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Baby hermit crabs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 1:34 am
by Joshua183
Hello everybody.
When the babies hatch put how many will their be because online it said the mother can lay 800-50,000 eggs and i dont want thousands of hermit crans in my tank. My best guess is 5-20 hermit crabs will survive
Re: Baby hermit crabs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:46 am
by naalide
Don't worry. Even with best condition and thousands of larvae only a few hundred will reach the stage of megalopa. And then they will eat each other, till there are some left.
So, you are very lucky, if you even have some at the end, in shells and then at land.
Re: Baby hermit crabs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 6:22 am
by Joshua183
naalide wrote:Don't worry. Even with best condition and thousands of larvae only a few hundred will reach the stage of megalopa. And then they will eat each other, till there are some left.
So, you are very lucky, if you even have some at the end, in shells and then at land.
Oh ok thank you
Re: Baby hermit crabs
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 8:00 am
by Renroc
Joshua183 wrote:naalide wrote:Don't worry. Even with best condition and thousands of larvae only a few hundred will reach the stage of megalopa. And then they will eat each other, till there are some left.
So, you are very lucky, if you even have some at the end, in shells and then at land.
Oh ok thank you
I had thousands of zoea and ended up with 3 nearly 2 year olds. I got 26 to land and a dozen to transition tat and about 8 into the big tank
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