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Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:15 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: Pseudochromis fridmani Social Structure: large male, smaller female. I have 2 pairs. Size of Individuals: two inches males, and lightly smaller females Age of Individuals: unknown Date added to Tank: paired 8/29/15 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 20 gallon breeder 12x12x32 inches Substrate Details: 1 inch PVC pipe bits, capped Filtration Details: sponge filter Water Changes: 10 % weekly Water Temperature: 80 Lighting: LED strip lights, undercabinet style Lighting Cycle: 14 day, 10 night Other Tank Inhabitants: Single neon goby Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: frozen mash, fish eggs, nori, otohime B2 Feeding Schedule: usually a goodly amount, twice daily Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 9/13/15 Spawn Time of Day: morning Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 9/22 Courtship Details: male swims in and out of the closed off tube, female swims freely . Egg Size: 1mm spheres Egg Color: off white Egg Count: can't count. I am guessing about 100. The ball of eggs is about 1 cm in diameter. Hatch Details Hatch Date: Hatch Time of Day: # Days after Spawn: 4 Larvae Description: Very tiny, transparent slivers with black eyes. No sign of yolk sack. Smaller than clownfish larvae, perhaps half as large. Larval Tank Details Temperature: 80F Size of Larval Tank: 17 gallon BRT, filled to 5 gallons with bleach sterilized saltwater Substrate Details: heater and airstone , central standpipe, not in use. Other Tank Decor: none Filtration Details: water changes Lighting: 18 watt Lighting Cycle: 14 day, 10 night Water Changes: none yet Larval Feeding Details Food Types: S-rotifers for now, then Apocyclops panamensis, 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 s (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information: Just a note: The broodstock came from Tod Miller's captive bred dottybacks. They were raised in a larger tank (55 gallon?) with live rock. The fish were 8-9 months old at first spawning, and they have been in my 20 gallon tank for about 2 months. The 4 black ocellaris clownfish don't bother with them. Another pair I moved in mid August, into a broodstock tank with better water quality, is not yet spawning 2 weeks later, however, the female is still very small. I had tried to keep a pair of dottybacks with a larger group of black ocellaris clownfish (about 80 juvenile fish in a 10 gallon juvenile growout system) , and the black fish pestered the dottys too much. I had to remove the dottybacks. They seem to do best in a less crowded situation. For pairing: Pair 1)I put 5 in a 10 gallon (juvenile system) with no other fish and little by little, the dottybacks perished or were killed? until there were 2 left. Sometimes I found the bodies, sometimes I did not. No clue. The dead ones looked perfectly fine to the naked eye, so It is unclear how they were killed. The remaining pairs seem very healthy. They were moved to a broodstock system in mid August 2011. Pair 2) Put 7 in a 20 gallon(different juvenile system), and the same thing happened. These fish were with the 4 black ocellaris. The blacks ignore them. This pair spawned at the end of August 2011. I was unprepared to raise them, and the eggs were eaten soon after spawning. The female of this pair died, and has been replaced with a captive bred female from Sustainable Aquatics, February 2012. Paired up 2/19/2012. In all cases the females are signifcantly smaller than the males. For the Hatching report, I am reporting on Pair #1. I hatched these eggs in a brine shrimp hatcher (Airline is glued into the hole in a cap of a 2 liter soda bottle. Bottom is cut off of the bottle, cap screwed on tight, and the whole thing was upturned in a 3 inch PVC T fitting. Flexible air tubing was fished through the arm of the T and the whole thing was partially submerged in a heated aquarium. Air was supplied to make bubbles. Clean saltwater was added, eggs were added and 2 drops of methylene blue was added. This bubbled for 4 days at 83 degreesF. Each day, I fished the eggs out to have a look under the microscope. In the evening of the fourth day, 4 premature dottyback larvae were swimming in the hatcher, and I get them out using a transfer pipet and took pictures on a plastic petrie dish through the microscope. Then I put the larvae into a prepared BRT. You will be required to provide photographic or video 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. PHOTOS AND VIDEO S MUST BE PLACED IN ADDITIONAL POSTS, NEVER IN THE FIRST POST IN A JOURNAL.
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:03 PM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:35 PM
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pair #2: female  They are not really this blue. It is an arifact of my camera. They are the traditional orchid color. male: 
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:37 PM
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August 31, or perhaps August 30, I was out of town: OMG, We have eggs! These are the pair in the growout system. The water quality is not the greatest, but they've definately spawned!  I'm excited!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 11:30 PM
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What a welcome surprise home Kathy!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Thursday, September 1, 2011 6:12 AM
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This morning: 
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Thursday, September 1, 2011 7:56 AM
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Congratulations, Kathy! Nice photos.
--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: Pseudochromis fridmani
Friday, September 2, 2011 6:28 AM
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Sadly, the eggs are gone this morning. I could not have raised this batch anyway, as I'm going to MACNA for 3 days. Hopefully, they will spawn again. Time to do a water change….
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Friday, September 2, 2011 2:40 PM
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nice pictures kathy
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 6:08 PM
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Thanks,
They spawned again today Tuesday September 6, before 6:20 pm when I returned from work. !!!!!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:25 PM
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There seem to be fewer eggs today, and the male seems less attentive.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:28 PM
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They will get the hang of it.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Monday, September 12, 2011 7:07 PM
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They spawned today, Monday 9/12/2011. Nice big nest, slightly orange:  I plan to pull the nest tomorrow, and try to artificially hatch them. I was talking to Andy Rhyne on the plane to MACNA, and he gave me some tips. One was to pull the nest early. I'll then check to see if they are fertile. Something tells me that the orange color is a good sign.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:22 PM
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Male ate the eggs in one day. Today they spawned again. I am not ready yet, so perhaps next week.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:51 PM
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Sunday I was greeted with nearly dead fish when I looked into the growout system the spawning dotty pair are in. I hadn't kept up with the water changes, and the dottys were lying on their sides in their hiding holes. The Darwins were clearly stressed as well, but the orange ocellaris babies and grown fish were completely unaffected. I did a massive water change, which raised the pH to near normal level, and all the fish recovered. Thanks. The dottys were scheduled to spawn that day, but I was just grateful they were still alive. It's Tuesday now, and they are flirting, and the female looks rotund. Meanwhile the pair in the broodstock system, that did not hold out hope that they would spawn since the female is TINY, did not come out for breakfast this morning. I was more than concerned since I had absent mindedly left the cover open on their tank overnight. I fed the tank, and they still did not show up. I searched the floor and the neighboring sumps for live or dead dottys-- nothing was there. Finally I got my long handled pinchers to fetch out the PVC that the male likes to hang out in, and discovered 2 orchid fish and a pile of eggs. YAHOO! Not only not dead, but spawning! Needless to say, I'm thrilled.  
<message edited by KathyL on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:07 PM>
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:55 PM
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Seems there is a virus that inserts that "I have nothing to add, I just want to be part of this thread" emoticon. I didn't put that there….
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:56 PM
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This is great news. On a side note, be careful about moving the pipe when eggs are in it. I've done that before and the parents get spooked and eat the eggs. I don't even attempt to clean the tank when eggs are present.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:57 PM
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That is just code, you typed "-" and "nothing" without a space.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:59 PM
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Thanks, that's good info. Unfortunately, I've moved them twice today, as I felt compelled to check again when I got home from work. Luckily there were still eggs. I'm not too concerned about this nest, as its their first, but they are likely to spawn again in a week, so ….we shall have to wait and see.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:08 PM
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 Originally Posted by Fishtal That is just code, you typed "-" and "nothing" without a space. Oh good, I've fixed it now. thanks.
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Re:Breeding Journal, Species: Pseudochromis fridmani
Sunday, October 2, 2011 3:43 PM
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Unfortunately, my brt is moved out of the way for an aiptasia flter. So I either have to find another spot to set up the Brt or use one of my low 20 gallon tanks for the fridmani. I think I would do better with the BRT since it has a UV on it, and would likely keep them going for the long larval stage.
I have eggs from the PAIR#2, a large nest. They are on Day 2 and the male has not eaten them, but I've been good and left him alone. Amazing that they could produce such a large nest after last week's near death experience, and no eggs last week. I think I'll pull the eggs this evening.
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