Spawning Strawberry Pseduchomis

[Ed G]

I have a pair of Strawberry Psesuchmises they have spawned and laid eggs has any one had any experiences with rearing the young?

The attatch link is pics of the tank 75gal ,20 gal sump with mud and calipara lighting cycle oppisite main tank with CF ,main tank lighting 4 110w VHO / 2 175 watt 10k MH only on 3 hours of lighting cycle.


http://soljourner.photosite.com/Aquaria/

 

[Ed G]

Pic of eggs

Pic of eggs

Pic of eggs in background

 

[ediaz]

That is very rare, haven't even heard of those spawning before...
I have raised 7 species of dottybacks but never that one.

Have you raised anything else, any other marine fish?

Ed

 

[rsman]

woohoo ME LIKES strawberries,

they are not soo bad, about the same as diadem's, when you get them to near sellable, see if the LFS's will take them small, many will. they start out eat first kill second but gets harder once they focus on killing each other before eating not too hard to raise and always good sellers.

 

[mtbetta]

Very nice Ed G. Rsman and Ediaz is it typical for them to keep their eggs in the open? How would they compare to orchid dottybacks as far as difficulty in raising.
Jerry

 

[rsman]

is it typical for them to keep their eggs in the open? yes i only had 2 pairs one would lay on the bottom, outside of a 1/2 flowerpot, the other in a mess of pvc but nowhere id have to hunt for

How would they compare to orchid dottybacks as far as difficulty in raising. while it wasnt complete failure orchids were not my biggest success stories, yet I was doing good with these, they are hard to grow out once they get about 1.5" or so as they really start to fight then. as for dificulty getting the pairs was my largest challange. I did have better luck with both diadem's and strawberry when I used copepods as a 3rd and 4th food. I dont know about a first attemp breeder though, Id recomend a LOT of other fish first, but if you have the pairs, the cultures and the time then go for it.

 

[mtbetta]

Is there a commercial source for calanoid copepods?

 

[mwp]

Wouldn't Cyclopeze be a good (and more readily available) alternate by the time copepods would be suitable?

MP

 

[rsman]

I used copepods from lfscultures, and those I collected locallyish depending on where I could collect.

cyclopeze probibly would not have worked, at least not well, it doesnt move, however im guessing as I dont think i tried it(dont recall it anyways which i probibly would have remembered), but one time when i used frozen rots due to a major shortage, you could tell they just were not interested unless it was moving. I lost 3 or 4 spawns of fish that week, I probibly tried a lot of things.

 

[ediaz]

It is not typical for Dottys to keep eggs in the open like that, love the pic.

I would not know how to compare to orchids since I have not raised and not seen a record of the fish being raised.

Ed

 

[BlackOnyx]

use air wand to make a wall of bubbles along the outta tank edge, use a 20 gal with a 20w feed them s rotifers. I had a fridmani article but cant find it

 

[rsman]

It is not typical for Dottys to keep eggs in the open like that,
my other dottybacks did NOT keep them in the open, my strawberries did, and my pairs became MEAN, but its not like a big female GSM or clarkii is a little fuzzy kitten they can all be MEAN...

love the pic. real nice fish saying, "you come any closer and Im gona EAT you"

use air wand to make a wall of bubbles along the outta tank edge, use a 20 gal with a 20w feed them s rotifers. I had a fridmani article but cant find it
not sure what you mean ??? bubbles for hatching/rearing or ??? these wont need s-strain regular L works fine, everything I saw showed that the first foods were taken nicely, NHBS wasnt

im not a registered member, but if you can get thru the search there are a few threads on these.

 

[Ed G]

The eggs are not in the open their is a piece of cabbage leather covering them I moved the piece for the photo.