Who Else Is Trying Captive Breeding and What Species?

[BSJF]

I would like to start a species list specific to MAAST. So...scientific names please (don't make me look them up, I hate that), and a brief explanation of attempts/successes...and I will list everyone here. Can be current, past, or plans in the immediate future. If you give me dates I will include the actual dates, otherwise mo/yr posted just indicates when you said you had them in this thread. For example an April hatch may say 5/11.

Pterapogon kauderni (Banggai Cardinalfish)
buck27 - babies (5/11)
Pennies2Cents & Roscozman - babies (last released 2/28)

Amphiprion ocellaris (Black and White Ocellaris Clownfish)
buck27 - pair (5/11)
Pennies2Cents & Roscozman - eggs 2/28

Amphiprion ocellaris (Ocellaris Clownfish)
Europhyllia - eggs regularly (5/11)

Amphiprion percula (Piccaso X Picasso Clownfish)
buck27 - pair (5/11)
BSJF - babies (babies from 4 hatches: 4/3, 4/29, 5/12, and 5/26/2011)
hobogato - babies (1 hatch from BSJF 4/16/11)

Synchiropus splendidus (Green Mandarins)
buck27 - pair (5/11)

Chromis viridis (Blue-Green Chromis)
BSJF - regular spawns (5/11)

Lysmata Amboinensis (Cleaner Shrimp)
BSJF - regular hatches, collecting but eventually just put in refugium (5/11)

Opistognathus aurifrons (Yellowheaded Jawfish)
Europhyllia - spawning and brooding (5/11)

Opistognathus rosenblatti (Bluespot Jawfish)
BSJF - 2 spawns (2008/09)

Synchiropus splendidus (Target Mandarins)
Europhyllia - spawning (5/11)

Sciaenops ocellatus (Red Drum Fish)
hobogato (class project) - eggs donated by utmsi hatched 12/10, reared to 2" (5/11)

[buck27]

I currently have Bangai babies. I also have a pair of black and white ocellaris, a pair of piccaso's, and a pair of green mandarins. I plan to attemp all 4 of them.

[Europhyllia]

Homo sapiens - yes very successful. Am ready to rehome them ASAP though!

Just kidding

My Opistognathus aurifrons have been spawning and brooding but I have not had any success in collecting the larvae. Not super sad about that though since I would be a total pain in regards who would qualify to adopt one of my babies so there would be a chance I'd end up with all rooms full of aquariums with jawfish...

[CoryDude]

I'm currently breeding isopods and copepods. Does that count?

[txg8gxp]

My plan is to have gold stripe maroon babies, sorry not adding proper name. I'm still along ways away I'm sure, my pair is still too young. To get me started in the learning curve I have phyto, rotifer and copepod cultures going now and plan to add brine shrimp to the list if I can keep a larger culture of rotifers going.

[Pennies2Cents]

Pennies2Cents & Roscozman

Pterapogon kauderni (Banggai cardinalfish)
Last Batch-Released February 28.

Black and White Ocellaris Clownfish
Last batch of eggs February 28

[kkiel02]

I am going to plan to start with Bangaii's once the tank is stable again. They wont be in the display but in a cube in the back probably. I will post up when I get farther along.

[BSJF]

So Kevin do you have a pair currently? If so I will put your name in the first post, otherwise, just update when you do.

You guys don't know how much I hate to lookup scientific names do you! Sigh.

[BSJF]

Eve, do you still have the babies from the Feb batch? When did you have the babies last time?

[Europhyllia]

if just spawning counts I have
Target Mandarins Synchiropus splendidus that do their little spawning dance every night. Female is gravid.
And Ocellaris clowns with egg patches

[BSJF]

Yes, as long as they are gravid, especially for the less common species.

[Pennies2Cents]

Eve, do you still have the babies from the Feb batch? When did you have the babies last time?

I only have 1 left he is still in the overflow and we cant get him out. We sold 2 to Regric & 2 to Regrics' friend. Cant remember the name.

[hobogato]

yep, the clowns are doing great, about 6 weeks old. we are also raising red drum in my classroom from eggs that are donated by utmsi. we have two that survived from the first batch that hatched in december. they are about 2" long now. hopefully we figured out why our survival rate was so low so we get better results next school year.

[BSJF]

So the teacher doesn't give me the scientific name???

GRADE = F

[hobogato]

Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus)

[BSJF]

Like I didn't already look that up. I'm slow, but not that slow. Makeup work required to change the grade. Hum, you have to babysit the babies :)

[buck27]

lol

[clownfishgems]

my husband and i currently have 3 breeding pairs,, he's sold all his snowflake babies but we have a couple really nice breeding pairs: female ORA picasso/donisreef snowcasso male blk/wht darwin female/super snowflake male wyoming white pair , we got some nice clutches ill ask my husband to get some pics up, i also have my own breeding pairs but they are just normal ocellaris and a darwin... it will be interesting to be able to compare growth rates, color patterns, and then we can mixup some babies to get a good diversity of babies for future breeders!! my husband is currently working on his new fish room in our garage which he already almost finished, might be a while cause he's always busy in there, but i promise pics soon!!!

[butwa20]

Amphiprion ocellaris i have a pair looking good hoping they lay soon they are doing a sort of spasm dance lol

[avilamillar]

Amphiprion ocellaris- Last batch of eggs released 09/30 also saw some babies a few weeks ago.

[kkiel02]

Ok I bought bangaii's from Elegant Reef so hopefully I can get a clutch from these guys even if I miss the first batch and they overflow they will have tons of pods in the fuge or frag tank. I plan to try my luck with these and then try and progress to something harder like clowns...

[krzjaz]

Hi I'm Jill, I'm new to this forum. I breed percula clowns, I like my babies that have an oval instead of a second bar, some have an oval on the top, some in the middle.
I find cleaning the larva tank to be very difficult, I often have more than one run up my siphen hose then I spend the next 10 minutes trying to catch them. I feed them rotifers fed with my nano. oculata culture, after they eat about 2 hours I sieve them out and feed them to the larva. I did my last batch coculture of larva with greenwater and rotifers, they did well but what a pain to clean!
My banggai laid eggs Dec 23, I took them form the male the 28th and they have eyes in the egg tumbler and two hatched. 4 or 5 of the eggs were white, I seperated them out with a "delecate operation" and put them back in the tumbler. They are soooooooooooooooooooooo cute, I hope they make it. I don't know why they turn white, I don't know if it is a fungus I need to medicate or what. I wake up every day hopeful but with 15 alive, of which 2 are hatched today. I think they seem to be hatching too early. ANybody know? They are all egg sac now, but what, when and how to feed them I am researching. Any tips are appreciated. The clowns I do well, 90% success, sadly I'm not doing as well with the banggai.