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Re:Banggai Rescue Breeder "All Call" - looking for collaborators
Monday, May 7, 2012 3:46 AM
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I will help. My pair are very young, and was shocked they spawned. But willing to lend a hand
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Re:Banggai Rescue Breeder "All Call" - looking for collaborators
Monday, May 7, 2012 1:57 PM
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I'm willing to help out as well. I've got a pair going now that has held in the past and can get more from the Trop. My issue now is that these buggers do not like PE Mysis, they do love the Hikari brand mysis though.
like Jish said... deposit... NO refunds -thejrc
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Re:Banggai Rescue Breeder "All Call" - looking for collaborators
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 7:15 AM
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Let me know what I can do. Last time I bred them we wrote about it. Did AI and it was pretty easy, I'd have to check to see when I stripped though. Been planning to get some again for a while now, but didn't because of my trip. Back soon and will be getting some fo sho.
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Re:Banggai Rescue Breeder "All Call" - looking for collaborators
Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:37 PM
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Waste is and excess food always seems to be a problem in my smaller tanks. Aptasia and waste collection is always a problem. I am going to be stripping the tanks that hold pairs to bare bottom and seeing just how much settles. I have never run any of my bang tanks bare bottom, as the one time I tried the pair never seemed to 'settle in' so I added gravel and macro and within a few days they were behaving much more calm.
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UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 8:12 PM
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Well all, this is some informal information I'd like to ask you all to complete: 1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? 2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? 3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) 4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? 5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both? Feel free to post your responses here for all to see.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:01 PM
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Sure, we ordered 30 large banggai from Exotic Reef Imports. They were on sale that week, which means they were a whole dollar less than normal. The banggai arrived individually bagged, taking up almost two boxes. I opened up all the bags and released them into the same bucket, adding water from the quarantine system to acclimate them, added a little prime to fix up any ammonia. Our Quarantine system has 16 separate sections/tanks. I went through the banggai that we got in, and sorted (venting method) them by male, female, and undetermined. The fish that I could sex were paired up and given their own section of the quarantine. Unsexable fish were split into two groups, and placed in a 4 foot quarantine section. Two fish died from shipping trauma within 48 hours. After a few days of eating and adjusting to their new tank, I went through the unsexed fish again and could determine more males, females, and unsexable fish. I continued this routine every day till they were all paired, and the remaining fish kept as singles. Within a week, all the banggai had been sorted. The real test was time, being kept together and watching for fin damage, I was able to conclude a near perfect success in pairing them. Three weeks was enough time to fatten them up and sell them as male and female pairs at the expo.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:04 PM
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Last time or this time? 1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? Last time, 2009, I was given some wild caught fish, I think 2, and they died within a few weeks, and purchased some captive bred, probably 6 or so, perhaps more, had 3 pairs from them. 2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? Wild ones died within weeks, captive bred had some mortality, if I recall correctly, but they mostly lived. 3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) I used 20 gallon highs, because they are the biggest tanks I own and they can be isolated permanently. My QT is my final tank. 4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? All my spawning pairs would not hold for more than 3 days. 5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? I did not try this.If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both?
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:05 PM
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1. gone through many banggai, and sold them as pairs. Before I had wholesale access, I only bought them as pairs from other people. 2. buying my banggai already established from another tank had no losses. Buying from wholesaler so far has had very few losses. 3. from 15-200 gallons. 4. Currently only have one pair that I pull from. I pull the male every time I see him with eggs, open his mouth and look at the eggs. If they are still eggs, I return him to the tank. If they have hatched, or are almost ready to hatch, I pull them at put them in an egg tumbler. 5. tumbling eggs for me almost always fails. I try to wait till they've hatched, and then have very good success.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 9:24 PM
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- Won my pair at MACNA in 2008. Lucked out that they were a M/F pair.
- Lost pair in Sept 2011
- Housed them in the refugium section of the sump with LR, LS, and marcoalgae. Approx 20G
- Broodstock held the eggs most times. The last few batches before they died were eaten.
- Never tried.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:07 PM
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1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? My first pair I bought as a pair that had been retired from one of my LFS account tanks. Otherwise, about 15 fish to get about 3 pair. I get a lot of males. 2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? A lot, mostly my own idiot mistakes. BTW, other than my first pair all of mine were captive bred. I did have one disease go through my system that only seemed to hit males. Killed about 5. 3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) I keep them in all kinds of tanks, from 480 through 40 gal. to horse troughs. I almost always have tons of flow and lots of hiding places. 4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? Immaturity is the largest cause of egg swallowing I've seen, IMO. 5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both? Nope. Not yet. Since I have lots of hiding places catching the male with low stress seems impossible.
--Andy, the bucket man. "Not to know the mandolin is to argue oneself unknown...." --Clara Lanza, 1886
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Monday, May 21, 2012 3:44 AM
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Well all, this is some informal information I'd like to ask you all to complete: 1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? I was very lucky in that I managed to pick a pair out of a group of juvi's in my LFS tank. I chose my two on jaw and head shape, I went for a fuller square one (male) and a thinner streamlined one (female). It was a complete guess, and had arranged with the lfs to bring one back and try again if I needed to
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2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? Unable to tell from personal experiance, my lfs can not tell me if my fish are wild caught or captive bred. I think they are wild caught, as they are both very skittish
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3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) The pair are in a 200lt tall tank that I use for my mandarin. Thier tank mates are anthias, bi-colour blennies and mandarin. I feel that giving them an over hang of rock to hid under is important in making them feel secure. I tried keeping my male in a breeders net to fatten him up, but he became to stressed, so I returned him to his mate. They also seem more settled with other fish in the tank, but am also inclined to say this could effect breeding, especially in my case with Anthias. My pair are still young so will look to either move the anthias, or the banggais at a later date
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4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? My pair have spawned twice and each time he is holding them longer. The first spawn was eaten within 5 days, the second he ate them on day 10. I think hunger and age is the bigger factor here
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5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both? No not as yet
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Monday, May 21, 2012 10:06 AM
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1. So far, I've only had success buying already paired fish. I bought a group of 10 wild fish awhile back (only type readily available here), and all 10 slowly perished one at a time before any pairing occurred. That happened over about 8 months. They would shoal together and eat ravenously, then one day one would be off by itself, and the next day it would die. One of the females paired with an older male I had, but she eventually perished as well, and they never reproduced even though they were paired for a few months. I recently bought a group of 4 small wild adults to try pairing. 2. I have had ZERO luck establishing wild Banggai myself, although I've had no deaths in already established wild fish, nor any issues with captive bred fish on the occasion I've been able to acquire captive-bred. 3. 15 & 20 gallons for established pairs. Up to 55 gallons for groups. Low light, and low traffic area I find is the most important. I also find they are more comfortable in tanks with fake plants rather than live rock or PVC. They don't seem to care about substrate. 4. Previous pairs I've always found to start out holding full term, but after a year or so they start holding for shorter and shorter times. My current single pair doesn't hold worth a darn...eggs mostly gone in 24 hours. They've had 6 spawns that I know of. I have heard that nitrate around 20+ppm will cause Banggai to abort/swallow, but I haven't been able to confirm this...something I'm looking into myself now. Nitrate in my broodstock system is above this level. Previous pairs that I mentioned above that held full-term at the beginning were kept in very low nitrate systems. Hardly evidence as there were many differences between those systems and my current ones, but something to look at for sure. 5. I'm working on this right now with my current pair, but my experiments are too young to have any value yet, other than to know what I'm trying now isn't working (it is simply a brine shrimp pop bottle hatcher with methylene blue). Currently I'm working with eggs that are around 4-8 hours post-spawn. See my recent thread, "Adventures with Artificial Incubation of Banggai Cardinals" in the Banggai Cardinal Breeding forums. In the past, I've used a tumbler on eggs that were close to hatching (around 20 days IIRC) with some success. That tumbler used water flow rather than air flow and was set into an established tank rather than trying to keep the tumbler water sterile.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:20 PM
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 Originally Posted by mPedersen
Well all, this is some informal information I'd like to ask you all to complete: 1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? Initial pair was bought paired, so none. The remaining pairs, I lost rouhgly 25 creating the pairs i currently have. Most of this was learning a QT process that seemed to work for them. I found that most seemed to get ill around 5-6 weeks. I now standardly treat with Prazi and minumum QT of 8 weeks. Only have lost one batch of 5 since this and don't beleive it was due to the illness I kept seeing. Pretty sure was operator error =(. 2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? Captive, none. Wild, before current QT w/ Prazi roughly 50%, after QT with Prazi, 10%. 3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) Couples, 16g Shoal 105g 4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? Reacting to something appears to be the top cause of loss in my pairs. I can cause the loss of a batch with ease and the male that is most likely to carry is a male not around any stimulus. 5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both? Yes, once, but this attempt really wasnt intended for Bangs, but for PJs. So only one attempt was made. Eggs lasted rouhgly 7 days on water driven incubator. No medications. Many successes without AI. Feel free to post your responses here for all to see.
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Sunday, July 22, 2012 8:18 AM
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So...what's the status of this "call all" Matt?? 1 and 2) I have recently had much more success pairing using the "vent method" - 100% with 3 pairs. I've had a lot more success with wild-caught juveniles lately too which I contribute solely to making homemade frozen food which the Banggai love. I am able to provide a wider spectrum of Banggai palatable foods - homemade mash w/ gelatin, PE Mysis, and occasional H2O Brine Shrimp (can't find enriched BS around here). 3) Same. 4) Still no success. 5) Still no success.
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Don't let fear and common sense stop you! =]
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Monday, July 23, 2012 3:02 PM
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Will be ramping up here in a little bit
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Monday, July 23, 2012 8:04 PM
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1. How many fish did you go through to get your pair(s)? I have had 20 fish in total (8 origional all did not make it, second batch 2 doing well, third batch 10 with 8 remaining), at this stage I have 3 pairs, 10 fish total. These have been seperated using the vent method. 2. What mortality rate have you experienced with wild and/or captive-bred broodstock? One pair was purchased from another keeper and I have no knowledge of their background, they were in the previous owners tank for approx 2 years. 18 fish were purchased as wild stock. 8 of these remain. 3. What size tanks are you using for broodstock? What can you tell me about the setups that you feel might be important (eg. bare bottom, substrate, hiding places, etc?) 1 x 2x1.5x1 tank, bare bottom with a one pair of Banggai and an adult clown pair also in the tank. 2 x 2x1.5x1 tanks, lots of rock and caves with one pair of Banggai and a juvi clown pair growing up also in the tank. 1 x 3x2x2 tank, lots of rock and caves with group of banggai, one clown and four long nosed hawk fish. 4. How are you doing on incubation with your parents? Have you noticed anything that you believe causes them to incubate fully / stop prematurely? Currently leaving eggs with male. Eating eggs at day 3-5 as far as I can tell. 5. Have you tried artificial incubation of the eggs? If so, can you elaborate with details on the age of the eggs when pulled, the type of incubation, and whether you've been successfully, failed, or both? Not tried
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Monday, July 23, 2012 8:17 PM
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1. 2 fish. I had two adults. I didn't sex them or anything before introduction. I got lucky to get a pair. 2. Lost one of them have not tried to introduce another yet. 3. 92 corner tank that is setup as a reef tank. There is also a pair of clowns and a vlamingi tang. 4. I was letting the male do the incubating. I was never succesful with him raising eggs to the end. 5. No
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:36 PM
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 1:36 PM
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Re:UPDATE - 5 Questions for ALL Banggai Breeding Collaborators
Friday, July 27, 2012 11:20 AM
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1. I have 2 pairs currently. The more established pair I purchased as 3 juveniles and lost 1. The new pair I got, I only purchased the 2. The newer pair, one of the pair only wants to eat live food. I've tried increasing flow but the fish in question will mouth the food and spit it out. I've even tried frozen adult brine and still no luck. So 2 pairs, 5 total fish. 2. I've lost just the 1 WC juvenile from question 1. 3. Tank 1 is ~30G shallow tank and tank 2 is 8 gallon cube. Tank 1 is bare bottom with 2 Occelaris clownfish, a fake urchin and a floating bowl for shelter. Tank 2 has light dusting of sand, live rock and some Caulerpa prolifera for hiding places, 6 scarlet hermit crabs and a tiny Clarkii (temporary). 4. Have not had a spawning event yet. 5. N/A
like Jish said... deposit... NO refunds -thejrc
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