eggs that one of the shrimp dropped and one of the other shrimp was eating it. I dont know why this is happening, but its happened about 6 times now.
I got about 40 shrimp maybe, and theres some small pond snails as well. The 1st time it happened, I thought it might have been stress, or perhaps the shrimp was young and a 1st time mother, and dropped the eggs. Like I say, theres no predators to stress the shrimp out, and these are the only reasons Ive heard why shrimp may drop their eggs.
Water is fine:
Ammonia 0
NitrIte 0
NitrAte 10
Hardness - Hard
PH - 7.8
Temp - 79
The only thing I can think of, is the shrimp must be like humans. When they are saddled and are producing eggs, I figure they must have a time period to mate, and if they dont the eggs are flushed rather than being fertilized and transfered to the tail. Theres plenty of males too, so I dont get it. Im getting really frustrated and disappointed, because like I say, its been about the 6th time this has happened. I been waiting several months for them to breed and I have not gotten one spawn.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Could it be a fact that shrimp will flush eggs if they dont mate? Thanks
