Hey all,
Welcome DIBSians and MOFIBians.
Sexy shrimp have been done before, but in very limited numbers and somewhat limited information and it has not been compiled into a single location. I will attempt to briefly summarize the information that has been found to date to help us avoid "reinventing the wheel" on this challenge.
There is one literature source I have found that details some researchers in Hawaii attempting to raise the sexy ones:
Studies on Decapoda: Biology, Ecology, Morphology and Systematics (Crustaceana): Larval Culture of the Shrimp Thor Amboinensis (De Man, 1888) With Reference to its
symbiosis with the anemone Antheopsis papillosa (Kwietniewski, 1898).
You can see the first page of it here:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&...4dBY#PPA176,M1
I have ordered the article through ILL and will let you know what I find on the missing page.
Three key points from this article:
Rearing containers were 250mL beakers with filtered seawater, 6-10 larvae per beaker
First food was sea urchin eggs from
Colobocentrotus atratus (shingle urchin).
Penicillin G (60 ug/mL) and Streptomycin Sulfate (50 ug/mL) were
used to increase larval survival.
More later...
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