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  Change Page: 12 > | Showing page 1 of 2, messages 1 to 20 of 25 - powered by ASPPlayground.NET Forum Trial Version Author Message DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Saturday, January 2, 2010 6:30 PM (permalink) 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: Chromis Viridis (Blue Green Chromis) Social Structure: school of 15 Size of Individuals: 1.5 to 2.5" Age of Individuals: est 2 to 8 yrs Date added to Tank: 2003-2008 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank:450g display,approx. 550g total system size Substrate Details:2-4" sandbed Filtration Details:protein skimmer, live rock,nitrate reactor Water Changes: 10% approx every 6 weeks Water Temperature:79-82 Lighting:MH Lighting Cycle:approx 10.5 hrs day Other Tank Inhabitants: full mixed reef, LPS dominant Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Mysis, Spectrum pellets, misc coral foods Feeding Schedule: 1-2 times a day Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: Mid-2007 Spawn Time of Day: various Dates of Consecutive Spawns: almost constant spawns occurring between various members of the group CourtShip Details: Egg Size: .5mm Egg Color: white Egg Count: est 400-500 Hatch Details Hatch Date: Hatch Time of Day: # Days after Spawn: Larve Description: Larval Tank Details Temperature: Size of Larval Tank: Substrate Details: Other Tank Decor: Filtration Details: Lighting: Lighting Cycle: Water Changes: Larval Feeding Details Food Types: Feeding Schedule: Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start: Days after Hatch: Date of Settlement End: Description of Fry: Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: Size of Grow-Out Tank: Substrate Details: Other Tank Decor: Filtration Details: Lighting: Lighting Cycle: Water Changes: Size at Transfer: Age at Transfer Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: Feeding Schedule: Additional Information Miscellaneous Information:   #1 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Saturday, January 2, 2010 8:07 PM (permalink) Eggs: And I was surprised to see this! Looks like some of the eggs were laid in a previous spawn? I now have larvae hatched and swimming!   #2 witt Total Posts : 49 Reward points : 97 Joined: 10/31/2009 Location: Melbourne, FL Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Sunday, January 3, 2010 7:30 AM (permalink) This is exciting. Chromis are an interesting genus compared with other damsels, and most demersal spawners for that matter, in that they hatch prematurely - a prolarvae of sorts. They require a day or 2 in the water column to develop to the first feeding stage with mouth and gut fully formed.   #3 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:07 AM (permalink) Thanks Witt Sorry to take so long to reply, had a family issue that commanded most of my time the last few days. By the first morning all larvae were dead. The air had slowed to almost non-existant and I awoke to a cloudy mess. I am working on getting a food source going and will try again soon. The Chromis are still spawning almost constantly so I have no shortage of eggs to work with.    #4 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, January 15, 2010 7:58 AM (permalink) Well I am ready to go again. I have rotifers ready, and a larvae tank all ready. There are currently 3 large females with ovipositor extended, 1 that has a male spawning with her so far. Hoping to have a good batch of eggs to pull tonight. By the way, I am about 99% positive the females make a drumming noise when fighting.   #5 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Monday, January 18, 2010 9:02 AM (permalink) New batch hatching as I type this! Didn't expect a hatch this time of day?   #6 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Monday, January 18, 2010 10:37 AM (permalink) Chromis Viridis 1 hr post hatch    unknown worm? This was on the slide with the larvae   #7 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Monday, January 18, 2010 11:51 AM (permalink) Originally Posted by witt This is exciting. Chromis are an interesting genus compared with other damsels, and most demersal spawners for that matter, in that they hatch prematurely - a prolarvae of sorts. They require a day or 2 in the water column to develop to the first feeding stage with mouth and gut fully formed. Hey witt, should I hold off on first feeding till tomorrow if they hatched this morning?   #8 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:38 PM (permalink) That batch was all dead this morning. Another spawn today. I also ordered S strain rotifers, Acartia tonsa copepods, and AlgaMac-3050 today to get some smaller and better foods for them. Looking into setting up a BRT for them also.   #9 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:33 PM (permalink) Where did you order your A. tonsa from?   #10 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:35 PM (permalink) http://www.seahorsesource.com/   #11 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:58 AM (permalink) Figured it was Dan Underwood, but wanted to ask for other folks who many not know (or maybe, just maybe,you had found another source ) Pix are looking great.  FWIW, let me throw this down for ya - Mandarins and Harlequin Filefish hatch out similarly.  In fact, I think Harlequin Filefish got placed as a "C" category fish and does much the same as Witt described (demersal spawner hatching 'prematurely' as a "prolavae"), same as the Green Chromis.  Maybe you'll be the first.  It's certainly within your reach.  GO FOR IT!   #12 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:40 AM (permalink) Well I shut down the pumps in the main tank last night hoping for a Mandarin spawn, which didn't happen, but was rewarded with a surprise hatch of Chromis instead! I scooped out a bunch and put them in a 5g tank I had readied for the Mandarin eggs. They were still alive this morning, so I have moved them to a BRT now. I have about 4-5g of water in it to hopefully keep the water quality up better this time. They are actively swimming around, not all at the bottom.  No real estimate of how many I have yet, but it appears to be at the least a few hundred. I have an Acartia tonsa culture started, but it hasnt really taken off yet. I do have a good culture of S strain rots now along with the L strain, but haven't recieved my Algamac yet. It should be here in a few days. I can also collect plankton from my reef tank at night if anyone thinks that may help? I have a very large mature system, around 550g altogether. I read that a few of the succesful Mandarin breeders had good results doing this. I'll be checking often on development of a mouth to get a better idea when to add first foods. I have heard 2 days, so 48 to 72 hrs after hatch? I think I added food too early last time and just fouled the water.   #13 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:26 PM (permalink) 24 hrs and still kicking! Looks like the mouth is forming so I added the first rots and pods tonight.   #14 kileysmama Total Posts : 65 Reward points : 840 Joined: 2/9/2009 Location: Dorr, MI, US Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, February 5, 2010 12:22 AM (permalink) Woohoo!!!!    #15 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, February 5, 2010 7:51 AM (permalink) 24 hrs post hatch- starting to see mouth so I added foods at this time head gut 36 hrs post hatch Still doing good!   #16 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, February 5, 2010 3:05 PM (permalink) See the green in the gut?!  Clearly something has been ingested!   #17 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, February 5, 2010 3:34 PM (permalink) Great! I was hoping that's what that was! Still going good. Just added some more enriched rots, and have a slow drip adding water from the broodstock tank.   #18 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Friday, February 5, 2010 3:57 PM (permalink) Oh and the AlgaMac-3050 is here and tonight's feeding will be enriched with that. I will also shut down the pumps and collect plankton from the display tank to add tonight.   #19 DLBerlin Total Posts : 62 Reward points : 268 Joined: 7/18/2005 Location: Pleasant Lake, MI Status: offline MBI: 820 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Chromis Viridis Saturday, February 6, 2010 6:32 AM (permalink) Still going! 48 hrs 58 hrs - empty belly, just before the morning feeding   #20 Online Bookmarks Sharing: Facebook Digg Google del.icio.us StumbleUpon Change Page: 12 > | Showing page 1 of 2, messages 1 to 20 of 25 - powered by ASPPlayground.NET Forum Trial Version

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