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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:54 PM
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Day 21: Reminded by Matt to keep things clean, I sucked out some sediment from the bottom of the fishbowl, and there was lots of life in there so I checked under the microscope. It was a collection of harpacticoids. Must have been either tisbe or euterpina. So that's been feeding the boggessi larvae too. They seem quite a lot bigger , although they toss around in the kreisel like they are rag dolls, stopping to wave frantically at food items in the water. They have lots of color on their cute little shrimpy bodies. Perhaps a little more meat is needed for metamorphosis.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, July 19, 2015 5:02 PM
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Getting bigger. I noticed that a couple have lost a spear leg or two. Front antenae are more pronounced, and bodies are beefier. Eyes still on stalks, shrimp still flying like rag dolls on an invisible ferris wheel. Meta will undoubtedly come while I'm away at MBI workshop next weekend.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 5:58 AM
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Day 35: Yay! The first boggessi has settled! Yesterday I did a 50% water change, as both shrimp bowls looked kinda crudy after MBI, although I think that may be irrelevant. It is time for meta to get going with this group. Middle of the night, can't sleep, went downstairs to check on something, and found the transparent little shrimp, benthic, eyes on body, not on stalks, spear legs transformed, looking like a shrimp! Yay!
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 5:36 PM
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Awesome! Congratulations. Now just feed them for 60 days and collect another icon!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 9:50 PM
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Congratulations Kathy!!! The hard part is over! lol
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 10:15 PM
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Thanks guys! It is hard to get a picture of the little guy. Focus is an issue in the plastic fishbowl. Here is the best I could get:
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 10:59 PM
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Congrats. Excellent work!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, July 30, 2015 8:41 AM
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Two now.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, July 30, 2015 8:42 AM
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I've added a transplant heater under the fishbowl. Temperature is now 80F.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, July 31, 2015 11:05 PM
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One of the two is getting to be a pretty pink.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, July 31, 2015 11:09 PM
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These are pictures of the underside of the shrimps. They cling to the side of the fishbowl, and I can set my camera right on the plastic, on autofocus, and get these shots. Seredipidy: I was trying to focus the camera to the other side of the fishbowl, past the flying brine shrimp nauplii, to the settled boggessi on the side, when autofocus caught this. Another shrimp photobombed the shot, and it turned out a lot better, because it was right against the lens.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, July 31, 2015 11:13 PM
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check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, August 1, 2015 8:50 AM
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Those are excellent pics considering these guys are only a centimeter or so long. I can see the individual hairs are their appendages! What camera do you have?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 6:15 AM
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Canon Powershot A750 IS It's a point and shoot. The tank is a plastic 2 gallon fishbowl, and the shrimp are on the other side of the plastic from the lens of the camera. I shot these on autofocus. This camera is not the greatest for many things, but it does close up pretty well, as long as one doesn't want too much control of focal plane. I was happy to capture the detail of the legs (closest to the lens, since these are pix of the underbelly of the shrimps), but I would have liked to focus on the eyes, and I just couldn't manage that.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 12:15 PM
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You got this! Now it's just a waiting for 60 days game.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 4:13 PM
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Thanks Mike, Do I continue to keep them in the fishbowl? Once the boggessi larvae finish all their metas, I was thinking of transferring the wurdemanni larvae in with them, as there are only a few, and they are eating the same stuff.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 6:12 PM
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I think you probably could add the wurdemanni. When mine settled I think I waited a week or so and then moved them to a breeders net for grow out. I can't remember if I have seen you have them or not but Florida aqua farms has really nice breeder nets. The viewing panel on them is clear plastic so you can see them really well.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 7:21 PM
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Thanks, I was wondering where you got those...
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 2, 2015 7:39 PM
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I still only have two meta'd boggessi. The larvae that are left are mostly 2 paddle legged clear larvae with serrated pleopods so long you could braid them. I'm wondering why they don't all just go.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 10:06 PM
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Hey, I found a new one! that makes 3. Pix of almost settled: Got Pleopods? Spear leg in focus: almost there:
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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