My Progress

[Dch48]

Now there are 3.

[Dch48]

And today I see 5. And now the red one must have dropped her single egg because there are 6.

[Dch48]

Yesterday I saw 7 floaters and I'm wondering now now long is it before they morph? The first ones showed up 12 days ago. I did notice a couple of them going to the bottom and moving through the gravel before floating back up. Does that indicate they're getting ready?

I read here that these shrimp don't multiply as fast as the freshwater ones do. My experience has been the opposite. I tried for well over a year to get a colony of Neocaridinas going and failed completely. I only ever saw 2 berried ones and they lost the eggs within a few days. I bought almost 30 shrimp and none lived longer than 4 months except for 2 that came in as shrimplets. Those 2 grew and thrived for 8 months before finally both dying within 24 hours of each other. They were a male and female too. The female had eggs about 3 weeks before she died but lost them all. Now, in about 90 days with these guys, I have floaters!

[Varanus]

Yesterday I saw 7 floaters and I'm wondering now now long is it before they morph? The first ones showed up 12 days ago. I did notice a couple of them going to the bottom and moving through the gravel before floating back up. Does that indicate they're getting ready?

Possibly, since they do lose the ability to freely float when they metamorphose.

[Dch48]

23 days now so they should be changing soon. I have seen them sometimes clinging to the tank wall or to the sea fan like they were actually starting to graze. I think I can see the beginnings of the tail fins on them as well.

[Dch48]

Today, one of the floaters is not floating head down but is actually swimming around head first and then clinging to the glass and possibly grazing.

[Dch48]

There is definitely at least one juvenile shrimp who has been seen swimming and grazing. I looked at it under magnification and it has small legs. There are still 4 floaters but they are starting to cling to things and sometimes swim head first so they should be fully morphed soon as well.

[Mustafa]

Thanks for your continuous updates! Have you had more success with offspring in the meantime?

[Dch48]

A lot more. Right now I have about 20 floaters and there are 2 more berried females. I'm having a population explosion.

[Mustafa]

That's awesome! I love hearing the words "population explosion", haha!