Leo_ian Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Hi all! I have started to breed saltwater fish since this year june, and so far all i have are a pair of neon gobies. I will be starting banggais by the end of the year. Here is my list of fish that i plan on breeding! chalk bass banggai cardinals neon gobies blackray shrimp gobies royal grammas The caribbean fish are expensive around my area, so i plan on supplying shops for cheap! I will post photos later Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 I will now finally get to taking photos of the setups my neon gobies’s light broke and I haven’t gotten a light for the banggai tank. The fish i haven’t found a good pair of banggais yet. I have two yasha gobies that I do not know the gender of. I will be adding a snapping shrimp to see how they will react I also have a feeling that the neon gobies that I bought as a pair are actually two females Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I know that at least some species of gobies can change sex. However, I can't remember the details. I'd think that you could find out with some digging. What food are you planning to feed the fry with? I believe that even rotifers are too large for gobies. I've raised several batches of Banggai cardinals. They are relatively easy because they are already baby fish when the father releases them. I fed mine decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, letting the uneaten eggs hatch in the tank with the babies. Eventually, they get transitioned to eating shaved frozen mysis, then whole frozen mysis. 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 neon goby babies are reportedly 3-4mm in size so rotifers would be good, i am trying to find a good food source for yasha babies. Hope all goes well! i should get a microscope to look at the yasha babies. will put that on my wish list 1 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Quote Like Todd, our initial trials with C. personatus larvae were unsuccessful. They simply would not accept rotifers as a first food. It wasn’t until Todd started to offer a small ciliate that he succeeded with this species. Here at ORA we offered the larvae cultured copepod nauplii under 75(!) microns and we were pleased to see them settle out around 30 days post hatch. While small, these fish are pretty quick to mature, we were amazed to see fertile spawns produced by individuals of this species that are barely 100 days old! source: https://www.orafarm.com/blog/2014/05/02/masked-goby/ 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 ooh thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 interesting thing i found out today, the yashas eat pellets even though the shop told me they only ate mysis. Now this will be easier to feed than my neon gobies... 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Hello people! My neon gobies laid eggs!!!! so here is the set up for food and babies i have bio media in the babies tank to speed up the cycle Copepods culture coming soon! 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 I have a phyto culture and the rotifer culture is just a phyto culture that has been contaminated with rotifers. And the rotifers ate almost all the phyto in their culture so I had to buy bottled phyto to feed them i think I’ll use it to colour the water too 2 Quote Link to comment
Snow_Phoenix Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 32 minutes ago, Leo_ian said: Hello people! My neon gobies laid eggs!!!! Congrats! 😊 1 Quote Link to comment
seabass Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I'd use larger bottles for your phyto. Congrats on them breeding. 2 1 Quote Link to comment
Leo_ian Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 9 hours ago, seabass said: I'd use larger bottles for your phyto. Congrats on them breeding. This is the largest I could get. Quote Link to comment
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