Shrimp In Breeder

Yesterday I received my order from Trinsfish and a Orange Shrimp is carrying eggs.
Would it be best to leave her alone, she stays in java moss, or would it be safer for the little ones to put her in the breeder, then take her out once the little ones are 'born'?

I have 9 other shrimp plus 2 kuhlI loaches that live in the moss also.

Shrimp Types:
2 Blue Velvet
2 Red Cherry
2 Blue Pearl
2 Chrystal Red (red and white striped)
2 Orange

 

Yesterday I received my order from Trinsfish and a Orange Shrimp is carrying eggs.
Would it be best to leave her alone, she stays in java moss, or would it be safer for the little ones to put her in the breeder, then take her out once the little ones are 'born'?

I have 9 other shrimp plus 2 kuhlI loaches that live in the moss also.

Shrimp Types:
2 Blue Velvet
2 Red Cherry
2 Blue Pearl
2 Cherry Red (red and white striped)
2 Orange

Is there anything else in the tank that doesn't hang out in the moss? If there isn't anything there that will eat them, they will probably be fine if left alone. I've never heard of these guys preying on their own young. Most everything else will be happy to, though, so the loaches might be a threat.

Are those all Neocaridina? If they're all in the same tank, they will interbreed and give you all wild type in the next generation. Don't know if that's something you're concerned about?

 

Is there anything else in the tank that doesn't hang out in the moss? If there isn't anything there that will eat them, they will probably be fine if left alone. I've never heard of these guys preying on their own young. Most everything else will be happy to, though, so the loaches might be a threat.

Are those all Neocaridina? If they're all in the same tank, they will interbreed and give you all wild type in the next generation. Don't know if that's something you're concerned about?

Not worried about interbreeding. If they do, they do.
I don't think the Crystal Reds are Neocaridina.

 

Not worried about interbreeding. If they do, they do.
I don't think the Crystal Reds are Neocaridina.

If you're not going out of your way to breed them I'd just leave the berried female in there. You might lose some of the young to predation, but a few will likely survive by hiding in the moss. I probably wouldn't let anything in the tank large enough to hunt them go hungry while they're tiny, though.

 

If you're not going out of your way to breed them I'd just leave the berried female in there. You might lose some of the young to predation, but a few will likely survive by hiding in the moss. I probably wouldn't let anything in the tank large enough to hunt them go hungry while they're tiny, though.

I have only small fish that the shrimp swim with sometimes. White Cloud Mountain Minnows, Glolight Tetras, Neon Tetras. I do have a Red Finned Shark but it seems uninterested in the shrimp. They have been side by side and face to face and the shark just swims away.

 

I have only small fish that the shrimp swim with sometimes. White Cloud Mountain Minnows, Glolight Tetras, Neon Tetras. I do have a Red Finned Shark but it seems uninterested in the shrimp. They have been side by side and face to face and the shark just swims away.

Someone more experienced with community set ups could probably tell you for sure, but from what I've read almost anything that can fit one of the (nearly microscopic) newborns in their mouths will eat them, even if they don't show any interest in preying on the adults. The moss will be good cover, though, and being tiny makes it easier for them to hide at least. If you want to keep as many babies as possible, you could set up the breeder with a nice chunk of moss in it (so the babies can graze off the biofilm in it) and let them grow out before reintroducing them.