Paul B
Premium Member
Breeding is a natural thing that all fish obviousely do and they do it all the time. It all depends on a natural instinct of the fish as to how much room they have and if they are getting the proper nutrients with few if any antagonistic tankmates.
I have been experimenting trying to breed a few gobies which I have never seen before. The store calles them "barnicle gobies" for lack of a better name.
Anyway in my quest to bred these things it seems that everything else is spawning but the fish I want to breed.
The bangai cardinals have spawned and the male has a mouthful of eggs or fry while the bluestripped pipefish also continue to spawn. I think soon I may also have a spawn of yellow stripped clingfish. Everything but the stupid gobies which are probably all males.
I probably will not raise the cardinals as they are in my reef and too hard to catch. The pipefish, forget about trying to even see those babies. They are about as large as newborn brine shrimp and in a 6' long tank I really am not even going there.
I really have to stop adding all of that Montauk water, it must have an afrodesic (?) in it. :lol:
I have been experimenting trying to breed a few gobies which I have never seen before. The store calles them "barnicle gobies" for lack of a better name.
Anyway in my quest to bred these things it seems that everything else is spawning but the fish I want to breed.
The bangai cardinals have spawned and the male has a mouthful of eggs or fry while the bluestripped pipefish also continue to spawn. I think soon I may also have a spawn of yellow stripped clingfish. Everything but the stupid gobies which are probably all males.
I probably will not raise the cardinals as they are in my reef and too hard to catch. The pipefish, forget about trying to even see those babies. They are about as large as newborn brine shrimp and in a 6' long tank I really am not even going there.
I really have to stop adding all of that Montauk water, it must have an afrodesic (?) in it. :lol:
