Tonight I was showing my reef to two friends who came over to check out the corals. Lo and behold a peppermint shrimp wandered out to where we could see her. I noticed she had what looked like eggs under her tail, so we all observed them closely for a few minutes. Then all of a sudden she darted up to the surface of the tank and released all of what I thought were the eggs. They were in fact tiny babies that were obviously ready to leave the mother. I immediately grabbed my RKE and put the pumps on standby mode, so the circulation and filters would all stop running.

I took some pics:






You can click the pics a couple times, once to go to the gallery, then click the picture again to make it larger, so you can see up close.

Hope you enjoy the pics... I hope they live.

Has anyone else had peppermint shrimp spawn successfully in their reef or am I lucky? I never heard of that happening to anyone. One of my friends that was here runs a big local shop, he never heard of it either.

Here's a decent closeup of two babies:

Sweet I hope some make it for you.

wow, that's really cool shots! Good luck with them!

Thanks for the comments. It was really exciting. No sign of any of them today, lol.
My sixline wrasse seems to be in a really jolly mood however.

I bet he is fat and sassy rite now but still great that you saw them and were able to get some pics oh and have you checked out your sump??