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Woot Woot! I'm getting Japanese Lumpsuckers for my coldwater nano!


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Been waiting almost a year now for these guys to be available again out of Japan!

 

I've been building my Micro-Reefs coldwater nano with the anticipation that I would be able to get these guys again and it looks like its panning out!!

 

I'm working on getting the shipping covered with pre-pays from some of the people in the facebook coldwater discussion group, but in the time leading up to this I've found out quite a bit about how they are keeping, collecting, and also captive breeding them in Japan!

 

Check out this ingenious idea for that a guy used to hatch out 300 babies with from his pair!! He only had 7 live to adulthood (feeding just live brine though)

 

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Check out all the videos of them in japan on youtube!!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%82%A6%E3%82%AA&sm=3

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what colors you getting in?

Not positive on colors, but the last group we got had green, red, pink, mottled grey, yellow.

 

They have a pretty wide range of color but I'm going to try and pair different colors in every group I breed.

 

For sure going to pair a red+red, red+green, green+green, and maybe pink+grey. They dont differentiate on colors by sex but the males all have much larger dorsal fins.

 

Once I see the males guarding eggs I'm going to remove the female and pair it with another male to try and get second clutches out of the females that are ready.

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One of the 1st things I mentioned to Stu when I designed our 6.2 temperate system back in 2012, was I want a Lump Sucker. This was the original video that made me fall in love with wanting one.

 

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Been waiting almost a year now for these guys to be available again out of Japan!

 

I've been building my Micro-Reefs coldwater nano with the anticipation that I would be able to get these guys again and it looks like its panning out!!

 

I'm working on getting the shipping covered with pre-pays from some of the people in the facebook coldwater discussion group, but in the time leading up to this I've found out quite a bit about how they are keeping, collecting, and also captive breeding them in Japan!

 

Check out this ingenious idea for that a guy used to hatch out 300 babies with from his pair!! He only had 7 live to adulthood (feeding just live brine though)

 

0d960169.jpg

 

 

Check out all the videos of them in japan on youtube!!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%82%A6%E3%82%AA&sm=3

THEY'RE SO ADORABLE!!!

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One of the 1st things I mentioned to Stu when I designed our 6.2 temperate system back in 2012, was I want a Lump Sucker. This was the original video that made me fall in love with wanting one.

 

are you kidding me? that's freakin awesome.. looks like it's singing.. and it has blue eyes?? cutest fish ever..

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Originally,

 

The 6.2 AIO Temperate system was designed for these guys.

 

However, it didn't happen back in 2012.

 

Today i sell a bigger, better insulated 7.2 gallon temperate.

 

It should be used just for these guys.

 

Where can you can own a pokemon fish if not through Cold Water Marine Aquatics and Micro-Reefs?

 

Feel free to order them on my site....

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Found this cool information about the Pygmy squid :)

 

http://eol.org/pages/595246/details

Idiosepius paradoxus prefers to feed on crustaceans, gammarids, grass shrimp, and mysids. Although an initial study concluded I. paradoxus does not attack fish, a later study showed the contrary. When attacking fish the pygmy squid usually only eats the muscle mass and leaves the bones intact, usually as complete skeletons. Idiosepius paradoxus cannot completely paralyze larger fish and ingests only part of the fish.

 

The feeding habits have been described in detail in the literature, with two phases: 1) attacking, which includes attention, positioning, and seizure, and 2) eating.

 

Once I. paradoxus sees its prey it approaches with arms facing the hard shell of the crustacean until it gets to an attacking distance of less than 1 cm. The Japanese pygmy squid attacks very fast, and captures the prey with tentacles grabbing at the junction between the crustacean's shell and its first abdominal segment pulling the crustacean into its arm crown.

 

Idiosepius paradoxus will attack prey up to twice its size. The pygmy squid paralyzes shrimp within one minute, using a cephalotoxin. The prey must be held in the right position otherwise it will not be paralyzed, and I. paradoxus must shift where it is grasping the prey. On occasion more than one pygmy squid will attack the same prey. Usually the first attacker will get the meal. After capturing the prey, I. paradoxus swims back to sea grass to attach while it eats.

 

After capturing a crustacean, I. paradoxus inserts its buccal mass into the exoskeleton. The squid elongates the buccal mass to about the same length of its arm, and wiggles the mass around in all directions inside the crustacean's exoskeleton. While doing this, I. paradoxus ingests the flesh of the crustacean, and then discards it, leaving the exoskeleton completely empty yet intact. The crustacean’s perfectly intact exoskeleton looks like the organism has simply molted. The exoskeleton is usually emptied in 15 minutes for mysids, while the larger prey are sometimes not finished, leaving flesh attached to the exoskeleton.

 

Idiosepius paradox may externally digest its food first. External digestion makes it easier for the toothed beak to assist in shredding the flesh of a crustacean, which is removed using the buccal mass and enzymatic action. This enzyme is injected into the flesh allowing I. paradoxus to suck up semi-digested flesh. The specialized outer lip seems to be the organ assisting in external digestion. The lip contains goblet glandular cells in the lip gland that produces a mucous secretion. While eating the beak is moving in the buccal mass but it never passes the lips so it does not bite into the flesh.

 

Animal Foods: mollusks; aquatic crustaceans; other marine invertebrates

 

Primary Diet: carnivore (Eats non-insect arthropods, Molluscivore )

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Been waiting almost a year now for these guys to be available again out of Japan!

 

I've been building my Micro-Reefs coldwater nano with the anticipation that I would be able to get these guys again and it looks like its panning out!!

 

I'm working on getting the shipping covered with pre-pays from some of the people in the facebook coldwater discussion group, but in the time leading up to this I've found out quite a bit about how they are keeping, collecting, and also captive breeding them in Japan!

 

Check out this ingenious idea for that a guy used to hatch out 300 babies with from his pair!! He only had 7 live to adulthood (feeding just live brine though)

 

0d960169.jpg

 

 

Check out all the videos of them in japan on youtube!!!

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%82%A6%E3%82%AA&sm=3

So how big do these guys get and how long do they live?

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Only in Japan..

 

 

Crazy looking things. I don't recall seeing them before.

 

 

 

Wait, I want to add a caption to that picture of the fridge.

 

"ok guys, very funny. Who took my beer and replaced it with a tank full of little monsters?"

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