Aussie Zoea 2021

[Renroc]

Tiny babies need tiny amounts of powdered food. Found a tiny mortar and pestle $8 and some tiny jars. The red powder is already fine betta food ground to a dust.




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[Renroc]

I now have 53 in the transition pool. That’s double what I had last time. Plus there are still more mega choosing shells and the odd half dozen swimming around at the top of the water climbing out on the air stone line ( without shells the silly things)


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[Renroc]

Nutmeg hanging by the pool waiting for her mates to leave the pool party. Some of the newest mega to join the pool party.



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[CrabbyLover77]

I don't know if I can take any more pics. These guys (and Nutmeg) are so tiny and cute!!

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[crabbycasey]

They are...so cute and precious! This is so exciting!!


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[Renroc]

I have new babies on land this morning on day 14






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[crabbycasey]

Ahhh, I want one! Lol


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[Renroc]

I’ve been away for 4 days and a friend has been baby sitting. I’ve just done a rough count and got 30 on land and on the surface. There are still 23 in the water but heading out and 1 streaker in the water.










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[Renroc]

Tiny tunnels being dug.

Egg is a popular food. This is a tiny piece of scrambled egg. The rest is in a small container in the freezer.

They still like to spend lots of time in the salt water or on this rock that is in the pool.


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[Renroc]

Prawn is on the tasting table for the babies tonight. Seems to be popular.


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[GotButterflies]

Congratulations Sue!!! This is so awesome!!! I love the pictures!

[crabbycasey]

How are they doing?!


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[Renroc]

They are getting bigger and bigger. But still tiny and cute.










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[Renroc]

Sorry for being slack on reporting but I've been kept pretty busy. On Sat 25th June (middle of our Aussie winter) had found zoea in my salt pool. This is lot number 4 for 2021 so far. There were more in there the next day but I'm positive these are from the one female and she just deposited half each evening. The total was 830 over the 2 days. They are now up to days 5 and 4 and are already at zoea II stage. Mega tomorrow or the next day I'm thinking.

On Sunday I moved 25 of the largest babies from the transition tank to a juvenile tank. These I am presuming are the sole survivor from batch on and the others are more than likely batch 2 (going only on size) There are still a couple of larger ones in the transition tank but I wasn't able to get them on Sunday. There are also a number still in smaller shells. These I am thinking are batch 3. They have 2 weeks to moult and grow before the new lot will be moving in. BUT I am happy to leave them there and gradually move them across to the juvenile tank as they get bigger.

Batch 3 had some issues once in the transition pool. I put a rough corally looking rock I picked up a few days before at high tide mark on my local beach into the pool for them to get outl. Get out they did. About a dozen ditched their shells and left the pool naked. No matter how many times I used an eye dropper to squirt them back in they kept on leaving. SO I gave up... Put little soda bottle caps over the naked ones on the sand and hoped they morphed to land crabs... only a couple survived (I think) I changed the water and took the rock out as that was the only thing I had added before the exodus. I dumped it into a plastic cup I had beside the tat. A couple of days later it started to smell bad around there and I investigated. That's when I discovered that the rock was actually a tube worm colony and there were still live (possibly dieing) tube worms in there. I don't know if it was dead decaying tube worms or if the living ones secrete something to help them survive in the tidal areas but let me tell you I won't be making that mistake again.

Group 2 are just over 10 weeks old and group 3 are 6 weeks. IF the one from group one is still in with the rest it is 15weeks old.

[Renroc]

Well at midnight on Tuesday 29th I went to do a final water change and put some food in to feed the mega I was expecting to find when I woke up in the morning. But I discovered a heap of beautiful mega. Right on schedule. So I did the water change and added prime and some marine snow and rotifers and put them back to bed.





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