A little update. I don't know why but I'm only seeing about 3/4 of the numbers of zoes as I used to. A good number of them could have perished. Probably from very bad water conditions. Tip if you're breeding these shrimp in a small tank.. don't overfeed. They don't eat an awful lot in the beginning. Water is cloudy, but some of the shrimps seem to be growing well, much larger than some siblings. One or two individuals are actually double the size of the smallest ones. I'll probably stop feeding for another week or two and hopefully the water will clear up and i'm going to have to get some material to soak up ammonia and nitrite as there's very little biological filtration in there.. and since it's saltwater... even nitrates gonna be a problem. Ahhh!!!! One lesson learnt... don't overfeed. You can't change the water because they're so tiny and would get sucked into your siphon.. and it's saltwater... it's hard to replace saltwater with the same salinity in such a small tank.

On another thing... the other berried female yamato I isolated dropped all her eggs..... for some reason... I put her back into the community tank and i'm still keeping the eggs. I wonder if I aerate them if they'll hatch... time will tell.