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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