Roy has a lot of lab experience with A. aculeatus and not succeeded in raising the young (nor have any of our hobbiest members). I believe 21 days is the longest any hatchlings have survived and the most reported time has been about a week. I have seen three studies with minimal success rearing small egg vulgaris, joubini and a forgotten Alaskan species. I believe two of the three were reared in flow through sea water tanks but don't recall if the Texas study on joubini was a synthetic water environment. I do remember the Alaskan paper commenting on using a particular crab larvae as food and attributed that, at least in part, to their success. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost reference to the article.
TONMO members have had limited success with a few popular and aquarium safe large egg species. To the best of my recollection, members have raised O. mercatoris, O. chierchiae, O. bimaculoides and O. brieareus with O. bimaculoides having the largest number of surviving offspring.
TONMO members have had limited success with a few popular and aquarium safe large egg species. To the best of my recollection, members have raised O. mercatoris, O. chierchiae, O. bimaculoides and O. brieareus with O. bimaculoides having the largest number of surviving offspring.