Pom Pom Crabs eggs

[JulesH]

Hi

I have a couple of Pom Pom crabs in my tank. I dont see much of them. However I did notice the other day one of the crabs had a red blob of material underneath it. On further investigation I have come to the conclusion they are eggs.

These are my only crabs, I have a multitude of snails and only three fish, a pair of Mandarins and a Diamond Goby. Has anybody else had any experience with these animals in this situation. Do the eggs hatch and there will be lots of little crabs, is there a release of a nekton/ planktonic organisms, or will they all get sucked up by my filtration?

 

[KK's Reef]

Hi

I have a couple of Pom Pom crabs in my tank. I dont see much of them. However I did notice the other day one of the crabs had a red blob of material underneath it. On further investigation I have come to the conclusion they are eggs.

These are my only crabs, I have a multitude of snails and only three fish, a pair of Mandarins and a Diamond Goby. Has anybody else had any experience with these animals in this situation. Do the eggs hatch and there will be lots of little crabs, is there a release of a nekton/ planktonic organisms, or will they all get sucked up by my filtration?

I've had my pom pom release eggs twice in my tank. They're tiny free-swimming larvae. Most of them do get sucked in by the filtration. A lot of them were snacked on by the clown and six-line wrasse. There's so many of them though that a few might make it to the rocks and substrate, but I haven't seen any make it to the juvenile stage.

 

[killer2001]

Dust in the wind.

 

[JulesH]

I've had my pom pom release eggs twice in my tank. They're tiny free-swimming larvae. Most of them do get sucked in by the filtration. A lot of them were snacked on by the clown and six-line wrasse. There's so many of them though that a few might make it to the rocks and substrate, but I haven't seen any make it to the juvenile stage.

Thats a shame, thanks for the reply

Julian

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Yeah, if you want to try and raise them, you would need to either be there to collect the free-swimming babies as soon as they hatch so that you can move them to another tank, or you would need to move the pregnant crab to a separate, pelagic-larvae-safe-tank just before the babies hatch so that they don't get eaten, skimmed out, filtered out, etc.