Help! my video of Thousands of baby diamond gobies to feed

lildraken

lildraken

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My pair of diamond gobies have been demonstrating different behaviors. I thought they would breed soon but I had know idea they had already laid their eggs. This evening I looked in the tank during a commercial break while watching TV and found thousands of larvae floating towards the light!

does anyone know how to raise them? I scooped out a pitcher full of water containing hundreds of babies. I don't have a set up to raise them but I at least wanted to observe them and try.

youtube is taking forever to upload the video i will have it up shortly.
 
Your going to need to get some rotifer cultures going. Probably best to skip trying to raise this batch and work on building up rotifer cultures for the next batch. Read the sticky thread on the top of this forum about culturing microfoods.
 
Cool video--
Bills right on the money-unless you can get enriched rotifers to your house yesterday- this batch is destined to failure. I would use this as a learning experience, and get prepared to batch#2
 
thanks guys. I poured the pitcher-o-babies in a 5 and 1/2 gal with some macro algae. within 24 hours, all but a dozen has disappeared. I'm assuming they died and got eaten by the amphipods--- or maybe they're hiding in the cualerpa. no rotifers here to feed so they're destined for starvation. does anyone know of a place to get rotifers... I read somewhere there were different types and you had to get the smallest strain. like the "s" strain her something like that... that was a long time ago I found that article but if anyone knows please let me know.
 
I've dealt with Florida Aqua Farms and Reed Mariculture for live rots, Reeds is generally quicker to ship. I've also heard Seahorse Source sells live rots, but I've not dealt with them. It's also worth looking around your local club to see if anyone is raising rots.
 
I've gotten cultures of various things from both Reed's and Seahorse Source. Both rock, IMO. Actually, both have gone out of their way to do really nice things for me for no terribly good reason, other than that I was just their customer.

With your location, I would try Seahorse Source for cheaper (and probably quicker) shipping. They are also in Florida.

Given your location, if you have the time and can find an inlet with clean water, plankton tows are also an option and will probably give you a better chance to get your fish through.
 
lildraken-
AS bill mentioned read the sticky thread entitled "microfoods"- for rotifers 101
 
It's really not that hard once you get the routine down. The biggest trick is running an extra culture or two so that if one crashes you can just shrug your shoulders, feed from the alternate culture and clean and restart the crashed culture.
 
agreed, not hard to culture rots, but it does take a little bit of time a couple times a day, EVERY DAY. Kind of like raising babie fish-you can't go on a vacation and leave them alone. But you can clod bank them, and they will last two to four days in a fridge.
 
ocello said:
agreed, not hard to culture rots, but it does take a little bit of time a couple times a day, EVERY DAY. Kind of like raising babie fish-you can't go on a vacation and leave them alone. But you can clod bank them, and they will last two to four days in a fridge.
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EVERY DAY? oh no! lol
I guess I won't be trying to raise them for at least until after the craziness of Christmas. Well here's a remix of my earlier video with music. I thought everybody would like to see the parents.

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Awesome remix and congrats on replicating nature!!

Do you expect to remove the eggs before hatching or just try to remove the larvae once hatched? I expect the latter would be preferable so as not to disturb the nest? What is the time period between laying and hatching for gobys?
 
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