Landlords Log - Breeding Gold Striped Maroon Clowns

No doubt... I thought it was a gimmick as well. It is basically like a covered shallow bowl with a hole cut into the center of the lid. There are baffles inside which force the shrimp to migrate in such a fashion that their "floating" shells get left in an outer baffle and the shrimp migrate to the hole in the center. There is a ladle that rests in this hole with a small micron mesh at the bottom so when looking down into the hole you'll see a swarm of nhbbs and you simply pull up on the scoop and dump them in the tank.
 
Pictures of the hatchery as promised. Excuse the eggs shell mess I made. First time using it and I moved it too quickly which caused the egg shells to spill over the baffles. I am more careful now as to prevent this

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Have a Great Day!

Kurt
 
Thanks for the picture, I am suddenly hypnotized "Must make BBS" ..."Must make BBS".

Is that white thing in the center a strainer to extract the BBS. How well does it work for egg separation?

Do you keep it in a warmish lit location?
 
Thanks Kurt. That's way more fancier than my old gatorade bottle and rigid airline/air pump. LOL . How much water does it hold ?
 
cabrego said:
Thanks for the picture, I am suddenly hypnotized "Must make BBS" ..."Must make BBS".

Is that white thing in the center a strainer to extract the BBS. How well does it work for egg separation?

Do you keep it in a warmish lit location?
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Yes, that white thing that I am holding that looks like a scoop has a fine mesh for a bottom. It is used to extract the hatched shrimp that made it through the baffle assembly (white plastic concentric circle thingy).

As for egg separation, it works very well if you DO NOT SHAKE, TIP, or BOUNCE in any way that spaceship. If you do the shells will get under the baffles which happened to me the first use.

I used no light source or heat. The eggs do not hatch as fast as they would if you did use them and the hatch rate could probably be better, but at the end of the day.... No plus, no other equipment needed, doesn't take up a lot of space. It's a winner product in my book. I also purchased a pound of brine shrimp eggs. With the amopunt of eggs they suggest putting into the hatcher my supply should last for years.

:) Kurt
 
agsansoo said:
Thanks Kurt. That's way more fancier than my old gatorade bottle and rigid airline/air pump. LOL . How much water does it hold ?
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Andy - The old gatorade bottle does have the advantage of faster and more complete hatching as well as being able to collect a monsterous hatch vs multiple scoop fulls at a time.

At the end of the day, for my needs this product wins. Like I said after the hatcher incubates the eggs for a 18-24 hour period, it takes about 2 hours (8 scoops, 1 every 15 minutes) to produce enough BBS to make a 5.5 gallon tank look like a snowglobe.

:) Kurt

Oh, lastly, it requires 500ml of water mixed with 3 heaping teaspoons of salt mix. That's it!
 
This might work better at feeding clownfish fry. Feeding smaller amounts, rather than dumping one large amount of BBS. Followed with a ammonia spike. I guess I going to have to get me one now. Thanks for the info !
 
i hate you kurt! every time I read your thread I am prompted to go out and spend more money...:D :beer:

Seriously though - thanks for the pics. That is really interesting. The 2 liter inverted soda pop bottle is awkward and this sounds like a nice neat gimmick!

A pound of BS eggs! that is a boat load of sea monkeys...even my little bottle of de-capp'd eggs seems like they will last me a loooooong time given the small number of fry i have.

Anyways - thanks again.
 
Day 3 - The latest batch of fry are going on their 3rd day. I am pleased with not having a tremendous amount of losses. Most losses happened during collection. I believe there to be well over 150 - 200 babies in the tank. Have them eating rotifers currently and will be starting them on BBS tonight to see how it goes. Not sure how this will work out because the fry look so small and the nhbbs seem so much bigger than rotifers. Let's ope this batch is full of "Big Mouthed" fish. :) I have taken a more active approach to keeping the water quality as good as possible for this round. Daily siphoning of detritus, and die-offs. Will be doing water changes at least every third or fourth day. The goal is to keep that ammonia badge from turning green!

:) Kurt
 
Batch 1 - Day 29 - I have 6 of these guys left. I have beenn trying my best to bring the remaining few back into the fold by feeding heavy amounts of BBS and Oto A. Not sure how badly their development was screwed up because of the diet they were on but those that are left seem to be doing what baby fish do, I guess. Will keep my eyes on these for sure.

Batch 2 - Day 7 - What a great day to be a tank raised GSM :lol: All kidding aside I started this batch of fish on nhbbs Friday evening and stopped rotifer introduction all together. This method goes against what I have done in the past and I hope it works out for the best. I have been introducing as many BBS as I can scoop from my hatcher and so far so good. No fish are dying out on me and the ammonia level in the tank doesn't seem to be showing any rapid increase.

Now if I could only know for certain that the fry can get these BBS into their mouths.

Have a Great Week!

Kurt
 
I'll be checking on that when I get home today, but now that you said that. I can recollect what I remember to be orange bellies :)

Thanks Andy!
 
All is well with my batch I've weined of rotifers and onto BBS. No losses, at least major ones, to report. I guess their mouths are big enough :lol:

On another note the parents djust put otu another huge mass of eggs. This batch will probably be skipped as I have no room, at least larval tanks, for them. I have been forced to rear my peppermint shrimp in pretzel jugs.....

Need a bigger fish room.

:) Thanks Kurt
 
Well let's update anyone following along

Of my hatch from 12/27/2009 - I have two individuals left. If you all remember I did not yet have the means to feed any BBS to these fish during the earlier part of their development and therefore their growth was lacking to say the least. So with that said, I have combined these last two holdouts with my batch from 01/18/2010

So these 01/18/2010 fry were my first real success with the species, I have been feeding a mix of BBS and Otohime A. They are all feeding really well. Stripes have developed on the majority of the 100 - 150 fish. The count is a guess-timate since counting this many is quite the chore. I have been blessed with no ammonia! I guess only doing a three day rotifer feed was a good choice. No greenwater to foul up my larval tank. So growth wise this batch had developmentally caught up to if not passed the two holdouts from the prior batch. Now that they are together and cannot tell which ones I added.

This is now providing me with an opportunity (a freed up larval tank) to raise another batch. I believe I will be getting a hatch tonight (I hope it didn't happen last night, didn't check this AM). So if I can do this again and keep alive another 100-150 fish I'll probably call it quits on raising anymore GSM batches until I can get the current batch and the one I'll be getting tonight into a more permanent growout tank. I would say that it'll take at least a year, maybe more, to trade off 200 GSM's locally so there is no need to continue production until I am at a deficit.

Well without counting too many pre hatched chickens I will simply focus on the upcoming batch tonight and well see if I can repeat my success with the current one.

These guys are almost big enough for some pictures which this thread is lacking so I'll do my best to snap what I can tonight.

Thanks for reading, have a great day!

:) Kurt
 
To say this thread is lacking photos is an understatement, some pictures of the tanks would be fine for now. :lol:
 
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