Malayan shrimps just gave birth...but where are the babies...

[anzp]

my malayan shrimp jus just gave birth..
have waited like 2-3 weeks....
but now i dont see any more shrimp eggs on its stomach..
but no shrimps babies also...
where have they gone...?

[AA24]

I find that malayan shrimp are quite shy especially when compared to the others like CRS, cherries.. the malayans I have tend to hide in the vegetation and stuff.. and their fries tend to do the same.. I dont know if its the same for you..

[EvolutionZ]

melayan shrimps like to hide alot.. even under ss mesh..

[anzp]

but i cannot see even one of them....
i hope that they are not dead yet..
if i not wrong..
they are released from the mother only when the egg hatches right...

[demon_ng]

for my is about the same, also malayan shrimp gave birth
than cant find them....... but after a few weeks, hahaha
all the babies start to come out and walk around....
that why i think they may really hide in some place you may not see them.... just wait and slowly you will find them....

[tormentz]

Its said that malayan shrimps larvae require brackish water in order to survive, although people do mention that their malayan shrimps were able to reproduce in freshwater conditions. Could be the reason why the malayan shrimps in my tank seems to be increasing... although i have not seen any of their larvae before.

[Ivan]

Hi,

I don't think Malayan shrimps larvae require blackish water, Yamato & mosquito shrimps larvae do require blackish water.

[anzp]

haha...thanks thanks...
i guess i wait a few more weeeks before i replant my java moss...
its already a bush on my tank...
but my cherries are also carrying eggs and soon they will hatch...
it has alreaady been 2 weeks already...

for my is about the same, also malayan shrimp gave birth
than cant find them....... but after a few weeks, hahaha
all the babies start to come out and walk around....
that why i think they may really hide in some place you may not see them.... just wait and slowly you will find them....

[Matt]

Bro, be patient Even if they are not shy, they are so tiny, it would take a face-plant onto the tank glass to see them sometimes.

It took me 3-4 weeks to see my Cherry babies. Once in a long long while, I would see 1 floating ard the tank. I was thinking like you, where are the babies? All dead? But now, I start to see them moving around among the crowds. And I do not know, how many more are hiding behind my moss wall.

Just to side-track a little here.... If you find that fishes keep dying behind moss wall, re-adjust the moss wall so that there is a 10-15mm gap between the back of the tank & moss wall, as well as the side of the tank. In that way, nothing can be trapped behind and it doesn't look odd.

[anzp]

last time accidently bred them behind my moss wall ithink...
but i tore down my moss wall as fishes keep dying behind...

anyway...i can seethem already...
shrimplets are about 1 week old....
they are about 1.5 - 2mm small.....
i stared at the tank very long and finally get to see only a few of them...