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Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus ocellatus
Friday, November 13, 2009 8:08 PM
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Breeding Journal DataSheet This first post should be updated regularly to include new information as events take place or changes are made to your system General Species: Synchiropus ocellatus Social Structure: Size of Individuals: 2" Age of Individuals: Unknown Date added to Tank: 11-13-09 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 28 gallon Substrate Details: Aragonite Filtration Details: Filter floss, Chemipure elite, Brightwell Purigen. 5 Gallon refugium Water Changes: 5-10 gallons weekly Water Temperature: 75-82 Lighting: 150 watt radium 20k, 2X18 watt PC Actinic's. 4X 1 watt LED moonlights Lighting Cycle: Actinics on 14 hours, Halide on 10 hours and moonlights always on. Other Tank Inhabitants: Seahare, clams and typical CUC. Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Hikari bloodworms, Hikari mysis shrimp and cyclopeeze Feeding Schedule: 2-3 times daily Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 11-17-09 9:30pm Dates of Consecutive Spawns: NA Larval Tank Details Temperature: NA Size of Larval Tank: NA Substrate Details: NA Other Tank Decor: NA Filtration Details: NA Lighting: NA Lighting Cycle: NA Water Changes: NA Larval Feeding Details Food Types: NA Feeding Schedule: NA Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Metamorphosis: NA Date of Settlement:NA Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: NA Size of Grow-Out Tank: NA Substrate Details: NA Other Tank Decor: NA Filtration Details: NA Lighting: NA Lighting Cycle: NA Water Changes: NA Size at Transfer: NA Age at Transfer NA Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: NA Feeding Schedule: NA Additional Information Miscellaneous Information:
<message edited by D3monic on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:59 PM>
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Friday, November 13, 2009 8:14 PM
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Meet Scoots and Boogie my new Scooter pair. I have had Scoots for several weeks and just picked up the male today. It was love at first sight. He has been flashing her like crazy and turning a bright blue color. She was quick to show him where the food is. I am not ready to raise any fry yet. I have 2 five gallon copopod cultures but no rotifers. I could set up a larvae tank in 10mins flat though.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:07 PM
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Female is gravid this evening. Hopefully the male feels up to the task. Heres a video of them eating dinner....yes the seahare is eating too. He is a wierd little guy but better than it starving to death.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:00 PM
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Got a spawn tonight! 11-17-09 surprisingly at the same time my Mandarins would spawn 9:30ish pm. Unlike the Mandarins eggs these are positively buoyant and stayed in their strands thankfully. Made for a easy collection.
<message edited by D3monic on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:35 PM>
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:29 PM
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Oddly the eggs possess a oil globule. This came as a surprise to me considering Mandarin eggs did not have one. I would never of guessed that Ocellatus and Splendidus would differ so much.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:15 AM
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here's a pic from this morning. They are floating in a container in my DT that is sitting at 76 degrees. I assume at those low temperatures that the eggs will take longer to develop.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:47 AM
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Very cool! Any tips on keeping a pod culture going?
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Arc Katana
Very cool! Any tips on keeping a pod culture going? Not really. Pods are rather easy to culture. I just use a 5 gallon bucket with several chunks of filter sponge. Keep a airline gently bubbling and feed a few drops of T. Iso paste every couple of days. I dont try and keep heavy cultures at this point but I assume upping feedings and sponge (living) material would do the trick. Fertilization confirmation. Egg development slowed due to low temps of hatching container. 17 Hours post spawn.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:50 PM
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Caught a spawn on video. This is thier second spawn. Broodstock has been together 5 days now. Does not look like eggs where fertilized but difficult to tell under actinics. ]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:55 PM
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Very Cool.. Thanks for sharing that with us.
Chad Penney - MBI Council Agis quod Adis
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:31 AM
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:15 PM
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Got another spawn this evening. I Missed the spawn but collected eggs at 10:00pm
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Friday, November 20, 2009 8:28 PM
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I lost all my previous eggs and larvae to what looked like a really small type of ciliates. Eggs and larvae where completly covered in them. Thats what I get for using parental tank water instead of fresh SW. I did get another spawn today though. That makes four days in a row.
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Friday, November 20, 2009 11:08 PM
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I'm so amazed they're spawning with such a short time together..... It's awesome!
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:25 PM
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Thanks K's Mom I am kind of supprised too. On that note I got yet another spawn tonight. I decided to get my butt in gear and set up the 10gal and kreisel. I will post some pics when I am done.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:40 PM
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:01 AM
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Cool setup. Did you see the design somewhere else?
Chad Penney - MBI Council Agis quod Adis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:10 AM
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No just kind of winged it. It didnt really work too well. I have alittle mesh where the line comes in and the line allready disslodged but the power head provides enough flow to keep things off the bottom of the kreisel.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:53 AM
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I currently have five fry left. I am shocked that they have made it this far since I do not have any rotifer cultures. I have been sieving my copopod cultures and apparently they are finding enough naups. I did things differently than normal and it appears to be working. I did not use a air line as usual and just kind of let the water in the tank and kreisel slowly mix. There are virtually no currents in the kreisel. The pod naups are congregating at the waters surface and the fry are all up there striking and feeding. The lack of current is is allowing the pods to concentrate which is making up for the lack of numbers for the fry. I do fear water quality may become an issue with all the empty egg casings in the bottom so I will have to do some maintenance tonight. I lost track of how old this batch is. I would have to say somewhere around 4-5 days.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:44 PM
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I have had the lights off in the kreisel for two days.I turned the lights on for no real reason. I was sitting at my desk when I noticed 3-4 fry swimming around in there. No idea how old they are. I would say 4-5days maybe. They where swimming very activly. I tried to syphon one with a pipette but it wouldnt let me get close to it. They where hunting these little guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDIxjpWUYnQ The entire surface was covered in a thick mass of them. This was the same magnification as the video above. They are definatly small enough to be consumed but big enough to make a meal.
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