Opae shrimp larvae

**marco** · 13th Jan 2014, 07:21

I managed to see a few larvae, they are about 1mm. How long do they take to grow to 1cm?

**Xmant** · 13th Jan 2014, 13:24

Does it need freshwater or brackish water to be hatched?

**seudzar** · 13th Jan 2014, 15:58

Opae ula are brackish water shrimp.

**kimkeat** · 22nd Jan 2014, 10:39

Originally Posted by marco

I managed to see a few larvae, they are about 1mm. How long do they take to grow to 1cm?

Congrats! I don't have any personal experience as mine have not even berried yet. From what I read in another forum, it takes about 2 weeks for the larvae to turn into mini shrimps.

**marco** · 26th Jan 2014, 16:44

Thanks for your reply

**Draka** · 27th Jan 2014, 22:54

These guys grow really slowly. My first and latest batch of shrimplets are 3 months old now. Took about a month for them to change from free-floating larvae to shrimplets. In the past two months they've grown to about 0.6 cm-ish.

**kimkeat** · 27th Jan 2014, 23:57

Originally Posted by Draka

These guys grow really slowly. My first and latest batch of shrimplets are 3 months old now. Took about a month for them to change from free-floating larvae to shrimplets. In the past two months they've grown to about 0.6 cm-ish.

Great! How long do you have to wait for your first batch?

**Draka** · 28th Jan 2014, 00:03

When I got my shrimp they weren't exactly large themselves. Most of them were below a cm. it'd been about half a year before these tiny buggers popped up, I even thought they were mosquito larvae initially!