Red Head Goby Babies ! (Elacatinus puncticulatus)

[AMAYEU]

My red head gobies had babies, twice. How lucky to randomly purchase a mated pair.

Seen swimming

1st batch 3/17/13, Sunday Morning

2nd batch 4/8/13, Monday Morning

Anyone have experience with culturing phyto and rotifers? Too much work and time?

Hard to tell but all those white specs were babies.

 

[1kwksvt]

awesome stuff

 

[AMAYEU]

Thanks! 1kwksvt

Old pic and tread from before. I should of added to it.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2169738&highlight=goby

 

[zeroinverse]

If you were raise a few, I'd love to take a pair.
Hit up David (Lattehiatus on BAR) to see how he raised his clowns.

OH!, we need to ask him if he'll be offering some for our WCR raffle. I can bring them up from East Bay where David is based.

 

[cbrennan4]

That is so cool! If you can save a baby, maybe in a high percentage vodka, I can take pics for you.

 

[AMAYEU]

Don't have the vodka but will rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) work?

So save one baby, and place in 100% vodka. Can there be a little saltwater in it?

How long will it last in the solution, gauging the timing.

 

[Dragonvale]

That would be awesome if you can save those little ones!

 

[woodnaquanut]

Very cool. I looked them up on the Marine Breeding Initiative website. They are larvae for 35 days! This would make them somewhat difficult to raise. In contrast, A. ocellaris takes about 7 days to meta.

Unless you just really want to see the process, consider them free fish and coral food.

 

[zeroinverse]

Man, too bad we can't run a whole research project on larval development... ^_^
At least we'd get some interesting shots from Colin on a preserved larval goby.

 

[AMAYEU]

Very cool. I looked them up on the Marine Breeding Initiative website. They are larvae for 35 days! This would make them somewhat difficult to raise. In contrast, A. ocellaris takes about 7 days to meta.

Unless you just really want to see the process, consider them free fish and coral food.

So 5 times longer and harder then clowns.

 

[cbrennan4]

The rubbing alcohol should work fine as a preservative and it would be good to dilute it with a little saltwater. Let's convince Ron to set up a breeding station in his fish room

 

[zeroinverse]

Hahaha! Nuts!

I do want to try fish breeding eventually, but need to prep stuff. Maybe next year.

 

[woodnaquanut]

So 5 times longer and harder then clowns.

I think the hard part is that they are larvae longer. Just keeping the cultures going strong longer and feeding a more delicate stage adds to the difficulty.

Also the retail price is not that great. $20 at LA. The local price and demand might not be that great either.

 

[AMAYEU]

I think the hard part is that they are larvae longer. Just keeping the cultures going strong longer and feeding a more delicate stage adds to the difficulty.

Also the retail price is not that great. $20 at LA. The local price and demand might not be that great either.

When I checked out MBI, I only saw 2 journals on breeding.

 

[AMAYEU]

The rubbing alcohol should work fine as a preservative and it would be good to dilute it with a little saltwater. Let's convince Ron to set up a breeding station in his fish room

Colin,
Is it ok to have multiple babies in alcohol? Thought about it more, and didn't want to be squinting and trying to pull out just one.

-Mike

 

[cbrennan4]

Multiple would be fine

 

[AMAYEU]

Asking Malster1, how his breeding went.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1982596&highlight=goby

 

[Malster1]

Hi all, My engineer Goby breeding didn't go so well. Only was about to keep them alive for a few weeks before they completely died off. They made it out of larva stage before I saw them each time. When I collected them they were in mini size already. I gave up and actually sold them to a fellow reefer. I wonder if they continued to try to breed them more.

 

[GreshamH]

IIRC they are a 'S' type rotifer need, and if true, David's 'L' type rotifer culture will not help you

 

[Reef Bass]

Interesting stuff.

Good call on the rotifers Gresh.

I have bred and raised the fry of numerous fresh water fishes back in the day. Can someone please explain to me why one would want to immerse fry in alcohol? That seems, well, odd.

Thanks.