Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi

General
Species:  Lysmata boggessi
Social Structure:  male and female
Size of Individuals:  approx. 2"
Age of Individuals:  unknown
Date added to Tank:  May 2011

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  10gal
Substrate Details:  sand, plastic plants and decor
Filtration Details:  tank is plumbed into broodstock system, filtered with wet/dry, skimmer, 25um filter sock
Water Changes:  10% weekly
Water Temperature:  79-80
Lighting:  overhead fluorescents
Lighting Cycle:  8am-9pm
Other Tank Inhabitants:  none

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  Rods Food FO blend, hikari mysis, PE mysis, cyclop-eeze wafer
Feeding Schedule:  every 4hrs

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  July 2 , 2011
Spawn Time of Day:  unknown
Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  continuous every 7 days
Courtship Details:  unknown
Egg Size:  small
Egg Color: light brown, they turn silver just before hatch 
Egg Count:  hundreds

Hatch Details
Hatch Date:  July 9, 2011
Hatch Time of Day:  after light out between 9pm-10pm
# Days after Spawn:  7
Larvae Description:  aliens


Larval Tank Details
Temperature:  80
Size of Larval Tank:  25gal round tub
Substrate Details:  bare bottom
Other Tank Decor:  none
Filtration Details:  none
Lighting:  overhead fluorescents
Lighting Cycle:  8am-9pm timer
Water Changes:  none until day 5 

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  rotifers (most likely not needed), freshly hatched artemia
Feeding Schedule:  constant

Metamorphosis/Settlement
Date of Settlement Start:  Aug. 4 2011
Days after Hatch: 26 days 
Date of Settlement End:  Aug 8 2011
Description of Fry:  smaller versions of their parents

Grow-Out Tank Details
Temperature:  80
Size of Larval Tank:  25gal round tub
Substrate Details:  bare bottom
Other Tank Decor:  none
Filtration Details:  fluidized sand bed, skimmer, 25um sock 
Lighting:  overhead fluorescents
Lighting Cycle:  8am-9pm timer
Water Changes:  10% a week
Size at Transfer:  never transfered, this is the tank they hatched in...water was just turned on for filtration
Age at Transfer: 

Grow-Out Feeding Details
Food Types:  crushed flake, enriched artemia
Feeding Schedule:  feed flake every four hours, artemia was constant

Additional Information
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Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

I wish i had pictures of the female with eggs, but I can't seem to find any....hmm.  I do have some shots of the larvae and post settlement pics.
6dph




 
28dph

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

Awesome!  I need to knock these guys out as well!

-Adam

They were suprisingly easy.  I am not sure why I had it in my mind that they would be difficult.  They were raised with careful neglect

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

double post
 

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

Woohoo!!!  I found a picture of the female holding eggs!!!!

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

How do you do this with neglect?!  I have been trying for months...  It does seem like some people raise them very easily and others struggle and struggle.  I wonder what is the difference?

Well, careful neglect.  I did use rotifers as a first feed.  Looking back, I don't think it was necessary, but it might have been.  Have you tried that?

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

Picture for my 60 DPS report, even though this was taken about 7 months after settlement.

At 60dph they were distributed throughout all 110gal growout tubs for waste and overfeeding clean up.

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

 
Oops, didn't see your reply before.  I have used rotifers in the past on a couple of my very first batches last October, but that was merely because I didn't have BBS ready.  Lately I have just been using frozen Cyclopeeze and getting much better results than with BBS.  I've changed so much about my methods though that I'm not sure what helped, and what didn't.  Ack!  Would mind please elaborating on your growout/larvae tank and the maintenance procedures you were doing?  Was it a recirculating system (with a sump)?  Did you bottom siphon?  I don't get how you did it.

The larvae tank was a 25gal black round tub.  Water was aerated with an airstone, about the same amount of air you would use for rotifers.  Water changes were not done at first, but Prime was added at a dose of one drop per gal every 12hrs to control ammonia.  As the larvae got larger, I began to siphon using airline tubing (as needed).  I would siphon larvae into my bucket, so I used a pipette to put them back.
This larvae tank was already plumbed into a dedicated larvae system, so when settlement occured, water flow was turned on and shrimp started eating crushed flake right away!
 
If I missed something, please ask away!

Jonathan Foster

FishEye Aquaculture

Sorry Jonathan, I again missed your reply and just found it again as I'm researching this darn shrimp again.  Thanks for the details, sounds like Clownfish rearing.

Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]