Woke up to this with my Clown Gobies
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godyeggsst1
Any advice if I want to try to raise these?
IMG_2250 godyeggsst1Any advice if I want to try to raise these?
Clown Gobies spawn
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gogo7
pico reefer
oh baby that's fantastic. those pics are really good.
if you can turn off your filters for the hatch, i recommend a turkey baster and gentle harvesting. don't use a siphon hose. i think it accounted for 100% die off in a few batches of mine. don't use air bubbles to raise the larvae. goby larvae are fragile ime.
if you've got 'mulm'-detritus, add a little nori to it and put it in a bottle with some dirty tank water now. the ciliates will start a bloom in twenty four hours. and grow over the course of a few days. the smell will be unbearabe so put it somewhere out of nose reach. to harvest in two days, shake the bottle hard for a minute, let it settle for ten minutes, then siphon off the top water and filter it through a coffee filter. the particulate in the coffee filter will house most ciliates with the remaining decaying algae particles. i don't recommend using it, you can wash it and filter it again. the coffee filtered water can be dosed ten mils per litre per day. i'd use kiz' method of smaller containers, about a litre. i've been topping it up with drips and feeding with drips for my best batches.... but i've only got about four days.
i think using kiz' method of smaller containers with attention is the best method i've found yet.
if you've got a microscope, i'd love to see some pics.
i love this part of the forums. welcome to the club. all the best.
if you can turn off your filters for the hatch, i recommend a turkey baster and gentle harvesting. don't use a siphon hose. i think it accounted for 100% die off in a few batches of mine. don't use air bubbles to raise the larvae. goby larvae are fragile ime.
if you've got 'mulm'-detritus, add a little nori to it and put it in a bottle with some dirty tank water now. the ciliates will start a bloom in twenty four hours. and grow over the course of a few days. the smell will be unbearabe so put it somewhere out of nose reach. to harvest in two days, shake the bottle hard for a minute, let it settle for ten minutes, then siphon off the top water and filter it through a coffee filter. the particulate in the coffee filter will house most ciliates with the remaining decaying algae particles. i don't recommend using it, you can wash it and filter it again. the coffee filtered water can be dosed ten mils per litre per day. i'd use kiz' method of smaller containers, about a litre. i've been topping it up with drips and feeding with drips for my best batches.... but i've only got about four days.
i think using kiz' method of smaller containers with attention is the best method i've found yet.
if you've got a microscope, i'd love to see some pics.
i love this part of the forums. welcome to the club. all the best.
ichthyogeek
New member
tiny fish->tiny larvae->tiny mouths. What gogo7 already said, ciliates and other tiny microorganisms would be best.
If you can, I suggest getting a very tiny copepod species, like Parvocalanus. I recommend Parvo simply because it's a) a copepod, and b) easily supplied in the US via LiveAquaria. You could also try rotifers, but I don't really think the goby larvae will be large enough to eat the rotifers upon hatching. If you live near the ocean, you could also get live copepods by mesh straining.You could also consider using a large phytoplankton species as well...
As for actually raising them, gogo7 uses vases, kizanne uses cups, and Wittenrich uses black round tubs (BRTs). Whatever floats your boat, but remember that tiny container size leads to higher prey concentrations (a plus), but more easily changed water conditions (a negative). I suggest picking up a book on marine breeding to get a bit more education about raising marine fish larvae (Wittenrich's Complete Breeder's Guide is pretty good).
You might also want to check out MOFIB. I'm not sure, but there might be an account on raising goby larvae on there or something...
Congratulations on the eggs!! Good luck rearing them!
If you can, I suggest getting a very tiny copepod species, like Parvocalanus. I recommend Parvo simply because it's a) a copepod, and b) easily supplied in the US via LiveAquaria. You could also try rotifers, but I don't really think the goby larvae will be large enough to eat the rotifers upon hatching. If you live near the ocean, you could also get live copepods by mesh straining.You could also consider using a large phytoplankton species as well...
As for actually raising them, gogo7 uses vases, kizanne uses cups, and Wittenrich uses black round tubs (BRTs). Whatever floats your boat, but remember that tiny container size leads to higher prey concentrations (a plus), but more easily changed water conditions (a negative). I suggest picking up a book on marine breeding to get a bit more education about raising marine fish larvae (Wittenrich's Complete Breeder's Guide is pretty good).
You might also want to check out MOFIB. I'm not sure, but there might be an account on raising goby larvae on there or something...
Congratulations on the eggs!! Good luck rearing them!
ginpang
New member
Hi , congratulations !
About 10 years ago I had a couple of okinawaes, a couple of citrinUs and a couple of black clown goby ( either strangulatus or ceramensis ? Hard to tell) they we're all spawning roughly at the same time. The only ones I never got to pair up were the histrio those guys hated each other's guts and lived on either ends of the 66g they were in. I had ordered Rotifers and selcon to try and raise the larvae . In my few attempts , unfortunately none ever made it thru to the 5 th day [emoji53]. The citrinUs are the ones that always lived the longest.
That is until my 7 year old tank started leaking and I had to bring back my fish to the store where I worked the time to repair it , and they all got sold.
So your couple should probably start over every 3 weeks about unless water conditions change ... And from what I've tried L strain is too big for them.
Good luck!
Kinda makes me want to try again[emoji56]
About 10 years ago I had a couple of okinawaes, a couple of citrinUs and a couple of black clown goby ( either strangulatus or ceramensis ? Hard to tell) they we're all spawning roughly at the same time. The only ones I never got to pair up were the histrio those guys hated each other's guts and lived on either ends of the 66g they were in. I had ordered Rotifers and selcon to try and raise the larvae . In my few attempts , unfortunately none ever made it thru to the 5 th day [emoji53]. The citrinUs are the ones that always lived the longest.
That is until my 7 year old tank started leaking and I had to bring back my fish to the store where I worked the time to repair it , and they all got sold.
So your couple should probably start over every 3 weeks about unless water conditions change ... And from what I've tried L strain is too big for them.
Good luck!
Kinda makes me want to try again[emoji56]
I've had 2 spawns - i only tried to rear one of them.
I followed gogo7's instruction but i'm not sure if i actually cutivated any ciliates. I tried rotifers but nothing survived.
The spawns were a bit unexpected last time and i was quite busy with work at time so i am going to be more prepared for the next batch. I've changed things up in my tank (moved corals around) so they might need a bit of time to settle in.
Seriously thinking about getting a microscope - any recommendations?
I followed gogo7's instruction but i'm not sure if i actually cutivated any ciliates. I tried rotifers but nothing survived.
The spawns were a bit unexpected last time and i was quite busy with work at time so i am going to be more prepared for the next batch. I've changed things up in my tank (moved corals around) so they might need a bit of time to settle in.
Seriously thinking about getting a microscope - any recommendations?
ginpang
New member
For food , unfortunately I have no recommendations , I'm learning from what I've read on this breeding forum ... I was initially looking for someone who might've had success rearing baby stonogobiops yasha!
What I can tell you is for lack of a wide range of corals in the tank , they seemed to get really comfortable with their surroundings when Calaurpa racemosa went rampant in the tank. It's then they started spawning steadily without being too stressed about some rowdy tank mates .
I always thought that I could've probably reared a number of them in the mother tank if I had taken out the other fish . Basically doing the reverse of what everyone tries to do which is remove the larvae. I figured that a large very established tank that sustains two fat mandarins who spawn every month should havE enough micro-organisms to rear the fry without all the headaches of algae and zooplankton cultures.
Though who would actually take out a dozen fish to simply Attempt rearing a few babies?!!
If I remember or discover anything useful , I'll be sure to post it .
What I can tell you is for lack of a wide range of corals in the tank , they seemed to get really comfortable with their surroundings when Calaurpa racemosa went rampant in the tank. It's then they started spawning steadily without being too stressed about some rowdy tank mates .
I always thought that I could've probably reared a number of them in the mother tank if I had taken out the other fish . Basically doing the reverse of what everyone tries to do which is remove the larvae. I figured that a large very established tank that sustains two fat mandarins who spawn every month should havE enough micro-organisms to rear the fry without all the headaches of algae and zooplankton cultures.
Though who would actually take out a dozen fish to simply Attempt rearing a few babies?!!
If I remember or discover anything useful , I'll be sure to post it .
