We did a water change in the Amano tank and our observation was that more black dots were appearing on the underbelly of the berried Amano shrimp. We opted to take her out and put her in a smaller container with a few dead leaves, Guppy Grass and Moss Balls. We used the same water from her secure environment to avoid stressing her as this could have potentially led her to start dropping the eggs like our failed project. In this case it did not happen, so we were pretty excited about that at Shrimp Diaries.

-Hours after the transfer, she started dropping hatched Amano shrimplets and we scooped 5 of them and dropped then into the saline 5g tank. Anticipation and anxiety were at an all time high as we starred at her for what seemed like an eternity for we were hoping for more hatched eggs. Unfortunately 5 is all we got on that day, but that was a good day.

-We continued to monitor both the berried Amano shrimp and her 5 shrimplets or rather tiny little creatures floating upside down with their heads. At this early stage of development they are referred to as Zoea.