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The young ones will live longer and having always been in the same water should be tougher and stronger so you are lucky it happened in reality. When I order new shrimps through the post I usually average 4 of every 5 surviving after 2 weeks as a guide! Great to hear that it is going well and you are pleased.

Yes I have acclimated them probably it’s just this batch I guess ? I haven’t had any breeding yet but lucky enough to got like almost 50 fry when I bought one of my orders ? I found one thing that’s quite interesting to me. I don’t know how others survival rate on shrimplets but mine I could say more than almost 99% survived despite my heartbroken low rate on that of adult ones. The parents might be dead but the kids grow and thrive amazingly. Thanks god! ?

I have two Sulawesi tanks and the one that is having these growths is my main tank that is the most established and oldest. My 2nd tank is also thriving but not having any of these growths, and the shrimp in my 2nd tank are originally from my main tank, now with multiple generations of shrimp in there from its own breeding. If it is a fungus wouldn't I be seeing deaths or at the very least a reduction in breeding? My main tank has over 10 berried shrimp in there at the moment not all of them have these growths but a few of them do for sure

I don't think it is Vorticella because the growths are brown-red colored maybe slightly green and also the general structure doesn't look similar to me at all. The eggs remain viable and only molt after the hatchlings are born. I know this because I have not seen any dropped eggs or eggs attached to molts and I have 50+ hatchlings minimum in this tank. After they molt they return to a completely normal appearance. Below is another attachment to what the shrimp look like when "infected" with this growth and also what the molt looks like after its been shed. My only theory that ive been able to come up with is that its algae growing on the shrimp because it affects the areas most exposed to the light but I am not sure. https://imgur.com/RBrJWYQ

0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrates, 7 GH, 7.8-8.0 ph, typical Sulawesi parameters using Sulawesi 8.5 remineralizer and rodi water treated with prime. What really has me the most confused is that this tank is absolutely thriving with lots of hatchlings and lots of berried shrimp besides what ever is going on with these growths the tank is doing incredibly well. The only shrimp affected by these growths are berried shrimp ive not seen any other shrimp with these growths except the ones carrying eggs. Here is small video of the whole colony https://imgur.com/23upN7T

Wow, I've not seen that before. Can you give us your water parameters? Everything you have a test kit for.

In one of my Sulawesi tanks for the passed month or two ive been noticing my berried shrimp are growing something on their antennae, rostrum, legs, and sometimes behind their eyes on top of their head. I have researched common dwarf shrimp diseases and none seem to look like what is going on in my tank. Also the only shrimp that seem to be affected by this are berried shrimp and then once they molt they return back to looking normal. No deaths in the tank and still lots of breeding going on. Will have link to video of issues below because it won't let me post on here https://imgur.com/NxbAgl0