Baby Peppermint Shrimp Pics (Image Intensive)

[Miles]

I decided to attempt raising peppermint shrimp back in July, and thought you guys might enjoy some of the pics I took during the process.

I got kinda lazy towards the end and ended up with some major causalities towards the end around week 6 or 7. I have 4 shrimp that survived the pelagic larval stage and settled into the final shrimp form.

7/20/14 Some Pics after they were transferred to the Larval Tank

 



7/22/2014 Here some pics at 2 days






7/25/2014 Day 5 


7/29/2014 Day 9 



8/1/2014: Day 12 (Eye stalks under microscope) 
 
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8/5/2014: Day 16



Just for kicks, I took some pics with my microscope. This was my first attempt at a very large composite stitch...
 



9/7/2014: Day 50. I have 4 shrimp that look like this.

[lazylivin]

Very nicely done! Congratulations. What do you think was harder to raise? Clownish or Peppermint Shrimp?

[Miles]

Clownfish are definitely more of a challenge, at least early on. I have a really high mortality rate on Clownfish in the first 24-48 hours, which I'm sure can be attributed to my rotifer cultures. The peppermint shrimp really only require brine shrimp. I fed them newly hatched shrimp pretty much the whole time. If I would have done more water changes and cleaned the tank more often I'm sure I could have ended up with more shrimp.