The eggs glued to the tummy of the above shrimp are hatching today, a few at a time. I’ve made a few attempts at raising the larvae with no success. No one seems to have any idea what species it is, or what conditions the zoes need, or even where they come from in the first place. So… I spent most of my evening taking plankton photos. These are using a toy digital microscope:

And these using the macro lense on my tiny camera:

I’m enjoying fussing with the gadgets, but I don’t think I’m going to learn much. My photos look the same as those of a different species here, and these of a different genus here. Too bad they don’t make $100 child-friendly DNA sequencers.

Anyway, in my increasingly silly attempts to keep the zoes alive, I’ve set up an array of tiny tanks with varying salinity, all in a great big tank to maintain a constant temperature.

Details as events warrant.