Oh oh oh.. yes... I have always, from day 3-5 begun to provide frozen cyclopeeze... yes.. thank you for reminding me. T
hat is the "bridge" between the lil buggies in the sump to the frozen mysid. I too shaved mysid and adult brine to feed the babes.. they began looking for the mysid and brine EXCLUSIVELY in and around week 6-8.
I wish my seahorses were that eager. I've got some now, at 3+ months that still refuse frozen
Fantastic job guys! I have also had success in hatching these little jems, but never the time to raise them, instant fish food for the reef. Makes me want to try harder next time. Great job, again!
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Oh you are soooo correct. Hatching and such is easy..and the first couple weeks, as they eat, they begin to grow and fast... but, they are "flaky" fish and can all of a sudden "crash" fast. They are also prone to some weird syndrome.. I had many, that were months old, and as I bagged them for their ultimate destination, they would literally "Faint" and sometimes....never come back
Others could be revived by forcing water over them. It's a weird thing.. never fully undertood it... it's like they were frightened to death!
Actually, here's some text from Dr. Frank Marini. Although he doesn't know it, he's been my "breeding mentor" for some time now.
Q: My babies "faint" after being scared (or they look like they are having a heart attack)
I have been asked about if the babies will have a heart attack if any stress is introduced into the tank, i.e. capturing the male after baby release, or even tank cleaning. Yes I have experienced this on many occasions, and from my experience about 90% of the time the babies recover in about 10-30 mins. I'm not sure, but I have read that this could be a defensive response (a bluff) or in fact a true heart attack. Another situation where this problem arises is in feeding, I have overfed the babies with baby brine nauipli and the babies greedily gulp it down and then just fall over dead (or worse, some one wrote me that they were feeding the babies adult live brine-and that the baby banggais would capture it and half of the brine shrimp was hanging out of its mouth-then drop dead on the bottom). In my experience, this is a serious problem, these fish are going to die if they are not dead already. I try to feed the correct amount of baby brine each time, its very empirical, I add a little baby brine and watch for it to disappear, then add more, and repeat until the baby banggais stop eating, sometimes leave them a little hungry. I have been unable to revive most of the babies which have over eaten and dropped and the babies which have been fed large food like the adult brine).
Enjoyed the story and the pics Dave. Thanks for sharing them.
I cant wait to get my tanks back up. Dave and you (Stephen) and this site have put the bug big time back in me.
LOL If I sleep late again, I think you guys will have solved world hunger too!
Excellent info Dave, keeping the babies fed hi protien foods (cyclopeeze, PE Mysys, and day one hatch bbs) seems to help the sudden fright syndrome in the little bangers.
I have not had to deal with it very much unless I do something stupid like drop a large object in their tank (done it).
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