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Today, these formerly tiny shrimp (hatched on Oct. 7 2006, moved into seawater on Oct. 9, moved painstakingly back into freshwater in late November by Kim while I was off sitting on a beach someplace in SE Asia) seem to have grown up. \u00a0The first female laid eggs yesterday.<\/p>\n
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So, that answers one question — it seems to take about 6 months from hatch to parenthood.<\/p>\n
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I had a few sets of larvae die before these few survived, and I varied conditions quite a bit during the raising of this batch. \u00a0So, in order to learn what\u2019s necessary and what isn\u2019t, I\u2019ve set up three similar tanks to raise the next set of zooaes.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s three 10-liter tanks. \u00a0The rightmost tank is heated and aerated, the middle heated without aeration, and the leftmost aerated without heat. \u00a0The heated tanks are at about 80\u00b0F. \u00a0All three share a single 15-watt fluorescent light. Each is full of artificial sea-water, at around 35ppt, and seeded with a few CCs of Tetraselmis culture.<\/p>\n
And now, I wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, these formerly tiny shrimp (hatched on Oct. 7 2006, moved into seawater on Oct. 9, moved painstakingly back into freshwater in late November by Kim while I was off sitting on a beach someplace in SE Asia) seem to … Continue reading ![\"img_3012.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/img_3012.jpg\")
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