Shrimps lay eggs ???

[thiamkee]

Hi bros,

I got one coral band shrimp. I didnt bought a pair but today I seems to

see it carry eggs at its tiny legs, does shrimps lay eggs without mating?

I am new to keeping marine, see so many unusual things happening in my small fish tank, quite interesting.

Anyway, any bros can advise? If it is going to hatch, how to keep it from the fishes?

[cjh]

if i'm not wrong they will just discard the eggs,.....

[Lester]

yap .. it will become food for the corals and snacks for the fishes

[thiamkee]

Oh, so u mean the eggs may be unfertised eggs ?

[cjh]

BINGO

[LaW]

i read somewhere if not fertilised, the carrier will eat it themselve too

[FuEl]

Fertilized eggs you will see them change in color over time. Just before the females have eggs you will notice that their heads contain some orangy (might be different color in some species) gelatinous mass. These are the eggs, which will then be stored at their pleopods. Fertilized eggs will be seen to change in color to a darker hue, mostly light brown and eye spots in the embryos can be seen just before hatching. Some species release the eggs just before they hatch while others hold on to them till they are stimulated to hatch all at the same time. I have worked with a freshwater prawn species, the berried female ate her own eggs somehow when it was just due to hatch in another day or 2. Eating of eggs could be due to broodstock hunger or maybe just a seasonality problem.

[thiamkee]

Wah ... so it is fertised eggs, do i need to isolated the shrimp out until it hatch.

I think if not the little shrimps will be eaten or suck in by the pump???

[FuEl]

No point trying to rear the larvae unless you are dedicated to. Their larval stages last over 100 days and they take a long time to settle.