Water Scavenger kicked the bucket

[P.jasonius]

After three egg masses my water scavenger beetle kicked the bucket today She left me around 100 larvae to try and keep alive though lol

EDIT: This is Leila Nami lol

 

[P.jasonius]

After three egg masses my water scavenger beetle kicked the bucket today She left me around 100 larvae to try and keep alive though lol

EDIT: This is Leila Nami lol

Leila Nami again lol
Well for the second time I had a 100% mortality for the beetle larvae. We tried a different method for the second egg mass since the first one also had all died. We can't really figure out what's going on. We followed a laboratory paper on how they kept the larvae and they had an approximate 40% survival rate...Now I have no more beetles

 

[Galapoheros]

Doood!, no pics? Not that I like to look at dead stuff but I was wondering what the eggs and the small larvae looked like. I bet the paper recommends shallow water(?)

 

[P.jasonius]

We actually have some pictures of the first mass of larvae and a few of the momma. I'll dig them up. The paper mentioned anywhere from one gallon jars to aquariums for enclosures.

We tried separating them into a compartmentalized case so they had no filter (use of a filter is not mentioned in the paper nor is the depth of the water) It was rather shallow. The second go we kept them in the 10 gallon where they hatched with a filter designed to prevent turtle scutes from clogging it. They died even faster.
The larvae lasted the longest about three days.

They were really cool too. Very voracious and you could tong feed them blood worms and they would go absolutely nuts.

Here are the pictures of the egg mass, the larvae hatching, and the momma. (they really do have a short lifespan )

 

[zonbonzovi]

Neat! Do you have the citation for the paper you were using?

 

[LeilaNami]

Neat! Do you have the citation for the paper you were using?

I tried looking for the paper again. I had originally found it through a google search but I can't seem to dig it back up. Sorry
Edit: Now that I said that, we just found it again! Here's the link to the paper
http://etd.lib.ttu.edu/theses/available/etd-08212009-31295015506636/unrestricted/31295015506636.pdf