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Chelsey

Chelsey

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Just for a little recap:

-Collected Jason's eggs yesterday, they hatched on the way home
-Onyx pair spawned last night
-Marlin and Pearl spawned tonight

And.....

For the heck of it I have two neon gobies in with my Rod's onyx babies that are now a year old. I've noticed one of them not eating so well for the last few days and has been hanging out in a PVC tube, so for the heck of it I shined a flashlight down the PVC and what do I see? NEON GOBY EGGS! They're silver and have eyeballs and will probably hatch tonight. HOLY COW!!!! I'm gonna go pull the eggs right now and will take pics shortly :) I am SO excited and have NO idea what to do!!!!
 
Here are the pics! I have no idea how old these eggs are but because I'm on break and like tinkering with things I pulled the PVC tube and am gonna try to artificially incubate these guys until they hatch, which I'm anticipating to either be tonight or tomorrow night. I fully expect to fail with this batch but I'm going to document what I've got regardless of what happens :)

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cool to hear its all coming together...sounds like it could have spaced it out a little for you but I'm sure your not complaining!
 
Note to self; don't drink the water at Chelsey's house, it's WAY too fertile! :)Congratulations. This is all very cool. Good luck with the Neons too!
 
I had a few neon goby fry hatch last night...man they are TINY and nearly clear! The camera had a hard time focusing on them and I have to admit that they weren't too easy for me to see either, and I have good eyesight! Against recommendations, because I didn't have what I needed here at home, I put them in with Jason's clownfish fry. There are still many eggs that will hopefully hatch tonight and I plan on going out and getting the necessary supplies to attempt to raise these guys today.

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Once they went in with the clownfish larvae it was game over for me...I can't see the fry at all! There were probably only about 10 that hatched last night, I'll be amazed if any of the fry make it to meta at all, but I estimate that these 10 will have a .001% chance.
 
A few more larvae hatched and so I was able to get a pic of one of them in the rearing tank! Some of the eggs came loose from the inside of the PVC pipe and since I'm relatively certain they'll die (because of lack of aeration) I decided to take pics of those too...at least they didn't lose their lives for nothing! ;)

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Man, your whole project, your documentation and photography... AWESOME. Thanks again Chelsey. Can't wait for next update.
 
I hope you guys are being serious and not just being nice when you say you like the documentation and look forward to updates...I don't want to be resented by anyone for updating frequently and "taking over" the forum. That being said, if I am getting a little too carried away a nice PM will shut me up quickly and will send me strictly to my forum on the .org site for updates :)
 
I just wanted to say thanks as well Chelsey! I have been following all of your threads and have been amazed! The one thing I don't think you've shown is your actual greenwater and rotifer setup? I know I would be interested to see how you manage that whole process...I can imagine all of those fry go through a ton of rotifers!

Thanks again!
 
Oh, and I was serious btw ;)

Takes a lot for me to come out and comment on the boards but your threads definitely deserve it...
 
Sistom said:
I just wanted to say thanks as well Chelsey! I have been following all of your threads and have been amazed! The one thing I don't think you've shown is your actual greenwater and rotifer setup? I know I would be interested to see how you manage that whole process...I can imagine all of those fry go through a ton of rotifers!

Thanks again!
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+1 Everything Sistom just said! :thumbsup:
 
Rotifers = 5 gallons buckets, 2 of them. I do not grow phytoplankton because that'd be too much additional work, so I buy the concentrated phyto stuff from Reed Mariculture and feed that to the rotifer buckets nightly. I have a sponge filter in each rotifer bucket which allows me to be lazy and not have to do any daily splitting like I would have to do otherwise. The downside to this is that I go through more phytoplankton, but I'm not too bothered by that. Thanks to Branhams for teaching me the sponge filter trick...it's great! :thumbsup:

As far as the fry "going through" rotifers, if I co-culture the rots with the clowns (aka use the greenwater method so that the rotifers have something to eat and continue to multiply) I should in theory not have to worry about adding more unless I have a REALLY big, really hungry batch of babies. That being said, I find myself having to add every batch thus far, presumably because the salinity of my rotifer culture and clownfish culture have been different so I lose some rots to shock from both salinity and temperature swings. It's just from being lazy and not maintaining the rotifers well and is something that I'm making a conscious effort with especially now that I have neon goby larvae that are rotifer eating machines! Keeping the neon gobies fed, especially since they'll be on rots for about the first two weeks, is a big concern of mine.
 
Took some pics of the babies today, they're 2 days old. Ugly little buggers and MAN can they burn through the rotifers!!!

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