HELP! what is this?

[Totenkampf]

Yes, they can breed very quickly and likely you got a pregnant female from me. Many will hatch and I do nothing other then feed the fish and shrimp as usual. The parents are cannabilistic so the young will often bury in the sustrate and emerge when they are larger, but quite a few become food for their parents. I had slow numbers at first, but once they are established they can breed far quicker then anything I read online. I have a feeling they like our mineral rich water and it speeds their growing and shell development. Rick it looks like you'll be an invert breeder in no time flat!!!!

good to know, this goes against alot of the 'common' knowledge i was reading and you may be on something specific to the water we have here. they dont get out of hand like MTS will tho do they?

[aquabee]

good to know, this goes against alot of the 'common' knowledge i was reading and you may be on something specific to the water we have here. they dont get out of hand like MTS will tho do they?

Nah. They breed slowly and some of the young do get eaten as was mentioned before. Plus, there's a market for them in case you end up with too many! :) I've had my original two for 2-3 months and I have about 6-8 actively moving young assassins.

[R_sustaita]

well mnemenoi gave the 3 of them. 1 which is located on the main tank. and the 2 bigger ones with the shrimp, as he had them wih the shrimp. since i have located the eggs, i will place this filter on my 10g and have them hatch with out a predator near them. meaning i will leave the parents on the 3.5 and having the babies on the 10g where the shrimp will migrate shortly. now i jsut wonder how long for them to be ready. my better half scream when i yelled, holly f#@% what are those eggs. she was like no, you can not get another tank to hatch them. you have 3 tanks now.

[mnemenoi]

see but the shrimp did not hatch. i was reading one someones thread that assassin snail do eat shrimplet so maybe they are mine. as since i have low numbers on that department they eat them all. i have only 7 RCS and about 20 endler fry.

I have read reports of them eating shrimp and shrimplets, but I think this is a very RARE occurance if it occurs at all. I have a lot of assassins in my shrimp tank and there are tons of shrimp and shrimplets. Dense vegetation and a well established tank with plenty of biofilm seems far more indusive for shrimp breeding and yielding higher results. I allowed my 10 gallon to mature for 2 months before I introduced my shrimp and it was a jungle already with a myriad of micro organisms throughout the tank. I got only a handful of shrimp and it took a month or two before I first starting seeing growing shrimplets, they seem to hide very effectively until a certain size.

[aquabee]

I have read reports of them eating shrimp and shrimplets, but I think this is a very RARE occurance if it occurs at all. I have a lot of assassins in my shrimp tank and there are tons of shrimp and shrimplets. Dense vegetation and a well established tank with plenty of biofilm seems far more indusive for shrimp breeding and yielding higher results. I allowed my 10 gallon to mature for 2 months before I introduced my shrimp and it was a jungle already with a myriad of micro organisms throughout the tank. I got only a handful of shrimp and it took a month or two before I first starting seeing growing shrimplets, they seem to hide very effectively until a certain size.

Agreed. Plus, those shrimplets are frikkin fast compared to the assassins.

[R_sustaita]

yeah, but i wanted to see them. they hide to much lol...i see the fry all over and its so cool to see them swim all over and the shrimp fight with them for the food. but believe me 7 of them s not rocking my world.

[eklikewhoa]

It is common for a berried shrimp to drop her eggs when moved or stressed. Might be the case?

[madehtsobi]

well mnemenoi gave the 3 of them. 1 which is located on the main tank. and the 2 bigger ones with the shrimp, as he had them wih the shrimp. since i have located the eggs, i will place this filter on my 10g and have them hatch with out a predator near them. meaning i will leave the parents on the 3.5 and having the babies on the 10g where the shrimp will migrate shortly. now i jsut wonder how long for them to be ready. my better half scream when i yelled, holly f#@% what are those eggs. she was like no, you can not get another tank to hatch them. you have 3 tanks now.

hahaha i hear it all the time...

[R_sustaita]

EK, they were berried when i got them, and they were still berried for 2-3 weeks. at 1 point i did see the shrimplets on the glass but its been like 2 weeks now and i dont see them anywhere. in 2 weeks they should had grown little right?

[R_sustaita]

hahaha i hear it all the time...

hehehe yeah, thank god she loved how the 29g tank looks she wont stop looking at it now.

[aquabee]

EK, they were berried when i got them, and they were still berried for 2-3 weeks. at 1 point i did see the shrimplets on the glass but its been like 2 weeks now and i dont see them anywhere. in 2 weeks they should had grown little right?

From the time I noticed a berried yellow female in my tank to the time my shrimplets actually came out of the moss and started moving around was about 2-3 months. And at that point I was moving stuff around and realized I actually had 3 different generations of babies. Be patient... you'll see 'em. :)

[eklikewhoa]

What bee said!

[R_sustaita]

oh no, me = no patience. lol so what should i do. i am moving my shrimp to the other tank and i wanted to leave the endler fry there untill they are bigger to sell or trade. or just move them to the shrimp tank. should i jsut dump the water on the 10g tank?

[LooksLater]

Yeah, Rick...I wouldn't worry about the assassins eating shrimplets. You've seen our tank, it looks like an assassin snow globe. They're punching them out like crazy. And we have no problems with our shrimp numbers. The assassins don't get fed anything special in our tank, either- they will find something or eat each other. Seems to be working.

As far as what happened to the skrimp bebehs, could be the berried females dropped them due to stress...they could just be hiding...I think that a well-seasoned tank w/good water params, more plant cover, and patience is all you need to get them breeding.

[R_sustaita]

you forgot one other thing. more males lol. i want to increase my colony to 15. my water parameter are just fine i think, lol