[thelub]

More tunnels are dug and the female is still in hiding. Fingers crossed that she's breeding. It would be cool to have a successful hatch. I've never heard of anybody breeding them in captivity.

 

[JoshBA]

That's awesome news! I believe fiddlers release their eggs into the sea, so they may require full strength seawater instead of brackish to hatch and develop.

 

[thelub]

I've read they dig tunnels into muddy banks to breed :shrugs:

 

[phisHsihp]

Sweet setup man! What's going on with the female? Any babies?

 

[thelub]

No, no babies that I've noticed. I think she was molting. They have finally dug tunnels like I always heard about.

 

[thelub]

My male molted the other day. Flawless molt.

 

[sumer]

You're right, they dig in the muddy area when they breed. Next time, instead of using sand, use some clay mud. That'd definitely help.

 

[thelub]

They dig in the mud just to hang out. The female will spend days out of the water. She was carrying a ton of eggs. No clue if they hatched or anything. They hatch out of eggs into a planktonic stage and I'm not sure if they could survive in an aquarium setting. There's no way to protect a planktonic stage baby from filters.

 

[jeffpersonn]

Seen people raising hermit crab zoeas to hermit crabs, maybe can try same way ?

 

[thelub]

I was thinking about trying to harvest the eggs off her and raise them like baby brine shrimp

 

[jeffpersonn]

For hermits, a salt water dish is placed in the tank, when the time comes, the female would release the eggs which then literally immediately changes into zoeas . Then, is transmitted into a oxygenated salt water, fed with bba. Zoeas will molt for 5-6 times bfe finally going to land in search of shells

 

[thelub]

Interesting.... Thanks for that little bit of info. I have them in brackish water right now. I wonder if she would find a container with full salinity water and lay them in it