Baby Horseshoe Crabs

[Druu]

Last summer, I decided to hatch out a few horseshoe crab eggs. I recently discovered that I had uploaded the pics to my photobucket, so why not post them here?

The first pic is just after hatching, prior to the first molt (trilobite phase). The last 3 pics are post-molt. You can see the telson in the last 3 pics and its form is recognizable.

 

[CichlidAddict]

There's something you don't see every day. Very cool!!

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

Aren't those triops or are horse shoe crabs that small?

 

[Fly River]

Where did you get the eggs? If those are horseshoe crabs, Sweet

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

that's pretty damn cool.

 

[Druu]

Definitely horseshoe crabs (Limulus Polyphemus). Collected from under a spawning female on the beach. They start out tiny, don't they?

 

[ddyerfamily]

Neat,Cool,Odd and Tiny ...

 

[big train]

WOW i had know idea they started that small i had 1 about as big as a 50cent peice but my blue linned trigger ate it.

 

[tunerX]

Those are super small, but then they get to be monsters.

 

[midnight]

really cool
still alive?lol