Danys ?-Coenobita-breeding-thread

[SoulLonely]

Adorable and very exciting!

[Careyenz]

Great pictures! Their life cycle just amazes me!

[naalide]

And a new video, showing my tanks and bottles. Underlined it in German an English.
Not very spectacular, but you can see the different movements of the water in bottles and kreisel-tanks.

I just did a basic cleaning with one of the bottles (the right one) and found still 231 lining larvae in it.
Now I have to clean the other one,...

[kuza]

love the make shift K-tanks! Question; where do you warm up your water for the change times?

[naalide]

Currently no were, because we have hot summer temperatures in Germany about 28-30°C (82-86°F) or even more.
Last time (in November it was very cold!) I used a big bucket with a normal aquarium-heater.

[MarieHeim926]

I thought hermit crabs couldn't have babies without being near the ocean.?

[naalide]

They have an ocean!

OK, a very, very, very small ocean. With some little waves against a minor cliff.
It's a 15g basin, which I build 1 1/2 years ago. Since that time, one of my Ruggies and two PPs used this 'ocean' to release their babies.

[KittyKatt]

They have an ocean!

OK, a very, very, very small ocean. With some little waves against a minor cliff.
It's a 15g basin, which I build 1 1/2 years ago. Since that time, one of my Ruggies and two PPs used this 'ocean' to release their babies.

I love this!

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[kuza]

I thought hermit crabs couldn't have babies without being near the ocean.?

And mine drops her eggs in my tiny 4x4x4 inch water dish with bubbler. And always gets the right one (salt). They are pretty smart

[naalide]

Morning!

Today I have tow pictures made with my digicam. hey are not very sharp, but you can see the original colour of the larvae.

Some larvae in one of the big Kreisel-Tanks:


One larva in the other big Kreisel-Tanks. In this water are Nannochloropsis (that's the green colour).

[SoulLonely]

sooooooo cute!

[aussieJJDude]

Nice, super cute - overload!

[naalide]

Update:
I have lost some larvae during the last days. But still 550-600 are left.
Most of them are stage Z3, some had just become Z4.

[aussieJJDude]

Sorry to hear about the losses! But wow, you got a few left..

[naalide]

Today I caught all larvae in the small Kreisel-tanks, becouse I had to do a thorough clean-up.
Every larva was counted and I made group photos of the larvae of each tank.

76 larvae from Kreisel-tank 1:


84 larvae from Kreisel-tank 2:


177 larvae from Kreisel-tank 3:


101 larvae from Kreisel-tank 4:


Altogether with 76 larvae in the bigger Kreisel-tank, there should be exactly 514 larvae at stage z4 left.