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I’ve kept camel shrimp a few times. They’re rumored to eat coral so I’ve mostly kept them in a refugium; most recently they’re in a bare tank with a pair of clownfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t found them to be especially durable. They’re short-lived even in an otherwise healthy tank, and often the males stop molting and get a lot of weird fuzz and growth on their claws and antennae. It may be that they’re dying due to violence, although my understanding is that they live in large groups in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that they’re sequential hermaphrodites, so starting with smaller shrimp I’ve always ended up with mixed sexes. I waited a long time for this species to spawn, but they may have been spawning all along and I just didn’t notice. The eggs are always hidden up under pleopods and weren’t at all noticeable until I accidentally backlit them; the first photo above is a berried female light from behind, the second with front lighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I noticed that there were eggs, collecting the zooeas was easy. I moved the female to a livebearer trap in a slightly smaller tank and had a short wait before there were a few hundred fairly large larvae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve kept camel shrimp a few times. They’re rumored to eat coral so I’ve mostly kept them in a refugium; most recently they’re in a bare tank with a pair of clownfish. I haven’t found them to be especially durable. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2762","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2762\/revisions\/2770"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}