I have a pair of Banggai's that I got about 6 months ago. I actually had a trio and one was killed in the process. However a pair was formed and they decided to try spawning a month ago. An effort that was short lived and the mail carried for only about 4 days. I am not sure if he ate them or spit them out. I figured it was due to the fact that they were just beginning and learning how to do this, as well as him probably not being able to make it to full term w/o eating. During that time I had another thread about trying to raise little fire shrimp as my now mated pair of fire shrimp were also testing the waters so to speak. I kept them for about 3 1/2 weeks before they completely died out and had tried another unsuccessful batch of 'fry'. I have not had another batch of fire shrimp as they have completely stopped producing for some reason.
However, now the Banggai's have decided to try again. The male has passed his record of four days so I am not excited enough to post and let everyone know. Today is day 10!! My sister is also in the delivery room and I will be an uncle shortly. She is my younger, only sister (2 yrs younger) and I am overly excited now!!
Anyway, he is still holding and will hopefully hold to term. Am a bit nervous though as I expect them to be spat out just after I am supposed to depart to KS to see my new nephew. Leaving my bf in charge of the new fry. We have been together for a while, but he has no clue how to do this stuff lol... I will try to get him caught up to speed on what needs to be done and will be calling every other hour I am sure.
I also wanted to try my luck at starting up a culture of green water to see if I could handle getting the water salinity right (I get the water premixed to the right salinity from the LFS as it saves me from buying RO/DI filter and salt and this is much cheaper this way) and sanitization of the materials used. It seems to have kicked off!!
Lucky since I believe my clowns are starting to get pretty close to each other as well... They have began to clean off a spot in the tank. So I thought I should try learning how to get the rots and the green water going.
WOW...what a learning curve. Especially keeping the fire shrimp babies to Z5 (the fifth stage of their growth, and out of about 15 stages going from z1-z17 or so) I had to learn a lot from Luis - thank you so much Luis - for this...if only they would keep breeding so that I can keep trying to raise them lol...
Well, I will keep you all updated... but I am not sure how pictures and such will be posted as it will only be my man here attempting to follow my instructions on keeping the new arrivals alive while I am back home...Guess we will see, and I will try to post updates/pictures etc... as quickly as possible.
I have read as much as possible on the raising and stages of egg development on all of the things in my tank that have/will have spawned in my tank. So far i have bought several breeding nets for the display tank. I plan on moving the male Banggai into what I have been calling a breeding or baby basket. This way when he spits them out they will be in the same water and same temp. as what they are used to up to then. This will also keep the water volume so that the water degrades at a much slower rate with all of my current filtration that is on the tank. I plan on separating the male from the fry post spit to a separate breeding basket so that he can have time to re-cooperate and have time to get his nutrition before impregnated yet again. Or at least that is how I hope it will play out. I am going to teach my bf how to do the bbs so that he can feed them that until i get back here in MD. My hope is that all the fry make it.
so.....that is my update here from all of the breeding...lol...that has been going on. Gay man stranded with a bunch of breeding going from the tank and from sis lol.... Anyway wish us luck...will need it...or at least my bf will as well as my sis.
will post updates as time progresses.
However, now the Banggai's have decided to try again. The male has passed his record of four days so I am not excited enough to post and let everyone know. Today is day 10!! My sister is also in the delivery room and I will be an uncle shortly. She is my younger, only sister (2 yrs younger) and I am overly excited now!!
Anyway, he is still holding and will hopefully hold to term. Am a bit nervous though as I expect them to be spat out just after I am supposed to depart to KS to see my new nephew. Leaving my bf in charge of the new fry. We have been together for a while, but he has no clue how to do this stuff lol... I will try to get him caught up to speed on what needs to be done and will be calling every other hour I am sure.
I also wanted to try my luck at starting up a culture of green water to see if I could handle getting the water salinity right (I get the water premixed to the right salinity from the LFS as it saves me from buying RO/DI filter and salt and this is much cheaper this way) and sanitization of the materials used. It seems to have kicked off!!
Lucky since I believe my clowns are starting to get pretty close to each other as well... They have began to clean off a spot in the tank. So I thought I should try learning how to get the rots and the green water going.
WOW...what a learning curve. Especially keeping the fire shrimp babies to Z5 (the fifth stage of their growth, and out of about 15 stages going from z1-z17 or so) I had to learn a lot from Luis - thank you so much Luis - for this...if only they would keep breeding so that I can keep trying to raise them lol...
Well, I will keep you all updated... but I am not sure how pictures and such will be posted as it will only be my man here attempting to follow my instructions on keeping the new arrivals alive while I am back home...Guess we will see, and I will try to post updates/pictures etc... as quickly as possible.
I have read as much as possible on the raising and stages of egg development on all of the things in my tank that have/will have spawned in my tank. So far i have bought several breeding nets for the display tank. I plan on moving the male Banggai into what I have been calling a breeding or baby basket. This way when he spits them out they will be in the same water and same temp. as what they are used to up to then. This will also keep the water volume so that the water degrades at a much slower rate with all of my current filtration that is on the tank. I plan on separating the male from the fry post spit to a separate breeding basket so that he can have time to re-cooperate and have time to get his nutrition before impregnated yet again. Or at least that is how I hope it will play out. I am going to teach my bf how to do the bbs so that he can feed them that until i get back here in MD. My hope is that all the fry make it.
so.....that is my update here from all of the breeding...lol...that has been going on. Gay man stranded with a bunch of breeding going from the tank and from sis lol.... Anyway wish us luck...will need it...or at least my bf will as well as my sis.
will post updates as time progresses.
Today is day 16 of the term. I have expected the fry to hatch in another 4 or five days and then spit day would be another 4-5 days. I keep trying to look in his mouth and every once and a while he will try to readjust them in his mouth. Or maybe he is turning them over so that they all get equal circulation? Anyway I think they have eyes, but the seem to still be a creamy pink color. I would have thought that they would be starting to look more of a black/white color by now, since it is so close (just days) from hatching. Could it be that they are not as far along as I thought? Or will they change quick now that it is getting close? I know the date that he got pregnant so I don't think i got the day wrong. It is pretty obvious to tell when he has eggs in his mouth. Maybe it is me being impatient.
still has them in his mouth though so that is a good thing. Well, just to be safe he caught the male and put him in the breeding net. Eggs/hatchlings and male all made it and weren't spat out. Whew!! Just wanted to update everyone.
