Breeding Journal DataSheet for Priolepis hipoliti
General Species: Priolepis hipoliti "Rusty Goby"
Social Structure: Pairs
Size of Individuals: 1"
Age of Individuals: Unknown (wild caught)
Date added to Tank: 8-29-2006
Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 24 gallon nanocube
Substrate Details: live sand, maybe 2"
Filtration Details: stock nanocube filtration
Water Changes: generally 25% weekly
Water Temperature: 78-80F in this tank typically
Lighting: stock Power Compact Flourescent 50/50
Lighting Cycle: this tank may have been on a 14 hour cycle at that point in time (was growing lots of Macroalgae) - always on a timer
Other Tank Inhabitants: At the time, I know there were Seahorses (Hippocampus barbouri) and Mandarins (Synchiropus splendidus). Tank was running as reef.
Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: All types, but these guys were big on frozen brine and frozen mysis. Probably gave them cyclopeeze as well
Feeding Schedule: multiple per day
Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: Unknown, but had to have been prior to 9-8-2006 (first hatch, see below)
Spawn Time of Day: Unknown
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: Unknown
CourtShip Details: Unknown (these guys were VERY secretive)
Egg Size: Unknown
Egg Color: Unknown
Egg Count: Unknown
Hatch Details Hatch Date: First hatch - 9-8-2006, only 10 days after the pair was added to the tank!!! Second hatch 9-18-2006, another 10 days. Obviously capable of spawning multiple times per month.
Hatch Time of Day: After dark
# Days after Spawn: Unknown, as we never saw the nest or observed spawn.
Larve Description: Very small, around 2 mm, pigmented with black. NOT attracted to light, which made collection of these always problematic.
Larval Tank Details Temperature: Effectively never really tried to rear these - always put them in with other larval marine fish and lost them in short order.
Size of Larval Tank: At the time, typically these would've been 10 gallon tnaks
Substrate Details: none
Other Tank Decor: non
Filtration Details: none
Lighting: stock strip light
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Water Changes: never got that far with this species
Larval Feeding Details Food Types: Were exposed to SS rotifers, but cannot say we had any succcess
Feeding Schedule: Greenwater technique, so continuous.
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Additional Information Miscellaneous Information:
Got these as a mated pair, wild caught, from Ken Nedimyer (SeaLifeInc.net). They spawned many times, but being exceptionally small larvae were not a priority to try to rear. Lost the pair to an outbreak of Amyloodinium, but it was actually the "Kick Ich" medication that killed all the scaleless fish in the tank including these gobies.
I never nailed down the exact breeding cycle - typically I'd find the babies when I was trying to collect mandarin eggs after dark. Spawns certainly appeared to be small based on the numbers of larvae I'd find...I think the MOST I ever collected was under 25!
Originally reported on Reef Central -
http://www.reefcentral.co...s=&threadid=924636 Broodstock Pair: 
Larvae at 10X Magnification: 
Larva at 60X Magnification: http://www.cichlidrecipe..m/nanoreef/RG_1_3_60.jpg
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