A huge nest. I will have pics later on. I have been trying to raise these guys and have had no luck. This is their first time laying eggs in the clay pot but not their first time laying eggs. Basically i need "s" strain rotifers and smaller foods. To compare their size a 7 day old blenny is about the size of a 1 hour old clownfish.


eggs deposited between 2-4pm
temp 83.9 f
Pics to come

Wow! Congratulations!

here is day 7 from the old batch i was unable to raise


pics are uploading now

here is mama

and the huge nest

holy crap thats a lot of eggs!

awesome job hope you get some raised this time around

score!

nice job glenn now the easy part starts

these blennies arent so easy. If they were easy i would have over25 batches right now. Hopefully i can get at least one.

all you need is a cig and a heineken and your fine

Congrats! Just takes time and time and time and time untill you get it right. Its never easy but getting closer and closer. And christo i'll take a sam adams while I wait for my flames angels mature..lol

Good luck. Hope they all look like Mama, she is quite lovely.

I LOVED my starry blenny. Good luck!

well sad news. The pot was in the middle of the 29 bio cube and i moved it to the left side of the tank and the male ate all the eggs. The male after eating all the eggs went to the empty pot (pot #2) in the middle of the tank and started flashing at the female again. Its very funny how you move the eggs 8 inches over the male doesnt want anything to do with them and eats them all. Oh well. another week and ill have another batch. And this time i will not move the pot

Cmon Glenn leave them alone Damn it lol leave tyhem alone, leave them alone, leave them alone, leave them alone sound familiar

the problem was that my onyx and platinum were getting beat up by the male blenny because he stole the pot from them. I just need to get a breeding tank for the clowns so they dont get beat up any more. Now the clowns wont leave the top back of the tank

I had a devil cherub angel that abused my clowns, and even with it gone, they won't leave the corner

ok so i added more pots to the bio cube and now have a total of 4 pots. The blennies laid again yesterday estimating 1500+ eggs. Water temp was the same at 83.8 degrees and around 2-4pm. here's pics

here is the female almost done laying

the male waiting to fertilize

here are the clowns seeing how its done

i love the first picture of the clowns checking it out. awesome. are these the clowns that we are guessing the egg date? if so the variable of the blennies attacking may disrupt the cycle. no telling when they might lay now.

yes thats the pair. Now that i have 4 pots they dont scrap at all. the blennies take pot 2 and the clowns take pot 4

maybe you need a window in the pots. thy look like exhibitionists. lol

day 2 going strong. No eggs eaten. They should start changing colors tomorrow

sweet.

still going strong, eggs are gray now and should hatch in 3-4 days

Why is your diet for the blennies?

homemade food mix of over 50 ingredients. And they eat the algae off the wall as well as the skin off my finger

Whoa nice. Did they eat supplied food u made right off the back or did u teach them. Just that I don't have alot algae that grows so wanna make sure if I get one I can add to their diet. How did u tell female from male?

they started on formula 2 pellets. they love those. I started them off with this since its a veggie blend.

There is only one way to tell the difference between the 2 and its the anal fin. The female will have equal length spines and the male will have the first 4 or 5 elongated. The anal fin is on the bottom rear of the fish close to the butt hole.

for example

\\\\\\\ is the female

\\\\\\\\\\\ is the male
\\\\

Cool they have one at my LFS for 15 bucks. Really want to buy one but just doing some research before hand cause I may want to add 2 one of these days. Right now all I have is a harem of flame angels in my tank the alpha male and female do their mating swim each night but no eggs yet.

They probably spawn almost nightly.

IME angels will spawn shortly after lights out. They just disperse their eggs into the water column, so you'll never see a nest.

so last night a few hatched, but i think i delayed the hatch by shining the light into the pot. The rest should hatch tonight. Im going to get rotifers from eric tonight so i can be ready for the clowns and blennies next batches

ok they all hatched tonight at about 10:45. If i had to guess there is about 1500 babies. I had to manually collect them which is not hard at all. I cant get pics since they are too fast and too small.

congrats glenn!

as of right now all the babies are still alive. I think i only found 2 babies that died so all is well so far

day 2 still going strong. Ill try and get some pics

let's see em

water is green right now. As the rotifers clear out the phyto ill try and take some pics

barely any left right now, same thing as last time. Die off on day 3. Not sure what the problem is. PH is fine no ammonia, plenty of rotifers, temp is stable. Ill just have to offer smaller foods like barnacle larvae. Lets see how these few left do

dang

ok they all bit the dust. I definitely need smaller foods. Lets see what i can come up with

new batch of eggs getting laid right now.

I think I am going to subscribe to all of your breeding threads.

The larvae look like some sort of alien creature.

I'm tagging along for this batch forward!

Good luck!

here is a size reference to show how small they are. This is a normal bic pen in the pictire

Oh My!! Those are TIIIIIINY! No wonder you are having a hard time finding food small enough for them to eat.

working on getting smaller foods, i just let this batch hatch into the tank

talk about TINY babies wow

man, i never knew

im thinking about buying a plankton net and going to a jetty and trying to score some cool stuff like pods, barnacle larvae etc... but ill try "S" strain rotifers first. I thought my batch was "S" strain but it wasnt it was "l" strain

what jetty might this be ive got plenty of free time i bet it would be fun to join ya catchin pods

courtnet causeway, some in clearwater, johns pass, venice, englewood, theres numerous places. even the skyway will work

nice i never thought about collecting anything by any of the bridges