Our adventure into a non familiar territory began when found out that we had 3 berried Amano shrimp. The egg count was infinite a stark contrast to some other dwarf shrimp whose eggs can easily be counted. The eggs of an Amano are small and many at the same time. In order to properly prepare a viable growing environment we set up the first tank and it was entirely freshwater, with the rocks, java plants, moss balls and java moss. We put two berried shrimp in there and also setup a salt water small tank. Within 2 days, the females started dropping their unhatched eggs and we immediately knew the project was an utter failure. We removed them from the isolated tanks and instead opted to put them together with our other Amano shrimp to recreate a secure setting. After about 2 weeks we noticed over a hundred hatched Amano shrimplets and it was unbelievable. The numbers were something we had never seen and the smallness of these inverts was quiet scary. We thought that they might be eaten but nothing happen. Unfortunately, the next day all hatched Amano shrimplets were dead. Our conclusion was:

• Amano shrimp can hatch their eggs in freshwater
• Hatched Amano shrimplets can survive in freshwater for a couple of hours
• Hatched Amano shrimplets CANNOT be raised in freshwater

Project Closed