Green mandarin breeding (1 Viewer)

[tektite]

I'll look into that...it'll probably be awhile till I get another lens though, I decided to go in another direction and get a microscope. Should come next week, I can't wait I should be able to take pictures and video with it.

 

[oldmantran]

taking photos of the rotifers? I was thinking the same thing to let me boys see the difference between copepods and rotifers. Very cool.

 

[tektite]

Copepods, rotifers, mandarin eggs and larvae, phytoplankton, etc. Its really cool to see the barely formed mandarin larva twitching in the egg I hope I can get a video of that. Not really sure what the microscope's capabilities will actually be though, can't wait to play with it a bit.

I've been fiddling with the macro tank a bit lately and the female mandarin has been on strike. Haven't been able to collect eggs for over a week now. Hopefully I will be able to do so soon as I am nearly ready to attempt to raise a batch.

 

[steveb]

I'll look into that...it'll probably be awhile till I get another lens though, I decided to go in another direction and get a microscope. Should come next week, I can't wait I should be able to take pictures and video with it.

Which make/model did you get?

 

[tektite]

The cheapest one I could find that sounded like it might be able to do what I want it to do, lol. I'll post details if its any good.

 

[reefling]

The tamron lenses are cheaper because they do not use glass, it is all plastic. My wife is a photographer and her first mission was to get rid of anything tamron. cannon still uses some plastic parts, but more of it than not is high grade glass. this is a pretty cool project. the female cant hold out forever. I expect within 5 days you will have another... clutch? is that the right word?

 

[tektite]

I've left the tank alone for the past couple days to let her settle back down, and tonight I gathered a bunch of eggs again Still not quite ready to try to raise them but I'm curious how many are fertile.

 

[DHoward]

I've been fiddling with the macro tank a bit lately and the female mandarin has been on strike. Haven't been able to collect eggs for over a week now. Hopefully I will be able to do so soon as I am nearly ready to attempt to raise a bat
ch.

By the time they're big enough ill be ready for one... Maybe. You could train them to eat pre prepared food for me.

 

[DHoward]

I've been fiddling with the macro tank a bit lately and the female mandarin has been on strike. Haven't been able to collect eggs for over a week now. Hopefully I will be able to do so soon as I am nearly ready to attempt to raise a bat
ch.

By the time they're big enough ill be ready for one... Maybe. You could train them to eat pre prepared food for me.

 

[mwilliams62]

Do pep shrimp eat the pods? I have put in like three bottles of tisbe pods and i cannot see them. I did not realize how long I have had this tank setup for 3 yrs now. Only fish in there is yellow tang, naso tang, true perc clowns, galveston blenny and banggai cardinals along with galv peps and four hermit crabs.

 

[tektite]

No they shouldn't. Depending on how old the tisbe pod container is there may have not been many left alive. Not sure what their live shelflife is supposed to be. Do you check your tank at night?

 

[mwilliams62]

I did a while back but could not see any but a few minutes ago i took out ny birds nest to try and get some of the GHA off of it and a whole bunch of little bugs a little smaller then the sugar ants that was crawling around in the cup of water black in color but I thought i saw some red colored ones but when i left the room and came back could not dee them only the black ones. One of the bottles I got was loaded with the red pods swimming around in it said it was bottled on 10-31-11 and i bought it on 11-2 so they had not been sitting very long now the other two bottles was a different type of pods could not see them at all. I hope what i saw in the cup is good pods and not some type of pest.

 

[fingas]

I did a while back but could not see any but a few minutes ago i took out ny birds nest to try and get some of the GHA off of it and a whole bunch of little bugs a little smaller then the sugar ants that was crawling around in the cup of water black in color but I thought i saw some red colored ones but when i left the room and came back could not dee them only the black ones. One of the bottles I got was loaded with the red pods swimming around in it said it was bottled on 10-31-11 and i bought it on 11-2 so they had not been sitting very long now the other two bottles was a different type of pods could not see them at all. I hope what i saw in the cup is good pods and not some type of pest.

Not sure if it is normal but i put a small piece of shrimp in the tank for my serpent star to eat when i boiled shrimp the other day. As soon as the piece of shrimp hit the sand it was covered in pods getting their feed on. I see a few in the daylight but at if i get a red flashlight at night there are thousands of them on the tank. I have been tempted to get a mandarin but my tank is only 6 months old so i will wait and let the pod population increase even more.

 

[tektite]

Black...are you sure they weren't flatworms? I haven't seen a black pod yet, though that doesn't mean they don't exist. The red pods are tigger pods, the tisbe pods are white, remember they are very very small, most under 1 mm in size so they can be hard to see. The bigger ones that are more visible are usually either amphipods or muniid isopods, and can be too big for mandarins to eat. The pods on the shrimp were probably amphipods, since they can be carnivorous. Most copepods eat very small things like phyto.

 

[reefling]

the only time i see pods in my tank is when i let a bit of film algae build on the glass. I see small white or tan specs. they are like half the size of a grain of sugar. if you watch them, they crawl around. it is not something I would expect to see on rocks. I have lots of larger pods, but the copepods are tiny specs. I have not heard of black pods either. someone told me tigger pods do not reporoduce in our tanks because they are coldwater or something like that. I never looked it up to confirm, but that would make sense. If you were in the business of selling pet food, you would not want to sell a product that would be a self sustaining population. I am interested to see how this works out with the mandarin breeding. I have been tagging along on this one.

 

[mwilliams62]

the only time i see pods in my tank is when i let a bit of film algae build on the glass. I see small white or tan specs. they are like half the size of a grain of sugar. if you watch them, they crawl around. it is not something I would expect to see on rocks. I have lots of larger pods, but the copepods are tiny specs. I have not heard of black pods either. someone told me tigger pods do not reporoduce in our tanks because they are coldwater or something like that. I never looked it up to confirm, but that would make sense. If you were in the business of selling pet food, you would not want to sell a product that would be a self sustaining population. I am interested to see how this works out with the mandarin breeding. I have been tagging along on this one.

I was told that the Tigger Pods can grow in the tank there has been a lot of debates out there about it.
Here is a post I had started back in June on RC:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2030920

 

[tektite]

Green mandarin larva 44hrs post spawn:

 

[tektite]

72 hrs post spawn. It can move surprisingly fast for such a tiny little guy!

 

[Copingsaw]

Great pics, keep us updated.

 

[slowfishflow]

amazing! I love reading about your tanks!