Fiddler crab eggs hatched!

Dragon Queen

Dragon Queen

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It's been about 12 to 14 days since the two females started egg masses and one dropped! If you are more than about a foot away you can't see them, but closer they are little specks darting everywhere. So another day or two till the other one drops then see how long the larvae? survive since we don't have the correct conditions for them.
I just thought it was cool and to tell everyone.
 
Wow, if you DO manage to raise them, then that'd be AWESOME.

I would try moving the parents or putting up a barricade dividing the tank. Try feeding the babies infusoria or small fish fry foods.

You never know, it just might work.
 
Most of them were gone the next morning, but there are still a few there. There is also the other female who still has eggs to drop.
 
Fiddler crabs have not been bred in captivity, from what I've read they lack the burrow in which the young live in until they're old enough and look like actual crabs. The feed off the microorganisms in the mud until the time is right. Some sort of factor is missing that nobody has yet to figure out, I had a pair constantly spawn before, and seen larvae in my fishroom but nothing ever happened.
 
Well six days later there are about 20 left, which seem to be staying on the glass at the waterline and on a flat rock that is on the waterline also. :dive:
I skipped the water change last week and I will see what the water is doing this morning :girl: .
 
I looked this morning and there's closer to thirty still there.
The possiblity of some other bug has crossed my mind, but I didn't see anything before the eggs hatched.
Does anyone know of any tiny insects that like 1.006 and stay at the waterline? :confused: .
Thanks for any help.
 
Dragon Queen said:
I looked this morning and there's closer to thirty still there.
The possiblity of some other bug has crossed my mind, but I didn't see anything before the eggs hatched.
Does anyone know of any tiny insects that like 1.006 and stay at the waterline? :confused: .
Thanks for any help.
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mosquito larvae.
 
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