When serendipity strikes, I try to go with the flow and ride it as long as I can. The latest wave is my batch of Dermasterias larvae, which are developing nicely for the first four days of life. And now they look just like jellybeans!
They have complete guts now and have already grown a bit, measuring 400-430 µm long. It’s not always easy to catch these guys in the right orientation to take a photo, as they are spinning and swimming through three-dimensional space, but I got lucky:
26 February 2016
© Allison J. Gong
For now I’ve got the larvae divvied up into different feeding treatments. More on that later.