Love is in the air :-)

[jason.tammy]

A week ago our mixed ocellaris pair finally spawned. Unfortunately, there was something about the eggs that wasn't just right, so the male had a nice caviar dinner. Working on a new recipe for homemade food for the pair to try and correct whatever deficiency exists in their diet; a few of the eggs did not adhere well to the rock. I've read unpeeled shrimp finely blended and mixed into their food, but shrimp shells make me a little nervous. Suggestions appreciated. Hint Hint to Tomoko.



A few days later, on the second try, our male cardinal carried the babies all the way. We scooped him out on day 21 into a breeder and about 10 minutes later we had 13 new babies. Baby brine shrimp all around. :bigsmile:

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Ah so cool! What do you have the babies in?

 

[jason.tammy]

Mesh breeder basket in one of our main tanks.

 

[H@rry]

Everybody that I ever heard of that raised babies successfully spent a lot of time growing things to feed them; green water, rotifiers, baby brine, etc.

Good luck and post some more pics if they survive.

 

[jason.tammy]

Food for babies

We've got all 3 growing right now. The cardinals aren't too hard, they devour the BBS readily. The hard part is getting the little buggers to transition to frozen BS. We've not grown out clowns yet, but I've started the rotifers just to get in practice in case we have a successful hatching. Wish me luck.

Tammy

 

[H@rry]

BTW, when I saw the title of this post I thought you and Jason were holding hands or sumpthin'! :bigsmile:

 

[jason.tammy]

I'm not that lucky.If I am good I may get to sleep inside tonight!!!!

 

[jason.tammy]

Baby update.They are a week old and doing great.So far all have survived.

 

[H@rry]

Wow, that's so kewl! Congratulations, I'll get my cigar when we come down.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Get some Otohime size C1 from Reed Mariculture while you still have some time. I can let you have my size A and B Otohime (I'd be interested in trading the food for cleaner shrimp or peppermint shrimp if you have them.) They are still new and practically full. I had a lot of size C1, but my fish ate them all up. These dry food are god's send. I tried a number of other prepared foods by pulverizing them to various sizes, but most of the babies ignored them all. Amazingly all the babies got really excited with a drop of Otohime A and soon devoured every bit of them. Let me know if you are coming up this way soon. They can start on Otohime A in a week or so. Mixing them with bbs is the way to go. After switching them on Otohime, you no longer have to bother with hatching bbs or worry about capturing bbs before they consume all their egg sack nutrients.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Oops, I was too hasty to see which babies you were talking about. You must be speaking about bangaii. Otohime does not work for bangaii until you get them in with clownfish babies. Clownfish babies will teach your bangaii to eat parepared food . So get these babies together when clownfish babies are big enough so they won't be the baby food for the pug faced pirana, I mean bangaii babies.

 

[jason.tammy]

We dont have any clown babies.They ate all the eggs right after laing them.It was their first time.