Baby Emeralds crawling around.

[AwakenedReefer]

I can not be sure how old they are at this point. She spawned 3~ weeks ago and again the night before I noticed these guys in the tank. I can’t really find any information on the emerald crabs life cycle and only ever see people sharing pictures/video of them free swimming. If anyone can offer information on anything about the life cycle, specifically what point their in, or raising these guys I would love to hear it.

They have been observable on the rocks for just under 3 days. My assumption is that such a small creature would have to be eating something in that time frame so I hesitantly and possibly prematurely conclude they have found nutrition or numbers would be depleting rapidly at this point. All the rock is covered in them, especially areas with current. I add Phytopheast and Red Sea AB+ daily so hopefully that helps. I don’t have any fish or other threats to eat them.

They are so very small but this is the best I could do for now. Once you see one you will see them everywhere. Try to focus along the top edge of the in focus ledge. Mostly towards photo center left to right. There is a nice group center left. They really just look like giant pairs of eyes looking back at you and they don’t move to much. They just all look back at you. Haha.

Have a great day guys!

 

[AwakenedReefer]

If that Video is not working let me know. Here is a picture in case.

 

[Crustaceon]

You can see the crabs by looking for each pair of black ovals. Very cool.

 

[Tired]

Oh, cool!

If they've landed, I think you have the hard part over with. They should now eat general emerald crab foods, from what I know of the crab life cycle. It's the planktonic stages that are hard, not the crab-shaped stages.

 

[Chrisv.]

Cool!

 

[vetteguy53081]

nice !!

 

[ying yang]

Wow they really are super tiny hey.
See that pod for scale to left off screen in video and pod least 4-5 times bigger lol.

Sorry no Info or experience on their care,just thought I'd share ^_^

 

[AwakenedReefer]

Here is another video of a few of the baby crabs.

They seem to be doing fine and are starting to take on some color. It’s like a translucent gold/brown.