GobyDude Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Tagging along. Make sure to keep us updated. This is awesome. Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 78 hours and still 7 alive Link to comment
SmittyCoco Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 A nice hobby from your hobby. It will be very satisfing to rear them if they survive. Gl ! Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 90 hours and I can count 5 at least. They are swimming around much more now. Another 6 hours and they will be 4 days old! Going to bed for now (working all night). Might pop one under the microscope later as I swear I see a yellow tinge to them. OK maybe it's the lack of sleep! Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 Thanks for the info everyone. Checking it all out ready for next time. Hopefully with the proper food I will get more surviving. 98 hours and there are 5. These are going to be the last microscope pictures and the capture is stressful and I think I may be losing the last few due to this We now have fin development! Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 102 hours and still 5 alive! Link to comment
annamarie421 Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Hooray! Excellent work Leanne! Keep it up! Link to comment
fsu1dolfan Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Simply amazing stuff....great pics by the way...hope they make it!!! Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 15, 2008 Author Share Posted December 15, 2008 Thanks again. I'm going to be less sad now and just check on them in the morning, at water change and before bed... I'm like an expectant mother! Link to comment
Smurf Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Your thread is getting epic. Link to comment
cuboy Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 after reading your thread, I want to know what's going on now! but you're probably asleep. Next time, webcam ! Link to comment
SLOreefer Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 awesome! How are they doin? Link to comment
brokenteef Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 This is truly amazing! I'm currently setting up a whole breeding/rearing system but have no experience doing this, so you are giving me hope that I will have some success. Good luck! Can't wait to see these little guys grow up. Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 Your thread is getting epic. It's exhausting me! after reading your thread, I want to know what's going on now! but you're probably asleep. Next time, webcam ! I was asleep - good guess! No web cam I am afraid - they are still only 2mm long awesome! How are they doin? They doing good!!!!! This is truly amazing! I'm currently setting up a whole breeding/rearing system but have no experience doing this, so you are giving me hope that I will have some success. Good luck! Can't wait to see these little guys grow up. If you have a proper setup then you should have lots of success. I literally have a tank, airstone and heater. I have the light at the bottom so they don't get caught on the edges but that is about it. Have you been on MOFIB? http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/ . Good site! I have 5 still and they are 117 hours old - 2 hours short of 5 days! Link to comment
got2envy Posted December 16, 2008 Share Posted December 16, 2008 I am in awe! I hope they make it I love YWG...I keep checking this thread fo updates Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 16, 2008 Author Share Posted December 16, 2008 I very selfishly went shopping before I did a WC and now I only have 2 Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Still 2 left and 144 hours old (6 days) Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Someone suggested that maybe there are some copepods in the water due to me using tank water from an established tank. I looked at the water and sure enough there are little creepy crawlies! I don't think they are of high enough density for the larvae to hunt though so maybe it is getting a mixed diet. 2 left still at 152 hours Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 The final two are officially 7 days old! Link to comment
adolfo425 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Awesome and great job. I can see this takes a lot of patience to keep up with raising the larvae. Adolfo Link to comment
Sexy Shrimp Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Well of all the idiot things to do!!!! I keep the light at the bottom to keep the larvae at the bottom but when doing a water change/bottom hoover I move the light to the top to move the larvae to the top. Well today they followed the airline hoover to the bottom without me realising and got sucked into a bucket of murky water. I cannot believe it! I stood the water for an hour with a light on the top hoping the larvae would swim to the top but it seems they were too delicate to survive the trip On a happier note - since the water change and the loss of the larvae I have noticed the water is getting cloudier and moving - I'm going to keep culturing up whatever it is in hope that by the time the next spawn is ready (approx 2 weeks now), I will have enough of whatever it is to sustain more babies Link to comment
ddr_phish Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Aww man! I'm so sorry to hear that Leanne, atleast you'll be better prepared in a couple of weeks Link to comment
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