Thai Micro crab babies

[Pyramid_Party]

Hi,


I am anxiously awaiting the day I see baby crabs in my tank. Sometimes at night I take a peek into the tank and see that the crabs are more active and out in the open. A few times I observed what I thought was mating. Seen one crab tackle the other and get on top. I have seen this with crayfish before.


So I thought, cool, maybe I can expect babies soon. I do know they go through a planktonic stage before becoming little crabs. Last night I was looking around the water column and observed tiny white ball-shaped objects and upon very close examination could see the objects with appendages of some sort. But I am not certain these are baby crabs in their planktonic stage.

I have had copepods in my tank before and I currently have some planaria too. So I was thinking could just be another bug/organism in my tank. I observed a few that were a little bigger and able to walk and move around on the glass and plants. They do look a little crustacean-like. Does this sound like baby micro crabs?

 

[ruckaisawesome]

any pics??

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Too difficult

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

im not sure. from my understanding from research about 6 months ago, they are believed to be simple to breed but no one is breeding them so who knows. ull just have to wait.

side note, im jealous. i want some micro crabs


next planted tank will have some, and some more cherrys!!

 

[Pyramid_Party]

I think MzJinkzd has bred them.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

im not aware of her actually breeding them. she brings them in, and that is who when i build my tank ill ge them from

 

[Pyramid_Party]

So no info on breeding them huh? I saw a youtube vid of some guy who had some larvae. He told me they died cause he didn't feed them. He said next time he'll try some phytoplankton to feed them.

 

[Cohazard]

cool, I hope they really are spawning, best of luck!

 

[Pyramid_Party]

I hope so too. I am thinking about giving up, but want to give them more time. I would really like to use the tank space for something else if they don't breed. Just need breeding info about them, if it exists.

 

[Pyramid_Party]

I have been seeing mine mating alot. I have this really big one. I think its the alpha male and I have seen twice this one on top of smaller crabs. Breeding just like crayfish.

I did some reading around though and apparently its hard to raise the babies. Some german guy got them to live up to 6 days. Which is the longest anyone has done so far.