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Just a few photos, I've still got around 3 or 4 larvae swimming in the tank so i can only guess they are part of another females baby's that got released slightly later then the xmas batch that are now all full shaped shrimps. I also got some video of some Opae ula playing around being frisky/mating (especially the lighter coloured ones) After the mating I'm hoping for more berried mommas

Spotted another berried female tonight! There has to be around 5 at least all at once at the moment


Also took a photo of one of my Nerites and one of the latest larvae finally swimming horizontal, it will soon be a fully fledged shrimp.

cool! Do you plan to put these in a larvae tank?

opae ula related wrote: cool! Do you plan to put these in a larvae tank?

Absolutely! i have a tank partially ready for them... well it was ready but i decided to meddle a little with it and try and remove a lot of old debris that was in the bottom of the tank on the sand.

" Opae ula playing around being frisky/mating"

Could you be more specific, please?

Ann wrote:" Opae ula playing around being frisky/mating"

Could you be more specific, please?

LOL there has to be some mystery to the opae ula shrimp!

Just a few snaps

I've added about 5 - 6 extra litres of brackish water just to bring the water line up and its now to the level i am happy with. I didn't want to fill the tank up (to where it is currently) all in one go when I moved and set-up this breeder tank so as not to shock the shrimp too much as i used matue water for the majority adding fresh brackish after. They still didn't like the top up today but the brackish mix was mixed on Friday evening and it went in Sunday afternoon so its had a good amount of time to dissolve correctly. After adding the water which was 1.013SG to match the tanks water they all went crazy and started swimming laps then all hid. I fed the tank and all the shrimp started crawling out of the rocks again so I am hoping i didn't upset them too much!

Here we go as ive written in the above post!

Berried momma shrimp coming along nicely!