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Exciting to think it's a possibility, I may have one of each. I have 2 different groups of ghost babies, at 2 weeks I can't see them anymore the newborns remind me of the Sea Monkeys, they crack me up. Thank you for all the wonderful feedback!

Not my area of experties but the eggs I would imagine have to go the same route whether fertilized or not, they couldnt stay in the saddle area for ever, but I think yuo are correct that that is where they usually get fertilized, passing from the saddle to the underbelly! Fingers crossed the other cherry shrimp may have fertilized eggs and produce shrimplets, then you are sorted. I would expect the eggs to go grey, as the babies are born clear and colour up a few days later! If you have a magnifying glass you may beale to see black dots (eyes) in the eggs, then those are 'good' eggs with shrimp inside? Any newborn shrimplet is so small so you may not see them for a week or two once the eggs hatch! Fingers crossed that you get shrimplets with this other shrimp, otherwise I guess you ned to go hunting for a male? Simon

Totally possible that they weren't fertilized! Thank you for sharing the video, it helps!! Her eggs only stayed yellow... one of the cherries is moving green berries with its swimmerets so I'm guessing it's a female, I'll look at some more of the characteristics as I'm new to all of this. Thank you again! An article I had read said that if the eggs drop from the saddle to the belly that they travel the same path as the sperm so if they make it to the belly that they are fertilized, hence why I got so excited. Has anyone else heard this or is there any truth to it?

Are you sure you have a male as I imagine femaesstill produce eggs whether there is a male or not (same as humanns, chickens etc) and may have dropped them because they weren't fertilised? With so few shrimp the chances are they may be same sex and they are different types so won't be able to breed with all of them? Try looking close and seeing if you can see what sex they are? https://skfaquatics.com/forum/forums/topic/14104-telling-male-from-female-shrimp/ Simon

Thanks Simon. I did try putting in 3 neon tetras for a week or so. Copepods seemed to clear up quickly...so removed neons and copepods returned shortly thereafter. Copepods seem to like to burrow in the SL Aqua substrate...so I think they hideout in there til the coast was clear. I did keep the albino cory in there....but he doesn't seem to be doing his job!! I will likely put some neons back in there and give it a longer time period. I do have some shrimp fry at the moment so have been waiting for them to get a bit bigger...and thus less likely to be neon food. Yes I have always used nothing but distilled water in this tank. I do use Salty Shrimp..but the GH/KH and sometimes GH only and regularly test tank to keep GH in the 6 range. I do a 30% water change about once a week....pH drops to about 7.6 or so...then creeps back up to the 8.0 to 8.2 range...sometimes a tad higher. The chemist in my is going nuts trying to figure out what is producing those hydrogen ions. 8 to 8.2 isn't horrible...but would like to be a bit lower...and not always creeping up like it does. Thanks for the tip on the Fluorite!! I appreciate your time and contributions here.