Talbots Spawned This Morning

That is so cool.

 

So Sweet!

Raise them up!

 

Love that they spawned so quickly for you.

So cool how quickly your new tank came together for you and how awesome it looks!!!

 

Well now you know the spawning date. What you need to do is track and record how long it will take until they hatch.

To raise them, you will probably need to culture copepods, algae, and rotifers. Not impossible, but does take some time.

 

Shayna- that is very awesome for you! So glad you get to experience this side of the hobby. A good place to start diving into research would be the Marine Breeders Initiative. MBI. Here is a link for a general search for chrysiptera genus. now- pending on their mouth size you may be able to get away with rotifers as a first food, maybe not... I think most of them are requiring some smaller first prey... either way if your serious about trying to give these babies a go at it.. get some research in, feel free to message me with questions... I'm a breeder but unfortunately out here in Ames, so a little further than xroads is from ya!

http://www.mbisite.org/Species.aspx?q=Chrysiptera%20talboti&fori=&class=&g=&page=20

 

again, I do have both of those and several other pod cultures as well, but your a bit further away from me. you can certainly order starters and culture them yourslef from places like reed mariculture, seahorsesource.come, florida aqua farms, or even live aquaria. Personally I keep very sterile cultures so I spend the extra money and go with reed mariculture so I know I'm getting the right species and itll be a pure culture. BUT if that's not so big in your mind you can go with one of the others.... there... sea horse source is known for being able to give really good algae starters (if you want to go with live greenwater, as opposed to a paste)...

I would strongly encourage you to give a look at matt wittenriches book "the breeders guide" it will cover a lot of the basics you'll be looking into.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Illustrated-Breeders-Marine-Aquarium/dp/1890087718


If you really start digging around on MBI you'll find a TON of info there that will be related directly to what your doing. If you use that link I gave you before that takes you directly to the same genus you're working with. You should go through and look at each persons journal get an idea of how their each doing things and try and copy that and see how far you get! /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif

Please, do feel free to message me if you need help. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/smile.gif

 

Shayna, this first go around I would (based on any time frames you've looked up) let them hatch naturally where they are... #1) this lets the parents do the dirty work of keeping the nest clean (a whole new battle you probably don't wont to fight quite just yet) and #2) it can be fairly easy to collect them straight out of their current tank as most larvae have a very strong phototactic response. A good 'ol red solo cup and a flashlight will do the trick for grabbing some in the nights to come. (should be anywhere from 20min to 2hrs after lights out, turn your pumps and jets off for this, it'll make it much easier).... this route also lets you see how awesome your first hatch out is in all it's glory! lol...

Unless you can grab a substantial amount of live rotifers somewhere locally with only 4 days your really not going to be able to do much with just a starter or rotifers... as they need 3 days to really establish themselves and another couple to really bloom (might be right on the line though). I'd say if your serious about this batch... get some roti's asap. If your not, just let them hatch, (share the larvae with someone who's ready/ can handle them) and just get your time line down, and then next time around you'll know right when they spawn, when you need to be ready for the hatch night.

 

You definitly dont want to remove the eggs more then an hour before they hatch. They will quickly fungus and die.

We have rotifers at the store, but no greenwater. We use paste for our rotifers.

In the meantime, read all you can and get ready for the second or third batch. They will probably lay every couple of weeks.

 

I like the paste. It works well for rotifers and brine shrimp, not so much with copepods.

Trust me, the eggs fungus fast. People have tried hundreds of ways to incubate the eggs with little to no success.

It is easy to catch them when they hatch. The night they hatch, turn off the return pump & power heads. Wait for an hour after dark and shine a small light towards the top of the tank. The larvae are attracted to the light and you can easily siphon them off.

They will probably lay in the same spot on a regular cycle now. Feed them well with frozen and they will lay larger healthier nests.

Main thing is to start keeping records on a calendar. When they lay and when they hatch. Once you get that down, you will know when to siphon them out.

 

Love this last pic. You can clearly see all the eggs!!!

 

So five days on the hatch. That sounds about right. So this batch should hatch Friday night if my math is right.