percs on copepods, frozen rots, and bbs.

[billsreef]

oh and thanks for the luck, their letting me drive most of the way their:spin1:

Sounds like it's your parents that need the luck

 

[ctenophors rule]

Sounds like it's your parents that need the luck

well when we came back all the clown are dead.

as is the male of my bangais (he finaly succumbed to his parasite, i assume, he was bleeding analy when i left:eek1

anyway, the clowns will lay again soon i hope, they sure are cleaning the rock a lot.

oh and im not sure why all the fish died, though i think they might have been eaten. i see no bodies on the detritus. and the zooplankton has grown a lot!

i have one stomatopod shrimp larvae thats around 3/4 inch long swimming around. (tentative i.d.)

theirs a number of small madusa that were not their when i left, and a few 1/2 inch ones that were small before.

their are about 20 adult acartia tonsa (tentative) and few larvae left.

their must be 50 chaetognaths, and some are huge! at least 3/4 inch long!

could they have reproduced that quickly, because i thought their was only four when i left...

cheers...tommy

 

[billsreef]

Sorry to hear they didn't make it. The shrimp larvae and the medusa's both are likely culprits for predation on larval fish.

Yes, chaetognaths can reproduce that quickly

 

[ctenophors rule]

Sorry to hear they didn't make it. The shrimp larvae and the medusa's both are likely culprits for predation on larval fish.

Yes, chaetognaths can reproduce that quickly

well, i am seriously considering severely limiting my ocean collection.

I got some live isopods and amphipods, skeleton shrimp, etc to feed my bangai female. (the male died due to a parasite)

anyway, i noticed that one looked funny, and i almost removed it, but i didn't.

i now have at least one fish eating isotope in the tank. im pretty sure their is more than one, but i can't be entirely certain...

 

[billsreef]

Wild collecting plankton is a double edged sword. It can provide the missing and necessary critters for difficult to rear species, and be source a of problems as you've found.

 

[ctenophors rule]

more eggs! this batch is much larger, probly around 300 eggs.

I will feed 25% of fry frozen rotifers. 25% frozen rotifers with bbs 25% frozen rotifers with live zooplankton, and 25 % frozen rots, bbs, and live zooplankton.

seem like a good deal?

also i removed the isopod. If i dont see anymore on the poor bangai (assuming he survives) then i may consider adding another, if not, i will add a bunch of peppermint shrimp and start raising those in the mean time.