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Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Monday, October 4, 2010 10:05 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: lysmata amboinensis Social Structure: Hermi's Size of Individuals: One is 2", other is 1.5" Age of Individuals: ~2-3 years, ~1 years Date added to Tank: About 1yr ago, 2 months ago Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 72G Substrate Details: 3" of live Fiji White sand Filtration Details: 20 Gallon sump Water Changes: Monthly, kept up with elements. Water Temperature: 80-82 Lighting: 2x250MH Lighting Cycle: 4p-12a Other Tank Inhabitants: Lots of other fish, inverts and coral. Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Rods reef food, PE Mysis, Scallops, Squid, Clams Feeding Schedule: 6-8pm, once a day. Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 9/30/2010 Spawn Time of Day: N/A Dates of Consecutive Spawns: N/A Courtship Details: Added second one in tank about 2 months ago. This is the first spawn ever. Egg Size: TINY Egg Color: Green Egg Count: N/A, but I read it can be 500-1000 Hatch Details Hatch Date: Hatch Time of Day: # Days after Spawn: Larvae Description: Larval Tank Details Temperature: 80 Size of Larval Tank: 10G Substrate Details: Bare Other Tank Decor: N/A Filtration Details: Sump w/ LR/LS/Cheto and a Protein Skimmer Lighting: Shop lights Lighting Cycle: 14/on 10/0ff Water Changes: Rare Larval Feeding Details Food Types: Rotifers and Phyto Feeding Schedule: Continuous 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: These are very hard to get past all of the different stages until the final molt where they become juvi's and are ready to be moved to a permanent tank. You will be required to provide photographic evidence in this thread of each event submitted for the MBI Program.
If your thread does not contain these photos the MBI Committee will not be able to approve your reports.
<message edited by CableGuy on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:22 PM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Monday, October 4, 2010 10:35 PM
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I've read that a guy had some issues with the larva all crowding in one area of a large tank and he was experiencing a lot of deaths. He wasnt sure if they were just killing each other or maybe eating each other. So he separated them and the same thing happened but less deaths. Once the #'s got down even more, they deaths stopped. He was saying if he could have separated them even more in the same tanks to use up the space, it would have worked even better. So Im going to try to take a tank and cut it up into as many pieces as I can.
<message edited by CableGuy on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:23 PM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 7:24 PM
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It's a very cool thing (apparently) if you can create an environment that'll distribute the larvae around evenly and safely. The pros in Europe that are doing these are using larval containers that are rounded cones on the bottom. Then they pipe water down the center of the container close to the bottom. The idea is to try to get a gyre-type flow all the way around the container. You have to be really careful with the environment on these because their limbs are fragile and will break off. Good luck!
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 7:26 PM
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By the way, rots are probably too small. They could use BBS and copepods if you have them.
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8:59 PM
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Andy, do you have any more info on this? Images / links / anything? That sounds pretty cool and you already have my heads spinning some ideas, but would love some more info.
Im sure as you know, the info on most shrimps is SLIM to none.
Thanks,
Adam
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:23 PM
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--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:25 PM
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--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:52 PM
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Cool.. Time to read... 
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Saturday, October 9, 2010 3:24 PM
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Does anyone know if they release their eggs at night or durning the day, or is it random?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Saturday, October 9, 2010 10:02 PM
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Do they have to molt in order to release the eggs or do they just release them normally?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis (Scarlet cleaner shrimp)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:55 AM
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The hatch / molt is near. They eggs changed color yesterday and they now have tiny little black eyes.
I will watch for a molt tonight for a couple of hours. If everything goes well, but I am not able to catch any of them because the molt happens at some weird time of the night, I will catch them and place them in their own tank to hatch, as designed in once of the thread posted above.
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