rain forest goby and baby's

[Pistol Peet]

I have several rainforest gobies that were purchased from algaebarn on two different occasions now I found one hiding in a skull that has frag incrusting on it. With itself having an egg sac full of little baby rainforest gobies not one time have they ever survived always found them cleaning and I'm afraid it's due to disturbing that hiding spot for them what is the likelihood that these eggs will ever survive and make it and what can I do to increase the chances as this would be an awesome spectacle to see in a reef tank

 

[ichthyogeek]

Well, you’ll need to either extract the egg mass, or prepare a larval collector. Then you’ll need to set up a rearing container for the eggs, and have a bunch of live foods (phyto, rotifers, copepods, baby brine shrimp) ready and waiting.

With very little exception, marine fish have pelagic larval young. The eggs hatch, the larvae drift away into the ocean, and spend part of their life cycle in the plankton before they settle. The standard reef tank is very inhospitable to fish larvae (corals and fish eat them, pumps shred them, they get caught in the rock, filter socks break them, etc.)...

 

[Pistol Peet]

Thank you very much so basically you need to get them out of that aquarium and in just something different less hospitable I got tons of Fido that I put in there all the time from algaebarn the ocean Magic

 

[ichthyogeek]

Thank you very much so basically you need to get them out of that aquarium and in just something different less hospitable I got tons of Fido that I put in there all the time from algaebarn the ocean Magic

Yes. Your best bet would be a Big Round Tub, or a kreisel. OceanMagik works, but it would be better to culture your own phyto, since different phyto will have different properties (HUFA distributions, sizes, etc).

I recommend reading Wittenrich’s “Complete Illustrated Guide to Breeding Marine Fish” (or whatever it’s called), as well as the Plankton Culture Manual. These will give you a great head start to getting the larvae to survive.

 

[Pistol Peet]

Thanks