-give not food before they became megalope
-do not change alots of water?
Did you give them 24u light?
did you hold them in the tank like curlz, of just in yars?
Did you used a airstone?
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deesjebeesje wrote:So my English is not that good, but what you did was,
-give not food before they became megalope yes, the variabilis do not need to eat to develop to megalopa
-do not change alots of water? thats correct, in fact I did not change it at all until they had morphed into megalopa (6 days) and I left the dead in there too for the megalopa to eat. When I started feeding I started doing small water changes, mainly to suck up the eaten food.
Did you give them 24u light? No I went to 14 day and 10 night (approx)
did you hold them in the tank like curlz, of just in yars? My Kreisel tank was made of Jars inside a tank, If you look back to the first pages of this thread there are pictures
Did you used a airstone? yes
Thanks CurlzCurlz wrote:Lucky you @ eggs. We are waiting hardly for new eggs / larvae here in germany
feeding the little ones:
When my breedings started to leave water and explore land, they still got (de-)frozen mysis and (de-)frozen brine shrimps. And because I did not know when the megalopa will bury to metamorphose to LHC, I feed them with different fruits and watered crab pellets. Nearly same food the adults got.
The thread will be in our forum. http://www.landeinsiedlerkrebs-forum.de/
I will send you the link when I post the news about "successfull breeding of C. variabilis in Austalia"
if you could send larvae to germany *sigh*. It seems that variabilis are easier to breed, because of their short Zoea time. I hope you will have lots more mini "Aussie" Land Hermit Crab breedings in future
as you see, now they are almost transparent. And all claws and legs are straight. Mine could not close the shell opening before molting.Nat_addicted to HC's wrote:
Im going to have to try and keep track of the group really as there is no way to single out one crab. I guess as I go I will have to get more technicalBridgitmac80 wrote:WOW with molts starting on ground now, how will you manage to keep track!?!
IF it were me, I would have to just pick one certain crab (at this stage that is) and follow their life long molting progress. With them so small there isn't really much way to tell them apart am I right?
This is so AWESOME!!!!
Thank you!! So much!! Wow I still cant quite believe we did it (we= you all & me!). Im looking forward to more of us being successfulRockyGurly wrote:My goodness! You have literally made history ladyCongratulations!