Came home today and I think the mother shrimp has hatched it all, no more clumps under her. Returned her to community tank. She looks kinda pale and frail. No strong markings like the females in the community. Found another 20+ shrimp at least. Zoes much more visible in numbers now. At least 50 shrimp in there floating around and whirling around. They have a strange habit of bending their bodies and swim downwards while spiraling. They look a bit like mosquito larvae with their heads hanging down. I sure hope my dad doesn't put ABATE in there mistaking them for mosquito larvae. Fed 5-50 micron Aquaz Golden Pearls and diluted liquifry. Don't know if they're eating but the water seems to be clearing up... something must be eating it. Now that the conversion and hatching is done... hopefully I can get to relax a bit as I watch them develop. Will post pics next week.

All my female yamatoes are visibly berried. From my observation the eggs go through a couple of colour phases

1. pale green
2. black
3. khaki
4. and finally white/grayish.

Khaki(tea with milk colour) seem to signal the hatching to be within a week or two. White is definitely the hatching phase in contrary to the report i've read about them hatching while in the khaki phase. I find it almost impossible to spot the eyes on the eggs like the breeders on the net have posted. I'll have to go by colour. I need to get the timing right for the future, so I can have all the females hatch in the convenient mug. It's so much more efficient than having the female in the tank by herself.. considering i've so limited tanks available.