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The eggs you have are planktinic. If they are like some recent eggs I was contacted about you may have less than two weeks. I go collecting all the time at cape ann. It may be tuff to get enough food the correct size 100-400u . Most of the atlantic plankton are isopods and amphipods way to large for the larvae. You can get copepod blums and crab zoea though this time of year .The young will be planktonic for quite awhile. With doing plankton trawls you will need to keep a eye out for hydroids that will grow and sting your young. Your idea is your best chance. I would skip the potting soil and gather some silty ocean mud or shallow water sand. I would caution about leaving the ocean water out side though, it will cook in hours in this heat. Filtration will be the other challenge. I have been working on a way to rear planktonic young. I have some new ideas but nothing tested just yet. I do have access to vast amounts of rotifers, and all the live phytoplankton I can carry home. There is also a copepod that is the correct size range I have been experimenting with, I have been able grow vast amounts in short time. Crab & shrimp zoea are the real key. Ihave been tossing around a few ideas with a new species I have been working with. Even the New England Aquarium was very excited by my idea for rearing GPO paralarvae. Having the food and quantity at the right time is hardest part.
Timing is everything.
-chris
Timing is everything.
-chris