Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp

HightideTN · 11-21-2008, 09:22 PM

I think I have a gravid peppermint shrimp! Maybe she just has really hairy swimmerettes.

Anyone with experience or advice - please share.

Due to the camera shyness of this specimen I have only blurred undisernable imagines, so far.

HightideTN · 11-21-2008, 10:54 PM

Anyone?

SeahorseBT · 11-21-2008, 11:57 PM

It is fairly common. They have both organs so if you have two they will have babies eventually. I think they are supposed to be really hard to raise. I am not sure though. They do make a nutritious snack for the fish and corals though!

HightideTN · 11-22-2008, 12:21 AM

Tanks Blake, I appreciate that. Special care will probably not be afforded to them, although, survivors are welcome.

jski711 · 11-22-2008, 12:43 AM

their swimmers will turn green when they are prego.

jake

naperenterprise · 11-22-2008, 03:09 AM

My cleaner shrimp always have eggs... I always hope they survive, one day maybe, they will live past the fish

HightideTN · 11-23-2008, 12:28 AM

Her swimmers are lt. brown, yet, noticably different than when I introduced her to the tank about a week ago.

Today I added fish:

Pr. of O. Clowns and a small Hippo Tang. Probably the ingrdients for shrimp soup

11-21-2008, 09:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
HightideTN Midas Blenny Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 103 View Gallery Karma Komment	Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp I think I have a gravid peppermint shrimp! Maybe she just has really hairy swimmerettes. Anyone with experience or advice - please share. Due to the camera shyness of this specimen I have only blurred undisernable imagines, so far. __________________ HightideTN Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea and joy to you and me. Hoyt Axton

11-21-2008, 10:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
HightideTN Midas Blenny Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 103 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp Anyone? __________________ HightideTN Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea and joy to you and me. Hoyt Axton

11-21-2008, 11:57 PM	#3 (permalink)
SeahorseBT Golden Moray Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Libertyville, IL Posts: 2,278 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp It is fairly common. They have both organs so if you have two they will have babies eventually. I think they are supposed to be really hard to raise. I am not sure though. They do make a nutritious snack for the fish and corals though! __________________ -Blake My 34 Gallon Seahorse and Macro Tank-http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...acro-tank.html My 46 Gallon LPS Tank-http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...-lps-tank.html My 120 Gallon Reef-http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...chronicle.html

11-22-2008, 12:21 AM	#4 (permalink)
HightideTN Midas Blenny Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 103 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp Tanks Blake, I appreciate that. Special care will probably not be afforded to them, although, survivors are welcome. __________________ HightideTN Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea and joy to you and me. Hoyt Axton

11-22-2008, 12:43 AM	#5 (permalink)
jski711 Torch coral Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: NW Burbs of Chicago Posts: 571 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp their swimmers will turn green when they are prego. jake

11-22-2008, 03:09 AM	#6 (permalink)
naperenterprise Elegance coral Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Near Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 1,183 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp My cleaner shrimp always have eggs... I always hope they survive, one day maybe, they will live past the fish __________________ ~~~Jason~~~ The Hitchhiker's Guide to our Reef Galaxy

11-23-2008, 12:28 AM	#7 (permalink)
HightideTN Midas Blenny Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 103 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Possible Gravid Peppermint Shrimp Her swimmers are lt. brown, yet, noticably different than when I introduced her to the tank about a week ago. Today I added fish: Pr. of O. Clowns and a small Hippo Tang. Probably the ingrdients for shrimp soup __________________ HightideTN Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea and joy to you and me. Hoyt Axton

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