Eggs on Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp?

My only scarlet cleaner shrimp looks like it has eggs. I googled images, and the very few there are of scarlet shrimp carrying eggs, mine looks exactly like the ones online. My questions are 1) if its the only one in there, how did it reproduce? 2) if it is carrying eggs, how should I handle this? Please please please give feedback. Thanks!

 

Cleaner shrimp are fully functioning hermaphrodites. It doesn't take two of them to make babies Just a single one can both produce eggs and fertilize them.
There is not much you can do. To my knowledge no one has yet to raise the fry. It will eventually release them when they hatch, and your coral and fish will get a free meal. Mine do it all the time.

 

Well maybe I can try and get these guys to live. That would be pretty cool. Is there a forum or anything with guidelines? Or is the reason no one has raised the fry is because its pretty difficult?

 

from hatch to the first molt is the most difficult part from what I have read, you have to CONSTANTLY monitor them during that time, which will be about 60 days .... from all teh reading I have done, it just sounds like it will cost WAAYYYYYYY too much to make it worth it

 

Yea definatly wayyy too hard. The speific food needs must constantly be met for the fry and the knowledge just isn't there... I've read ppl keep them until about day 48 then they suddenly die :/

 

Well that is disappointing. I want to say my lfs did it because they had a ton of little ones, but I could be wrong.