SoulLonely wrote:Kool video! Are they pretty big now, or do you just have an awesome camera??
I was thinking the same thing.
They seem so much bigger than wolf's and naalides! I wonder if that has to do with the abbreviated larval stage. The E zoea I found this summer seemed like they were bigger than the PP zoea, but I thought that was because when I found them they had already passed and had turned white and it was the color that was throwing me. (Or it's an optical illusion with the rounded glass jar having water in it, being in water, and then having glass in front of that. Natural magnifier?)
Awesome that they're molting! That's a great sign.
There's going to be some (a lot) of losses, but that's okay. So far everyone has only been able to get a handful of them to land, so while it's sad, know that it is normal and it's not a sign you're doing anything wrong.
Yes, with every molt they'll advance a stage in development.
If you could look at them closely you would be able to see their features developing more, and the easiest way to tell the stages it to look at he lobes on the tail. Hard to do without a microscope though!
Ok so they are mostly still alive! & Have discovered I have another female carrying eggs
watching the zoea molt
