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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:22 AM
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Awesome. That's exactly what I wanted to know What size sieve do you use to strain them? I imagine you're only catching the first stages of nauplii if you're also straining for S rots. Joe
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:46 PM
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i've used a 53 micron screen. Recently I tried to catch something smaller with a 27 micron after the 53 micron, and got nothing, so all the value is in the 53 micron.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Friday, April 12, 2013 10:31 PM
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Well, an update is in order. I have one for sure, and maybe more 17 day old gobies in with a LOT more 7 day gobies. Everyone is eating well and darting around. They all seem to like the same lighting and flow levels, as I see them in a cloud of larvae very near the area of highest light and also near, but not in, the flow from the airstone. I've been pretty consistant with rotifer levels, and I have a culture of small size rots. There are A. pananmensis in there, and I am feeding the tank with Rotigreen frequently so the rotifers are never empty. Light, a single 18 watt CFL, is going 24/7. I have a good feeling about this batch.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, April 13, 2013 7:20 PM
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Congrats it's sounding good
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:17 AM
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4 days later, and they are bigger, and still going strong. I can feel my luck getting better! Mr Long is 21 days old, and the rest are 11 days, and I think passed some critical point. Mr Long is less transparent, thicker than the rest, but still no color. I will look anxiously for it each day….
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Monday, April 22, 2013 11:35 PM
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Mr Long would be 27 days old now. I could not find him, for the past few days. It may be that he passed, or it may be that the others have had a jump in size, and now he is not so different from the crowd. A couple of days ago, I dropped a 3/4 inch white PVC elbow in the tank, and now I can see little goby larvae silhouetted by the white. The tub has become a soup of rotifers, A. panamensis, and algae. I skim the bubbles off each day and top up the volume with fresh water. I've been adding a lot of rotifers every day, and enough rotigreen omega to keep them fed. The gobies have become noticeably larger and more opaque. Tonight, I noticed one perching on the white elbow. It appears to have a black stripe down its length, but it's hard to tell, through the soup. If this is Mr. Long, that goby is 27 days old, and I would expect it to be going through metamorphosis by now. The rest of them are 17 days old. There are 15-20 little darters, I think.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:16 PM
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The one perching on the elbow is darker today. I think it is Mr. Long. Feeding them rotifers, A. panamensis, and the tiny-est pinch of Oto A.
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>
Friday, April 26, 2013 1:00 AM
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Elbo percher must be Mr. Long, and must have entered meta, though I can't see clearly through the soup, and he never surfaces, so I could be wrong. The others are growing, getting more opaque, and I can see pectoral and cauldal fins now on the larger ones.
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>
Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:25 AM
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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: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:59 PM
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Had a good view today of a black goby perching on the side of the tub with a neon blue stripe from nose to tail! Several more with black stripes, many have disappeared. I hope they are perching, and not some other fate.
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, May 9, 2013 12:08 AM
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More than a week later, most of the gobies have settled, and metamorphosed! It is amazing that something so small and transparent could become a full bodied fish with a light reflecting neon blue stripe! They are still hard to see, and impossible to photograph, as they hide when I bring the camera out. About a week ago, my rotifers stopped multiplying, and the water got very green. They have since been replenished/recovered, so the water clears periodically, enough to see to the mulm at the bottom of the tub. Today I counted 11 settled darters, with two large larvae showing signs of transformation. It wasn't a very big nest, so I am pretty happy with this yield. I do feel like I am back in the saddle again, having been able to raise them. The parental units have not spawned on schedule, so I don't have another nest to wait for. I think I'll transfer these to a growout tank when the last ones meta, and start a new tub when I get eggs again. Maybe I'll paint the tub bottom white to facilitate viewing, or try a rectangular glass tank.
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>
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:51 PM
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Here's what's making me happy in the fish room these days: Still in the larval tub, recently weaned to Otohime B1: There are 12 - 13 little gobies in there!
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>
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:57 PM
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Excellent!
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Monday, September 2, 2013 10:54 PM
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The parents were moved to an unheated tank last month to facilitate their breeding. I think it got too hot for them in the system with the clownfish. While I was at MACNA they laid a small nest! They didn't eat it today. I don't see eyes in the eggs. We shall see.
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, September 4, 2013 6:10 AM
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Hi Kathy what temp is your un heated tank? And how long we're they in it before a spawn?
<message edited by matt1001 on Wednesday, September 4, 2013 6:21 AM>
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:39 PM
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The tank is about 77F right now. It's been hot in STL, and although the house is air conditioned and the basement is more stable than the upper floors, there is a range of temperatures in the basement depending on the weather, and whether we run the AC or the heater. In the winter the tank will need a heater as it will go down to 62F, but in the summer it will stay at around 78F while the AC is on. With no heater in the summer it will stay at 78F, and with a tiny powerhead, 80F. They were in it for about a month before the first spawn in it. They ate those eggs a couple days after they spawned, and since they've done this before, and I really want to try gobies again, I will artificially incubate the eggs the next time. And the next time is here. This morning mama gobie looked like she could explode, and i guess she did, because I came home from work to a nice nest of eggs. This evening, I cleaned out a bucket, put fresh saltwater, a tiny heater (80F), and 2 drops per gallon of methylene blue. Added an airstone, and put the pipe with the eggs so that some of the bubbles flowed through it. I attached the pipe vertically to the side of the bucket with a heater suction cup bracket thingy. I rubber banded the airstone so it sits underneath. Now we wait...
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, September 11, 2013 9:42 PM
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The parental gobies were purchased from ORA September 2011, spawned the following May, so they are more than 2 years old. I was told that they only live two years, so perhaps that was wrong. I have another batch that I purchased from Sustainable, and they are still young. We shall see.
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, October 5, 2013 12:38 AM
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Just got a lot of 6 we'll see how they go.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Saturday, October 5, 2013 5:01 PM
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I have a pair that I raised my self so I can test the age theory, as I have a sob for both of them
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: <Elacatinus Oceanops>
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:54 AM
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For the past couple of days the male has not been eating and I witnessed some tender care of the male by the also elderly female. She has a bent back, but is still lively and eating. Papa passed away sometime during the day. So that makes more than 2 years for the life a captive neon gobie. Rest in peace, Papa Gobie!
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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