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therock0861
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Will blue leg hermit crabs breed in captivity? <img src="graemlins//confused.gif" border="0" alt="[confused]" />
marine fanatic
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Good question..
From what I have heard, they will if the conditions are right. Very important key is to make sure to toss in some small empty shells for any newborns to live in. I may be wrong but I think blue-legs will not reproduce if there are no homes for the young.
From what I have heard, they will if the conditions are right. Very important key is to make sure to toss in some small empty shells for any newborns to live in. I may be wrong but I think blue-legs will not reproduce if there are no homes for the young.
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therock0861
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I have the empty shells in the tank.
krux
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I'm going to venture a guess that breeding hermits would be like breeding most other fish.... you want to do it in a separante tank, as the lil ones will become food for everything else that you have in the thank with them. Some species i have seen writeups on will eat their own young, so you need to even remove the adults.
Most crustaceans have a planktonic stage if I remember correctly from my school days, so you might have to look into alternate forms of filtration and water movement in your breeding tank, most little floating organisms hate impellers.
I would be interested in reading any web pages that are out there on breeding crabs, seems you could make a killing on emeralds with the prices they are going for in the LFS in comparison to their size if you were able to sell directly to them.
GL
Most crustaceans have a planktonic stage if I remember correctly from my school days, so you might have to look into alternate forms of filtration and water movement in your breeding tank, most little floating organisms hate impellers.
I would be interested in reading any web pages that are out there on breeding crabs, seems you could make a killing on emeralds with the prices they are going for in the LFS in comparison to their size if you were able to sell directly to them.
GL