El Turco's Red Sea Max 250 Diary
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redsea reefer
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Cool vid! Its a feeding frenzy in there...lol
Very Cool - thanks for sharing !
David Shaw
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Wow, what timing, to manage to catch that on video.
It's a shame not even 1 manages to make it to development without being eaten. Would save some money having to buy them at the LFS then.
It's a shame not even 1 manages to make it to development without being eaten. Would save some money having to buy them at the LFS then.
ElTurco
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Thanks all...
Yesterday night I was just adding my Seriatopora Hystrix & Montipora Digidata frags. Just seen my shrimp was about to spawn, ran to the photo camera which was on the other side of the home
Ran back just clicked to record it was a matter of seconds
Added theme music as "champions for evermore" for that reason. Guess I broke a new world record running home under 10 seconds :winner:
brgds
Yesterday night I was just adding my Seriatopora Hystrix & Montipora Digidata frags. Just seen my shrimp was about to spawn, ran to the photo camera which was on the other side of the home
Ran back just clicked to record it was a matter of seconds Added theme music as "champions for evermore" for that reason. Guess I broke a new world record running home under 10 seconds :winner:
brgds
redsea reefer
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How did you know it was about to spawn?
ElTurco
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It is easy. First the eggs are very visible. After a time the belly of the shrimp gets full with eggs. Just before spawning the shrimp chooses a point where ( i believe) the most flow exists and begins moving her belly outwards and her small legs ( or tentacles) fully open. It is like she is getting ready for running.
This is my third time I caught her hatching but as David said it is really pity none of them survive.
brgds
redsea reefer
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Well, I have a pair Fire Shrimp and my female is on her 3rd batch of eggs that I can see and some now. I have yet to witness a spawn, maybe Fire's spawn at night...
ElTurco
Member
Guess lighting is important as well. All hatchings I had witnessed were just before the lights went off ( may be it is a coincedance )
ElTurco
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I don't think so - Fiji (where the video was made) is in the middle of the Pacific and the oil leak is in the Gulf of Mexico - Atlantic Ocean side of the North/South American continents.