Thank you everyone.
I am so happy to see that at least some baby shrimp are surviving their birth.
One shrimp from a couple months ago only had a small number of eggs and am wondering if the larger baby I found maybe was from her hatch.
Although the tank is only 12G it has a bunch of DW pieces and an abundance of nicely growing plants so I rarely see all the shrimp.
The big DW piece is maybe an average of 9" wide and 11-12 tall - 2" to 3" thick with cracks and crevices, and a knot hole and is able to likely hide tiny shrimp which also likely pick at the biofilm on it. Very easy to stay hidden.
I saw shrimp fry of 3 different sizes about 10 times the other day when I was really looking, right after a big feeding. The big feeding I usually only do the day of, or some hours before a good size pwc.
It is hard to determine if it was just the same 3 shrimp I kept seeing over and over, or maybe ~8 shrimp,
Kashif - I have not seen the Boraras (Brigittae aka Chilis) so much as even look at one of the babies.
They really do not seem to have the hunting behavior of say the Celestial Pearl Danios / CPD which are blatantly combing through leaves and crevices and checking out the substrate looking for tiny snacks. These guys rarely leave the top 1/4 of the tank and usually just the top 1/3 but will hide behind and to the side of that large DW mentioned above.
I can not say absolutely they do not bother the really tiny babies, but I do not see /have not seen them doing the eating motions off of the DW and plants, grazing like some other fish do. If I feed them, they only like to eat the food out of the water, not follow it to the bottom and eat it off the substrate either.
I found a small shrimplet in a coupe snapshots I took of a cool snail and was so focused on the snail I didn't see the baby shrimp!!!
Will add it to the album and post it in a few.
