Pregnant Amano's?

Always nice when your livestock breed. Not that you'll see lots of baby amanos unfortunately. I've never seen any dead newly hatched babies either, my fish must stuff themselves. Still that's better than seeing the babies just lying there.

Have you ever thought about trying to raise amanos? It's the thought of trying to adjust the salinity in a shrimplet tank to get it just right that puts me off.

It would be quite a challenge to raise amano shrimps. They usually die very soon after birth as they need to grow to adulthood in saltwater. And I think the salinity has to be slowly increased to reflect the shrimplets journey form fresh to sea water, then decrease slowly after they've grown to reflect the journey back into fresh.

I just leave things alone, and let the shrimplets die/become fish food 

I've been reading the basics at ShrimpNow, and it sounds rather involved.  I don't think I'll be going anywhere near that to be honest.  Still, it's quite nice to see that the Amano's are happy enough in the tank to start wanting to multiply.

I wonder what took them so long.  The first batch of 4 were added back in June 2012, and an extra batch of 5 in January 2013.  Makes me think that maybe the first batch of 4 were all females and I've got at least one male in the newer batch.

Hi all,
Again, sorry to be the sceptical one. I just hate when “myths” not knowledge is travelling over the internet and being repeated and multiplied. 
Many professional commercial breeders have tried to breed Amanos (imagine the revenue!!!!) but NOBODY succeeded so far. I am sceptical of any reports / articles on breeding them. The reports are – that the news of a success in breeding Amanos are... erm... grossly exaggerated. If you go on the net, you will see many people claiming they bread these shrimps – without any evidence whatsoever (e.g. selling/giving out baby shrimps, for example).
On the other hand mature females will be pregnant virtually non-stop. The colour of the eggs is how the actual stage of their development can be determined...
The report (Richard's?) of a “baby Amano” surviving in a fresh water tank may be (just may be) one of the “miracles of nature” but will be most likely the fact that the baby was not Amano at all! There are a few other species of shrimps which a novice can take for Amanos – and most of aquatic shops staff will not know the difference either, sadly...
So, I would just enjoy them as they are – they are marvellous creatures and tough like old boots for a shrimp.
Have a look at this article: http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Caridina_multidentata
P.S. if any of you can find a single person who actually has own bred Amanos (with proof, of course!) – please, please, post. This will be a truly breakthrough achievement.  I am not saying it is impossible but the fact that still 100% of them sold in the shops are wild caught speaks for itself.

Make that 4 carrying babies now    and one looks like she's gonna release tonight (blob coming out from underside)

Manged to get a shot, not very good though, but it shows the 'sack' protruding from under the female.  She's hiding inside a Cotswold Rock cave so I've adjusted the brightness and contrast (a lot) to get a bit better detail.  Still no sign of any larvae yet though.