Peeping Banggai Fry

Looks good. Seems like the move would have added minimal stess, very short and never leaving the water, just a bit of chase I suppose. Odd that they are so touchy that they would quit eating.
What are you feeding them now?
 
During the move most of them turned ghost white and lost all of their black marking. A few of the bigger ones had no change whatsoever. All regained their marking within 30 minutes after they were settled. They didn't quit but they don't eat with the same "frenzy" that they did before. They just pick now instead of inhaling. Maybe they've slowed down since there isn't as much competition. It just seems like they're not eating as much. Then again maybe I'm worrying to much or imagining it.

Still on BBS only. Doing a hatch every 24 hours. Anything over 12 hrs old is enriched with Selcon and anything over 48hrs is discarded. I keep them in three separate containers.
 
Kind of sounds like what I have read about SFS (sudden fright syndrome). It occurs sometimes in fish that are fed mostly or exclusively brine shrimp.
Glad to hear that all are at least eating.
 
Hmmm... I think that you may be right about that. The fish breeding forum is not the most active place on this site.
I do have a pair on the way now for sure. I bought a pair from divers den, so they should be here in a couple of days.
 
I've been following for a while now and am very motivated to give this a try myself. Finding mated pairs has been a task though, so that is the only thing holding me up from joining the club. I have also contemplated trying to breed clownfish, as we have a guy in our local club that currently has over 20 fry that have been living for several weeks now. Keep up the good work, this is probably giving a lot more people motivation that you think!
 
john miller said:
I think we're the only two that check this thread. :lmao:
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I've been following along as well :fun2:
But it seems like your the only one on this thread with babies...
Right now I have 3 males holding.
I have a pair in our big tank, that I can never catch and a pair in each our of 40g breeder tanks...
 
miketay89 said:
Hmmm... I think that you may be right about that. The fish breeding forum is not the most active place on this site.
I do have a pair on the way now for sure. I bought a pair from divers den, so they should be here in a couple of days.
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Congrats on getting the pair. Hopefully soon you'll be having baby pics to share too.

Glad to see some more folks watching too.
 
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john I am going to have to drive down to Kentucky and get some of your banggais. Mine showed up today, one dead and one alive. I am pretty bummed.
 
So sorry to hear. At least you have the arrive alive guarantee so you won't be out any money, but I know that's a small consolation.
Do you know if it was the male or female?
 
I think it was the male that didn't make it, he had the long streamer on top. Live aquaria was really easy to deal with and refunded my money for the fish. I could not ask for a better business, but it still sucks.
How are your fish doing? Still eating bbs? I read last night somebody would feed some otohime pellets at the same time as they did bbs to teach the babies to eat pellets.
 
My female is the one with the long steamer. Here is the greatest picture I've ever seen to show the differences. I don't know if this breaks any rule, if so please delete the link.
http://www.marinebreeder.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=166&t=2064&start=25

They're still on BBS only. I tried Cyclopeeze and they ran from it. Hahahahaha

I have one that isn't developing as fast as the others, plus he swims weird. His dorsal fin isn't straight it has a 90 degree bend in the middle facing back and he swims or I should say jerks vertically. So far there is no aggression toward it but I may be buying another breeder trap just for it.

Here's the grow out tank I set up over the weekend. Added the big live rock from the puffer tank and the small piece from the Nano Cube. The small piece has filter feeders, micro algae and a small bristle worm on it.
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I'll check parameters for a few days to make sure I don't see a cycle then I'll start dosing some ammonia to make sure the rock has plenty of bacteria on it before I release the babies into it.

And just for grins, my new BBS hatchery
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and a shot of the whole "meth lab", as the wife calls it.
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And finally the best I can get since I added the eggcrate surround.
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Since I took out some of the cable ties and they can ALL get in there they seem to use it more. Before only a couple would go in at a time.
 
Wow, those are great photos!
I lost count of days on one of my Banggais. I found one baby hanging out with the urchant, itntook me a few minutes to coax it out safely...
 
Thanks.

I've been trying cyclopeeze, ground up new spectrum pellets and cut up frozen mysis shrimp and so far they aren't eating any of it.

Any suggestions on what else I can try?
 
Have you tried adding new food at the same time as the bbs?
Have they tasted any of the other food, or just stick their nose up at it?
 
I've tried adding before feeding, during and after. I was hoping that by feeding them with and eyedropper that they would learn to eat anything that came out of it. When it goes in the water they all gather around but if anything else comes out beside BBS they watch it drop to the bottom.
 
Lost my first one last night, day 20 after (forced) release. So I'm at 18 now. Noticed nothing unusual at 9:00 p.m. feeding. All ate well and nice round bellies.
 
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