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Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:57 AM
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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: 5 individuals together. Size of Individuals: 2 x 1.5", 3 x 2" Age of Individuals: unknown (over 6 months) Date added to Tank: December 28th, 2012 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: 20g tall with 5g DIY sump Substrate Details: none- bare bottom tank.... Filtration Details: sock filter, & poly floss. Water Changes: 1-2 times a month Water Temperature: 80 Lighting: MarineLand Reef capable LED fixture Lighting Cycle: on at 10am, off at 8pm (switch to moonlights for 1 hour, before and after main whites go off/on) Other Tank Inhabitants: Ocellaris clown pair, single female Banggai cardinal fish. Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: DIY mash, NLS pellets, and anything else I can scrounge up. Feeding Schedule: constnatly... at minimum twice dailey. Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: 07/17/2013 Spawn Time of Day: evening, this is just after a molt was found in the tank.... Dates of Consecutive Spawns: 7/18 and 7/19 (other pairs in tank are included in this) Courtship Details: overnight, not witnessed. However the post spawning behavior: Female stays hunkered down under rocks, only coming out to grab food and a quick retreat. Male's do the same thing just tend to linger a bit longer, a bit bolder in my opinion. As she nears release date the females always tend to take on a more 'frantic' bold swimming pattern. Boldly swimming and climbing walls and rocks in wide open. Egg Size: pin head Egg Color: green to silvery pink color Egg Count: 100+ (Egg's are firmly packed and held up under the swimmerets of the female. Usually lasting no more than 10 days. They begin to look more silvery as they near the 10 day mark. Female's have a notably harder time holding them) Hatch Details Hatch Date: 7/24/2013 Hatch Time of Day: 3am (only noticed, because the Banggai was feasting!) # Days after Spawn: 10 Larvae Description: planktonic small shrimp, closely resembling the parents. Larval Tank Details Temperature: 80 Size of Larval Tank: 2L soda bottle within the 20g broodstock system . Substrate Details: bare bottom Other Tank Decor: only a bubbler! Filtration Details: only a bubbler! Lighting: ambient from kitchen and broodstock light above them! Lighting Cycle: ambient, but close to 6 hour time schedule! Water Changes: water exchange through a sieve...ever other day, POST 5 days hatch if possible. Larval Feeding Details Food Types: L type rotifers, NHBBS, Feeding Schedule: constantly 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 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 jazzybio13 on Monday, August 19, 2013 4:52 AM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:58 AM
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 3:58 AM
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:23 PM
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Ok, well this was the first spawn and egg release that I decided to keep from this tank! thought I'd jump into the invert side of things. They spawn regularly... every 10 days per pair, but they are off set by 2 days. So 2 days before a hatch I can usually see another pair spawn and or shed appear.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Thursday, August 1, 2013 11:34 AM
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geeze, I've been falling behind... lol. I just had the second batch hatch last night and the I don't even have the first batch uploaded on here! lol.... ok... seriously I will get the baby photo's up! lol.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 5:04 PM
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Ok, little one has eaten one of the peppermints so we are down a crew member. (teaches me not to put them in a bucket AT GROUND LEVEL!!!!)... one day she will help with water changes and it'll all be worth it! lol
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 5:05 PM
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Current female on the far left is the one who released this first batch...
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 5:08 PM
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Alright, well although I had a vossel snagger set up and ready to roll, it took to long for the larvae to get to the mouth of the vessel before my fish started feasting so, I ended up just snagging them with a net and putting them in the two litter bottle (their kriesel until settlement...unless I can come up with something better?) Here is a shot of what it looks like (I was in the middle of snagging them when I took this shot) sorry for the mess!!!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 5:09 PM
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close up: shot down into the 2L container...
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 5:11 PM
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taken through the microscope on a 10x lense through camera at full zoom... these aren't even 1hr old yet.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 6:19 PM
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Nice pics. And your daughter is developing expensive eating habits! At least she hasn't tried something like filet of black tang!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 6:41 PM
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yeah, that 'extra' protein sure is costly... good thing I'm breeding them, eh? lol...
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 11:11 PM
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Ok those were all from Batch #01- 7/15 spawn & 7/25 hatch... Here is spawn #02 on the right side... these are from spawn 7/17 & hatch 7/27. SERIOUSLY DON'T EVER WANT TO DO THE FLAT SIDE OF A 2L AGAIN!!!! HIGH HIGH HIGH MORTALITY RATE.....DUE TO SETTLING! I would guess that I only have about 30% remaining at a week old, verses the top side down bottle set up is doing remarkably well at this age. Will continue to watch progress. ** could also be difference in air stones though. I am noticing that the larger bubbles really 'toss' these guys about... while the finer grit air stone on the right has much smaller bubbles and creates a much more uniform circular flow pattern in the 2L vessel.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Friday, August 2, 2013 11:12 PM
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pardon the poor husbandry! lol.... I just noticed all that cyano!!! YUCK!!!! lol... but I was having shrimp babies and didn't want to mess with it. Good thing water changes are due on this tank tonight!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Monday, August 5, 2013 6:14 PM
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Ok, well I took the 1st batch and witched them to a new bottle (with cap down) but still don't have a finer air stone (waiting for it to arrive) ... I can only see a couple still alive in this batch. They are truly getting knocked around and beaten up in there, I doubt this batch will make it... At least batch # 02 is still going, numbers decreased but still plenty in there!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:31 AM
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well, shoot buckets! ok, well, both batched down. Longest one made it until august 9th... not even 2 weeks! argh... 13dph is not getting me any points here! lol... well, I'm waiting on another hatch to try again! Currently 3 pregnant females...maybe only try one batch at a time? really observe what's going on? For sure this time I have my finer air stones (finally came in today!), and I am researching some better kreisel designs... would really like to see these guys work out... a new challenge for sure. Hoping for better odds next time.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 3:32 AM
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:51 PM
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I would maybe try collecting them with something other than a net. I would think a net would be pretty rough on the larvae. What density of bbs have you been feeding?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:56 PM
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Well I collect them in a super fine brine net... I put my own mesh on this one, they do well... but maybe your right, I can try and 'scoop' them... I'm always trying to beat the dang fish though...they always eat 50% or more of a batch just because their in the same tank! lol. I hatch out 1-1.5 tsp of brine a day and split between my mysids, current babies, and peppermints larvae... so... they typically get quite a few.... not sure of the density in numbers though... got a good way to count... lol?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata boggessi
Saturday, August 24, 2013 6:15 PM
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Well that sucks! One of my females was due to release soon when I did a water change and scrubed and rearranged the rock in the tank. I put everything back in but not quite back in its same place. Guess this really pissed the clowns off. They went absolutely psycho on everything in the tank. Picked on my Banggai's, and the peppermints that are all in there. Didn't eat just mauled 2 peppermints and took out my banggai's thread top fin. But they have calmed down now. crazy! Well, I went ahead and dissected the dead female, and stripped her eggs out of her and have put them in the wine glass tumbler. I have no clue if this will work, but I sure as heck wasn't going to let those clowns get the satisfaction of eating them! I'll throw pictures up soon!
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