Baby Boxer

[Razo]

yesterday ard 2am i went to take a look at my tank from far looks milky /dirty.. thinging OMG something die...luckily is my boxer giving birth.. then on closer inspection,

my sun coral polyp open big big ..finally see my bb boxers swimming... the female boxer always have eggs... in the belly but never once see the bb hatch b4..

they also light to move towards the lightsource like brine shrimp.

see pic(taken 1/2 hr later and water almost clear

[jas_soh]

anyone succeeded in breeding them before? will the babies survive?

razo, you selling/giving your boxer babies??

[Razo]

hahah all bb boxer gone in about 1hr after ist saw the bb... eaten by fish/coral or in the filter already..heheheh

[jas_soh]

wahhh... but i must say it is very exciting to see the babies swimming around eh???? sure your mama boxer would get herself pregnant again soon.....

[Razo]

wahhh... but i must say it is very exciting to see the babies swimming around eh???? sure your mama boxer would get herself pregnant again soon.....

ya fun to look at.. ya seems like mama boxer's belly always haves lots of egg everytime i see... just that 1st time seeing the bb boxer..

[blacknails]

Yup my cleaner shrimps also give birth very often but the babies all like die after awhile... Sigh... Wonder how to raise baby shrimps...

Hey congrats, man..

[clowntrigger]

my boxer shrimp always give birth and some of them are hiding in my overflow tower. I have notice there is a couple of them is as big as 5-8mm now in my overflow tower, will see how it goes 2-3 months down the road if they grow bigger or just perish.

But I would say, in general newly hatch boxer shrimp will not survive long in the tank as they well be prey upon by other fishes.

[jas_soh]

my boxer shrimp always give birth and some of them are hiding in my overflow tower. I have notice there is a couple of them is as big as 5-8mm now in my overflow tower, will see how it goes 2-3 months down the road if they grow bigger or just perish.

But I would say, in general newly hatch boxer shrimp will not survive long in the tank as they well be prey upon by other fishes.

if u have a sump or refugim why not transfer over there for time being??

[clowntrigger]

I am afraid that once in the sump or refugim, the surviour rate will be even lower. They will be consistently open to threat of being suck by my return pump, my skimmer and also by my cutting of macro algae.

at least in the overflow tower, they are safe from these threat and they will always be food since alot of those uneaten food will flow into it. I have a durso pipe there and the water level is quite high up, so chances of them being suck to the sump is pretty low.... I hope