My Attempt at Breeding Mandarin Dragonetts!

[wysiwyg]

definately follownig along my blue mandarine dragonet ismy favorite fish in my tank

 

[uall8up]

Wonderful thread. Can't wait to read more!!!

 

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I got eggs!!!! My mandarins just laid, not a big clutch, as they go little by little, but I caught about a dozen. I have them floating in a bag in a dark area of my sump. My pod culture is a little weak, so this one likely will not be raised.

 

[allabout]

Awesome, congrats! They'll spawn regularly now? Good luck when you decide to raise them, definitely will be following along.

 

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Awesome, congrats! They'll spawn regularly now? Good luck when you decide to raise them, definitely will be following along.

They've always spawned every few days, but I never had a chanceto collect the eggs.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

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I thought I was crazy, we have allot in common my friend LOL, never enough fish tanks LOL, I went to HD today to built one more stand lol

 

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I thought I was crazy, we have allot in common my friend LOL, never enough fish tanks LOL, I went to HD today to built one more stand lol

LOL, I still want to go with more tanks for pods, it's bad enough I have a ton of frags to make, and a new tank on the way. Now I will have a ton of dragonetts by the end of the summer if all goes as planned.

 

[Young Frankenstein]

I was thinking of getting 2 dragonets today and have them in my 15 gallon algae scrubber, full of pods since I also feed phyto, do you think that’s enough room for them ?

 

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I like to give them lots of room to scavenge, they like it in the bigger tanks, and the height is really important to them. Make sure they are opposite genders, and you can always net some pods from your algae scrubber every few days. They are big and fat in the 125 with a fuge, every now and then I shake the pods out of my chaeto, and that helps a ton.

 

[Just Clownin Around]

I was just at another breeders house the other day. He hatched some od these out in october and they are still pretty small. I never knew they grew so slowly

 

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I was just at another breeders house the other day. He hatched some od these out in october and they are still pretty small. I never knew they grew so slowly

What does he feed them? I heard they grow really slow with artemia, but I have a 40 gallon fuge for them to reside in, with a huge chunk of chaeto and pods.

 

[Just Clownin Around]

I believe artemia and pods
He hads them in a 75gallon. Don't know what else but he did show me the sicker that said they were hatched out in october.

 

[BarbH]

Congrats on being able to catch some of them. Hopefully by the end of the summer you will have a bunch of dragonet babies.

 

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I looked in the bag to see one larvae moving, and one that moved to the feeding stage dead. I did not plan on keeping this one, and will try for real when they spawn again

 

[SnoQ]

Tagging on to see how it goes. Good luck!

 

[Connie]

tagging along

 

[ritter6788]

Subscribed. Good luck with the next batch!

 

[Tabasco1]

Taggin along. Thanks for posting the journey!

 

[Loki]

Awesome! Good luck I hope everything goes well. I am also tagging along

 

[MelissaKathryn]

How did everything go??