Breeding Journal, Species: yellow watchman gobi

General
Species: yellow watchman gobi 
Social Structure:  pair
Size of Individuals:  6 cm
Age of Individuals:  unknown
Date added to Tank:  july 2010

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank: 250 liters 
Substrate Details:  aragonite
Filtration Details:  central system
Water Changes:  10% every 15 days
Water Temperature:  28 c
Lighting:  mh
Lighting Cycle:14 day  8 nigth 
Other Tank Inhabitants:   2 marron clowns  2 tomato clowns  2 sixline cardinals 1 yelow tail damsel 2 pseudocromis flavivertix

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  homemade frozen food
Feeding Schedule:  3 times a day

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  july 3 2011
Spawn Time of Day:  early morning
Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 4 august 2011 
Courtship Details:  when they were almost ready to spawn they just atack the third one i have in the tank and that i thougth it was the male, so i had to remove it to another tank
Egg Size:  1 mm
Egg Color:  yellow
Egg Count:  500 plus

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well today in the morning i found this male guarding eggs

 

Awesome! 
I have a pair that I hope will spawn soon.

Doni Marie~

well that time the y ate the eggs in less than 12 hours so i had to wait until tonigth when i see this

so idecide to take the eggs away and put them in the tumbler

and here in the tumbler


sweet!

Unfortunately i am leaving to Orlando tomorrow for an 8 day vacations and i will not see them hatch so i will need to wait another month for a New release

but i took some videos   here at 24 hours

and here at 48 hours

Any luck with these?

-Adam

No i cant get s strain rotifers so i am stucked

Hum.. I would like to try this species but I guess I would need some S or SS also.  I might try to get a pair and try copepods also.
 
 

-Adam

well it has been a year after that pair just laid eggs and now yeesterday i found this in another pair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYK1ZQPA-Qg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxwHXP53sU