Breeding Journal, Species: Serranus annularis

General
Species: Serranus annularis - Orange Back Basslet
Social Structure: pairs in the wild.  Simultaneous / Synchronous hermaphrodites (fish are both male and female at the same time)
Size of Individuals: 3"
Age of Individuals: unknown, they were wild collected
Date added to Tank: 3-19-2009

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank: 24 gallon Nanocube
Substrate Details: live sand
Filtration Details: stock
Water Changes: generally 25% per week
Water Temperature: 78-82F
Lighting: stock PC
Lighting Cycle: 13 hours on
Other Tank Inhabitants: Amphiprion percula...and other fish have come and gone.  Currently (Dec. '09) a Powder Blue Tang and Cleaner Wrasse also share the tank.

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types: These guys pretty much only eat frozen foods and freeze dried plankton.  I give a wide variety of mysis, brine, formula mixes, and occasionally squid
Feeding Schedule: 2-3 times daily

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn: need to go look it up.
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: n/a - to date, have only witnessed the one spawn captured on video recording

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I promise, I will get that video dug up at some point in my lifetime!!!

More details to come...I've spent the last half hour digging through my files trying to find the spawning video (long story short, I let the film run for an hour...and I *may* never have even taken it off the DVD yet as my video editting software, at that time, had gone kaput!)

Haven't posted many pictures of this pair either, but here's two:

FINALLY FOUND THE VIDEO and got it editted!  Check it out on Youtube!

Cool video.

http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage
"Making captive breeding easier."

I embeded it in the page for you Matt.


Very Cool BTW

Chad Penney - MBI Council
Agis quod Adis

You see lots of fish tanks on the web and youtube, but you never really see fish that just look happy like these do in your system Matt.  And the fact you run your broodstock in these makes me kick myself for selling my aquapod and jbl 'cube!

Great fish.

Not only that, are those perc's laying at the same time?!  And dear god man, don't you know the Tang police will be out now to slam you for keeping a Tang (even though it looks fat and healthy and happy) in such a small tank!

Thanks!


Thanks again!




I'm guessing that the percs had a nest already laid and they're just tending it.  That tang was actually a rescue..you could see it's spine running down it's side.  Hard to realize but gee...I've had that tang probably a year now, and it's still as fat and happy as can be in the cube but significantly larger than in that video! (although there is a 92 in the garage, t-minus 2 months to setup if all goes well...and he's destined for it).

Oh, and for the record, the Powder Blue is probably the least of everyone's worries.  You totally overlooked the CLEANER WRASSE (which I also still have) as well as the Harlequin or Orange Spotted Filefish (that particular specimen I lost as a result of our move to Duluth last fall).

I did notice the filefish in there Matt

Chad Penney - MBI Council
Agis quod Adis