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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 siphoned ...

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Could you comment on what camera/lighting you used for the extreme close-up shots?
Thanks.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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This is the most mature one I've gotten a pic of so far.

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Top view of one of her beautiful kids.

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I cheated on next two pics below by rotating them 90 degrees so they fit on the screen better. :lol:
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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 ...

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.

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In this close up of the same pic you can see baby eyes, very appreciative baby eyes. :-D

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The pic below was taken the day after she died; her body is ...

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 ...

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:

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Apparently newborn larvae can only ...

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.

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So I set up a 10-gal tank with a nursery net thingie and ...