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wahoo! That's great news.

Cheers Odin, just managed a slightly better photo

Breeding like rabbits! You must be doing something right mate :)


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another batch of 'floaters' today still Berried femails about there's another in the rock tube as well

Nice Wha't is your salinity?

Algae In Space wrote:Nice Wha't is your salinity?

For months, at first,I played Doc.Beaker and kept it at 1.012, now I just top up with RO water when it goes down to the marked line and haven't checked for months
But just for you I've just checked and it's 1.010 @ 72* F

I think the 72 degree temps have a lot to do with it to. Great temp for the babies. When summer rolls around my tanks start getting in the mid to high 88 or so. I've had very few berried females. What i've noticed is even in the mid 84 or so it's still too warm for the larvae. Mine won't survive. They hatch and then die in a day or so. Anything I have in the 70's is still breeding especially the jars I have in the house. It's been consistent now with at least 1 berried female and at most 4 or so at one time. All the babies have survived to become young adults. Now that it's winter the temps are around 74. I had also read that researches had not seen the berried females out and about the anchialine ponds. They felt the water was too warm and that the berried females stayed underground where the water was cooler.

QDanT wrote: ↑08 Nov 2018 22:53

Algae In Space wrote:Nice Wha't is your salinity?

For months, at first,I played Doc.Beaker and kept it at 1.012, now I just top up with RO water when it goes down to the marked line and haven't checked for months
But just for you I've just checked and it's 1.010 @ 72* F

All right! Good to know!

Vorteil wrote: ↑09 Nov 2018 04:47 I think the 72 degree temps have a lot to do with it to. Great temp for the babies. When summer rolls around my tanks start getting in the mid to high 88 or so. I've had very few berried females. What i've noticed is even in the mid 84 or so it's still too warm for the larvae. Mine won't survive. They hatch and then die in a day or so. Anything I have in the 70's is still breeding especially the jars I have in the house. It's been consistent now with at least 1 berried female and at most 4 or so at one time. All the babies have survived to become young adults. Now that it's winter the temps are around 74. I had also read that researches had not seen the berried females out and about the anchialine ponds. They felt the water was too warm and that the berried females stayed underground where the water was cooler.

Interesting! I will keep that in mind. It makes sense.