pregnant ghost shrimp. I think?

[Mojo3251]

i think my ghost shrimp is pregnant. because she has a big stomach with a ton of green dots in it and i was wonder if she was pregnant.

 

[Alyxx]

Yup, she's holding eggs. They hatch into a larval stage instead of fully formed shrimp lets like RCS do, though, so it's likely they will all get sucked into the filter. I've had dozens of holding ghost shrimp but I've only ever seen a couple shrimp lets survive.

 

[bs6749]

Not pregnant, but "berried". Ghost shrimp do have a larval stage as mentioned already, and these larvae need brackish water in order to survive. I've had many ghost shrimp larvae before but only 2 ever grew up to amount to anything. Brackish water would have allowed far more of them to survive.