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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Monday, September 12, 2011 5:40 PM
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Thanks, Duck, I'll do the same.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Monday, September 12, 2011 5:48 PM
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I just picked up a pair, hopefully, today to go in my new pico. Thought I'd give them a try again. I plan on not heating them after what you said.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Monday, September 12, 2011 6:03 PM
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Keep me posted!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:20 AM
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76F ambient temp. Waiting...
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:06 PM
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Here it is May 9, 2012, and I had nearly given up on my neons. I have 4 left, and all I do is feed them every day and do water changes occasionally. They were at 72 all winter, and its been warming up a bit, but all my thermometers broke, so I am just guessing on temperature recently. I pretty much gave up on the neons. I rarely check the PVC pipes for eggs, but when I did this morning I was rewarded for my patience. We have eggs. When they are not spawning it is impossible to tell male from female. Now that they are spawning, the male is the largest one, and he guards the nest. The next largest is aggressed on by the male, so he's probably male as well. The next to last smallest one is allowed near the male and the nest, so that's the spawning female. The smallest one must be a remaining female, or underdeveloped male. Next I'll put the non-spawning pair together in their own tank, and see what transpires.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:03 PM
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great news wish mine would get a shifty on!!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:20 PM
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I let the first nest go, and haven't moved the pairs out yet. They just laid another nest that showed up yesterday morning, so Probably Friday was the day. Not many eggs, but I may give it a go this time. Temperature: I've unplugged their heater, and let it go to room temp. Today it was 73. I got a new thermometer. Earlier in the week it was 78 in the basement, then we turned the AC on in the house. Still don't know what the ideal temperature is...
<message edited by KathyL on Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:22 PM>
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:09 PM
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This morning there were no more eggs. Eaten or hatched? I need to pay more attention to when they are laid.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:14 PM
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Yeah, you need to keep an eye on them to predict the hatch date, they don't give you much leeway. On one batch I was lucky enough to find a few hatchlings near the surface when I missed a hatch.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, June 16, 2012 6:38 PM
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The spawning pair is in their own tank and have laid a small nest. The other pair went in with a non-spawning Darwin ocellaris pair. The clownfish tormented the male, and I found him dead one morning. I had not seen the tiny female and assumed she had gone down the drain and was lost in the sump which has the remains of my live rock, so there is no way she will ever be removed from there. Then one morning I saw her in the tank with the clownfish, so she was just hiding after all. The clowns don't like sharing their tank, so I ned to find a new home for her.
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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, June 16, 2012 7:06 PM
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Kathy, My neons spawn regularly at 80deg F. I would have to go look at the calendar but about every 11 days ish and have been for several months.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:16 PM
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The one spawning pair kept their eggs for a full 7 days this time, so I think that now that they don't have to fight off the other male, they will do fine. Just need them to spawn again, and I expect that any day 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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:16 PM
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The one spawning pair kept their eggs for a full 7 days this time, so I think that now that they don't have to fight off the other male, they will do fine. Just need them to spawn again, and I expect that any day 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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:16 PM
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repeat post
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:37 AM>
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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:27 PM
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Excellent new Kathy! I have my fingers crossed for you.
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:30 PM
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Well, June was a long time ago. The spawning pair was moved to a cube system so I could redo the bank of tanks the gobies were located near. They stopped spawning. Around beginning of September they started again, I let the first nest go, and collected the second nest. They hatched out very surprisingly between 7 and 8 one morning, and there were a lot of them, but I did not set up a sump for them, and my cavalier way of doing water changes seemed to kill them off. This time, for the next nest, I had tons of rotifers, and had prepared a nice larval tank with sump for them. Unfortunately, the female perished immediately after they spawned, so this is the last batch for a while... I would say also "unfortunately", the eggs hatched the evening before my early morning plane ride to MACNA. But I left my darling daughter in charge, with little expectation that I would have any larvae left upon my return, and "fortunately", I was wrong--darling daughter did a good job, and they looked fine at my arrival home. I gave her a tip in addition to the payment for a job well done. The gobie larvae are 2 weeks old today, and looking fine. I have not started NHBS, as I have Apocyclops panamensis in the rotifer soup they are living in, and I imagine they are eating them and that it is a better food for them as well. I may try some Oto A soon.
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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:00 PM
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Great update Kathy! (besides losing the female)
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Friday, October 12, 2012 7:04 AM
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Hi can I ask what Apocyclops panamensis are and how you would go about using them I ask because I'm in a simular position with Oceanops at two weeks and there is some sort of larger creature in with my roti's, and I'm sure I've seen them hovering them off the sides of the brt
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:35 PM
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RLTW 180 Gallon Mixed Reef Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:51 PM
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well, I don't know about that, but RGRKIng has a great supply of A panamensis! I am just putting some in the tank with the rotifers. After a week or so, they multiply like crazy.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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