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•  Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus

  Author Message CaptCrash Total Posts : 662 Reward points : 1304 Joined: 10/23/2011 Location: Beckenham, WA, AU Status: offline MBI: 2050 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:01 PM (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:  Hippocampus subelongatus (listed as Hippocampus kuda in error) Social Structure:  Pair Size of Individuals:  5" each Age of Individuals:  Unknown Date added to Tank:  1/5/2015 Broodstock Tank Details   Size of Tank:  Display setup approx. 2000L total with seahorse Tank 920x350x450mm 145L 38US Gal     Substrate Details:  White Marble Chips     Filtration Details:  Skimmer, UV, Macro Algae, Live Rock     Water Changes:  400L Fortnight     Water Temperature:  26C     Lighting:  LED     Lighting Cycle:  9am to 8:45pm (complex setup with moon lighting, dusk/dawn across 8 colours, storms so light intensity changes etc)   Other Tank Inhabitants:  1 x H. subelongatus seahorse, 10 x Peppermint shrimp, 4 x small Occy/Perc cross juvies     Broodstock Feeding Details   Food Types:  Frozen Mysis shrimp, Spectrum Thera A+, Spectrum Salt H20 flakes, Enriched Brine Shrimp, Marine Green, Home Made Mash (prawn, pipi clam, white bait, squid, garlic, norrie etc). Occasional live brine shrimp   Feeding Schedule:  Morning and night.  Pellets followed 10 minutes later with frozen food.     Spawning Details Date of First Spawn:  1/23/2015 Spawn Time of Day: 8am Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  none Courtship Details:  They were body/belly to body/belly with their tailed hitched together.   Then as I waked in the room, they separated, then the female layed flat on the sand and the male sort of stood guard over her and puled his abdomen backwards and forwards a few times.   Once this was over, the female left.  Egg Size:  eggs are concealed in the males pouch, so size cannot be determined. Egg Color:  eggs are concealed in the males pouch, so colour cannot be determined. Egg Count:  eggs are concealed in the males pouch, so quantity cannot be determined. Hatch Details Hatch Date:  2/5/2015 Hatch Time of Day:  6pm # Days after Spawn:  13 Larvae Description: Tiny fully formed sea horses Consecutive Hatch Dates:      N/A Larval Tank Details Temperature:  26c Size of Larval Tank: 12"x12"x12"                       Substrate Details:  None Other Tank Decor:  ceramic Flower pot, heater Filtration Details:  Sponge Filter Lighting:  Ambiant Lighting Cycle:  approx 9am to 9pm Water Changes:  20L as needed or weekly Larval Feeding Details Food Types:  NHBBS Feeding Schedule:  every 1-2 days as fry consume remaining NHBBS Metamorphosis/Settlement Date of Settlement Start:  3/5/2015 Days after Hatch:  28 days (after release from male) Date of Settlement End:  3/5/2015 Description of Fry:  Small fully formed sea horse. Grow-Out Tank Details Temperature:  26c Size of Grow-Out Tank:  12" x 12" x 12" Substrate Details:  None Other Tank Decor:  ceramic Flower pot, heater Filtration Details:  Sponge Filter Lighting:  ambiant Lighting Cycle:  approx 9am to 9pm Water Changes:  20L as needed or weekly Size at Transfer:  N/A no transfer, same tank Age at Transfer:  N/A no transfer, same tank Grow-Out Feeding Details Food Types:  NHBBS Feeding Schedule:  every 2-3 days as fry consume remaining NHBBS Additional Information   (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information:  Note: eggs are concealed in the males pouch, so size, colour and quantity cannot be determined. Additional Spawns:    S = Date of Spawn    H = Date of Hatch      S 1/23/2015 H 2/5/2015   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. <message edited by CaptCrash on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 2:03 AM> Stay up to date with my breeding efforts: Regal Tang RegalTangBreeding Mccullochi Clownfish MccullochiClownfishBreeding    #1 CaptCrash Total Posts : 662 Reward points : 1304 Joined: 10/23/2011 Location: Beckenham, WA, AU Status: offline MBI: 2050 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:05 PM (permalink) I think I just witnessed these guys doing an egg transfer. They were body/belly to body/belly with their tailed hitched together. Then as I waked in the room, they separated, then the female layed flat on the sand and the male sort of stood guard over her and puled his abdomen backwards and forwards a few times. Once this was over, the female left.   Its unusual to see them hitched to each other, they mostly hang about 6-12" apart.   Will see if anything develops (just in time for me to go away on holidays :-) as per normal <message edited by CaptCrash on Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:19 AM> Stay up to date with my breeding efforts: Regal Tang RegalTangBreeding Mccullochi Clownfish MccullochiClownfishBreeding    #2 CaptCrash Total Posts : 662 Reward points : 1304 Joined: 10/23/2011 Location: Beckenham, WA, AU Status: offline MBI: 2050 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:00 PM (permalink) The adults shortly before what I think was mating/egg transfer described above. As is always the way, I was going away for a holiday on the 6th Feb, so what happens on the night of the 5th.   Adult pair, make this happen    Sorry for the picture quality but it was all a bit rushed with getting out the door to the airport so its from the phone.     I didn't collect all of the fry as the release was unexpected.  In total I collected 105 fry.  I expect that at least as many more went over the overflow and into the filter socks. <message edited by CaptCrash on Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:14 PM> Stay up to date with my breeding efforts: Regal Tang RegalTangBreeding Mccullochi Clownfish MccullochiClownfishBreeding    #3 CaptCrash Total Posts : 662 Reward points : 1304 Joined: 10/23/2011 Location: Beckenham, WA, AU Status: offline MBI: 2050 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:22 PM (permalink) I had some friends from the local reef group looking after the fish whilst I was away and they managed to keep feeding the sea horses, though most didn't make it. Once I got home, there were 4 left.  Three of these died within the next few days, leaving one. The first time I witnessed the sea horse actually hitch to anything was on the 3/5/2015, though this may have been happening for a few days before and I didn't notice.   This one is going strong and is now 100 days post hatch and 66 days post settlement (hitching) and going strong. I have not been able to get him onto frozen foods as yet, so he is living entirely on NHBBS and random copepods that I collect from my breeding systems. Stay up to date with my breeding efforts: Regal Tang RegalTangBreeding Mccullochi Clownfish MccullochiClownfishBreeding    #4 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Monday, June 29, 2015 11:12 AM (permalink) OK, wait, you're feeding the searhorses PELLET FOODS?!   #5 mPedersen Total Posts : 3450 Reward points : 1376 Joined: 2/27/2009 Location: Duluth, MN, US Status: offline MBI: 4975 Pnts MBI Site: Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:53 PM (permalink) And your Seahorses ALSO TAKE FLAKES?!   #6 CaptCrash Total Posts : 662 Reward points : 1304 Joined: 10/23/2011 Location: Beckenham, WA, AU Status: offline MBI: 2050 Pnts MBI Site: Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Hippocampus subelongatus Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:42 AM (permalink) Yup, he gets in there and takes basically whatever is offered. Flakes/bits of flake are probably more of an oops from him, but he will take them as they sink. 0.5mm nls pellets, I would describe it that he goes after them. He is now in with about 100 juvie clowns and about 80 juvie Banggai cardinalfish. Net result, he eats what ever he can get to then gets away from the annoying fish to his own corner near the sponge filter. The dry food is added first and the other fish go for it, mostly the clowns. This encourages the seahorse and the Banggai who then join in. I don't know if he will keep going for the dry food once I move the other fish out of his tank, I expect he will become more fussy as he was when smaller. Stay up to date with my breeding efforts: Regal Tang RegalTangBreeding Mccullochi Clownfish MccullochiClownfishBreeding    #7 Online Bookmarks Sharing: Facebook Digg Google del.icio.us StumbleUpon

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