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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:16 AM
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Here's one that went into the larval gobie BRT: 
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, February 8, 2015 12:20 AM
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And here are some larvae enjoying the flow: click for video! 
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, February 8, 2015 10:42 AM
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Those are really good pics! Patience pays off!
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 10, 2015 8:51 AM
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OMG, those spear legs get really long! Still doing well, my collection of peps, even the ones in the goby tank, are still cruising and growing. I've been feeding them the Argent feed and NHBS, and started siphoning the bottom and adding more saltwater to the tanks. Gobies are metamorphosing, so I may have to move the shrimps in there to the other BRT where their siblings reside. I am thinking of installing an auto feeder to keep them fed while I'm at work.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:02 AM
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Autofeeder installed and operational. Hard to keep from feeding too much, though. I did a scrape and siphon of the bottom of the BRT, and lots of crud remained suspended afterwards. I'll check if it settled this morning. I had a near failure of the brine shrimp hatching, so I'm glad these guys will coast on non'living foods for a while. Those paddle/spear legs are REALLY LONG!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, February 14, 2015 12:39 AM
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Had a massive die off in the pep shrimp BRT. Lots of white bodies. The water seem fine. Nitrates are less than the Gobie BRT, all within reason, but the peps nauplii look better in the gobie tub than the shrimp tub, even though they get fed the same things. Reading Kirkendoll, I should be feeding them bigger foods. I think they will be eating bigger foods than the metamorphosizing gobies at this point. I started them on crushed flake. Siphoning and adding clean water.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, February 14, 2015 12:40 AM
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I also notice that I have a lot of uneaten brine shrimp that are growing. I fed the tank some RGgreen to help them stay nutritious. The peps are supposed to be eating bigger foods anyway.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:42 PM
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What are the ones in the Goby tank eating? May co-culture is the way to go. Maybe the Gobies help eat what the Peps don't so the food is fresher?
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, February 16, 2015 3:11 PM
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Gobie tank gets fed NHBS the 50 - 100 micron encapsulated feed mentioned above, and lately a little Otohime, and crushed flake. The flake is Ocean Nutrition Formula I. Peppermint tank gets fed the same. The peppermint tank is cleaner because it was set up later, and nitrates are lower. Gobie tank has globs of algae on the sides and a layer of mulm on the bottom. I think I siphoned it once or twice. Hundreds of metamorphosizing gobies in there, with a handful of peppermint shrimp larvae cruising around. I think there are now more peps in the gobie tank than there are in the pep tank( which had been stocked with at least a hundred larvae that survived 10 days.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, February 16, 2015 3:12 PM
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Strangely, I have yet to see any hydroids in the either BRT. Usually I get them by now, and their devastating effects.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, February 16, 2015 5:44 PM
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What day are these pics Kathy? They are great !
Jake We are all in this together
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, February 16, 2015 5:49 PM
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Hope these keep doing well. I kept mine in the kreisel through settlement, and when a couple of weeks old fed crushed flake and adult brine shrimp (2 or 3 late stage larvae would latch on to a brine and chow down!). My only cleaning was daily siphoning of the uneaten flake that collected at the bottom. Dang it, now I'm getting the urge to try another shrimp! I love your video of all the little larvae.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:28 AM
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Thanks to all.
Very few mosquitos (gobie larvae) left. They all turned into fish. I moved all the shrimps from the shrimp tub (10 survivors) into the tub with the gobies, euterpina, algae and lots of molts. Water is terribly polluted, but teaming with life. No ammonia, but the nitrites and trates are climbing. Did a 5 gallon water change on a 10 gallon culture and the waste water 2 days later is so full of euterpina it is not funny. It's the best culture of copepods I've ever had. Certainly the easiest.
The shrimps continue to fly around the tub in their invisible watery ferris wheel, getting ever bigger. They are almost as long as the neon gobies that cling to the algae lawn on the sides of the tub.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:33 AM
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No more brine shrimp. Weaning time.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 8:36 AM
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Jake, the pictures above were at 7 days. We are at 24 days today, looking forward to 5 weeks when they might metamorphosize if I am lucky.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:24 AM
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Thank Kathy, this is a great thread, all good !
Jake We are all in this together
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:27 PM
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Thanks Jake!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 7:32 AM
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Thanks are to you Kathy, you are the one doing all of the work, and preparations for this.
Jake We are all in this together
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 8:32 AM
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Looking good Kathy!
Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:20 AM
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 Originally Posted by EasterEggs
What are the ones in the Goby tank eating? May co-culture is the way to go. Maybe the Gobies help eat what the Peps don't so the food is fresher?
The goby tank had been running longer than the pep tank. Both are BRTs of the same vintage(I've been collecting them when I find them on sale.) Lots of copepods of most of the kinds I have in culture. Parvo, and euterpina, mostly, although the Euterpina has outpaced them all in the end. RGgreen for greenwater in the early days, as well as any live phyto that I needed to use up. It is now supporting some kind of green live algae with no intervention from me. Analysis of the water filtrate shows a lot of gunk, and euterpina. There must be a lot of gobie poop as well as the molts from the peps. I have this tank on auto feeders for Otohime B1 and flake crumbles 6 times daily around the clock, lights 24/7. They also get another good feeding daily as I replenish the feeder. I am now siphoning every other day, and getting lots of goo when I do. But not dead bodies, and the ammonia stays at 0. Common sense says I should clean this tank or put it on a sump with flow thru, but if it isn't broken, ….I'm not going to fix it.
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