emerald crab spawning!

toaster77

Premium Member
I noticed something kinda cool tonight - I took my flashlight and saw one of my emerald crabs had a huge belly, and in it looked like there were hundreds of eggs/babies moving around. Then all of a sudden it started contracting its belly and each time it contracted there were hundreds of baby larvae released into the water! It did this at least 10 times, and there must be thousands of larvae swimming around now. My cleaner shrimp was going crazy - hope some of my corals will enjoy the extra food as well :)
I should have known something was up since one of the crabs seemed a lot bigger than the others in recent days. And I have three in the tank ... and it's only been two months... javascript:emoticon(':roll:')

See pic below. The pic is the best I could do with a flashlight + camera flash
 
wow, thats crazy! you should try to catch some to raise, or at least move to your sump to help em survive
 
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