Fullmoonnight
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- Dec 14, 2012
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Hello everyone. I recently got into the shrimp game and got some ghost shrimp from petsmart. I really like them it's so fun to see them eating things. I had gotten about 6 of them 2 weeks ago and one died on the night of and 3 more died from molting. Leaving me with two. Then my mom went out and got me some more shrimp on Friday because they're a new shipment and lots if them are carrying eggs! One of them died on the night of in the q-tank and I felt so bad for all the little eggs it was carrying.
Then I recalled an article I read about artificially hatching eggs and I thought I would give it a go. It was kinda disturbing ripping eggs off a corpse really... My little brother and uncle thought it was pretty gross so I stood in the basement over the turtle tank and worked away using toothpicks. One to pry the eggs off and the other to hold the body in place while constantly saying " sorry shrimp, I'm just going to try and help your babies okay?" lol. This is going to be a journal of my attempt. I don't know if it'll work or not but it doesn't hurt to try. Is there anything else I can try to do to help the eggs other than water changes? How long do you think it'll be before they're supposed to hatch? They have a little set of eyes already.
Then I recalled an article I read about artificially hatching eggs and I thought I would give it a go. It was kinda disturbing ripping eggs off a corpse really... My little brother and uncle thought it was pretty gross so I stood in the basement over the turtle tank and worked away using toothpicks. One to pry the eggs off and the other to hold the body in place while constantly saying " sorry shrimp, I'm just going to try and help your babies okay?" lol. This is going to be a journal of my attempt. I don't know if it'll work or not but it doesn't hurt to try. Is there anything else I can try to do to help the eggs other than water changes? How long do you think it'll be before they're supposed to hatch? They have a little set of eyes already.