Shrimp with huge saddle

[eugenecj]

anyone experience this before, i have a jumbo female in the tank that has a huge saddle but she doesn't seems to be getting berried while the rest of my female are breeding like rabbit.. will try to get a picture!

[eugenecj]

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[Urban Aquaria]

Based on its larger size, its probably an older shrimps that hasn't molted yet (older/larger shrimps that are already full grown molt less often compared to younger/smaller ones which are still growing), female shrimps cannot molt while berried so they need to do so beforehand. Once the female shrimp molts successfully, it will release pheromones signaling to male shrimps that its ready to mate, then you should see it getting berried shortly.

The good thing with a larger female shrimp is it will usually be able to carry more eggs, so while it may berry less often, its brood size tends to be larger.

[eugenecj]

Awesome! Thanks!


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