[quote=“Pat B, post:200, topic:573”]
Looking great Jason!! PBJ! YahoO
How old are they now??[/quote]
A majority of the juveniles in those last pics were 200 days old… so just shy of 7 months now!
Thats a nice batch, lots of variations… :
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I know I had several private messages and I just got around to responding to everyone. Sorry it took so long. I’ve been busy with my latest project to move these little buggers and I hope to have a big announcement soon! In the meantime, here is some video I took of a couple fish yesterday!
That is one good looking picasso to bad money is getting a little to tight to buy a grade A. Maybe when they are ready I can come down and take a look and maybe pick a pair up of the cheaper picasso’s.
Good luck on the possible announcement.
Long time no update. A couple of months ago the Picasso Broodstock took another break from spawning just as I was preparing to collect the 4th spawn. While they’ve been on hiatus I managed to normalize the temperature swings that I believe were detrimental to the incubation period. I have a new challenge as well… Aiptasia. But good news is after a slight adjustment to the photo period and feeding schedule I was able to induce a spawn. This picture is from the December 03, 2012 spawn. Depending on how the eggs develop I might attempt a collection next week.
Eggs at 48 hours post-spawn. The male has been tending the nest non-stop. Looking good so far…
Eggs at 72 hours post-spawn. The eggs are significantly darker than yesterday and I believe we’re seeing the first signs of eyes developing.
Looking good ::
how many babies are you expecting from this batch?
It’s a medium sized nest. Maybe a 100 will make their way into the fry tank. I’ll probably end up with 20-30 in a few months.
Picasso eggs at 4 days post-spawn. If you look closely you can see the developing fry!
Picasso eggs at 5 days post-spawn.
Picasso eggs at 6 days post-spawn.
Picasso eggs at 7 days post-spawn.
Looks to be about 30-40 so far Jason?
[quote=“reefman66, post:214, topic:573”]
Looks to be about 30-40 so far Jason?[/quote]
The frogspawn was really open tonight and it’s covering the largest chunk of the clutch. The nest is definitely thinning out but I’d say we’re still around 65-75 eggs.
It looks like the eyes developed a lot today. With any luck the eggs will turn silver by tomorrow and we can have a hatch wednesday.
Cool. YahoO::
Picasso eggs at 8 days post-spawn. Starting to show some signs of silver but don’t look ready to hatch.
Picasso eggs at 9 days post-spawn. Just over 50 eggs remain (roughly 25% of the initial clutch). I would have preferred if the fry would have hatched already. The tank temperature was running 75-78 degrees during this incubation period so I’m going to raise the temperature to 79-82 degrees for the next clutch. I’m anticipating a split hatch tonight and at this point I don’t anticipate overall good results from this attempt. But I’ve been feeding the clowns heavily and I think the next clutch will do better!
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and it’s not even 11AM yet?
The lights went out at 8PM last night over the clutch. I monitored the tank for 2 hours just incase anything hatched and they showed no signs of movement so I assumed it was safe to go to bed… wrong.
Fast forward to this morning and every egg is gone.
So I missed the hatch and I figured I’d make the best of this opportunity to clear the nest site of those threatening aiptasia. I carefully removed the frogspawn and was chiseling away the nusiance anemones when the base of the coral snapped. Great. So now I have to figure out how to remount a baseball-sized frogspawn. I’ve never used an underwater putty but this is probably going to require some combination of base rock, a drill and some sort of underwater adhesive.
I took a break from this mess to give the juveniles in growout their morning feeding. I immediately notice one of the tanks full of onyx males has very little movement in it. The heater must have crapped out and the tank was reading 64 degrees. I immediately replaced the heater and I think I managed to get by without and losses. I’ll know for sure in the next couple of hours.
To top it off, my rotifers also look like they thinned out overnight. I did a 33% water change yesterday afternoon and gave them their normal feeding. The culture hasn’t crashed yet but it really thinned out.
I picked the wrong week to quit carbohydrates.
[quote=“ClownfishSushi, post:219, topic:573”]
Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and it’s not even 11AM yet?[/quote]
Thank You, yet another example of why i’m an advocate of sleeping until noon :
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but damn Jason, “when it rains it pours”
1st, get yourself some carbs… then some super glue, and or epoxy and some varying sizes of rubble rock and at least make the nesting ground comfy again… doing it in steps may help… put together a rubble rock “cradle” for whatever stem is left, then attach the stem after that dries :TWOCENTS
but maybe Aptasia have feelings too… i bet its karma ::