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Old 16-05-2006, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by dom
The yamato larvae (those are smaller than shrimplet) able to survive in fresh water for 3 days max. i think u better increase the salinity to 15-20ppm first. The female able to survive n get the eggs hatch in 25ppm. Once the eggs all hatched. Try to increase to 35ppm. (Not to increase more than 5ppm per day.)
They are tiny... like specks of white transparent thingy, hardly move, but they do twitch from time to time... bend their bodies and dart forward a bit.

Been already almost 3 days.. I don't know if they're starting to die already... they're too small to see dead bodies around. it says on the breeding guide that eggs fail to hatch in brackish/full salinity, so I'm not converting while the mother shrimp in there. You sure need to increase salinity slowly dom? All the guides I read say can just dump the zoes in full salinity. Need to convert back to freshwater slowly though.

I think they're just surviving on their yolk sac now. I read they don't feed in freshwater, so I guess they will start dying when their yolk sacs are exhausted. Need to convert to marine environment before then.

If this batch doesn't make it I still have three berried females in my community tank..

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