A Female Shrimp Has Aborted Their Eggs Again. Why? SOLVED.

I don't really know why. I have occasionally found a shed skin with a few white eggs still attached which I've always assumed were infertile. I know that females usually moult as soon as the eggs hatch.

But yours sounds different. I have not come across eggs being dumped like that, though if there have been any the fish in the tank would probably have eaten them before I'd have chance to see them.

I've just looked at a couple of things on google and it would seem that first time mothers can drop all their eggs, and that young females tend to have more eggs than they can carry so they drop a few.

Very disappointed to discover another little clump of dumped eggs. The mother became berried on Sunday, she's the first one to do so since I moved them into the shrimpery. I have to say I'm not surprised as she didnt look happy with all those eggs, some were hanging out and she was struggling to swim with them and looked a bit distressed. I just hope she didnt shed them all.