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Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:57 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 boggessi Social Structure: first attempt: 5 hermaphroditic shrimps, one carrying eggs at purchase. third attempt: 5 shrimps, soon dwindled to 3 survivors. Size of Individuals: just over an inch Age of Individuals: unknown , but they grew in size in my care. Date added to Tank: 2/18/2012 , 4/22/2012 , 8/13/14 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 8 gallons on a much larger system Substrate Details: bare , large PVC fitting for hiding places Filtration Details: live rock, mechanical 100 um sock Water Changes: bi-weekly, 10% Water Temperature: 80 Lighting: undercabinet T5 fluorescent Lighting Cycle: 14 day, 10 hours night Other Tank Inhabitants: none at this time Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: Otohime C1, various flake foods , remnants of frozen mash feeding Feeding Schedule: 2 times daily Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: came with eggs, then continuous spawning and hatching at every molt Spawn Time of Day: likely at night Dates of Consecutive Spawns: various and too hard to notate, as all three shrimp look similar and molt at various times Courtship Details: first time:molting event, eggs produced, but shrimp has a tenuous hold on them. This latest batch seem to hold on to the eggs quite well. Egg Size: approximately 0.33 mm oblongs Egg Color: pale green , but orange while the shrimp are holding Egg Count: approx. 50. first batch. Now they seem much more abundant. the shrimp seem to be bursting with eggs all the time. Hatch Details Hatch Date: One of many: Early hours of Dec 15, 2014 is documented in this report .Next one documented was 5/20/15 , meta report, 6/23/15 Hatch Time of Day: at night. did not witness # Days after Spawn: unknown Larvae Description: lots of appendages, big eyes, some pigmentation, seem like a miniature shrimp, about a mm or two long. Later, they develop spear legs and eyes on stalks. Larval Tank Details Temperature: 75.3F Size of Larval Tank: 2 gallon fishbowl Substrate Details: bare Other Tank Decor: none Filtration Details: none, rigid airline with slow bubbles Lighting: ambient 18 watt CFL with reflector, clamp on , at ceiling Lighting Cycle: 14 hours on, 10 hours off Water Changes: small ones to replace water siphoned along with detritus at bottom, one big one the evening before metamorphosis began, mostly to remove grown brine shrimps and combat a little cyano. Larval Feeding Details Food Types: newly hatched brine shrimp. Some few P. crassirostris and euterpina added at the beginning, but not a lot Feeding Schedule: twice a day Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start: 7/28/15 Days after Hatch: 35 Date of Settlement End: 8/13/15 Description of Fry: look like miniature shrimps without color, settled, eyes on body, not on stalks, disappearance of spear legs. Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature: 75.3F Size of Grow-Out Tank: 11 x 12 x 24 inches Substrate Details: none Other Tank Decor: breeder basket with Cryptocentrus cinctus Filtration Details: sponge filter Lighting: CFL 18 watt clamp light Lighting Cycle: 14 hours day, 10 hours night Water Changes: 10% every 2 weeks Size at Transfer: about 1/2 inch Age at Transfer: 4 weeks after settlement Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types: NHBS, Otohime pellets, frozen arcti-pods Feeding Schedule: twice daily Additional Information (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information: 8/13/14: The first 19 posts in this thread refer to attempts years ago with this species. 9/26/15 is 60 days post settlement 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 KathyL on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:48 AM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, February 18, 2012 10:01 PM
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I brought these home today, and aclimated them to my smaller system. Consensus of opinion is that they are L. boggessi. One of them has eggs:
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:58 AM
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Welcome to the unofficial Peppermint shrimp team! If you want to be. Hehe. What are your ideas for using the 20 gallon for the larval shrimp? Is this your first adventure into pelagic larvae?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:14 PM
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Thanks for the welcome. I've constructed yet another snagger, I ran it in the shrimp tank last night. No babies this morning, but one of the shrimp molted and died. Fortunately, it was not the shrimp holding eggs. I'll have to get some more shrimp. Meanwhile we wait for the hatch….
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 8:51 PM
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Sucks about the dead one.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:14 PM
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Yes indeed it sucks... Somethink else that sucks: I just realized that L. boggessi is a class B shrimp…..I need a class A something to move to the next level……I looked up wurdmanni, saw it was an A, and bought peppermints, not realizing that boggessi and wurdmanni are different classes……………………….I'm going to have to search for some L. wurdmanni.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:58 AM
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That's silly. Now you mention it, I think someone else said something about that awhile back since essentially there should be no difference raising boggessi vs wurdemanni. Maybe the subject needs to be raised again? As far as I am concerned they ain't no Class A though! Hahaha! Some people seem to breeze right through it though.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:19 PM
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Maybe that's why boggessi are class B. I wouldn't know. Just did a survey of my local stores, and nobody has L. wurdemanni…….shoot.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 8:12 PM
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I moved my boggessi to a nice 20 gallon tank with 2 dotty backs and a mandarin, and it appeared to do well for a week or so, molted and got rid of the eggs when I wasn't looking, and then a few days later, died. XXXXX OK, now to find some wurdemanni…..
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 8:29 PM
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Good luck! Wurdemanni sure are difficult to find...around here anyway.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:39 AM
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There are no wurdmanni anywhere, and I want to try, so I'm going with the ubiquitous boggessi. I bought 3 more to add to the one left from the last attempt. Two have passed on, but one successfully molted last night, and acquired a bunch of green eggs, unfortunately not attached to the shrimp's swimmerets. I think I'll get them out and have a look under the scope. Let's see if I can get a spawning report out of this at least. I put the eggs back in with the shrimp, and they both seem uninterested in them. We'll see. There is nothing else in the tank with them, so if the shrimp don't eat them, nobody else will either.
<message edited by KathyL on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:52 PM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:58 PM
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 7:30 PM
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Oh how strange. I've never seen the eggs get released like that. It would be really cool if they hatched though!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 9:17 PM
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Eggs disappeared as well as all life in the tank. I think nitrates may have gotten the shrimp. Advice came, to add live rock and do a good water change, and put 10 shrimp in there. I may just do that.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, April 8, 2013 12:31 AM
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:39 PM
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Kathy, did you ever have the eggs appear like this again?!?! and were you ever able to hatch them from this point?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:49 PM
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Haven't touched a shrimp since this last attempt. Sorry.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:52 PM
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lol. that's ok. I just had a shrimp croak on me 4 days out from hatch... so I striped her of her eggs and fed her to the banggai's... but was wondering if I could have any success with these eggs... ??? IDK.. guess we'll see.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:24 AM
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Kirkendoll wrote that the mother releases a special hormone to make eggs hatch when she spawns, so you may need her to hatch eggs but at least why not give it a try
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:56 AM
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OK, I am trying again. I have 5 adults, one carrying eggs, that i purchased from a local shop. They are in my oldest broodstock system, bare tank, connected to a sump with tons of live rock. There are only two other pairs of clownfish on this system and a pair of mithrax crabs in an adjoining tank. The shrimp stand alone. I need to rig two snaggers for the shrimp and crab tanks.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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