@kuza: I follow you and your thread!
OK, now I have al little bit of time, to describe my new attempt to rise little hermits.
First of all I changed something at my set-up. I ordered algae (nannochloropsis), which make a 'nice' green water in my kreisel-tanks and it's getting greener every day. The tank, which you can see at the right side is not in use, because it's not working well. Therefore the larvae are only in the two kreisel-tanks inside the big tank left:
On July 15 I got the first larvae and a day later nearly as much:
Every day I spend an hour or so to clean the tanks. And I made it efficiently this time!
I use a tube to run out the water in a bucket. In the bucket I have two different sieves to sort hermit-larvae from artemia-larvae:
Then I put the hermit-larvae into a plate to sort the dead out. This plate is rotatable! That's nice, because if I rotate it a while, all larvae will swirl into the centre.
Now I have to wait a few minutes an the living larvae are swimming to the left side. OK, they don't know where left and right is, but there is more light.
I take a big pipette, catch a couple of hundred larvae an put them back into the kreisel-tank. And so on,...
And now some pictures of the development till now:
July 15: microscope picture
July 16: microscope picture
July 16: picture tank 1
July 16: picture tank 2
July 17: picture tank 1
July 17: picture tank 2
July 18: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 19: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 20: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 21: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 21: larvae from tank 1
July 22: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 23: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 23: microscope picture, larvae from tank 2
July 24: microscope picture, larvae from tank 1
July 24: microscope picture, larvae from tank 2
July 24: larvae from tank 1
July 24: larvae from tank 2
Development till now:
OK, that's all for now. I guess in a week or so, you will get the next bulk of pictures.
