My new A. bicinctus

Well, the move to the 100 gallon tank is on! I already pulled the percula and their restless gigantea and this weekend I got to start rescaping the 100 gallon to suit the magnifica's needs...

This simply became necessary because the gigantea wasn't happy anymore and would not stop moving around. In the anemone system it will get a dedicated tank where it can settle where it likes without the risk of walking into a powerhead. That system also has higher nitrate and phosphate and it seems giganteas like that better - my best looking gig is actually in my dirtiest tank in that system...

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ThRoewer said:
Well, the move to the 100 gallon tank is on! I already pulled the percula and their restless gigantea and this weekend I got to start rescaping the 100 gallon to suit the magnifica's needs...

This simply became necessary because the gigantea wasn't happy anymore and would not stop moving around. In the anemone system it will get a dedicated tank where it can settle where it likes without the risk of walking into a powerhead. That system also has higher nitrate and phosphate and it seems giganteas like that better - my best looking gig is actually in my dirtiest tank in that system...

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Did your feeding patterns change? And could you care to document any before, during, and after feeding? How long does it usually last?
 
Feeding has nothing to do with it. The problem is flow. Where I had to put the gigantea in the 100 gallon tank the flow was just too much for it. In my experience, giganteas prefer lighter flow for most of the day with only short periods of higher flow. In the wild you find them in the shallow and more protected waters behind the reef, just below the tidal zone.

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I still haven't gotten around to remodel the 100-gallon tank for the magnifica and therefore the bicinctus and their mag are still in the 40B:

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Since they put their eggs so nicely on that ceramic plate it would be a perfect opportunity to raise some bicinctus babies - if I only had a free tank for the larva and enough food...
 
Since my corals recovered and started growing again I scrapped the idea of remodeling the 100-gallon tank for the magnifica as that would have removed pretty much all the available real estate for the corals. Instead, I gave the bicinctus 2 small RBTA I had gotten from a fellow reefer a while ago. In about a month the anemones have nearly doubled in size. Hopefully, in a few more they will be actually big enough for the fish.
Also, for some reason, they prefer laying their eggs rather far away (see end of video). They tried to lay them close to the anemone the previous time but didn't seem to like it and went back to the farther away rock.

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They look dark , like mine...dont know why they darken up in captivity..mine looked like an orange peel when I got them...now dark.
 
The male is the darker one of the two. He is close to being black. The female is a lot lighter.
It's likely caused by environmental factors. Compared with the reef our tanks are pretty dark...


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Today these two knuckleheads decided to rearrange the rockwork - without consulting me first of course... :debi:
It's quite surprising what big rocks such little fish can move if they are just motivated enough.
 
Since I have the time now and hopefully enough food and the bicinctus were kind enough to put their eggs on a rock I could take out I decided to give it a shot on raising a few babies. Only about a quarter hatched since I took the rock out too late and exposed the nest to brighter light, but that should be enough for now. Here a video of the larvae on the morning of their first day:

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The parents (male in the front) with the remaining eggs that should hatch tonight:

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The parents put another nest down before the first nest had fully hatched.
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The larvae on the evening of the 2. day. Feeds are Bracionus and Artemia
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The larvae in the afternoon of the 3. day. Feeds are Bracionus and Artemia
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Little bicinctus (from nest #23):
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Now I just need to find someone else breeding with wild-caught Djibauti bicinctus to swap some juveniles with in order to avoid incest when making pairs with the juveniles.
 
ThRoewer said:
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nice.......beautiful fishes...........
 
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