I have babies!
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Your Mantis I believe
Your Mantis I believe
Actually I think these are the Mantis shrimp I got from you a couple of months ago. One is a Phillipeane and the other is a brown spearer of some sort. The brown one has been taking on a lot of green color, I guess this explains why. I'll dig up details on the tank later and see if I can get pics.
James
Your Mantis I believe
Actually I think these are the Mantis shrimp I got from you a couple of months ago. One is a Phillipeane and the other is a brown spearer of some sort. The brown one has been taking on a lot of green color, I guess this explains why. I'll dig up details on the tank later and see if I can get pics.
James
Gonodactylus
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These are probably from the G. mutatus. If she is around 5 cm long, there should be around a thousand eggs. I don't like to be a Grinch, but they will all be dead in a couple of days. They would have to survive swimming in your tank for a month finding planktonic food, avoiding filtration, etc. before they settle as postlarvae.
Roy
Roy
Curious.
While I was at the Boston aquarium, they had a great little area devoted to just Maine lobster. Tasty critters.
They had a large aquarium with a fairly substantial amount of current in it. Circular, much like you'd find in aquariums designed for jellies. You could see (thanks to giant magnifying glasses mounted in the walls of the tank) the larger planktonic larvae in the water column. The little plaque said this was the method used for keeping the larvae alive and raising them.
Supposing you had the money, I assume this is a method of choice for keeping them alive?
While I was at the Boston aquarium, they had a great little area devoted to just Maine lobster. Tasty critters.
They had a large aquarium with a fairly substantial amount of current in it. Circular, much like you'd find in aquariums designed for jellies. You could see (thanks to giant magnifying glasses mounted in the walls of the tank) the larger planktonic larvae in the water column. The little plaque said this was the method used for keeping the larvae alive and raising them.
Supposing you had the money, I assume this is a method of choice for keeping them alive?
Gonodactylus
Premium Member
Yes, such circular tanks are often used for crustacean and cephalopod larvae. The circulation keeps them from bumping into the tank and it helps concentrate food.
Roy
Roy
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