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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Friday, February 7, 2014 8:48 PM
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Day 7, and I still have at least 2. One is bigger than the other. Longer, I should say. they swim all over and are becoming faster swimmers. Sometimes they just hang there in the water column, and as I get the camera ready to take a shot, they are suddenly shy and fast, and dart out of the focal plane.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 2:02 PM
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Way to go! I like keeping the aeration low enough that they spend most of their time hanging in the water column, as you describe, and swimming slowly to hunt. I think that if they spend too much time using that fast swimming motion, that they are probably burning too much energy. Even when they are just hanging there, it is still really difficult to get good pictures of them.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 2:22 PM
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Thanks Jim, I am feeling hopeful. I've done some searching, and can't find any mention of anyone successfully breeding them, so if these two make it, I'll have to purchase some adults and see if I can do it again, or at least document the spawning and hatching parts. I do think that that they must be eating if they have survived this long. Looking at the culture water under the scope, there are a fair number of ciliates and Parvocalanus in there as well as Apocyclops. Given that the pipes are so threadlike at birth, they must need the really small, slow pods to survive. Or maybe its the ciliates. If i can get some adults to spawn for me, I can do a photographic study of the mouth gape, like Jim did, and see what I can see.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:40 PM
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Hey! I have 3! Finally saw them all at the same time in the same spotlight from my flashlight! Happy I am!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:46 PM
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managed to get these, had to crop...
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 8:58 PM
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Adorable!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, February 8, 2014 9:51 PM
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Keep up the good work!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:09 AM
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Thanks guys. I am thrilled!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Sunday, February 9, 2014 1:44 PM
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Today I siphoned some of the crud from the bottom of the tank, and upon examining the siphonate, I saw some rotifers. I did not intentionally add rotifers. The phyto is clearing more frequently now, so perhaps that is why. Probably the rotifers will not take over since I am not feeding the tank as much food as it takes to produce a roaring rotifer explosion. The pipes seem to still be doing well. I am so thrilled that there are three! One of them has a crook to its tail. Possibly an injury from the transfer from the shipping bag. Its a little smaller than the other two, but I think it seems OK otherwise. We shall call him Crooktail. I'm really getting serious 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:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Sunday, February 9, 2014 11:43 PM
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You named him. Kiss of death. You are having really tremendous success so far, Kathy. I hope I didn't just jinx you. Are there still abundant Parvocalanus? If not, I suggest you add some. Good luck!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Monday, February 10, 2014 12:14 AM
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Thanks, there seems to be a fair amount, but I'll add some more tomorrow. This evening one was lying on the floor of the kreisel just before lights out. He rose up at the flashlight, but I'm wondering if all is well or not. How long until I can relax?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Monday, February 10, 2014 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by KathyL
How long until I can relax? In a couple of months .
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Monday, February 10, 2014 9:06 PM
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I think I'll do a water change this evening. I siphoned yesterday, but more crud has collected to the point that it doesn't look like I did anything……... I just finished the water change, and i may have finished Crooktail. I was siphoning, and he got sucked up the siphon and down to the collection jug. Good thing I saw him. Pipetted him back to the kreisel, but I wonder if this was the last straw. The other two pipes seem OK. They did not flee at the sight of the siphon tube, so I'll have to be more careful next time. Checked the stuff I sucked out, and there are a ton of rotifers, boo, and some Parvocalanus, Apocyclops, and the harpacticoid that I'm now finding everywhere. Who knows if this combination is good or bad, but the pipes must be eating something. My buddy Joe took 20 of the babies and put them in a tank with brine shrimp, rotifers, Tigriopus, and some amphipods? Unfortunately, none survived. Just a FYI.
<message edited by KathyL on Monday, February 10, 2014 9:57 PM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:21 PM
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Three alive, Crooktail and all.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:14 PM
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Wonderful! If these develop anything like the flagtails, then they should start to "settle" in the next few days. When that happens, that harpacticoid will come in real handy.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:01 AM
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WHAT DOES SETTLE LOOK LIKE?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:56 PM
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It's pretty subtle, at least with the flagtails it is. They get a little color. They start hanging out near the sides and bottom more, and start hunting off of the surface of the glass a bit more, rather than just hunting out of the water column nearer the top of the bowl. Here is an example of a settled D. excisus: http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/fb.ashx?m=60834 I go into describing what I consider them "settling" in this post here, too: http://www.mbisite.org/Forums/fb.ashx?m=79009
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:42 PM
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Then two of them (not Crooktail, the smallest one) are there! They are hanging out at the bottom and pecking at the sides and bottom of the kreisel. I just thought it was a bad sign.... My guys don't have a flag at the end of their tails. They do have some sparkly dots going down the length of them when I shine the flashlight just right. In a few days, if they are still with me, I'll try to isolate one and get a proper picture. Can it really be settlement? I would be thrilled if it were!
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:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:46 PM
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This sounds like very encouraging news, Kathy!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 5:14 PM
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Thanks, Jim, you have been a treasure!
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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