landlord
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Well it is official. My GSM's laid their second batch of eggs into the flower pot on Friday 12/04/2009. With that being said I am going to again document my experience with trying to bring up a couple batches, as I did in a previous thread with Tomato Clowns:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1604340
Hopefully I will be able to carry over some of the lessons I learned with those guys to these guys. We'll see how it goes. Anyways... I spent the week-end getting a new shelf build onto my current breeding system so I could have a place to put the 5.5 gallon larval tanks I will be using again. The wife finally put her foot down
and said no more babies, or rotifers, in the living room anymore.
Placed an order for some rotifers this morning, should have them by Wednesday. Chances are slim (very slim) that I will have a decent sized culture by the Friday / Saturday projected hatch night but we'll see how it goes. May just skip this one and build up a strong culture for the first shot and spend this round getting back into the swing of collecting larvae. I do have them laying in a flower pot but I am hesitant to remove it for fear of not getting another batch of eggs. These GSM's are pretty skittish, they rarely leave the pot (for the last 6 months!). On the bright side, my broodstock system is set up whereby water is pulled from the surface through a flexible tube into my sump. The plastic tubing is simply laid into a large "T" that feeds a central drain. The tubing can be removed from the "T" and pointed towards a bucket. All I will need to do is shine a light right over drain whirlpool in the broodstock tank and they should be sucked right into my bucket.
We'll see how "easy" this actually is :lol:
I'll be documenting with my Olympus Point and Click again as well. Photos will be coming shortly. Going to try and do about 4 or 5 batches (depending on success or failure) maybe more. In the end I'm looking to get around 150-200 past meta. It'll take another year or so for me to offload them in my area, so this should be a sufficient enough amount.
I'm hoping this will be as enjoyable as my Tomato's and hopefully anyone reading will at least get some use out of my data
Questions, comments, opinions, criticisms, etc... are all welcome. About the only questions or topics I will not be discussing concern price, resale, and all of that jazz. I do this for fun! There is no profit to be made as a hobbyiest breeder and most everything I raise gets pretty much given away as it is so.....moving on. See ya in a couple days when the food shows up in the mail.
Take Care
--Kurt
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1604340
Hopefully I will be able to carry over some of the lessons I learned with those guys to these guys. We'll see how it goes. Anyways... I spent the week-end getting a new shelf build onto my current breeding system so I could have a place to put the 5.5 gallon larval tanks I will be using again. The wife finally put her foot down
and said no more babies, or rotifers, in the living room anymore.Placed an order for some rotifers this morning, should have them by Wednesday. Chances are slim (very slim) that I will have a decent sized culture by the Friday / Saturday projected hatch night but we'll see how it goes. May just skip this one and build up a strong culture for the first shot and spend this round getting back into the swing of collecting larvae. I do have them laying in a flower pot but I am hesitant to remove it for fear of not getting another batch of eggs. These GSM's are pretty skittish, they rarely leave the pot (for the last 6 months!). On the bright side, my broodstock system is set up whereby water is pulled from the surface through a flexible tube into my sump. The plastic tubing is simply laid into a large "T" that feeds a central drain. The tubing can be removed from the "T" and pointed towards a bucket. All I will need to do is shine a light right over drain whirlpool in the broodstock tank and they should be sucked right into my bucket.
We'll see how "easy" this actually is :lol:
I'll be documenting with my Olympus Point and Click again as well. Photos will be coming shortly. Going to try and do about 4 or 5 batches (depending on success or failure) maybe more. In the end I'm looking to get around 150-200 past meta. It'll take another year or so for me to offload them in my area, so this should be a sufficient enough amount.
I'm hoping this will be as enjoyable as my Tomato's and hopefully anyone reading will at least get some use out of my data
Questions, comments, opinions, criticisms, etc... are all welcome. About the only questions or topics I will not be discussing concern price, resale, and all of that jazz. I do this for fun! There is no profit to be made as a hobbyiest breeder and most everything I raise gets pretty much given away as it is so.....moving on. See ya in a couple days when the food shows up in the mail.
Take Care
--Kurt
, etc... At least it was good enough to get the GSM's laying... Being that there is a complete lack of clutter in the tanks it should clean up in short order.
