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Tonight in the Bookshelf tank:

Tonight... Lovely algae (could be diatoms, I guess) in this tank. Everyone seems to like it.

Rob in Puyallup wrote:I have live aragonite sand in two of my brackish opae ula tanks. Used it right out of the bag with no problems.

...and have opae larvae in both tanks.

In the full marine 10 gallon tank. Hermits and Sexy Shrimp with a few other inverts...

One of the shrimpets this morning... Must be at least 10 in the tank.

Yes, Ken. Larvae are now in both the Bookshelf and the original 10 gallon tank. Still no larvae in the "accepted" tank, and still only 2 or 3 shrimp showing at a time. I've attempted to feed the "accepted" tank, though the food goes ignored. I end up fishing it out. (Food is imme...

In amongst the caulerpa:

A closeup of one of the larva:

Look what I found in the original filtered, etc 10 gallon tank a few minutes ago. I didn't even know there was a "full term" berried opae ula in the tank.

There's at least 5 shrimplets. Lots to hide behind in this tank, including live rock and macro algae, so there could be more.

I have live aragonite sand in two of my brackish opae ula tanks. Used it right out of the bag with no problems.

Can't wait for the larvae to be released, Ken!

A ways to go, though.

Dang, Harry, I may have to try that with my new 10 gallon tank. The most I ever see is three out of nearly 25 of them.

The tank is covered, though, so in order to do it I may have to drain a bit of the water first...

The berried opae did show up for the first time in a week today!

After a week (literally!) of anxiety, the berried opae ula made her first appearance in the un-everything 10 gallon tank:

Happy camper here!

Hi Jill,

How are the larvae doing?

I haven't had any more berried opae in my original tank since the three gave "birth" at the end of January.

Thinking it's gonna be one of those "wait and see" things.

The new home to the hermits, Sexy Shrimp and assorted inverts...

Dig the new actinic LED.