Berried RCS

[stinnettjosh]

Is this rcs berried or does she just look fat?


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[emerald76]

She looks berried, but I'm no expert.


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[maxiwilliams]

currently have the exact same looking shrimp, I'm pretty sure it's berried


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[ScotJudd]

From the picture it looks like she still has eggs in the saddle and not berried. I have a few hundred RCS and when berried the white/cream eggs are quite visible on there undersides and the saddle is almost unnoticeable. The shrimp can also be seen to fan the eggs with her graspers making the eggs move a little.

If you enlarge the picture you can see a berried female just above the snails shell.


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[stinnettjosh]

Oh ok thanks. Is that like the beginning of breeding or is it just where they store eggs?


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[ScotJudd]

The female stores her unfertilised eggs in the saddle, the light patch seen on her back. Then when she sheds her shell the male does the business and the fertilised eggs are held outside her body underneath until they hatch. Young or threatened females may drop the eggs which are quickly 'recycled' by other shrimp or fish. Don't be disheartened by this as mine did it several times. Last Nov I had 12 shrimp and now I have easily 100+, even with fish sharing the tank (tetras and corys).


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[stinnettjosh]

Ok cool. Ive just had them about two weeks so i wasnt sure what to expect. Thanks!!


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