Spawning of Lysmata debelius

[jt481]

Just wanted to share. I have had two Fire Shrimp purchased months apart from each other for about one year. Although they always "got along" I never realized that they paired up. Last week I saw a collection of orange eggs on the underside of one of them. Last night while viewing the tank with the moon lights on I observed the shrimp go towards the surface of the water on a piece of tonga branch. It proceeded to flutter its pleopods and releas a couple hundred live baby shrimp (would they be called fry?). The tank is not set up to rear the young and do not expect them to survive. I think they may have had a chance at survival if they cling onto any surface but instead they just flow with the current and expect them all to be filtered.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh, what luck! Now that you have a known, mated pair, you could probably find a way to gather up the eggs to try rearing in the future if you wished. Either way, though, they're not just living, they're thriving.

 

[jt481]

Do mated pairs ever get a divorce and stop mating?

 

[Anonymous]

Do mated pairs ever get a divorce and stop mating?

When the got too old and sick of each others, yes. We usually say that they "fired each others," not that they "got into a divorce."

Seriously, I am not sure, but I *think* the female can store sperms for a few more "spawning" without the presence of the donator.

 

[Ben1]

I thought they were hermaphrodites?

 

[Anonymous]

I thought they were hermaphrodites?

and you thought correctly. Here's an older article from AQ on rearing similar larvae...

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... reeder.htm

I have great fun rearing peppermint shrimp from larvae to adult once upon a time and that article was of great help to me. If the OP wants further data specifically on fireshrimp, just run a google search on breeding these shrimp there is a ton of articles/posts etc out there.

Good luck!

 

[Anonymous]

www.marinebreeders.org will help you thru this