aiptasia are on santa’s naughty list. they are not welcome in my household.
Gah, sorry about the luck Jason, sounds like its time for some liquid carbs BoNg. I’m guessing when your not around to collect the fry, they become filter food?
I’ll see you soon to net a buddy for my lonely CFS Percula if it helps at all! :
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-Rob
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Gah, sorry about the luck Jason, sounds like its time for some liquid carbs BoNg. I’m guessing when your not around to collect the fry, they become filter food?
I’ll see you soon to net a buddy for my lonely CFS Percula if it helps at all! ::
-Rob[/quote]
I’m guessing he has colored up a ton. Do you have any updated pics?
And sounds good!
My plan for yesterday was to get the frogspawn remounted and back in the tank as quickly as possible. I was looking through my piles of base rock in the garage and I found a coral skeleton that I knew would make a suitable base. I leveled one side of it and chiseled out just enough of a hole that the remaining stalk of the frogspawn would fit in snuggly. I applied some super glue gel and after a few minutes I put it back in the tank. So far, so good. The two peices felt fused this morning and were solid.
In retrospect this really worked out for the best because the clowns have plenty of new real estate to lay their nest and since the new base is nearly identical in terms of composition, texture and color, I think they’ll just see it as a natural extension of the substrate they were already using to nest on.
I think the rotifer culture was getting a little chilly overnight so I added a heater and set it to 70 degrees. After a couple breeders mentioned ditching the airstone for rigid airline tubing I made that change as well. And I have to admit, I think that’s going to make a big difference. Unlike the finer bubbles from an airstone, the larger bubbles are definitely moving the culture water around. There are enough rotifers in the culture that I should be able to get it back to full strength in time for the next batch of fry.
The pics and video here were taken only about an hour after the frogspawn went back into the system.
Picasso Spawn 01.02.13
Video coming soon!
Looks like she can barely move around in that small space in the video.
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Looks like she can barely move around in that small space in the video.[/quote]
Yeah, i was really worried about that when they first started. As smart as these fish are, I don’t think they planned ahead!
She really wanted to lay on the old base of the frogspawn (which is now inaccessible to her). She was getting herself stuck trying to reach it. Towards the end, she started backing out a bit and laying on the new coral foundation that I introduced a month ago. I’m hoping she just goes right for that the next time they spawn. The male was also having trouble manuevering around in that tight space so we’ll have to see if the eggs were properly fertilized.
Picasso Spawn 01.28.13
The clutches are finally starting to get huge again. The female figured out that she can lay on the new base rock that I attached to the frogspawn and she isn’t trying to jam her body in that confined space between the branches. I have several dozen fry from last weeks hatch but I think this is going to be the first clutch that really has successful numbers that will end up having some interesting offspring later this summer. Hatch should be next Wednesday.
