Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi

Day 21: Reminded by Matt to keep things clean, I sucked out some sediment from the bottom of the fishbowl, and there was lots of life in there so I checked under the microscope.  It was a collection of harpacticoids.  Must have been either tisbe or euterpina.  So that's been feeding the boggessi larvae too.  They seem quite a lot bigger , although they toss around in the kreisel like they are rag dolls, stopping to wave frantically at food items in the water.
They have lots of color on their cute little shrimpy bodies.  Perhaps a little more meat is needed for metamorphosis.

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Getting bigger. I noticed that a couple have lost a spear leg or two.  Front antenae are more pronounced, and bodies are beefier. Eyes still on stalks, shrimp still flying like rag dolls on an invisible ferris wheel. Meta will undoubtedly come while I'm away at MBI workshop next weekend.

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Day 35: Yay! The first boggessi has settled! Yesterday I did a 50% water change, as both shrimp bowls looked kinda crudy after MBI, although I think that may be irrelevant.  It is time for meta to get going with this group. Middle of the night, can't sleep, went downstairs to check on something, and found the transparent little shrimp, benthic, eyes on body, not on stalks, spear legs transformed, looking like a shrimp!  Yay!

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Awesome! Congratulations. Now just feed them for 60 days and collect another icon!

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Ken

Congratulations Kathy!!! The hard part is over! lol

Thanks guys! It is hard to get a picture of the little guy.  Focus is an issue in the plastic fishbowl.  Here is the best I could get:

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Congrats. Excellent work!

Two now.

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I've added a transplant heater under the fishbowl.  Temperature is now 80F.

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One of the two is getting to be a pretty pink.

 

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These are pictures of the underside of the shrimps.  They cling to the side of the fishbowl, and I can set my camera right on the plastic, on autofocus, and get these shots.
 
Seredipidy: I was trying to focus the camera to the other side of the fishbowl, past the flying brine shrimp nauplii, to the settled boggessi on the side, when autofocus caught this.  Another shrimp photobombed the shot, and it turned out a lot better, because it was right against the lens.

 

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Those are excellent pics considering these guys are only a centimeter or so long. I can see the individual hairs are their appendages! What camera do you have?

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Ken

Canon Powershot A750 IS
It's a point and shoot.  The tank is a plastic 2 gallon fishbowl, and the shrimp are on the other side of the plastic from the lens of the camera. I shot these on autofocus.  This camera is not the greatest for many things, but it does close up pretty well, as long as one doesn't want too much control of focal plane.  
I was happy to capture the detail of the legs (closest to the lens, since these are pix of the underbelly of the shrimps), but I would have liked to focus on the eyes, and I just couldn't manage that. 

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You got this! Now it's just a waiting for 60 days game.

Thanks Mike,
Do I continue to keep them in the fishbowl? Once the boggessi larvae finish all their metas, I was thinking of transferring the wurdemanni larvae in with them, as there are only a few, and they are eating the same stuff.

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I think you probably could add the wurdemanni. When mine settled I think I waited a week or so and then moved them to a breeders net for grow out. I can't remember if I have seen you have them or not but Florida aqua farms has really nice breeder nets. The viewing panel on them is clear plastic so you can see them really well. 

Thanks, I was wondering where you got those...

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I still only have two meta'd boggessi.  The larvae that are left are mostly 2 paddle legged clear larvae with serrated pleopods so long you could braid them.  I'm wondering why they don't all just go.

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Hey, I found a new one! that makes 3.
Pix of almost settled:
Got Pleopods?

Spear leg in focus:

 
almost there:

 

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Settled ones:



 

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One of my settled ones is just huge. Suddenly. Either one of the older larvae settled bigger than the rest because it is such an old larvae or there was a growth spurt in the first one that settled. Huge.???
 

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Those are looking great. I too noticed a big size difference in mine as they grew. Some were nearly twice as big as others, Made me fear for cannibalization, which I'm sure did happen a bit.

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Ken

The last of my larvae have disappeared, and did not become shrimp, so there you have it: 3 settled shrimps bogessi.

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3 counts!

I have to wait for September 26 to get to 60 days, but the largest of the babies just hatched out its first batch of larvae and is carrying more eggs tonight.  We still have 12 days to go to get MBI credit for this species, but we have closed the circle of life on this species!

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You have to love that!  

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Ken

I do. Thanks.

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I took this picture 9/28/15:

 

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It's one of the three that settled.  They are harder to get pix of now that they have so many hiding places and their tank is on the bottom row.

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Time to add that success icon to your list! Congrats! Btw, almost looks like that one is carrying eggs? Could just be the light, but seems to have that slight greenish hue under the abdomen.

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Ken

Could be, the largest one is carrying its second set of eggs.  One set hatched already and we had baby shrimps clinging to the tank wall nearest the light.  Once through meta, these guys grow amazingly fast. Now if I could only get the L. wurdemannis to settle….they are a couple weeks late, and I'm down to two. I think its a bust, and the parental shrimp have long since passed, and there are no more in stores around here.  Story of my shrimpy life.

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