Millions of fidler crabs

[paul b]

:blush:Well Ok maybe hundreds.

I collect fiddler crabs for food for my burfish and also because they are just interesting.

Occasionally, like today, they spawn and I am burried in tiny fiddler crab fry.

At birth they are a little larger then baby brine shrimp and are born alive.

The female keeps the eggs under her belly for a week or two then releases them when they hatch.

I have them in a seperate tank but I strained out a few dozen for my reef where they will be coral food.

They will not reach adulthood as these things have been spawning in there for decades and I have yet to find an adult in my tank.

They are not really true sub marine crabs and spend half of their time out of the water when the tide goes out. I collect them on the edges of tide pools when the tide goes out and they are very common

[CHUBAKAH]

[treesprite]

My thought exactly.

[paul b]

They are the tiny specs you see in this video, they hatched just before I took this. If you look close, you will see them zip around

[paul b]

[Steve G]

Awesome. Whenever I go to Cape Cod (every summer) I see huge colonies of fiddlers on the bay. You see holes in the tidal flats everywhere. They make me happy. Except of course you're interested in them for feeding, but still.

[Charlie]

They also make good bait for tautog.