Banggai Babies Everywhere !!!!!:)

[spk]

Hi folks,

Well !!!!!!!

Just thought I would let you all know that I encouraged my male to release last night. Or should I say early this morning.

I think that there were 14 in total. This is the largest that he has released so far. Ok, perhaps we have had this many in the past. but only a few, 50% made it through the gambit of not being eaten, before arriving in the sump.

Thanks to the suggestion, Jacob, I think you may have suggested that I turn the lights on and then I could catch the male easily. Well it worked. Thanks

I will take pictures and post later tonight.

Yipeeee !!!!!

Steve

 

[Kathy55g]

Happy for you, Steve!!!!
Kathy

 

[jacob30]

Glad it worked for you! I just caught mine the other night as well and induced him to release. Good luck.

Jacob

 

[CaptiveMarine]

Steve,

Looking forward to the pictures.

 

[spk]

Jacob,

Ok, make me green with envy, How many?

Steve

 

[jacob30]

About thirty or so this time. I still do not have a good count though.

Jacob

 

[spk]

Hmmmmmmmmmm ok need to increase my numbers

Congrats. Perhaps we need to try and find out hoiw much to ship to me.

Steve

 

[km133688]

have you had success with these before? I recently got lucky. Have been trying to raise my friends hatches as he goes to Germany all the time and can't do it. With the last batch I lost 4 in the tank. Turns out 3 of them are now 3 months old.

If you have done this before, what is your feeding schedule like?
Have you learned anything keen?

I have found that I was just trying too hard. Letting them go in my tank was the best thing I could have done. I'll be trying again with a different approach, maybe we can swap notes.

Good luck, will stop by to check out your pics. Kevin

 

[spk]

Kevin,

This is my fourth batch or so now and to date I have only lost a couple along the way. If I remember, one I put in the tank with an older brother that ate him , and the other I lost because he was just a weaker little one I think.

I feed on BBS about 3 times a day to start with and then as the get older, I reduce the feed down to 2 times and then once per day. I use decapsulated brine shrmp eggs for my BBS hatches.

Pictures coming later today.

Steve

 

[spk]

Well here they are. Finally Pictures.

One single Banggai baby 24hours old.



Here is the group of the. Not all only 10 out of the 12/13 that I have.


I will try and update these as they grow.

They are currently all eating BBS.

Steve

 

[km133688]

thanks Steve, very encouraging. Can you give some details on your setup.

Thanks, Kevin

 

[Kathy55g]

this is great!

 

[spk]

Kevin,

The setup that this pair is in is very simple.

Main Tank: 5'x2'x2'
Return: Eheim 1060
Single drilled Wier
No skimming, No water changes, No chemical additive apart from Kalk on topup.

Sump: 3'x18"x12"
3 sections
Section 1: Return from tank
Section 2: MM & Aragonite sand bed with Calerpa and LR
Section 3: Eheim return to tank

Other Tank inhabitants:
1 Pair standard Clowns
1 Pair of Maroon Clowns
1 Saifin Tang
1 Lemon Peel angel
1 False Gramma
1 Chalk / Ghost Goby
3 Chromis
1 Dragon Wrasse
1 Candy Shrimp

LR with the usual soft corals.

Feeding is Nightly around 10pm

Light is provided by 12 T5 tubes. 8 White and 4 Blue
Blues on 11am - 11pm
Whitse on 12pm - 10pm

Thats about it. Nothing special just my main tank.

Steve

 

[km133688]

thanks

 

[Kathy55g]

2 pairs of different clown in same tank? How are they getting along?

 

[spk]

Kathy,

Seem to be coping at the moment. There is quite a lot of space for them so to speak. We will see what happens.

Vikki does not like the Maroons so they may be moved

Steve