Breeding Journal, Species: Lysmata Amboinensis

General
Species:  Lysmata Amboinensis
Social Structure:  Mated Pair
Size of Individuals:  2.5 inches
Age of Individuals: unknown wild caught. 
Date added to Tank: 04/2014

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank: 125 gallon reef 
Substrate Details:  Black live sand
Filtration Details: sump with liverock, protien skimmer, phasban reactor, and UV steralizer.
Water Changes: 40 gallons every 3 weeks.
Water Temperature:  78 to 79 degrees F 
Lighting: T5
Lighting Cycle:  11 hrs on 13 hrs off
Other Tank Inhabitants: banggaii cardinals, pajama cardinals, coral beauty,blue hippo tang, sailfin and yellow tang,pair of maroon clowns, green mandarin, yellow clown goby.

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types: rods food, brine and mysis shrimp, new spectrum pellets .
Feeding Schedule: 3 times a day 

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn: 02/15/15
Spawn Time of Day: sometime during the night.
Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  4/19/2015
Courtship Details: unknown
Egg Size: 1mm
Egg Color: lime green 
Egg Count:  hundreds?

Hatch Details
Hatch Date: 5/1/2015
Hatch Time of Day:  Sometime after lights out.
# Days after Spawn: 12 days
Larvae Description: About an 1/8th inch long and transparent except for eyes and a yellow spot in the middle of the thorax. 


Larval Tank Details
Temperature: 78 to 79 degrees F 
Size of Larval Tank: Larvae are in the sump of my 125 gal. The sump is a 20 gallon high. 
Substrate Details:  Sump is loaded with live rock rubble.
Other Tank Decor: none
Filtration Details:  Sump has live rock, Protein skimmer, and phosban reactor.
Lighting: Ambient light from T5 fixture.  
Lighting Cycle: 11hrs on 13hrs off. 
Water Changes: 40 gallons every 3 weeks. 

Larval Feeding Details
Food Types:  Sump is full of different pods, rotifers that I dump in the tank to thin out my cultures, and what ever makes it through the filter pad.
Feeding Schedule: constant supply always available.  

Metamorphosis/Settlement
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Description of Fry: 

Grow-Out Tank Details
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Grow-Out Feeding Details
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Additional Information
(No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please)
Miscellaneous Information: Larvae are very skittish of light. 



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This is exceptionally pleasant and average post....You shook posting it....Thanks a ton for posting it....!!!

Johni

Your welcome!

This is my first go at these. Any ideas on how to recover the napulli in a 125 gal?

In a recent volume of Coral magazine there was an ingenius little snagger, one of which I built in about 15 minutes.  It involves a yogurt quart container, some plastic glue, a small funnel, and a night light. I got hundreds of peppermint shrimp larvae from the parental tank using it.  Alternatively, Vossen makes a lovely snagger.

check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website:
http://kathysclowns.com
Captive bred clownfish and more
(Wholesale to the trade.)

Thanks Kathy, I will stop tomorrow and see if they still have that issue on the shelf.

I have had good luck with Chad Vossen's Larval snagger with both clownfish and peppermint shrimp.
 
https://www.etsy.com/list...460/vossen-larval-trap

Thanks Miles, Kathy had also mentioned the vossen. I will definitely check it out.

well I never purchased a larval snagger or built one, But I will do so. I tried something to see if it would work. I read all the reports on this shrimp, And Fishboy13 had said that the eggs hatch on the 12th day. So I pulled the filter pad out of my sump before lights out until I noticed momma shrimp did not have any eggs. I was not sure if it would work. But then I found these

these are 4 DPH.

I noticed in this picture that one of the larger ones tail is turning red.

These are the best pictures I could get. I dont have a microscope yet. I thought they came out pretty good for using a cell phone camera and a magnifying glass.

Here are a couple of videos. Sorry for the background noise.
https://youtu.be/8jX9Uqn_U_E

https://youtu.be/3XD9UIFn5ro

6 DPH and still have a lot of larvae in sump. I still can not tell what they are eating.

Not sure you have what you think you have.  Shouldn't those eyes be on stalks? Is it possible you have mysis or hitchhikers from your live rock?  I'm no expert on ambionensis, but….Where is Luis?

check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website:
http://kathysclowns.com
Captive bred clownfish and more
(Wholesale to the trade.)

I'm probably wrong, but have you seen this thread?
http://www.mbisite.org/fo...mpage=1&print=true
 
same one, different link...
http://www.mbisite.org/Fo...4461&mpage=2#88598
 

check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website:
http://kathysclowns.com
Captive bred clownfish and more
(Wholesale to the trade.)

Thanks Kathy, I will look to see if I can find any other species that look like these. The timing was about perfect with the shrimp. I had never seen these in my sump until now. I haven't added live rock to the sump in over a year. Has anyone seen Luis?

Ray, you are raising mysis shrimp
 
Cleaner shrimp larvae look like peppermint shrimp larvae.

Kathy and Netra are keen observersThese are indeed mysid shrimps.
They are very common among rockwork and in sumps.Hard to catch though!
They could perhaps provide an interesting live food,if they could be cultured like A.bahia.I am not aware of anybody trying it.This could be an interesting project!

Sorry for posting the wrong species. I was thinking of what Kathy said about hitch hikers in the live rocks in the sump. I haven't added live rock to the sump but i forgot about the coral I traded and replaced those rocks with new rock in the tank. Bummer on the cleaner shrimp, but it's cool to have another to work with. Thanks for all your help.

I was wondering if those could hermit crab larvae? Definitely need an expert to weigh in though. (oops - I see they already did!)

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Ken