Need some help hermit crab gave birth

[jkef2010]

Need some help.

Came up to check the tank out of the blue and my hermit crab was squirting out babys there everywhere. Any chance they will survive I have no fish in the tank at all.

 

[jkef2010]

 

[Bismark]

I looked in my tank earlyer and had the same looking things swimming everywhere I thought it was mysis shrimp breeding I see that happened like 2 times a week next time I see I'm going to have to look close to hermits

 

[jkef2010]

I thought it was the same thing until I watched a video on here and it looked identical to what was going on in my tank.

 

[Squishie89]

Need some help.

Came up to check the tank out of the blue and my hermit crab was squirting out babys there everywhere. Any chance they will survive I have no fish in the tank at all.

It is possible a few might survive, but I would say unlikely. Fry usually need a special diet of rotifers or phyto or BBS. They also usually need low flow to be able to settle.

 

[jkef2010]

It is possible a few might survive, but I would say unlikely. Fry usually need a special diet of rotifers or phyto or BBS. They also usually need low flow to be able to settle.

Well when it happened I did turn all my flow off for about an hour or two. But I don't have the food so I doubt any will live, was a great experience to say the least though