A. Polymnus rearing experience's

[chris&barb]

can anyone that has ever tried to rear this species please give there experience's.

we have a pair that spawns regularly and we are going to give it a shot. we collected our first larva on sunday night(about 300) to a 10g rearing tank(holding 3g). we have 2-10g rotifer tanks going. everything is set up according to J. Wilkerson's book

 

[Elmo18]

Hi there.

It looks like you are ready to go Just make sure water quality is good

What type of Polymnus are they?

Black variant or the Brown variant?

Best,
Ilham

 

[chris&barb]

there black. ive been doing some reading and it seems that no one has successfully raised any young yet, do you know if thats true? in regards to the outline in Wilkersons book, is there anything you do differently or dont do at all?

 

[spongebob lover]

hey may be you'll be the first one that'll be able to do it dood ....good luck

 

[chris&barb]

hey may be you'll be the first one that'll be able to do it dood ....good luck

thanks Gaby but if people that have way more experience raising clowns haven't been able to do it i think its a long shot that we will. we were up till 4:30am collecting larva on sunday, not something im looking forward to doing again especially if there not going to make it.

i hope i can find someone who has so i can pick there brain

 

[MarineTeng]

check out elmo's workshop and i'm sure he'll answer your questions,
http://www.reeffrontiers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10937

 

[chris&barb]

spawning photos

sorry for the poor photo quality but i have a cheep camcorder/camera and i was trying to stay as far from the tank as i could

 

[chris&barb]

Ilham i said they were the black variant before but after some research i dont think they are, can you confirm this?

 

[chris&barb]

well we have 10 juvenile's heres the only clear photo ive gotten so far

 

[steven11]

Very cool!!!

 

[spongebob lover]

aahh that's so cute dood !!! .

keep us updated dood

 

[chris&barb]

heres a short video

http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mvi1994rp0.flv

 

[Elmo18]

Hi there Chris and Barb.

They are not black variant of A. polymnus. I know of a large hatchery in Thailand/Malaysia/Vietnam that are producing the black variant of A. polymnus.

While yours are not the black variant, that is a great feat, nonetheless! All polymnus are tough to get breeding. They are very fidgety, and swim into a lot of things....causing popeye.

Best,
Ilham

 

[NaH2O]

Love them swimming in the video!

 

[spongebob lover]

aahhh that is so cute !!!!
i bet you must be a proud grandpa

 

[chris&barb]

getting bigger

http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mvi2000wn3.flv

 

[Damsel13]

What a great pre 4th of July baby video. Thanks!

 

[spongebob lover]

wwouu dood the babies are getting quite big are you gonna be doing/making/interrupting clowns privacy :lol: for more off springs pretty soon??

 

[chris&barb]

we have a few from another batch that are smaller. the last 2 hatches didnt go so well, one we collected 300 larva and the next morning they were all dead and then the next the eggs hatched a day early but we are expecting another hatch Wed. night

 

[spongebob lover]

we have a few from another batch that are smaller. the last 2 hatches didnt go so well, one we collected 300 larva and the next morning they were all dead and then the next the eggs hatched a day early but we are expecting another hatch Wed. night

ahh dood..keep us posted with how it goes