{"id":508,"date":"2008-06-12T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2008\/06\/12\/24-days\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:13:15","slug":"24-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"24 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the &#8216;Borneo orange&#8217; zoes started metamorphosing into post-larvae.  The visual change isn&#8217;t very dramatic, but their behavior is totally different.  Rather than hovering in the water column occasionally puttering backwards, now they perch in one place and occasionally zoom forwards to a new perch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/rimg0024.JPG\" title=\"rimg0024.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/rimg0024.JPG\" alt=\"rimg0024.JPG\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/perchingorange.jpg\" title=\"perchingorange.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/perchingorange.jpg\" alt=\"perchingorange.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most likely this means that they&#8217;re ready to start a marathon swim upstream into fresh water.   I moved the above photo subject into a cup of fresh water to see how it likes the change.  With larvae that live in pure sea water (Yamato shrimp and others) I&#8217;ve been very careful to move them gradually through several stages of brackish before transferring them into pure fresh water.  Since these guys live in water that&#8217;s already only barely salty, I&#8217;m hopeful that I can skip that tedious phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the &#8216;Borneo orange&#8217; zoes started metamorphosing into post-larvae. The visual change isn&#8217;t very dramatic, but their behavior is totally different. Rather than hovering in the water column occasionally puttering backwards, now they perch in one place and occasionally zoom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}