Saw the most awesomest thing last night

[fkshiu]

Peeked in with the moonlights on and see a bunch of my scarlet hermits congregating at the top of one of the rock structures which was a bit unusual since they don't go up that high very often.

Then I see one of them looking like it's trying to pop out of its shell. I though it was molting, but then zillions of little baby hermits can flooding out! A great sight in see in the "moonlight" and it was midnight snacking time for everyone else.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Crazy little cannibals. Cool :)

[Moogled]

Textbook horror movie moment.

[bv_reefer]

-any survivors?

[Pier Pressure]

That is so totally cool. Too bad you could not have syphoned them out into a breeder net and raised them. That would be some cool pictures, and you could sell hermit babies to us!

[Mik_101]

Yah that sucks ks that you didn't scoop them up and put the in a brreder tank to raise them.

[justinl]

sweeet. that woulda been something to see for sure.

[fkshiu]

I briefly thought about scooping some up but attempting to raise even a few would be near impossible on several levels.

I think they were at the top of the rock because that's were the current is greatest. The babies had dispersed everywhere throughout the tank in a few moments. And even if I were lucky enough to scoop a few up with a brine shrimp net, I'm not really equipped at the moment to set up a breeder. Even then I have no idea what to feed them - maybe phyto? They were the size of baby brine shrimp!

Tried to take a few pics but my crappy old Canon A40 couldn't take a good macro shot to save its life.