Spotted Mandarins

[Surfzone]

I Collected about 50 eggs tonight we'll see how things go.

 

[billsreef]

Good luck!

How do you have the larvae set up?

 

[Surfzone]

I thought it was time to post some pics of where i am

pro larva

2 days post hatch

one week old

First foods introduced on day 4 i fed a mixture of rotifers, and wild caught plankton

just before settlement

settlement

This is where i start to have problems. for some reason the young fish start to die off one by one.

 

[Surfzone]

the larva are placed in a 1 gallon fish bowl that is suspended in a 10 gallon tank.

 

[billsreef]

What are feeding them at the point of settlement?

 

[Surfzone]

they were getting a mixture of copipods wild plankton and rotifers

 

[billsreef]

Since there's no scale in the pictures I could be off, but it looks like they might be large enough to start offering fresh hatched artemia nauplii in the mix. I'd go with the small San Francisco Bay strain. Best price I've seen on them is from brineshrimp direct.