Till

Hi, larvae of the shrimps you got look different. think they are Mysis.

wow do you have any live rock / substrate in the raising tank? Do you think there is anything that induced the settlement?

are there any fish in the tank with the adults? maybe they need fish to settle eventualy they are cleaner shrimps. how is mortality?

Hi FuEL, i had catched a few L. amboinensis purposeless once together with Lysmata spec. (cf. rathbunae) Sadly no amboinensis settled successfully.The last one died about day 65. i think maybe they need something to induce the settlement, because my larvae had nearly completely developed pleopods just like the rathbunae short-time before they have done metamorphose. maybe substrate like live rock or the presence of adults or something else. Some of yours also look like they already have pleopods. My Clibanarius tricolor megalopa larvae had used but they haven’t been staying in the shells i offered so i put an adult tricolor in the raising tank. On the next day most tricolor larvae obtained shells and metarmorphosed. Just some ideas.. Good Luck! Hope they ll make it. Greetings from Germany. Till

Hi Eniram, personally i dont have any experience with clownfish and i wouldnt say that i have that much experience at all but i bred some shrimps and hermit crabs and i know a lot of people who bred Clownfish. you should first feed the larvae with enriched (f.e. with Selco or SuperSelco) rotifers (Brachionus) and later with enriched Artemia. Phytoplankton should be very useful but not necessary. Which species do you want to breed? Greetings from Germany Till