Green Mandarin spawning

[jonathansruelas]

wow congrats. good luck...

 

[wdt2000]

Sorry for the horrible shot, but they are still alive and starting to take shape!! If they get to settlement I will turn off the flow and take some real shots. No thats not a UFO.

 

[jeosbo]

Fantastic!

 

[wdt2000]

The tank was 68 degrees this morning, the larvae appear to still be on course despite the low temp.

 

[wdt2000]

Not the best picture, but I still have 5 alive! Added rotifers today.

 

[r0nH]

congrats on the babies!!!! greatly appreciate you sharing with evryone. your videos are the reason im willing to try also! thanks for the extra info too.

 

[twinturbodevil]

this is awesome. can't wait to see more

 

[kawicivic]

subscribing! Keep us updated

 

[Nam Nguyen]

I saw that couple time with my pair but really heard to tell where is their eggs at my sps tang have really strong flow. But I'm feel happy for you to got baby. Good luck

 

[Myka]

Excellent video, love the music!

Could you please share how deep you tank is, and how much space there is between the live rock and the water surface? It looks fairly deep.

 

[Paul B]

Very nice, I love it

 

[wdt2000]

I have been dreading updating this thread. The mandarins had made it so far imo and were taking rotifers and moving around on their own as opposed to drifting in the current.

The bad news:
A few days ago my wife was doing routine maintenance and mistaken their tank for our Hector's gobies which sit right beside them. Any ways she cleaned the entire tank tank and vacuumed them out into a large waste trash can. I looked for a a long time only to come up empty handed.. That said I am very happy my wife helps with the maintenance and I have taken steps to make sure tanks have proper labels.

The good news:
They spawned again, this time they went big with hundreds of eggs.

More bad news:
I have not ramped up my copepods enough to handle the load, but I going to try I was expecting maybe 50 eggs and got may many more.

 

[vwwanksta69]

Sorry to hear about the loss. Thats awesome you have another batch to work with.

 

[r0nH]

thats bad news for the first batch, but like you said its good to have someone whos willing to help out. really wonderful on the second batch and good luck from all of us watching the progress.

 

[J-P]

this is very cool and very informative. Thank you so much!

I am just starting to research the breeding habits of these guys.