Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:36:59 GMT

At this point, I can declare that 2 eggs hatch and have now settled. Here is a video (top down) of the fry in their glass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctw5x_meRS8

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:32:19 GMT

Originally Posted by mPedersen

Given 'em another day or two and they'll be swimming around. You made it Mike!

I would say that the 2 most developed ones are settled. They are capable of swimming under their own power. I think it will be a few days on the other three. My plan is to keep them in the glass until all are swimming on their own. I tried to get a pic of the 2 swimming but I didn't turn out very good due to all the artemia in the glass.

EDIT: I did turn down the air flow. I didn't want to beat up the juvi's too bad. They are now feeding in their river of artemia.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mPedersen)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:39:57 GMT

Given 'em another day or two and they'll be swimming around. You made it Mike!

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:22:21 GMT

I just took another look at them. They look a little bit more developed, less of a yolk sac. I did notice some feeding response when I added the artemia. I counted a grand total of 5 at various stages of development. We will see how this goes.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (Fishtal)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:25:53 GMT

Pics are a bit fuzzy but I would say that you should be working on a settlement report...

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:55:04 GMT

Thanks

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (slosht)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:48:03 GMT

Good to see that some of them survived the early pull.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:41:17 GMT

Pics of the baby Banggai - 23 Day post spawn. Notice the yolk sac still at the backside of the fish

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:27:26 GMT

Originally Posted by Fishtal

Very cool that you have survivors.

Thanks. I got some pics. We will see how they turn out.

Originally Posted by mPedersen

Glad to hear so many made it this far. Obviously, benefit of hindsight, you probably could have waited to pull them...

Maybe. They have developed faster upstairs in mouth of the male. The tank upstairs runs warmer than the tank in the basement. Oh well, at least it looks like I will have some fry to work with

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (Fishtal)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:24:06 GMT

Very cool that you have survivors.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mPedersen)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:03:00 GMT

Glad to hear so many made it this far. Obviously, benefit of hindsight, you probably could have waited to pull them...

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:40:17 GMT

Got back from MACNA last night. The eggs were pretty much the same as when I left. I think that I lost some of them. However this morning, I starting to see little Banggai emerge from the yolk sacs. They haven't completely hatched yet but probably will do so in the next couple of days

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:19:15 GMT

I went down and took a look this morning and everything looks good. Right now they look like tiny larvae with a yolk sac attached. Some of them look like they are trying to swim.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:04:26 GMT

Originally Posted by Fishtal

I see that you got them out, cool!

Yeah, that was harder than I thought it would be. Oh and by the way, don't put them in a tank with snails. The snails went right towards the eggs. I had to pull all of them out

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (Fishtal)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:34:51 GMT

I see that you got them out, cool!

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:29:08 GMT

Alright, I pulled the eggs. They are incubating in the glass in growout tank.

Here are some pics. 18 days post spawn

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:20:55 GMT

Pretty much decided the I am going to pull the eggs on Wednesday before I leave for MACNA, which would be Day 18. I set up a nursery in an unoccupied 20G that I have plumbed into my broodstock system Here a couple of pics.

Makeshift egg tumbler

Fake urchin

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mhowe9)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:53:05 GMT

Thanks Matt!

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mPedersen)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:04:24 GMT

Oh and BTW, greenwater with these guys is going to be worthless. They need copepods or baby brine shrimp. Someone is going to have to feed in...rotifers...I have a hard time believing they'd even elicit a feeding response.

Re:Banggai release date during MACNA, pull or not before (mPedersen)

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:12:20 GMT

If you pull them one or two days prematurely, they will do just fine in a tumbler with the circulation. If you do something like my vase setup with the controlled water feed, you can even submerge the top and once they're up and swimming they can leave the vase on their own accord. Just be sure FOOD is ready while you're gone.

Strip that male and they'll be fine!