Shrimp Babies????

[revhtree]

Tonight I noticed tons of white things swimming around in my tank. Upon further examination I found these very tiny white, swimming things to look just like a minature shrimp. Could any of my shrimp have mated and had babies???

They are swimming all around the tank. It looks to be like hundreds of them?


I dont know if this has anything to do with it, but it is odd. I posted a pic of this a while back, and noone ever told me for sure what it was. This was the pic then.
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?p=283148#283148

This is the pic now, with what looks like to be white egg things on it. I dont know.......This is a very crappy pic, but it's all I could get...

 

[revhtree]

Ok, just read up on this, and guess what??? I have tons of baby cleaner shrimp!!! I know they wont live long due to the filter and being eaten, but it is way cool!! There are hundreds of them!!!

PS. I dont think the pics I showed have anything to do with it.

 

[revhtree]

Ok, just read that most that experience the birth of cleaner babies also find the cleaner shrimp molt soon after the babies are born. Guess what I found this morning.......yep, a cleaner molt! This was a very cool experience!! Too bad nobody wants to share it with me....

Just kidding!

 

[austinsdad]

Yeah, I posted on another thread about that.

I wuz noticing a big colorful belly on one of my cleaners. 2 hrs later and I had the snow/shrimp storm. That belly was no longer big. The fish and shrimp went crazy.

Food for all!

 

[scuba_steve]

next time catch one and take a good look at them with a magnifying glass ! its really cool perfect little shrimp !!

 

[jester]

i take it u need a male and female shrimp for this to happpen I have 2 blood red fire shrimp is this something i can look foward to also if you can catch them and put them in a Q tank an chance of them living to be big shrimp?

 

[No_Floaters]

revhtree
I think the pictures you have are of a dark blue sponge. Looks like some I've had. The white "eggs", I don't know.

 

[hisc1ay]

I thought copepods, but I could be wrong. It would be really sweet if they were shrimp and ended up making it. Cleaners go for $20-25 around these parts.

-j

 

[indy]

Cleaners are hermaphrodites, they knock each other up every couple of weeks or so.