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I currently have three berried females alone in the 10-gal nursery tank + whatever is left of around 40 larvae a week or two old in the net "tank" hanging in the 10-gal. Last night i noticed another female was ready to hatch her eggs since several eggs were hanging down, and this morning I...

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Could you comment on what camera/lighting you used for the extreme close-up shots? Thanks. set up1.jpg About my gear and macro techniques: Nikon D200 DSLR (it is best to set it to shoot RAW format if your camera can) Trusty 30-year old Nikon micro Nikkor 105mm f2.8 lens Nikon PB-6 bellows extension...

I've tried to culture infusoria but fail so it's nice Hikari makes First Bites fry food. I'll try again to culture infusoria; it may increase my dismal survival rate. When the kids are a week old they start getting freshly hatched brine shrimp. I've been doing this for a few months now and it is har...

I've been doing this a few months now and have witnessed several egg hatchings and they frequently follow a molt, not always though. Here is what remains after mom crawls out of her exoskeleton after outgrowing it. Exo.jpg This is the most mature one I've gotten a pic of so far. happy kid.jpg This i...

Top view of one of her beautiful kids. 100.jpg I cheated on next two pics below by rotating them 90 degrees so they fit on the screen better. :lol: In Java Moss.jpg You can tell by the arched backs below that these guys have already been through a molt or two, but they need to molt more before they ...

See the remaining eggs under her swimmerets on the left?
Close up of same pic:

You can tell she had not been dead long because her body was still translucent. Later it turned white/pink. savebabies.jpg In this close up of the same pic you can see baby eyes, very appreciative baby eyes. :-D close up2.jpg The pic below was taken the day after she died; her body is turning opaque...

I used a tube to suck the babies out of the main tank and transfer them into that hanging net-tank. With the empty tube out of water I used a finger of my left hand to seal the tube. Slowly move the other end of the tube near a larva. Let finger go so water, and the larva, rush in. Put finger back a...

At near the maximum magnification of my photography gear, here's a close up of a larva emerging from an egg under mama. He just hung there for several minutes then quickly flitted away. He probably didn't want to become a snack for mother. :shock: born.jpg Apparently newborn larvae can only float ve...

Several months ago I bought a few (what I think is) ghost shrimp for my large goldfish tank and soon noticed some green gunk growing under one of them. Worried that it may be some disease I Goggled it, and of course they were eggs. 1.jpg So I set up a 10-gal tank with a nursery net thingie and tried...