peppermint shrimp with eggs

i just fed my peppermint shrimp and a couple fish in my tank and noticed that the shrimp have eggs underneath their bodies.
whats up with this?
are the eggs doomed, will they hatch and just be eaten or what.
the shrimp have really grown alot they are 3 times their size from when i got them, they were skinny little suckers now they are kinda beefy and maybe a 1/2 inch longer. ive only had them for 1.5 months.

 

Posted By Atram on 12/19/2007 6:53 PM

Posted By vvolfe1 on 12/19/2007 6:17 PM
I'd agree with free fish food. Very good food. I have peppermint babies floating in my tank at least once a week and the fish and coral love them.
Where did you get all of your peppermint at?  I like to get some for my tank, their kind of expensive locally.
i got them in my reeftopia order, i think they were 2 or 2.50 a peice if i got 5.
they have some pretty cool stuff on that site and when my tank matures i am going to order from them again.
if you spend 99 buck they overnite your package free, it was a good deal.
i got 100 turbos
100 blue leg hermits
15 cerinth snails
5 peppermints
something i really wish i would have got in my order was empty shells for my hermits, they really gang up on each other trying to get a new shell.
somewhere here i have a giant bag of shells i picked up off a sandbar out in the gulf a couple years ago, im gonna find it and have these guys sporting some fast looking shells.

 

Posted By xroads on 12/19/2007 8:33 PM
there is a method of raising them called the bucket method. most make it until day 23 then it is a 90% mortality rate.
have you ever tried it?
i wonder what they eat as babies, maybe that green water or something?
im gonna look into it.

 

Posted By davidm199 on 12/19/2007 8:13 PM

Posted By vvolfe1 on 12/19/2007 6:17 PM
I'd agree with free fish food. Very good food. I have peppermint babies floating in my tank at least once a week and the fish and coral love them.
do they like them because thye taste like peppermint?? /site/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif src="/site/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif" align=absMiddle border=0>
hehe,
i heard they taste like chicken

 

Posted By vvolfe1 on 12/19/2007 6:17 PM
I'd agree with free fish food. Very good food. I have peppermint babies floating in my tank at least once a week and the fish and coral love them.
what do you meen floating, are they kinda similar to artemia?