Arrow Eggs?

[dbh]

I took a solo dive trip to Bonaire last week. On my last night dive, I ran into what I thought was a pregnant Arrow Crab. All of the sudden it started spewing eggs (I am assuming).

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/Bon06%20Arrow01.jpg

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/Bon06%20Arrow02.jpg

http://www.myunderwaterworld.com/Bon06%20Arrow03.jpg

[adshepard]

I think those are the young being born.

Stolen from some website:

"In the course of mating, the male Arrow Crab will hold the female Arrow Crab against his belly so that he can place a sperm packet into the female. Once the female has been fertilized she will carry her eggs underneath her abdomen until the eggs are ready to hatch. The babies that emerge are called zoea, and once they are born they swim towards the surface of the ocean and feed on small plankton."

Again that is a super behavioral shot.

DSDO

Alan

[Clay Coleman]

Wow, David! Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Excellent stuff. -Clay

[dbh]

Thanks for the info (& compliment) Alan!


Dave

[Jonathan Bird]

WoW! WOW! WOW! Fanfriggintastic! Talk about good timing AND having the good sense to know you are witnessing something truly magnificent AND not screwing it up! GREAT job! Those are the kinds of images that set the good photographers apart from the average ones. Well done!

Jonathan

[David White]

Absolutely excellent! Well done. You should enter these in the second photo contest and sell them to all the magazines. Now if only I could have been there with the video camera.

[Daniel]

Congratulations on witnessing a magical moment and capturing it so beautifully.

Thank you for sharing your photo's with all of us.

Daniel