Help! pregnant amano shrimp

hello, I just recently bought and plant cycled my 75 gallon freshwater tank. I have been looking online(kijiji) for more plants, driftwood, etc.. and found a beautiful piece covered in java fern. so I went purchased it along with a few other plants and 4 oto-cats. great guy, great healthy tanks, but I picked up a few hitchhikers(which I kinda hoped for tbh). 3 shrimp, there are two amano and one other that I can't remember what its called. I don't know if amano shrimp pair off or what, but they seem to be sticking together and one of them is heavily pregnant not to mention one of the biggest shrimp i've ever seen in a fresh water tank, its gotta be 4+ inches long. so now I would love to save the babies and have a happy shrimp family cleaning up alongside my oto-cats.

I have read that the baby shrimp are born more like a larva and need saltwater until they become shrimp, so I went out last night bought a 2.5 gal tank and currently in the process of cycling it to house these baby shrimp/ mom and pop, for the time being. currently the mom still prego and pop are chilling out in the 75, on/in the driftwood/java fern piece, and I don't want to move them to the new tank until it has cycled/stable, or unless I have to, to save these shrimp babies.

so basically if anyone knows anything about these shrimp and how they breed/ what they need for the eggs to be successful please let me know for I will do whatever it takes to keep these lil guys alive.

ps: just registered going to update profile tanks etc just wanted to post this asap

 

It's very difficult. The babies are born in saltwater and must be slowly transitioned to freshwater, which imitates their natural life cycle as they move from the ocean to rivers, and need to be fed constantly and carefully.

This is a good link:

 

Hey thanks for the great link! it may be difficult but very much doable, I just gotta grab a jar big enough to comfortably hold her in for a couple days. the rest is rather simple as long as you keep a watchful eye and a schedule. thanks again!

Oh my apologies but for the shrimp fry tank should it be bare bottom or would it be ok if it had substrate?

 

It would probably be easier to keep it bare bottom. Keep us updated on how it goes!

 

In the end she died. I believe it was from the stress of being out of water (while I transported the plants ) and being placed into a new tank. Her mate tho is still going strong! Thanks for the help!

 

In the end she died. I believe it was from the stress of being out of water (while I transported the plants ) and being placed into a new tank. Her mate tho is still going strong! Thanks for the help!

There is a lot of great YouTube video on breeding Amono shrimp, there is even one I watched the other day where the person does not feed the larvae at all just leaves the light on 24/7 and they feed from the algae.