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Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus sp. "Ruby Red"
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:32 PM
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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: Synchiropus sp. "Ruby red" Social Structure: 2 females, one male in friend's tank, one male, one female in my tank Size of Individuals: friend's:male is about 2 inches, females 1.5 inches . Mine: about 1.5 inches both Age of Individuals: unknown Date added to Tank: friend's:females added 4/26/15. mine: both added 8/6/15 Broodstock Tank Details Size of Tank: friend's:240 gallon , mine: 15 gallon Substrate Details: friend's:barebottom full reef tank , mine: bare bottom with lots of PVC Filtration Details: friend's:protein skimmer and algae scrubber . mine: sponge filter from live rock tank Water Changes: friend's:100 gallons every 3 weeks . mine: gallon a week Water Temperature: 80-82F Lighting: friend's: metal halide 400watt x 3 of them . mine: cfl about 2 ft away Lighting Cycle: friend's:lights are on from 1pm to 10pm . mine 14 hours daylight, 10 hours night Other Tank Inhabitants: friend's: full reef tank with other fish . mine: Two wurdemanni shrimp, small crab, small brittle star. Broodstock Feeding Details Food Types: friend's:forage for copepods, male will eat frozen mysis every once in a while. Tank is fed 2 times/day with pellets, but owner thinks the rubys don't eat them. mine: lots of copepods in tank, got to try to train them. Feeding Schedule: Two times a day Spawning Details Date of First Spawn: friend's:unknown, they spawn frequently, for hatch report, 6/28/2015 Spawn Time of Day: friend's:evening as light go out Dates of Consecutive Spawns: friend's:6/30/2015 ,…, July 14, 2015, Aug 4 and 5, 2015 Courtship Details: friend's:Like other synchyropus, they lock fins and rise in the water column before releasing gametes Egg Size: tiny, about 0.75mm Egg Color: translucent Egg Count: about 10 for the hatch report, in subsequent spawns, as many as 50, or at least that was what was found floating Hatch Details Hatch Date: 6/29/15 , Aug 5 and 6, 2015 Hatch Time of Day: evening after dark # Days after Spawn: 1 Larvae Description: 1.5-2 mm long, translucent prolarvae, head and body curled around clear yolk, no oil globule, no eyes, mouth or gut yet, but darting with tail movements. Consecutive Hatch Dates: 7/1/15 , 7/15/15, and many more unreported. Larval Tank Details Temperature: 77F , water bath Size of Larval Tank: 2 gallons in a pretzel jar Substrate Details: none , detritus Other Tank Decor: none Filtration Details: none, water changes, rigid airline Lighting: 40 watt CFL clamped close to top side, @ 1 o'clock to avoid the opaque jar lid. Lighting Cycle: none. Lights on 24/7. Water Changes: 2 liters daily starting at day 5&6 (two days' hatches in one jar) to remove adult copepods, replacing nauplii Larval Feeding Details Food Types: initially live phytoplankton (I sochrysis, Tetraselmis , Rhodomonas),later just Iso., Parvocalanus crassirostris nauplii twice a day. Feeding Schedule: constant, Isochrysis evaluated daily and corrections made, Parvocalanus crassirostris nauplii added twice a day. 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 http://www.fishbase.org/P...lsSummary.php?ID=66423 this fish looks like the bottom picture. But I guess the scientific name is undecided. (No Pictures or Videos in the Section Please) Miscellaneous Information: From Jake Adams at REefbuilders: http://reefbuilders.com/2...eous-worldwide-splash/ The guesses as to which species of Synchiropus the Ruby Red dragonet belongs to have ranged from Synchiropus moyeri, to Synchiropus morrissoni to the recently described Synchiropus tudorjonesi. Morrisson and Moyer’s dragonets have been ruled out on a variety of meristic values and although the ruby red dragonet look a helluva lot like S. tudorjonesi, it is significantly different from the latter to be a different species, perhaps undescribed and unknown to science. We even dug up some pictures of the also unknown Synchiropus rubrovinctus but that species is also pretty distinctive, and not like the Ruby Red Dragonet currently under scrutiny. Read more: http://reefbuilders.com/2013/04/19/rubyb-red-dragonet-simultaneous-worldwide-splash/#ixzz3ego34Xij You will be required to provide photographic or video evidence in this thread of each event submitted for the MBI Program.
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<message edited by KathyL on Saturday, August 15, 2015 11:35 AM>
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus Ruby Red sp.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:40 PM
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I thought the eggs were dead, because they were no longer floating, and I couldn't find them, so I left them in their little cup by the microscope overnight. In the morning, cleaning up, I saw a couple of little darters, so I got one on a petrie dish in a drop of water and took some pix through the microscope. Also took some later in the day. After their photoshoot, I drip acclimated them into the larval BRT, already set up to take some other young larvae that have not hatched yet. It's actually a tub that failed to sustain my Damsel larvae so there are lots of dead bodies in there. Also a ton of ciliates and Parvocalanus in all life stages. I'm feeding it live phytoplankton, the 3 kinds I'm growing. After work, I was surprised to find one of the little guys and able to get a few decent pictures of him or her. Tonight I may get some more eggs to add to the tub.
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:41 PM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus Ruby Red sp.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:44 PM
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 with euterpina for size ref.  
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:41 PM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus Ruby Red sp.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 8:22 PM
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Here's Papa and a previous egg strand:  
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:43 PM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:06 AM
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He is a beauty.
What is up with that egg strand?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus Ruby Red sp.
Sunday, July 5, 2015 2:30 PM
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I can't find anything in the tub besides copepods at the moment. They are so thick, a flashlight reveals a sea of light dots. Impossible to see larvae. I'll keep feeding the tub in the hopes that larvae will grow to be visible.
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, August 13, 2015 12:44 PM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Monday, July 13, 2015 3:22 AM
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Thats a beautiful poppa!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Monday, July 13, 2015 8:20 AM
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Thanks for this Kathy, he is a beauty and as usual your pics are awesome. I wish you great success with these.
Jake We are all in this together
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Monday, July 13, 2015 11:25 PM
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Thanks everyone, but that is not my papa fish, and not my pictures either of him. I do hope to acquire a couple in a week or two. These are fish from a local friend. He gave me the eggs to hatch out myself.
The microscope pix of the newly hatched larvae are mine.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 3:53 AM
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Following along, Good luck with these!
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 2:41 PM
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Next time you're there, any chance you could get a picture of Mama?
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:24 PM
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I've never been there, I meet him at his gym. He's very cooperative though, and I'll ask him for a pic of the fem.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:18 PM
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I got more eggs tonight. About 50 of them. pix later. I set up a new tub, but I'm going to put some eggs or hatchlings in the older tub with the 14 day old watchman goby larva and his friend the damsel larva. I'm having limited success with that tub.
You never know.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 10:18 PM
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Here's egg pix just before hatch:   
<message edited by KathyL on Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:30 PM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:32 PM
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they hatched late, and I got them in the morning and distributed to the two tubs. The larvae look just like the pictures earlier in this thread.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Friday, July 17, 2015 6:45 AM
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check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Friday, July 17, 2015 8:55 AM
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The Ruby larvae in the new tub is doing OK it seems. Still a lot of swimmers. The damsel larvae in the same tub seem to have died out immediately. Not sure why, but the same damsel hatch is doing well in the watchman tub.
<message edited by KathyL on Sunday, July 19, 2015 12:01 AM>
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Friday, July 17, 2015 11:29 PM
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My buddy kept some of his eggs in a closed small container at room temp for 9 days while he was out of town. When he came back they were still swimming. Hmmm. I want to find out how long until their eyes pigment and they develop a mouth.
I think I can see the fishlike bodies, without reflective eyes, in both tub 1 and tub 2, but there's a lot going on in both tubs, and I could be wrong.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Saturday, July 18, 2015 11:59 AM
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Ruby larvae in tub 2 have eyes, this is day 3, and mouths that gape pretty far wide, and tiny spots on the body and a film of something where the fins should be. I tried to take pix, but I need batteries for the camera. Perhaps later
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species: Synchiropus tudorjonesi
Saturday, July 18, 2015 11:05 PM
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This is exciting KathyL. DO IT. CLAIM A SPECIES FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!
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