Yamato finally hatched from the female i put in 1.5 feet tank. Look like stretched out commas. Will be converting to full salinity on day 5.. waiting for all eggs to hatch. Hopefully there'll be a good number of survivors. So far I counted about 15 zoes.

Good luck! Please keep us updated on this project!

Hey DUde,

Sounds fantastic...please post some pictures.

Regards

Stan

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Soyadude, hope it's going to be a successful one! share your experiences too!

Can i ask which approach you're using to convert the water to full salinity? add sea water?

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Lots more baby shrimps today. Almost double what I saw yesterday and day before. I wonder if all the eggs will finish hatching before some of the zoes die off from staying in freshwater for too long. She still has some egg mass under her. I tried taking pictures but they're tiny and almost transparent. Impossible to get pics. Not with the camera I have. I'm just gonna dump a salt mix into the tank. The tank is filled only up to half so I can add in salt water. The guide i read said zoes have no problem being dumped in full salinity. I already have Red Sea marine salt ready to convert. Problem is cannot convert while the babies haven't all been hatched. Unless I take out female now and just try to raise whatever i have. I think after tommorow I will just take out female and convert to full salinity.

I'm getting all my instructions from

http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm

Hope he's right

I also found out my dog ate my golden pearls I bought to feed the zoes with after converting to marine.. ... idiot dog..

I checked the female and I think she's got at least a hundred more to go before they're all hatched. She still has a good sized bunch under her. What I have is probably the early hatchers. The thought of raising a hundred plus yamatos is daunting though haha... where am I gonna keep them all. I think i'm going to buy another small tank tommorow and put the mother in it for them all to fully hatch, then convert the tank with all the early hatching zoes to full salinity.

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.)

Wow! Exciting!. Yes, pictures please. Do keep us updated. Good luck.

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..

if you keeping the female n larvae together...then u gonna increase it slowly. if just larvae only. you can jump from zero to full salinity.

I used a very fine net to scoope out the larvae...just put in the net n scoope. and then transfer to the tank with full salinity. but if yr tank is big, then it gonna be a big problem for you.