Swlws
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So I was lucky enough to watch the entire mating and egg moving process last night! I fed them a small algae wafer which they go nuts for cause I wanted to count roughly how many females are berried, to my surprise a female that must have JUST molted came out (stupid stupid shrimp coming to a feeding frenzy while pumping out all those pheromones
) to not miss the algae treat... needless to say, she tried to eat and 7-8 males said that isn't going to happen... they were going ballistic around her until one finally caught her, did the deed and a a few seconds later she was bending her body to transfer the eggs, I was even able to see the eggs move through to her under pouch thingy. What a fascinating watch, fascinating and so incredibly short because the whole process couldn't have been longer than 30 seconds! Anyway, I achieved my count, I believe I had 4 berried shrimp and now I have 5
ps- after all that was over, she DID in fact get to sit on the wafer a while and eat... I think she deserved it too...
ps- after all that was over, she DID in fact get to sit on the wafer a while and eat... I think she deserved it too...