Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus) Breeding Log

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dkim128

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Don't get your hopes up...I am no where close into breeding them. I just knew I had to start somewhere, after looking at mwp breeding logs I so wanted to start a breeding log, and this seems like a difficult journey that I want to accomplish even though it may take years or even decades. Hopefully less than 20 years is what I'm hoping. Well I won't be able to post any pictures for a while because I have to design the setup for them to spawn in captivity.

Hopefully I didn't disappoint anyone when I started this log. Anyone have any advice hints on breeding of any tangs? I can't find any information regarding the progress of anyone who did try these. My understanding is that they weren't able to past the larva stage.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8694258#post8694258 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ediaz
OMG he has created a cult...
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What should call this new cult?
Loggers?
Should there be some mention to the founder and godfather of logs, Matt?
 
Dman, there's a $50 licensing fee and subsequent larval recoupment clause for using the term "Breeding Log" in the subject of a new post - dkim128, send a cashier's check or money order and your first 100 captive bred fish to my home address...

So seriously, have you even obtained the broodstock? I'm envisioning an above ground swimming pool with a coulpe dozen foot long Blue Heps...could be fun for the neighborhood kids too (but they need to take a freshwater shower and not use any kind of lotions...peeing in that pool is a big no no too!)

Actually, interesting side note...somewhere in the Chicago Metro area I came across a website...someone is proposing a gigantic indoor marine aquarium for scuba / snorklers...I bet a place like that could produce MANY different types of larvae. I wonder if the shed has French Angelfish spawning in their big tank...if they have the larvae I have the Acartia tonsa pods....

So many thoughts...not enough to log...

Matt
 
BTW, I think it was some University in Hawaii that's attempted to raise yellow tangs...that would be the first place to start trying to hunt down info. The larval pics are somewhere on the web.

Matt
 
I think you would definitly need a huge swimming pool sized tank. All of the wild shots I've seen have been hundreds of tangs spawning at the same time. You probably also have to live in the tropics because of lunar cycles.
 
hah- a check has been made to mwp...I'm about 99.9% sure the post office will probably lose it in the mail. But if it does make it to your house remember to cash it at December 31, 3006 or it will bounce. And I will not reimburse you for the bounce check if you did not follow my directions =D.

Also I do not even have any of the broodstock. I thought about obtaining some of the adult tangs, but I've decided I have plenty of time until I start even trying to breed them. Getting back to topic I have looked into some of the Oceanic Institute of Oahu, might even plan on going there for a year, learn a thing or two about being an aquafarmer....sounds like fun, a year of school in a nice tropical place, where the backyard is your personal tank. While learning about the things we enjoy. But it seems that may be a total new life so I might avoid it for now. But their website doesn't list any information on it so I believe I might have to do some contacting.

I was hoping just to have a large tank. If i need some sort of indoor swimming pool I might have to wait years until I could afford that. But can you imagine have an indoor swimming pool which will basically be your extra large lookdown reef tank? It seems I'm just rambling on and on...but if the swimming pool is the only way to go, I will be out of my budget by far and will have to postpone this project for probably another 30 years. Might as well start another breeders log. Might even try beating mwp with his blue dots and mandarins.
 
Knowing how big Blue Heps can get, I really think nothing short of a pond that's several feet deep would work, based on the info at hand. If you were dead set on trying something difficult that has NEVER been done, I'd look for the tang with the smallest adult size and a tank of SEVERAL HUNDRED GALLONS. Of course, I haven't tried it personally, so who knows. But even yellow tangs get like a foot long, right?

Fairy Wrasses....there's one that could work out really well if you played your cards right.

Of course, reality being what it is, mandarins is enough of a difficult task at the moment...great place to start if you want to jump in and get burned for a year or more...

Matt
 
Matt you know I will never take your glory in cracking the madarins. I guess I know the next thing to do. Buy a large house that will fit a huge tank....hm....don't want my first project to be a failure. It will be temporaily on hiatus while I await my fortune in the lottery.
 
yeah id say a huge pond. 50/50 20k/actinic lighting to create the blueness of the ocean. tons and tons of rock. and stock it with a bunch of full grown wild cought blues. feed them the algaes that grow in the areas they were caught in. and have it constantly avalible. like have a seperate tank just for growing algaes.

pretty much simulate there natrual setting as best as possible. it might happen in a couple years after being in the tank together

nate :beer:
 
Yet I think a breeding project shouldn´t be called a breeding log until something spawns...just MO.

A local friend (and RC member)had hepatus spawning in a very large (mostly very long)tank.
 
Luis raises a good point, but I'll contend that a breed project starts the moment you try to pair up the fish ;)

Blue Heps spawning in a big long tank? How Big? How Long?

Matt
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8700658#post8700658 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mwp
Blue Heps spawning in a big long tank? How Big? How Long?

Matt
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Unbelievable 12m long!:eek2: But narrow,like a huge corridor.
Pablo M was taking care of it.We could ask him to jump in for details or pics.
 
12 meter long ?????? Wow that´s impressive !
It would be very interesting if he could talk about it !
Anderson.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8700863#post8700863 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Luis A M
Unbelievable 12m long!:eek2: But narrow,like a huge corridor.
Pablo M was taking care of it.We could ask him to jump in for details or pics.
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Please invite him. No more jokers, though. :jester:
 
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