Baby reidi

[Luis A M]

These are H.reidi,42 days old.They are 3cm tall,about the size of H.zosterae which they resemble.
They are beginning to take adult bs.There are 235 of them,and I expect some logistic problems to house and feed all of them!
(posted also at the fish breeding forum)

 

[CeaHorseMaShell]

what are you going to do with them all. Are you planning on selling some of them?

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8033858#post8033858 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CeaHorseMaShell
what are you going to do with them all. Are you planning on selling some of them?

Hopefully,almost all of them,what else could I do?

 

[mokarran]

Hi Luis,

Congratulations, I have pregnant reidi at the moment, whens the best time to move the male??? Have rotifers/phyto on the go...

Also what did you move the male to a kriesel????

PS. Majorly impressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Mokka

 

[hydroid]

Re: Baby reidi

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8032276#post8032276 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Luis A M

There are 235 of them,and I expect some logistic problems to house and feed all of them!

They are old enough to start training on frozen mysis. Once they taken frozen readily, you can sell them.

Luis, I bow to your fry-raising feet. 235 at 7 weeks is increible!

 

[snowlancer2720]

i give him credit just for counting them all, while moving around! Congrats! good luck with them!

 

[ChillingBoy]

nice !!!!!!!

 

[Luis A M]

Thanks for the congrats!
Mokka,babies were born and raised in a 10g black round tank.Dad was placed there the night of birth,14 days after spawning.
Hydroid,I had to move all the fry to a clean tank,cause it was full of ,er,hydroids.Take no offense. They are about the size of H.zosterae.No way they can take a frozen mysis.BTW there is a paper by Amanda V.where fry of several spp are taking particles of mysis ground in a mortar.Bizarre,isn´t it?
Snowlancer,then was the time when I counted them all.I had underestimated them at 180 before.

 

[mokarran]

Hi Luis,

By the sounds of it you don't use a kriesel, any chance of a pic of you 10 gall round tank find it hard to visualise.

Cheers Mokka

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8050818#post8050818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mokarran
Hi Luis,

By the sounds of it you don't use a kriesel, any chance of a pic of you 10 gall round tank find it hard to visualise.

Cheers Mokka

Check:http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=579501&highlight=black+round+tank

 

[hydroid]

BTW there is a paper by Amanda V.where fry of several spp are taking particles of mysis ground in a mortar.Bizarre,isn´t it?

I've heard some breeders scrape (shave) frozen mysis chunks and train the fry to mysis on the small particles.

 

[mokarran]

Hi Luis,

Thanks for the link, unfortunately the pics are not showing up just red crosses. By the seems of it though sounds like there's some problems with transfering fry cleaning and feeding against the black background.

Is there any other way I could see the pics maybe if you could e-mail them to me.

Cheers Mokka.

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8057823#post8057823 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hydroid
I've heard some breeders scrape (shave) frozen mysis chunks and train the fry to mysis on the small particles.

If this works,it´s a revolution in SH feeding!:eek1:
They are mainly visual hunters,though I´ve seen smell plays a rol too.They need to recognize the shape of the prey animal (or part of it),even if it was frozen.
Along this line,we could train them to accept table shrimp meat!

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8062547#post8062547 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mokarran
Hi Luis,

Thanks for the link, unfortunately the pics are not showing up just red crosses. By the seems of it though sounds like there's some problems with transfering fry cleaning and feeding against the black background.

Is there any other way I could see the pics maybe if you could e-mail them to me.

Cheers Mokka.

It happened before.Seems RC erases pics in old threads to save space
Will try and find the pics and post them back.

 

[mokarran]

Hi Luis have pm'd my e-mail if thats any easier.

Mokka

 

[seahorsedreams]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8044665#post8044665 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by snowlancer2720
i give him credit just for counting them all, while moving around! Congrats! good luck with them!

I use to take a picture of the fry and then count them all using photoshop and dots. I would blow the pic up and count the sets of eyes while putting dots on them so they wouldn't be counted twice.

That is a great job with those Reidi!!!

 

[TamiW]

Very nice!

Have you tried cyclop-eeze? Its still a dead food but looks closer to what they should be eating.

In my limited experience, reidi can be fussy about switching to frozen that young, but ingens takes it as soon as they're big enough to. I'd still give it a try though, you might get lucky.

 

[Luis A M]

Thanks,aren´t they cute?
I offer CE often,but these guys don´t like it!May be one baby eats one and that´s it.My mandarins and Lysmata shrimp larvae don´t take it either.But clownfish love it!.
I am currently setting an outdoor small pool to increase my bs production,though the weather is still very cold for them.
I have some flat bags of Hikari mysis which will help to bring all these horses up to market size.
They are interested in mysis and some manage to swallow small pieces.See above about minced mysis.

 

[Holokai]

Update time, Luis! How are they doing?

 

[Luis A M]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8203002#post8203002 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Holokai
Update time, Luis! How are they doing?

Just wonderful! All of them hanging around
One is dark yellow while all the other remain black,with whitish faces and bellies.They´re taking mysis better,whole or cut in smaller pieces.They love adult bs,which they hunt like a pack of wolves .Bbs remains the staple however.
What does Holokai mean?