Breeding Journal, Species: Sphaeramia nematoptera

General
Species:  Sphaeramia nematoptera
Social Structure:  2 pairs
Size of Individuals:  1 female is 5 cm  and the other 3 are 3 cm
Age of Individuals:  unknown
Date added to Tank:  february 2009

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  300 gallons
Substrate Details:  aragonite
Filtration Details:  central system
Water Changes:  10% every 15 days
Water Temperature:  28 c
Lighting:  mh and fluorescent
Lighting Cycle:  16 day 8 nigth
Other Tank Inhabitants:  marine beta pair, pseudocromis fridmani, amphipiron polymuns pair, yellow tang,yellow tailed damselfish pair, dascyllus aruanus pair,

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  frozen homemade  spectrum pellets
Feeding Schedule:  4 times a day

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  july 3 2010
Spawn Time of Day:  evening
Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  every  15 days
Courtship Details:  not seen
Egg Size:  not seen
Egg Color:  not seen
Egg Count:  ???

Hatch Details
Hatch Date:  the first time i get babies was able to get some babies was on november 13 2010
Hatch Time of Day:  nigth
# Days after Spawn:  8
Larvae Description:  very small i think that are 2 mm


Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  28 c
Size of Larval Tank:  10 liters brt
Substrate Details:  no
Other Tank Decor:  no
Filtration Details:  no
Lighting:  fluorescent
Lighting Cycle:  16 day  8 nigth
Water Changes:  daily

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  rotifers l strain nanocloropsis
Feeding Schedule:  all the time

Metamorphosis/Settlement
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Grow-Out Tank Details
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Additional Information

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Miscellaneous Information: 
i havent been able to keep them alive for more than 5 days


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here is the big female and a male carrying eggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsroGd5ZnLU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-zps5TjV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP0xYlmB87g
here is the other male carryng eggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGeJ-S4dP8

here is a male  freeing babies

here are some babies 

and more babies

and here i compare with newly hatched clowns

this were colected on january of this year 

and some closeups

and here a group in february 13 2011

Need to get you some MACRO lenses or something

for tha iphone'? jajaj

well new harch yesterday

well i took this video yesterday  there are a clownfish ( ocelaris)  the bigger one a marine betta the medium sized and in the upper part  and a cardenalfish  in the lower part and the smaller one   all of them are 3 days old

the video is mislabeled they are 72 hours now

Well 5 days and they Are all gone i need s strain rotifers

Can you tell us how long after lights out these guys hatched? Are the larvae attracted to light? How did you go about collecting them?

Live and Learn

well  in my case they hatch just after i put off the lights at 9 pm  and at 10 i see alot of larvae in the tank they are atrackted to the ligth and i use my plankton collector to get them they are maybe thousands  but i only colect a small group trying to raise them but i am really sure that if i dnt get any s train rotifers there is no way to raise these guys

By chance did you try collecting selective plankton from your tank? Perhaps that would have given you the jump start you needed?

Live and Learn

well  here i am after a lot of time and working withg the poison frogs, and the chameleons,  i decide to try these guys another time with not much hope ( i am still with no s rotifers), and on february 11, i took some larvae from the parents tank ( they continue breeding every 15 days) and put them in the plankton collector to try to raise them with not much hope as i said, but today after 12 days there is still one alive so lets see if it goees trough settlement and when  meanwhile the male is carryng eggs so when he splits the babies i will get more
here with some 3 day old clowns