Cherry shrimps gave birth!

**simontay78** · 23rd Jun 2008, 01:24

HOLY!!! I am so excited!
Previously, I found a few fry caught in my air bubble filter medium...really tiny and small!! I was petrified! First time seen a fry that small!!! I rush down to clementi and get a internal breeding tank and put in the 2 feet shrimp tank!!

I use a small net and seek and rescue all small white transparent baby shrimps!! caught 6 and put inside the breeding tank! Than I surveyed the whole cherry population...wah lau! 5 of them carrying eggs!!!

put them in the breeding tank and I waited...forever!! Waited almost 8 hours...till midnight..my friend called me to go out the next day..and I was filming my mother shrimp...while it gave birth!!! HOLY

The video shows 2 baby coming out...one is at 52 sec another one is 1.20...the last one is fake one ...just move from left to right...haha

YAY!! Hope they survive 8 weeks to become big enough to be release out of the breeding tank!

**chiller** · 23rd Jun 2008, 10:56

Congrat Bro!

**simontay78** · 23rd Jun 2008, 11:22

Thanks!!!!

**simontay78** · 24th Jun 2008, 00:09

I just bought a 2 feet tank just for my freshwater lobster! lol now it's quite empty...hee

**Taz1** · 24th Jun 2008, 01:12

What a good timing to get the moment in video. Congrat.

**simontay78** · 24th Jun 2008, 17:31

Thanks! I had taken them out of the breeding tank and replaced the air bubble filter to be shrimp baby friendly

They are now happily roaming around my 2 feet long tank with no fear or trapping in the bubble filter yay!

**Salphur** · 24th Jun 2008, 23:05

Hi Simon,
Thanks for sharing such a nice video! You sounded like an expectant father with all the excitment..

**rwalker** · 24th Jun 2008, 23:26

Well done, Simon

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You must have been waiting patiently in the "delivery ward" just like a proud father should do

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I never got to see my cherry shrimps give birth. I just notice their dummy flatten the next day and suddenly the tank is full of shrimplet.

Thanks for sharing.

**simontay78** · 25th Jun 2008, 00:48

Thanks!!!

Now my shrimp tank is full of life with shrimplets practically everywhere. I also bought some tiger shrimps, blue shrimps, sakura shrimps too.

The bubble filter I use is the same that C238 used for their CRS! I am so happy my friend gave one to me because he had moved to marine instead of freshwater

i also caught 4 small freshwater lobster at little guiling in Singapore by using a basket to dig the side of the shallow shore...(not the rocks area but the inside left entrance there)

**simontay78** · 25th Jun 2008, 17:28

Thanks!!!

Been a few days since their birth...I notice another cherry having small eggs under her belly! Oh...gosh.

I will wait for my other shrimps to give birth to video again...too much same not nice hehe I want to see my Tiger shrimp to give birth!!

**hann** · 5th Jul 2008, 11:50

Congrats, your population of cherry is going to multiply exponentially.

**simontay78** · 5th Jul 2008, 23:41

yes the tanks is now a racing track..haha...these shrimps loves to goes round the tank...exploring.

**vurbul** · 6th Jul 2008, 08:04

Wow wow wee wah...... one of those rare moments caught on video. Nice work bro. Discovery channel stuff!!!!

**tetrafreak** · 6th Jul 2008, 14:39

Btw, lobsters love cherry shrimps. found out the hard way. no amount of hiding places will make any difference.

**simontay78** · 6th Jul 2008, 18:24

Ohhh...yes lobster love eating cherry shrimps...haiz.
My lobstersss sometimes got treats from dead shrimps that occur sometimes..haiz.
I got like 5-6 small baby freshwater lobsters...in another tank away from my shrimp tank hehe...

**tetrafreak** · 7th Jul 2008, 09:02

lobsters will eat live shrimps. they may look slow and lumbering but they are pretty good at nabbing sleepy shrimps (and fishes) at night...and they got lots of arms and legs to do this.

i once lost a population of 50 cherries this way. It only took under a week. they simply disappeared.