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  Author Message Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Valenciennea puellaris Saturday, August 25, 2012 5:37 AM (permalink) 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:  Valenciennea puellaris Social Structure:  Size of Individuals:  female ~7cm male ~10cm Age of Individuals:  Date added to Tank:  23.3.2012 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank:  330l +100l refugium + 100l sump Substrate Details:  fine coralsand Filtration Details:  Water Changes: once in three months Water Temperature:  26-29 (summertime) Lighting:  3pc. 4x54w T5 Lighting Cycle:  Other Tank Inhabitants:  yellow tang, a.ocellaris pair, pteleotris zebra pair, valencienna puellaris pair, peppermint shrimps, hispidus, astrea snails, hermit crabs Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types:  flakes, frozen food (caudernis accept only frozen) Feeding Schedule: at 7 flakes, 17 flakes, 19 frozen. In weekend feeding more often Spawning Details Date of First Spawn:  9/10.4.2012 Spawn Time of Day:  Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  22.4, 25.8 Courtship Details:  male turns darker (blue) and nibbles females body continually. Two days prior spawn they made a huge clean up operation in their nest. Egg Size:  Egg Color:  Egg Count:  Hatch Details Hatch Date:  13.4 Hatch Time of Day:  ~22 # Days after Spawn:  Larvae Description:    Consecutive Hatch Dates:    26.4  Larval Tank Details Temperature:  Size of Larval Tank:  Substrate Details:  Other Tank Decor:  Filtration Details:  Lighting:  Lighting Cycle:  Water Changes:  Larval Feeding Details Food Types:  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 (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information:  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.   #1 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Saturday, August 25, 2012 6:02 AM (permalink) We get these fish by "accident". First I bought just one fish, but that one died immediately. Got heart attack ore something. I'm always really specific with acclimating my fish/coral etc. Well, my dealer knows that and I got new fish for free, but he got only this pair...Well, we got two of them now. First spawn came as a total suprise. That was my firs aquarium ever and got it running in beginning of march 2012. One day I just noticed, that the larger one was nibbling the smaller all the time and chaseing her around. The larger one was also get really dark, almost blue. After this, the smaller dissapeared and the larger one vas building a HUGE sand castle over their homestone. I was really worried, because then I didn't know anything about their courting and spawning behavior. Female stayed in the nest next 4 days. In fourth days evening we were watcing tv, when I suddenly realized, that something strange is happening is aquarium. It was approx. 10pm and they had released the larva. The whole aquarium (270l) was full of them. Well, in may I moved them to a larger aquarium and they stopped spawning. (female jumped in the floor when moving them. Maby that's why stopped?Ore just because of the stress of moving.) But yesterday they started courting again and today the female is missing and male is building a sand castle again. Now I'm prepared littlebit better, so I hope the spawn will be successful.   #2 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:01 AM (permalink) This is their newest sand castle.   Ok. There's something wrong, because it's not adding my pictures. (I have done it earlier, so I do now how to do it...) I just add a link here...hope it's ok...   http://s1261.photobucket....ellaristenpes25812.jpg <message edited by Iipuli on Sunday, August 26, 2012 5:16 AM>   #3 Fishtal Total Posts : 5467 Reward points : 2908 Joined: 8/31/2006 Location: Waterford, MI, US Status: offline MBI: 585 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Valenciennea puellaris Sunday, August 26, 2012 2:48 PM (permalink) http://www.fishtalpropagations.com/#!home/mainPage "Making captive breeding easier."   #4 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Sunday, September 2, 2012 9:00 AM (permalink) Thank you Fishtal. Well, something didn't work and the female camed out in third day.  Now they are doing this nest building and courtship dances again.  I just have to wait and hope for the best. Again...   #5 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Thursday, October 4, 2012 4:34 AM (permalink) This morning my tiny acanthastrea coral was missing. While I searched it, i also looked in puellaris's home cave, because the"door" was wide open. And were really surprised to see a big mass of light yellov eggs, wich the fm was tending. So they are spawning afterall. They just don't anymore act like they are supposed to. I don't have any idea of the day of spawning, so i guess i just hawe to suck the eggs away and try to hatch them artif.   #6 CableGuy Total Posts : 591 Reward points : 731 Joined: 8/26/2010 Location: Saint Clair Shores, MI, US Status: offline MBI: 635 Pnts MBI Site: MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan Re:Valenciennea puellaris Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:18 AM (permalink) So you just bought two fish and put them together and that was it? Did they fight at all?  Any difference between the female and the male? -Adam   #7 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:37 PM (permalink) Kind of... I bought them togeter. They were selled as a pair. When I got them, they looked exactly same. Not a single difference. Now the male is much larger than the female. And near spawning the male changes color to little darker. (face and Pelvic fins turn blue) But there is no differences in fins etc. So you really got to have two of them to see the differences. The pair is hustling aroud like mad. I saw the spawn today again. Its light yellow. I suppose i'm going to get the spawn out in saturday. I belive that should be the day4 past spawning. Luckily I'm having almst everything ready for larvae. Sotifers, selco, phytoplankton, artemia... Just now I'm holding my fingers crossed and thumbs up for the spawn to be a success. <message edited by Iipuli on Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:07 PM>   #8 Iipuli Total Posts : 17 Reward points : 30 Joined: 7/28/2012 Location: Espoo, , FI Status: offline MBI: 0 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re:Valenciennea puellaris Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:33 AM (permalink) Yay! Today I got puellaris larvas to rearing(?) tank. Kinda failed and didn't get all of them. :/ And the picture is poor. They are really small, about 2mm.   #9 Online Bookmarks Sharing: Facebook Digg Google del.icio.us StumbleUpon

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