Raising Sexy shrimp

[PeejFish]

I'm just taggin along, breeding sexys has always been a dream of mine so hopefully you do it so you can help the rest of us! I wish you the best, btw awesome photo's

[LisaP]

A quick update: The shrimp are 6 days old and look like this...



It's not a great picture I'm afraid but the lil thing just didn't want to move away from the side of the petri dish and since I don't have that many to play I didn't want to kill it just for the sake of a picture.

Sooooo, are they at the second stage?

Regards

Lisa

[Luis A M]

Right,Z2,though the eye stalks are short like the antennae.
You now must check the telson for the appearance of tail fins.Also try to count walking and swimming legs.
I understood at last how you adapt your camera(fast,uh?).You can not remove the lens but there is a thread where you can adjust an additional inverted lens.Did I get it?

[psycho_clown]

LisaP congrats on the shrimp thougth i let you know great work

[LisaP]

Yay! Z2, now how many more are there to go?

Luis, that's right! I simply attach the extra lens via a reversing ring.

Regards

Lisa

[purplehaze]

Lisa,

The larvae stay on the bottom for the first couple of days, then start to "swim" in the water column. Start feeding BBS from day1.
You can feed once a day, if necessary twice. Feed enough so that each larvae doesn't have to spend to much energy getting to the food. If the bottom gets to dirty siphon it out.
Photoperiod of 12-14 day, just enough light for you to see both the larvae and BBS.
Temp: 26-28 C, salinity at 33ppt.
You can use a 5-10 gal tank. Cover all the sides.
You should get your first pos-larvae in 22-29 days.
HTH
Good lcuk

[LisaP]

Great! Thanks Purplehaze.

Just one other query. What do you all do with the older brineshrimp in the larval rearing tank? I can quite clearly see the difference between the newly hatched shrimp and those that are 24 - 48hrs old now. Are they OK to leave in there or should I make a serious effort in trying to remove them??

I'll keep you all posted of any progress.

Regards

Lisa

[Atticus]

Would it be a good idea to add phytoplankton to the tank water as we do with clowns to keep the brine fortified?

[purplehaze]

Originally posted by LisaP

Just one other query. What do you all do with the older brineshrimp in the larval rearing tank? I can quite clearly see the difference between the newly hatched shrimp and those that are 24 - 48hrs old now. Are they OK to leave in there or should I make a serious effort in trying to remove them??

Well, if too many are left then you can siphon them out every other day! Just put a micron screen before the airline tube, that way only the brineshrimp are flushed out of the sistem and not the larvae.

[Luis A M]

Originally posted by Atticus

Would it be a good idea to add phytoplankton to the tank water as we do with clowns to keep the brine fortified?

No,it wouldn´t.In very few days the bs would outgrow the shrimp!

Starved bs molt to the 2nd.stage,instar 2 and then die and must be siphoned out,unless they can be removed with appropriate screens before they die.

This is a general problem of larval husbandry,what to do with uneaten live food,and aquarists use their ingenuity to find ways to deal with it.

[Sylvio]

Hallo Lisa

Viele Grüsse aus Deutschland.
Ich züchte die Thor seit Dezember 2004 nach.

Ein kleinen Bericht findest du auf

http://www.nachzuchtenregister.de/Ga...len_krebse.htm

Leider ist mein Englisch so schlecht das ich nicht aktiv am Thema
teilnehmen kann.

Aber purplehaze ist ein guter Freund von mir und wird es dir sicher übersetzen.

Viel Glück

MfG Sylvio

[LisaP]

Hallo Sylvio,

Vielen dank für der information. Es ist extrem nützlich.

Ausgezeichnete Web site.

Willkommen zu ReefCentral.

Mit freundliche grüßen

Lisa

I hope that's understandable, my German is extremely rusty.

[Sylvio]

Hallo Lisa

Dein Deutsch ist gut.

Züchtest du noch andere Tiere?

MfG Sylvio

[LisaP]

Hallo,

Ich versuche auch, den Goby, Gobiosoma multifasciatum, anzuheben.

Green banded gobies



Mit freundliche grüßen

Lisa

[purplehaze]

Lisa, ja jetzt weisst du wen du fragen musst

[Sylvio]

Hallo Lisa

Na dann hoffe ich das ich noch was von dir lernen kann.

MfG Sylvio

Ich habe dir noch eine Mail geschickt auf deiner HP.

[padixon2]

lol, it was an interesting thread until it changed languages.

[padixon2]

lol, it was an interesting thread until it changed languages.

[Luis A M]

Mein Gott!Dieses Forum ist deutsch geworden!
Sylvio,wie wisst Du dass Lisa Deutsch verstehet?.
Gratuliere Ihnen fur ihre prima Site,die alt BR list ahnlich aber mit Bilden
I say that german site is very good and made like the old BR but with pics.Aren´t there translation programs so valuable non english info could jump over linguistic barriers?.
Es gibt keinen Computerprogram das Ihre Site auf Englisch ubersetzen kann?

[clownfish75]

HI Sylvio

Mag ich etwas von Ihrem Artikel zu Englisch übersetzen? Damit andere
ausgefüllt werden können.

Danke

Christian

DOnt know if that is right i used a traslation program.

[Sylvio]

Hallo

Tut mir Leid wenn ich in Reff Central deutsch schreibe.

Aber Es gibt immer Leute die ein wenig die deutsch Sprache sprechen.

So wie purplehaze und Lisa

Aber wer sich richtig mit der Nachzucht von
Meerwassertieren beschäftigt den ist keine Sprache fremd.

@clownfish75
Natürlich kannst du meine Berichte übersetzen.
Bei anderen mußt du den Autor fragen.
Da mir diese HP nicht gehört.


Translation with Google


hello
does wrong to me if I in reff central German writes. But there are always people some little those German language speaks. As purplehaze and Lisa. But who is not correctly with the offspring busy by sea water animals that a language strangely.
@clownfish75
natural you can translate my reports. With others you must ask the author. Since this HP does not belong to me.

MfG Sylvio

[Luis A M]

[i]
Translation with Google


But who is not correctly with the offspring busy by sea water animals that a language strangely.
MfG Sylvio [/B]

These translation programs are still very bad!
What Sylvio meant was:"But for whom is seriously dedicated to the reproduction of marine animals,there are no foreign languages"
I hope this makes more sense,English is not my 1st language either!

[purplehaze]

Well, if you all are so interested I can translate it for you.
Just have to get permission from the authors to do it.

[clownfish75]

The article was very interesting from what i could gather from it.

The only one i struggled with was the coments on the juvenile shrimps behaviour, ie did they hassle SPS coral or not, my traslation got to lost there.

The larval phase was a few days longer than you stater in your post but thats nothing.

And the captions to the pics are a huge help

Christian

[purplehaze]

Christian, no they don't hassle SPS corals.

Lisa, do you got any new pics of the larvae?