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Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to shrimp keeping (in fact I've only had my red cherry's for about 2 weeks) and I thought I'd researched everything before hand but it appears I've missed something mainly because I didn't expect it to happen quite so soon! but it looks like a couple of my shrimp might be pregnant they have the yellow 'saddle' on their back and one looks like it actually has eggs almost ready to move under its tail! so now I'm worried about any babies getting sucked into the filter, Its not an overly strong flow of water but the gaps are quite big (about 3mm wide). I've read in a few places about butting tights etc on to cover it but they are in a nano cube with a built in filter so I'm not sure how I would do that... so I'm looking for any suggestions from all you shrimpy veterans! I've attaches a couple of photos so you can see, I could only get a clear photo of one of the grates but there is one at the bottom that's exactly the same and ive taken a photo of the inside of the filter too in case that helps with suggestions thanks in advance!

The eggs have hatched

Hi, Does anyone know how long the babies will stay attached to the female before they leave her and fend for themselves. Seems like all the babies on my female have hatched and have been stuck to her for about almost 1 week now.

Just a few picutres of some TBMM from Tibee and F8 Mischling tanks. I don't know who the parents are but I haven't had any pure TB in these tanks for about 12 months now. I have 3 of the Ruby Red, 3 KK, 2 extreme KK, 8 Bluebolts and several Pandas of varying ages ( some are still a bit small to be 100% sure). I'm really thrilled to see TB back in my tanks after all this time.