American Glass Shrimp Breeding Program (Update #3)

The young shrimp have started to grow a little more rapidly now and have started to display a more aggressive feeding response.  They will gather around a food pellet and begin to eat with in a few short minutes of the pellet being added to the aquarium. 

My second set of shrimp have hatched and are about 2 days past their metamorphosis.  All my observations in update #2 still hold true.

•  The larva seemed to eat from the water column as well as from the surface and bottom of their container.
•   The head down floating larva were attracted to light.
•  After morphing to adult for the young shrimp actively swam in the water column for 2-3 days.
•  The aggressive feeding response that adults display has not yet developed

As thought, once past metamorphosis the young American Glass Shrimp appear to have a much larger survival rate than wild caught adults.

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